The things that we attribute to magic or some higher power, are just conditions that we don't yet understand.

Definitely! Homeopathy fits into this category. The science is there, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15593258211022983, but has not been accepted as fact. No surprise there - conventional medicine is designed to create patients, not wellness. The contents of medicine cabinets of old have been replaced by expensive, toxic, ineffective, patented snake oils. Anything that actually heals is presented, by the medical establishment, as bunk.

Knowing this as well as I do (homeopathy works like magic!), I wonder what other traps we have been led into, not allowed to know anything outside of that trap. Covid was one, definitely. Vaccination, of which covid was just one small but important part, is another. Vaccination is disease management. and not the good kind.

If conscious knowing was enough, we would all be close to the best versions of ourselves, because we already know so many of the things we should do to improve. Yet, we aren't getting better, are we?

We are not allowed to know. Anyone who truly tries to understand looks outside the recommended literature etc, and is hence deemed a conspiracy theorist, a misinformed being, a kook. This is why we are not getting better.

There are several remedies that could help your OCD friend. If he is also depressed, taking Aurum metallicum 200c, one dose every other day would be a good place to start. This remedy is also indicated when the person finds his condition improve when he is outside in fresh air, walking, or running. He might find it worsen in cloudy weather or winter. When the condition has mostly improved, he would discontinue the remedy, then start it up again whenever the condition reappears, until mostly improved again. Very little in homeopathy is forever, unlike the toxic medications that conventional medicine prescribes. Imagine living with no poisons in perpetuity. Thank you for allowing me to flex my homeopathic muscles here.