This shared article is long, but is part of a trend here in NZ. The covid scamdemic made fools out of a lot of Government institutions. Rather than admit their shortcomings, they double down and prosecute anyone who stepped out of line.
Original article is here..
https://nzdsos.com/2026/02/19/battle-soul-of-medicine-yashu-vs-goliath/
ByNZDSOS Media Team19 February, 2026 Reading Time: 7 minutes
The Giant Which Falls
In the city of Nelson, New Zealand, a skirmish in a protracted battle has just been fought. Whilst ‘biblical’ in significance, it didn’t feature the clang of bronze armour or the taunts of a nine-foot warrior. Instead, its weapons are tribunal hearings, professional sanctions, and the immense weight of an institutional apparatus. At the centre of this contest is Dr Caroline “Yashu” Wheeler, a gentle and humble physician whose recent hearing before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (HPDT) drew a remarkable turnout of supporters. It has pronounced her guilty of serious professional misconduct for prescribing the repurposed medication ivermectin for covid-19. Ivermectin was never banned, it was just “not recommended” by the GP College, a very important legal distinction that the tribunal lawyers chose to turn away from.
To paint this as a simple case of a lone doctor against state medicine is tempting, but it is far more profound. It is a local skirmish in a much larger war – a war that is being fought for the heart of medicine, and perhaps, as psychiatrist Charles Eisenstein suggests, for the very soul of humanity.
The biblical story of David and Goliath has become a shorthand for any improbable victory of an underdog. But as the author Malcolm Gladwell has pointed out, this is a profound misreading. The story’s power lies not in a random stroke of luck, but in a fundamental mismatch of perceived and actual strengths. Goliath, for all his terrifying size and armour, was a man whose very power made him vulnerable. He was a leader of heavy infantry, designed for face-to-face combat with sword and spear. David, armed with a sling – a weapon of devastating accuracy that a skilled shepherd could use to take down a lion or a bear – was a mobile sniper. The giant’s size and strength was his weakness; the boy’s perceived weakness was his greatest strength.
The Goliath She Faced
We should view the case of Dr Wheeler through this clarified lens. The Goliath she has faced – not just this week but for a full 5 years since her “offence” of prescribing ivermectin – is not merely the HPDT or the New Zealand Medical Council, infamous for its “this is a zero risk medical product” stance, and its demand that doctors proceed accordingly. It is the entire edifice of institutional medicine as we have come to know it: a system that has prized consensus over inquiry, protocol over clinical observation and knowledge, and – most shatteringly – institutional loyalty over the healer’s sacred (and legal) obligation to the patient.
This Goliath is colossal, clad in the armour of statutory powers, legal precedence, and the immense politico-cultural authority of “official reality.”
And yet – what if the giant is not a giant at all? What if, like the Wizard of Oz, this terrifying edifice is merely a projection – smoke, mirrors, and an amplified voice – behind which stands a frightened little man frantically pulling levers? The institutions we were taught to trust are, in truth, staffed by ordinary humans mostly, making extraordinary errors. They cling to protocols because they lack the courage to think, wielding power because they have forgotten how to serve and to heal. When the curtain is pulled back—and it is being pulled back, daily—what remains of the giant’s power?
Whether giant or sham wizard, at least one supporter posted on social media that the tribunal is seen as engaging in a “witch hunt” that has had a chilling effect on doctors nationwide, scaring them away from diagnosing conditions like vaccine injuries for fear of professional ruin. This is the giant’s taunt, ringing through the Valley of Elah – a threat designed to paralyse the army of healers, which NZDSOS and our supporters have railed against since our first action on Easter Sunday 2021.
And what of this Goliath’s character? The biblical account paints him as more than just huge; he is arrogant, contemptuous, and defiant. He does not just challenge Israel’s army; he defies the “armies of the living God”. His pride is not merely personal vanity; it is an arrogant assertion of worldly power against a higher authority. This is the precise nature of the institutional giant Dr Wheeler faced, along with all the other healthcare workers chewed up and spat out, and those yet to come. It does not just enforce rules; it asserts a diktat on what is true, what is safe, and what can be spoken. It demands that the reality of a patient sitting in front of you conform to the statistical impression of a population study – and so what if you lose the patient in the process? This is the pride that places protocol above person, and in doing so, it defies the very essence of the healing art.
“Reality is Breaking”
This brings us to the profound context provided by Charles Eisenstein in his recent piece, “Reality is Breaking.” Dr Eisenstein argues that the ugly truths from the Epstein files are not merely another scandal, but a structural revelation. The institutions that have scaffolded our society – media, government, intelligence, and yes, medicine – have had their fundamental legitimacy shattered. They operated with a dark secret hidden behind closed doors, maintaining an “agreed-upon reality” that bore little resemblance to the truth. The horror of Epstein is an extreme symptom of a deeper disease: a mindset of drunken power that dehumanises and instrumentalises living beings for its own ends.
“Is it really so different,” Eisenstein asks, “to sacrifice a child in a Satanic ritual to further one’s personal power, as it is to sacrifice whole populations for geopolitical power?”. Both are outcroppings of the same Story of Separation.
The campaign against courageous doctors is a small, local symptom of this same disease. The medical establishment, in its sponsored quest for control, increasingly has treated patients as data points, bodies to be managed according to standardised guidelines. When a doctor, using her eyes and her hands and her accumulated wisdom, sees something that doesn’t fit the official story – be it a vaccine injury, the inflexibility of a protocol, or the efficacy of an “alternative” approach which threatens corporate profits – she becomes the threat herself. She is a living breach in the wall of official reality. She must be silenced, discredited, and removed, not because she is wrong, but because her very existence as a witness undermines the system’s claim to total authority. This is the institutional reflex Eisenstein describes: “Find the culprit. Find the pathogen… Problem solved. This is the habit that allows the public to be so easily manipulated”.
Gathering the Stones
The supporters who gathered for Dr Wheeler in Nelson are not just backing a friend, medical counsellor or colleague; they are bearing witness to a truth the giant refuses to see. They are the five smooth stones, gathered from the stream of lived experience. They represent the parents who saw their children suffer and perhaps even die, the patients who were told their chest pain was in their heads, and the other doctors who have felt the cold fist of the tribunal’s intimidation. Their presence is an act of defiance against the giant’s taunt that “might makes right.”
The Space Between Stories
Eisenstein speaks of the “space between stories”—that terrifying and liberating moment when the old narrative has collapsed and the new one has not yet been born. The HPDT, the Medical Council, and the institutions they represent are fighting desperately to shore up the crumbling walls of their story. They are the embodiment of the old story’s desperate attempt to maintain control.
It is precisely here, in this disorienting gap between worlds, where we must decide what to bring into the new one. For those whose other-worldview allows it, there are maps that can help navigate this terrain. The stunning series of books by hypnotherapist Michael Newton – the Life Between Lives series – offers one such map. Through deep regression, Newton’s subjects describe the soul’s journey between incarnations: a realm of reflection, council, and preparation where we review what we have learned and choose what we will become next. If the collapse of the old story is, in some sense, a collective death, then perhaps we are being invited into precisely such a space of reflection before humanity’s rebirth.
An Agent of the New
Dr Wheeler, in these contexts, is not just a David fighting a Goliath; she is an agent of the new story that is trying to be born. It is a story that re-centres the healer-patient relationship, that respects the wisdom of the body and the testimony of lived experience, and that is humble enough to admit that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our protocols. It is a story that, as Eisenstein hopes, will welcome “all that has been suppressed” – from indigenous practices to mind-body technologies to the simple, radical act of journeying alongside another human being.
The skirmish in Nelson (and the several more tribunals to come this year) is indeed part of the battle for the soul of doctors. Will medicine remain a tool of a system that demands conformity and silence, a gatekeeper for a reality defined by a power which can literally remove life or what’s required to sustain it, at the push of a plunger or click of a mouse, respectively? Or will it be liberated to once again become a true healing art, grounded in service, observation, and the courageous pursuit of truth, wherever it leads?
Still the giant stands, shouting his defiance. But the stones are in flight. And the walls of official reality are breaking. The outcome of this local hearing will send a ripple far beyond the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson which hosted this inquisition, because it is a small but significant front in the most important war of our time: the war for a more beautiful, more truthful, and more human world.
Uncoffined 