A key perspective to understanding and using bio-focusing is by using the notion of authoradigms. Specifically in medicine, authority is assumed by and given to practitioners on a sliding scale of delimitation. Some patients rely on practitioners fully, others take more self-responsibility. Skilled surgeons have the authority of their training and experience. Postmen have the authority of knowing destinations. Windsurfers have the authority of their experience. Most real authority arises from training and experience. Assumed authority comes from bureaucratic certification and validation. False authority can be managed by position and pretence.

Authority can be understood by condensing its essential components into that which is clear and comprehensible. Relying on the priest to get you safely into a comfortable hereafter is obviously inappropriate. Going to the dentist when your tooth breaks is a good idea. Accepting surgery after a severely traumatising car smash shouldn’t need debate.

But when it comes to accepting what you can and can’t do in respect of allowing healing and curing for yourself and others, the limits not only can but should be pushed. No-one but you chooses, either on purpose, or by default, sickening circumstances in which to live. Certainly, no-one chooses to contract a painful disease and slowly die.

Aspects of medicine in its most general sense are contained by authoradigms, some of which clash naturally, some of which need not clash at all. Authoradigms may be analysed in terms of the history, context and maintenance of the seat of the perceived authority. Medicine is currently in the midst of a fundamental change of authoritative stance. The most basic division is between complementary medicine and scientific medicine. This division arises, amongst other things, because of a perceived clash of authority between scientific and intuitive method. The clash is resolved if one begins to see that science and intuition are each within an own authoradigm. Knowledge is derived both intuitively and scientifically. Intuitives can be scientific and scientists are often intuitive. The authority of science and the authority of intuition have no need to compete. Humans apparently do.