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COMPASSION RESPONSE NETWORK CIRCULAR No 10

By David Keane, 13/August/2002
PO Box 582, Gosnells WA 6110, Australia
Email address: keane@nw.com.au
Healing site address: http://www.nw.com.au/~keane/healing/

In April, in our Circular No 8, we shared how the Inner Planning Circle for the Compassion Response Network had accepted as its immediate Main Aim,

In Circular No 9, we shared how our Inner Planning Circle has designed the process for developing a Programme for Action to actualise our Main Aim of a compassion response to AIDS. This marked the turning point for our group work to commence its more practical tasks. In the two months since releasing the last CRN Circular, we have prepared a plan which is already partly mobilised, and for which the main policy decisions are being debated in our Inner Planning Circle during this month of August. Thus by the end of August we should be able to share in a CRN Circular the nature of those policy decisions, and the broad outline for the two projects being proposed, one for Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the second for Harare in Zimbabwe.

In 2001 East West Network sponsored a PCR/AIDS project in Kinshasa. Three advanced AIDS patients were given daily treatment using a zapper, colloidal silver and full body lymphatic massage. The treatment extended over a month, after which time the treatment had to cease due to lack of funds. The three patients all improved in health over the month of treatment, and PCR tests showed that the viral count in the blood was approximately halved. The full story behind this experiment may be read on the website at http://www.nw.com.au/~keane/healing/

This partial success led to our placing the story and results from that 2001 project on our website, and launching in October 2001 our website and an appeal to form a Compassion Response Network which would follow a compassion response to AIDS through to its completion of testing and publishing results of sufficient scientific quality to indicate where a cure for AIDS might be found.

The first project that is being considered by our Inner Planning Circle this month is a six-months treatment project of six advanced AIDS patients in Kinshasa. Albert Mananga ipscongo@yahoo.fr leads the Kinshasa goodwill service group that will be coordinating this project. The treatment is hoped to commence around October 2002. It will involve three types of treatment;

1. Dr Hulda Clark zapper + colloidal silver (but without lymphatic massage, which though beneficial did not seem to treat as deeply as had been hoped).
2. Dr Bob Beck protocol involving daily use of four modalities of treatment, an electrification device, a magnetic pulser, ozonated water and colloidal silver.
3. One other treatment yet to be confirmed.

The Kinshasa group have the zapper and colloidal silver maker, and arrangements are being made to send the Dr Bob Beck devices and another treatment to Kinshasa over the next two months.

Blood samples will be sent by private courier from Kinshasa airport to Toga Laboratories in Johannesburg South Africa. Four deliveries are planned, pre-treatment, and at 2-month, 4-month and 6-month stages of treatment. In Johannesburg the blood samples will receive a triple analysis,

1. bDNA viral count (to count active HIV viral concentration in the blood),
2. CD4 immunity count,
3. Full Blood Count for red corpuscles, white corpuscles and platelets.

In Kinshasa, for the full six months of treatment, provisions will be made to provide patients with nutritious food daily, and either daily transport or accommodation in a treatment house.

The private courier, blood testing, food accommodation, wages for a person to care for the house and provide the treatments, will all cost money which will need to be raised through a public appeal. For this purpose our Inner Planning Circle is this month preparing a draft set of constitutional rules for the Compassion Response Network to become incorporated as a limited liability corporation, and as a charitable non-profit goodwill organisation.

We will present our preliminary budget for the two projects in Kinshasa and Harare in our next CRN Circular, planned to be out within a month.

Delivery to Kinshasa of devices and various materials for the 6 months of treatment, will be difficult. Postal services for delivery of packages are most unreliable and private courier delivery of such a package would be expensive. Albert Mananga who coordinates the Kinshasa group, hopes to receive sponsorship to a Global Sociocracy Conference in Holland from 10^th to 14^th September 2002 (see special section on sociocracy conference below). If this can be arranged it will solve many problems.

Because of costs involved, only two advanced AIDS patients for each of the three treatments (that is six advanced AIDS patients in all) will be permitted to participate in the Kinshasa experiment.

There are two standard types of blood tests to count viral load, bDNA test and PCR test. bDNA is provided in a triple testing package by Toga Laboratories offered to us at a special concession rate.

Both PCR and bDNA tests measure the HIV RNA, which is a key to viral replication. The bDNA test works by binding branched DNA probes to HIV-1 RNA. This in turn binds enzymes which generates light. The amount of light is measured and is directly related to the amount of HIV-1 RNA in plasma. The bDNA technology can quantitate the major HIV subtypes found worldwide. More information for this testing technique is available at www.fda.gov/cber/pma/P9500053.htm

There are two main Immunity tests, CD 4 and CD 8. We focus on CD 4 as it is the main indicator. As a general rule, if one rises the other will as well. A very low CD4 count indicates a dangerous lack of immunity protection.

This test counts concentration of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the blood. This test is vital as many advanced AIDS patients have acute anemia, because the HIV virus penetrates to the bone marrow tissue where it progressively attacks and destroys bone marrow tissue. Bone marrow tissue is where red blood cells are generated by the body. As red blood cells die naturally after about 4 months and need to be replaced, disease in the bone marrow tissue can lead to acute anemia. Hence the urgent need not only to treat the HIV virus, but also to provide iron supplementation through ferrous sulphate tablets and iron rich diet.

If funds were to permit, it would be wonderful to do bone marrow biopsies on a selected number of our patients, pre-treatment and post treatment. Bone marrow biopsy is the only effective way of knowing whether the treatment is permanently effective on a really deep level, as blood tests only test the viruses that have ruptured their cells and thus infected the blood. Bone marrow biopsies are an expensive test however, and we do not envisage asking for funding for them in our initial public appeal.

HIV antibody tests such as Eliza are unreliable and unimportant for our purposes. They may indicate that a person has at some time been infected with HIV, but do not indicate the degree of healing following treatment. Even after full healing and elimination of all HIV viruses, the person will test positive for HIV antibodies.

There are other useful blood tests which are fairly cheap and can be done locally in Kinshasa if funds permit. These would include tests for kidney function (urea and creatinine tests) and to test for hepatitis (transamine test and direct and indirect biturtine tests).

Geraldene Cockcroft is Director of the PNI (Psycho-Neuro-Immunology) Empowerment Trust which has established broad networks throughout Zimbabwe supporting people with AIDS. Their support has in the past been on psychological, motivational, dietary, and general support levels, and they are eager to now integrate this work with the treatments Compassion Response Network is providing. PNI has strong links with government, hospitals and NGO's. A look at their past work is provided in CRN Circular No 7.

The recent elections on 9/March/2002 threw the country into political and economic turmoil. Now there are desperate food shortages, huge unemployment and escalating inflation. Yet despite all this PNI have regrouped and are more determined than ever to respond to the acute need. Accordingly Compassion Response Network is discussing how we can support an AIDS treatment project in Harare.

Unlike in Kinshasa where no medical aid is available, some of the people in Harare are on medical aid and this will provide some free medical tests. We are still seeking confirmation as to precisely which tests are paid by medical aid. The doctors in Harare are so overworked that we cannot rush them.

Geraldene reports that in Harare they are working with a very dedicated group of health workers --- a Professor of Bio-chemistry at the University, an Immunologist also attached to the School of medicine at the university, six general practitioners and many others including three registered traditional healers/herbalists.

The proposal presently being considered by the Inner Planning Circle is that Compassion Response Network launches a public appeal to sponsor six months of treatment for three advanced AIDS patients for six separate treatments (sponsorship of 18 patients in all). All these 18 selected patients will be on medical aid so at least some of the medical tests will be provided free (we have still to clarify which ones). But irrespective of what medical aid will pay, the proposal we are presently debating is for full blood testing of all 18 patients for viral load, CD4 immunity and full blood count pre-treatment and at 2, 4, and 6 month stages of treatment. All results will be published on our CRN website.

Because most people with AIDS in Africa are not on medical aid, to be fair to these people, Compassion Response Network is considering support for about 30 AIDS patients not on medical aid during the six months of the project. Those accepted to be supported but who are not on medical aid, will receive the treatment with food and general support, but without the medical tests. The project in Harare will be immense! Geraldene is proposing renting a house in the high-density (lower rent) area and pay wages for two people to look after the house and provide the treatments.

All of this will cost much money to get going. As a result we are urgently exploring how to register as a limited liability corporation so that we can launch a public appeal as soon as possible.

We are most fortunate to receive the assistance of Florence Chitauro, the Zimbabwe ambassador to Australia living in Canberra. She is a member of PNI and is very supportive of all we are doing. She is able to arrange courier delivery to Harare of any packages we wish to send to PNI Harare. Already two treatments have arrived into Harare by this way; a zapper + colloidal silver maker, and Dr Bob Beck devices donated by Sota Instruments in Canada.

With the arrival of some of the devices for treatment, PNI share that they are now eager to get started!

Geraldene Cockcroft zenga@samara.co.zw frequently writes email letters to us sharing about what is happening in Zimbabwe. I share here some insights provided by a selection of brief extracts from Geraldene's letters.

"Its amazing how through all this we still have so much to give and share with everyone and now more than ever our work is truly needed."

"So many people are leaving and often even if you have the money there is no

cooking oil, soap, sugar, maize meal, petrol, salt in the shops to buy!"

"We are having really great success in putting across information and have developed a play called Tariro based on our Positive Health book."

"We at the Trust are really excited at the prospect of getting everything going. There have been many Zimbabweans waiting patiently and with excitement and anticipation at benefiting from your donation."

"We have hundreds/thousands that are not on any medical aid but are prepared and really keen to get started on treatment."

"I am trying however it is at times like a sinking ship and really so stressful...I laugh...there is no point in crying we must simply trust in the abundance of the universe and carry on."

"For example...At the moment Jack our program coordinator...who is an amazing man...has worked with us as a volunteer for the past 18 months...he stays with us Monday to Friday and we feed him he then goes home on a Friday...he has had very little money during this time and obviously cannot continue indefinitely like this...he needs socks toothpaste etc...He is very disabled...he is a dwarf...he is a true gift and an inspiration to us all at PNI."

"Prices here are going mad...an example in Zim dollars. My daughter's school fees in April…Zim$8000 a month...now Zim$23000 a month. Sugar normally Zim$70 for 2 kg if you can buy its now Zim$400 for 2 kg...A bucket of maize was Zim$100 now Zim$1200.....its sheer madness. I complain but the poor people with just no resources are really suffering."

"We have started a huge vegetable and herb garden at the Trust and supply people where we can. When I say huge we only have an acre of property in total."

"A newly formed group that is affiliated to the PNI Trust called the Voice of Hope works with children that are orphaned and infected with HIV".

"Farms....about 90% of farmers (other than the peasant farmers) have been banned from farming. No planting of crops or watering, dipping of live stock is allowed. Consequently whole herds of cattle are having to be killed by their owners or just slaughtered by various invaders. Chickens, sheep even horses are all suffering the same fate. Whole wheat and soya crops are lying unattended in the fields. Many farms have now been taken over by members of the ruling party, army, police etc. Farm workers have been chased away from their jobs and homes. This coupled with a drought has caused there to be shortages of maize, sugar, milk, margarine and cooking oil as well as some vegetables. There is very little tobacco being planted which in turn will lead to low

"tobacco sales...therefore no foreign currency to buy salt etc. more shortages."

"Many companies have had to make much of their workforce redundant so there is mass unemployment. People all over are being attacked even in their homes at night. People abducted and tortured some never found again. Women are continuously being raped. With the tests for HIV infection currently at one in every three! Its is all horrendous."

"Hospitals are over crowded and many professionals are or have already left for greener pastures. There is no money for the hospitals to purchase drugs for service equipment. Mostly people just get sent home to die after lying for hours waiting to see a doctor. The grave yards are full as 100's of people in Harare alone die everyday."

"I go all over the place day and night and only come across love, kindness, compassion and togetherness. Crime is on the increase as the people are desperate. I work with people who are really ill. When someone comes and sees me . . . I then go into my personal kitchen and make a sandwich or something for them to eat. It helps for a moment. I feel so frustrated as with more resources we could reach literally thousands of people."

"Somehow we are managing to get by just!! However I realise that surviving like this is very stressful for me personally. We believe that we are doing what we are supposed to be doing and that it is our purpose. Doors will open to enable our work to reach the people that it needs to reach."

"I need to feed myself and family and more importantly the Trust needs to pay some salaries and running costs so that we can all get on with our purpose and work with the people, instead of never having enough petrol etc."

"Thank you for your prayer list....no wonder things are really starting to pick up...your support and prayers...thank you...to the entire group...and you are all scattered all over the world!! just amazing."

"Most of the people do not work and even if they do their resources are limited."

"This last week we have had all sorts of other organisations contacting us...they run various projects in the rural areas etc. organic nutrition groups...crisis groups...the list goes on and on. Its wonderful to watch this all unfold and be provided...totally on purpose...thanks to you and your group for all the meditations and prayers they are being answered....its just wondrous and I am often laughing in wonder at what I see happening."

"Now all three parcels have arrived...wonderful we cannot wait to get started. Once again please give our thanks to the prayer group and to the universe for its constant and abundant supply of gifts through which we learn our lessons."

We are seeking six cheap, simple and reputably effective treatments to trial in Harare and three treatments to trial in Kinshasa. Two of these treatments (zapper + colloidal silver and Beck protocol) have arrived in Harare. In Kinshasa they have the zapper and colloidal silver maker, and we are negotiating for sending of the Beck devices. We are seeking four other treatments over the next two months to complete our testing quota.

Enquiries are being made with respect to tetrasil, glyconutritionals, absolutely pure colloidal silver and Essiac. We in Compassion Response Network make no claims as to the curative value of these treatments. We simply note that certain positive claims have been made with regard to such treatments, and we wish to test them out in a scientific manner using blood tests. We remain completely impartial without expectations of what results will be achieved. All results will be published on the Compassion Response Network website.

In an article by Wildfire Magazine (Vol 6 No 1) Dr Gary Glum, author of the book Calling of an Angel, comments about the curative value of Essiac (see article on Essiac on our website);

"I also worked with the AIDS Project Los Angeles through their Long Beach and San Pedro districts. They had sent 179 patients home to die. They all had pneumocystis carinii and histoplasmosis. Their weight was down to about 100 pounds. Their T-4 cell counts were less that ten. The Project gave me five of these patients. I took them off the AZT and the DDI and put them on Essiac three times a day. Those are the only ones alive today. The other 174 are dead. They're exercising three times a day, eating three meals a day. Their weight is back to normal. For all intents and purposes you wouldn't know they had a sick day in their lives."

We would like to replicate this experiment. I am seeking more information. What dosage and how long was the treatment continued? Where are the best sources of Essiac available? If anyone has this information please get in touch with David Keane at keane@nw.com.au Also if anyone is willing to donate enough Essiac to treat three patients in Harare over six months we would be very grateful for such a donation. Our budget is very tight and the success of the project will depend upon the generosity of support we receive from the public.

All creative work upon the outer field must begin with the esoteric or subjective. Accordingly we have established a prayer group to meditate and pray each week for the progressive emergence of God's Plan for a compassionate response to the AIDS pandemic. Each fortnight we distribute an updated prayer sheet which has two sections;

1. a list of goals our group is invoking to become manifested in the near future and coming months, and
2. a list of the prayers that have been answered and things that have developed in the previous fortnight.

The fortnightly prayer sheet can be sent to anyone by email or once a month by postal mail. You only need contact us advising your email or postal address and we will forward the prayer sheet regularly to you. Over the past month things have developed and changed quickly. The work is now proceeding at a rate that has astonished us all. After many months of quiet preparation, we are now proceeding to realise our projects, and things are happening all the time. As a result each fortnight we amend the target goals and needs requiring prayer, and the list of prayers answered keeps expanding and changing.

This is a fine way of keeping up to date with the most recent developments in the projects for a compassionate response to AIDS, and is also a way of contributing on the subjective level to the emergence into reality of our aims. We request those in our prayer group give 20 minutes each week in prayer support for the manifestation of our projects. The potency and effectiveness of such subjective service should not be underestimated. Please contact us if you wish to be placed on the prayer sheet distribution list.

To commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the foundation of sociocracy there will be a Global week on Sociocracy from 10^th to 14^th September 2002 at the Sociocratisch Centrum, World Trade Centre, Rotterdam, Holland. Sociocracy is the method of group participation that Compassion Response Network uses in its planning sessions. It has revolutionised business, social and political meetings and organisations because of its scientific methodology with its approach of empowering all members within a meeting or group to have meaningful participation in the decision making process.

The Programme.

September 10: Conference on 'The Rewards of the Self-guiding-organization'. (Language: English). The conference offers various opportunities for closer examination of the Sociocratic Circle-Organization Method and for experiencing its advantages in everyday practice.

1. Enhancing learning processes within an organization;
2. Speeding up transformational processes;
3. Increasing commitment of employees and clients of an organization;
4. Increasing the effectiveness of meetings by more than 50%.

September 11-13: Global orientation course on the sociocratic circle organisation method, for managers, consultants and trainers who would like to improve leadership effectiveness, streamline decision-making, and make better use of their organizations' potential to learn. (Language: English)

September 14: Annual Network Meeting of sociocratic circles, organized by the Netherlands Network of Circles of the Sociocratisch Centrum. The Annual Network Meeting connects between past and future, technology and philosophy, play and study and above all between method and people. (Language: Dutch)

Trainers will be John Buck, Prof Dr G Endenburg, P.H. van der Meché MA, J.M. Reijmer. John Buck is a consultant for the Sociocratic Centre North America, and is an active participant in the Compassion Response Network's Inner Planning Circle. Prof. Dr G. Endenburg is the founder of sociocracy.

For anyone wishing to attend this empowering training week, you may find details at http://www.sociocracy.biz/

For further information phone Annewiek Reijmer at the Sociocratisch Centrum in Rotterdam: +31-10-452 32 89 or send an e-mail to: info@sociocratie.nl

Albert Mananga coordinates the Kinshasa group of Compassion Response Network. It was this group's bold and pioneering work with AIDS patients that inspired the formation of the Compassion Response Network. Descriptions of the 2001 Kinshasa Project may be read at the website http://www.nw.com.au/~keane/healing/

Earning a living in the Third World conditions of Kinshasa is exceedingly difficult, and yet despite the difficulties, Albert has, over the past few years, been organising goodwill group activity in Kinshasa, holding local educational conferences, providing healing treatment for the poor for free, and has been an active member of our Inner Planning Circle. He has been doing this while still needing to earn his living, which for most Africans requires their full time.

Albert has learned of the extraordinary potential of sociocracy to transform social conditions and businesses, and wishes to bring this methodology to Africa. But to do so, he seeks sponsorship to the Global Week on Sociocracy in Holland from September 10^th to 14^th /2002. Albert could use this trip also to courier back equipment necessary for the Kinshasa 2002 AIDS project, because postal delivery of these materials is most untrustworthy. Anyone wanting to help Albert by sponsoring his trip to Holland, may contact him on ipscongo@yahoo.fr

You can perhaps understand the sense of urgency with which we are preparing to launch our public appeal. Our Inner Planning Circle is now deliberating on crucial policy decisions for the launch. We are desperately moving into top gear and preparing to register so that we are an official organisation. We hope to be ready to launch the public appeal within a month. Stay tuned for the next CRN Circular.

David Keane keane@nw.com.au

Secretary, Compassion Response Network

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