Health Care: Is Mysticism Our Next Frontier?
Written By: Dr. Jen Mann, ND
What’s at the forefront of medicine these days?
As a Naturopathic Doctor I acknowledge that GLP-1s, peptides, stem cells and hormone therapy offer hope for chronic health conditions and longevity.
As a business owner, I’m excited about the advances in AI and how it can support business development.
And as someone in perimenopause, I’m fascinated by lasers, peptides, hormones, and regenerative therapies.
But what is the role of the doctor now? With AI able to create treatment plans, evaluate supplements and even help with diagnosis, our place as clinicians is shifting. Even the naturopathic principle of “Doctor as Teacher” can feel outdated.
With so much information available, people are more empowered and have more choices than ever. Yet what feels both ancient and new is the role of guide... to guide clients on their journey and also to let illness guide them toward a more aligned life. Functional medicine has brought tremendous advancement to clinical care, showing us how supplements and lifestyle changes can transform health. But beyond that is something even more profound: as people change their health, they change themselves.
Every client I’ve seen who has deeply healed a chronic condition has also healed an unhealthy emotional, mental, or spiritual pattern. It can look like learning to set healthy boundaries: with work, with family, with themselves. Sometimes it’s simply replenishing nutrients that had been depleted since a difficult birth or years of digestive issues and watching this person come alive again, expressing themselves more fully, enjoying relationships, or rediscovering joy in travel and life.
One shadow side of both conventional and functional medicine is treating illness only as a problem to fix, rather than an invitation to heal. That deeper layer—holding space for true transformation—is something no AI, no laser, no pill can replace.
Technology will keep evolving, AI will keep advancing. But nothing can eliminate the need to go inward, to know the truth of our body, and to listen to the messages it has for us.
Mysticism is often defined as the possibility of directly and intuitively receiving knowledge or power that can’t be explained. In health, that looks like allowing the body to be our teacher.
In this time of uncertainty, rapid information, shifting politics, and recurring global crises, what we always have is ourselves. Our relationship with our true self and our body is the foundation of resilience and health in these times.
And perhaps the greatest role of the healthcare provider now—just as in the past—is to facilitate the transformation process, and the coming home of each client to their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual truth.
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