The most suppressed frontier in medicine. Career risk for researchers indicates genuine threat to the paradigm.
Consciousness-based healing is the last forbidden frontier. Meditation, breathwork, psychedelic-assisted therapy, somatic experiencing, energy healing, and non-materialist frameworks for understanding health. Career risk for researchers studying consciousness seriously indicates the level of paradigm threat.
Meditation for anxiety: robust trial base (Tier 1). Breathwork for autonomic regulation: strong mechanistic grounding (Tier 2). Psychoneuroimmunology: established science. Energy healing: traditional/experiential (Tier 3). The CIA's Gateway Process documents describe consciousness as fundamental to reality — investigated with institutional seriousness.
FDA approval of psychedelic therapy creates a legally protected research vector into consciousness and healing. Once psilocybin or MDMA is FDA-approved, the research infrastructure acquires institutional legitimacy and funding pathways that do not currently exist.
Consciousness-based healing scores 3.0/5.0. Maximum suppression is a powerful signal — but investable surface is premature. WAIT for the psychedelic catalyst.