Patient B (born 10/Jan/1968, received full adult dose Imusil injection 6/May/2004)

For both patients A and B, the viral load count shows not a decrease as had been hoped, but a steady increase, roughly doubling every two months. This is the result to be expected in a patient with advanced AIDS but not receiving any treatment at all.

A CD4 immunity cell count of below 200/microL indicates a very depleted immunity system and suggests strong vulnerability to opportunistic infections. The reference range for a healthy individual should show 500 to 2,000 /microL.

It must also be noted that about six weeks ago, patients A and B had both developed fevers. Patient A was tested for malaria, and patient B for typhoid. This also suggests that the immunity systems of both patients remain highly depleted.

We must still await results for 6 months post treatment for patients A and B (taken on 15^th/November, and results expected to be available about a fortnight afterwards). There will also be various other post treatment tests for patients A and B (urea, creatinine, ferritin, liver enzymes and liver function.) But already, it is clear to us that the dramatic healing as suggested by the Imusil promotional material, is not confirmed by the blood test results received to date.

The patient who received the third sample of Imusil, had a bDNA pre-treatment test revealing nil HIV infection, and healthy level of CD4 (lymphocyte immune system cell) count. He had been given the Imusil treatment on a positive Eliza antibody test, before the bDNA and CD4 pre-treatment results were back. There is a lesson learned here that the Eliza test is extremely unreliable, but the lesson was too late to prevent use of the third and last of the Kinshasa Imusil stock. That third patient (patient E) has now been taken off the HIV/AIDS trial.

A comprehensive summary of the Imusil project including the six-months results, will be provided in a future circular.

Transmuting Despair to Hope

Despair has been the constant companion of those who suffer from HIV/AIDS. The antidote to despair is hope, followed by loving action. And so four years ago Albert Mananga of the Congo, Sergei Belkovsky of Russia and myself formed a triangle of synthesis identifying with the millions in Africa and the world with HIV/AIDS. We identified with them unconditionally, with their ill health, fears and despairs and sought to transmute that despair to hope. The first thing the Inner Planning Circle for CRN did after it had formed was to formulate our vision and mission statement. The lifting up of our vision and mission statement provides that element of hope that is so desperately needed in Africa, and as long as our group continues to develop our projects of action, then despair, so frequently the companion of those who suffer from HIV/AIDS, is driven from our minds.

There were two occasions however since CRN was registered, that our projects have stalled, and on those occasions despair once again became our companion. For if we failed, what hope would there be to find a comprehensive compassion response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic? The first of those occasions was in June 2003, shortly after the public launch of CRN’s global promotion through Internet. The funds received from our global appeal were less than one tenth of the US$90,000 required to conduct the proposed Harare trials involving a comparative assessment of nine alternative treatments. With Geraldene, the Harare coordinator, experiencing health problems, the proposed Harare trials had to be indefinitely postponed.

The funds being received might just be sufficient however to conduct a three person trial using Imusil in Kinshasa. And if Imusil lived up to the curative ideal promoted by its producers, then the results could attract sufficient interest from celebrities, large charitable organisations and grants foundations to possibly fund the remaining eight alternative treatment trials. For a few months our Inner Planning Circle developed a budget resolution for the Kinshasa Imusil trials, and in September 2003, a donation of AUD$4,000 provided us with the confidence to commence the Kinshasa trials, even though we still needed to raise as much money again to complete the project.

Between November 2003 and April 2004, a constant progression of obstacles emerged to delay the commencement, and discouragement became our companion, not only for members of the Inner Planning Circle, but also for the goodwill workers, patients and doctors in Kinshasa. This discouragement was threatening to undermine all our endeavours, and with it despair again emerged.

Funds had dried up and the progress of the trials were stalled. The one thread of hope that remained was the promise of the Christ, that "whatsoever shall be asked in Christ’s name and with faith in the response will see it accomplished". And so, together with Albert and Sergei, we invoked the completion of the Kinshasa trials. But how could we demonstrate true "faith in the response". Thus I identified with our HIV/AIDS patients in Kinshasa, not only in their hope for healing, but also in their despair should the compassionate support in affluent countries be insufficient to fund the completion of the Imusil trials. And thus as further delays and lack of funds continued, despair returned to the HIV patients in Kinshasa. And so also my own physical health declined over those six months, and my body seemed to be afflicted by a wasting disease, even though I have never had HIV infection. For the lack of compassionate response from those in affluent countries had brought me repeatedly during those six months to the point of despair.

Those six months were a struggle between hope and despair, and truly Albert, Sergei and I experienced the burning ground of discipleship. Gradually however, thanks to the wonderful support of our prayer group, things started to turn around, and on the very eve of Wesak (May/2004), the Imusil trials in Kinshasa commenced. A few months later, after a further crisis and group invocation for funds, the Kinshasa Imusil project was fully funded, and now has been completed, and we simply await the final blood test results. We then plan for the records to be fully published on the CRN website by the end of the year.

Finding New Direction

Now in November 2004, the first two patients to receive Imusil treatment have had their 6-monthly post treatment blood tests.

Though the 6-monthly results for the first two Imusil patients have not yet been returned, the 4-monthly results were disappointing, with bDNA results revealing HIV viral load in the blood doubling every two months, and the CD4 count not improving and remaining at a low level suggesting likelihood of frequent secondary infections. They both have in fact had recent fevers for secondary infections. The physical improvement and appearance of these two patients over the first two months has not been sustained, and the recent blood test results suggest the Imusil may have been ineffective in the longer term. The doctors now hold grave concern for these two patients. Both have been provided with bottles of colloidal silver which should hold back secondary infections, but this treatment will not heal the HIV/AIDS infection long-term.

It has been CRN policy to support all patients on trials until all show HIV clear blood tests. Albert, the patients and the doctors all support the idea of them going on a second HIV/AIDS treatment as soon as possible.

Recently I have had correspondence with Joseph in Ivory Coast, and Emmanuel in Cameroon, and so we have now received expressions of interest from eight goodwill service groups in Africa, offering to facilitate a 6-months, 3 patients treatment and blood testing project in their own locality. There are eight more alternative treatments that CRN is wanting to trial, and so tentatively we have allocated these treatments in this manner, giving special consideration to the preferences, advantages and strengths of each group.

Albert, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Flor Essence
Shadrack, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Glyconutritionals
Ricardo, Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Dr Hulda Clark Protocol
Bonaventure, Freetown, Sierra Leone: Dr Bob Beck Protocol
Joseph, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Essiac
Geraldene, Harare, Zimbabwe: Sutherlandia herb
Emmanuel, Douala, Cameroon: Spice oils
Bernard, Nairobi, Kenya: Pure colloidal silver + Oxyrich

With the conclusion of the Imusil trial, which should be rounded off and published on our website by the end of the year 2004, CRN now has the opportunity to proceed with further trials. The question presents itself "How many trial projects should we aim for, one, four or all eight simultaneously?" The thought of invoking the needed expansion to conduct all eight trials simultaneously, recalls for us our former experience in inviting the public to sponsor a 9-treatment, 36 patients trial in Harare together with a three treatment, 7 patients trial in Kinshasa, with an overall budget estimated at US$90,000. We launched the public fundraising appeal for this project in April 2003, and within two months, we had to acknowledge that the public response was less than a tenth the funds required. Reluctantly, we had to defer this project, and concentrated instead on the more modest goal of funding the Kinshasa Imusil trials.

If we were to simultaneously sponsor eight three person trials, each in different African localities, the over all budget is bound to exceed US$100,000. The exact amount has yet to be calculated, but as the trials are all distributed in different localities, the overall budget cost may rise up to over US$200,000. Would CRN be capable of raising such a huge amount of money? By June 2003, we had to acknowledge that the target of raising US$90,000 was far beyond our means, and so the Harare project had to be indefinitely deferred.

Let us therefore ask a more modest question. All eight alternative treatments will require daily treatment, feeding, accommodation and/or transport and nursing/cooking care and regular blood tests. A single treatment project for three patients over 6 months will therefore require at least US$10,000, possibly twice that amount. Is CRN capable as it is presently set up to fund a single treatment project, requiring us to raise at least US$10,000?

The CRN fund at the moment stands at just AUD$8, and there is an audit bill of AUD$540 to be paid shortly. Regular payments to CRN come to about AUD$200 a year, and large donations are not anticipated unless we come up with new vital projects that will inspire contributions. Even then, I doubt that we can over the next year raise US$10,000 (= about AUD$14,000) unless we drastically improve our promotion to the public. The Kinshasa Imusil project has been fully funded, mainly due to the generous contribution of about three donors. Two of these, I do not expect to repeat their donations. The third donor was myself, donating from my modest disability pension. Already, I regularly fund a dozen projects and service groups each year, and to fully pay off the costs of the Kinshasa Imusil project, I had to go several thousand Australian dollars into debt, a debt that it will now take me a year to pay off. The sacrifices, financial and in pressure of meeting the group needs through continual personal sacrifice have had a serious toll on my health. I am now recovering, but I no longer will be able to salvage a CRN future project from my own personal pension and sacrifices. The responsibility for funding and facilitating future projects needs to be shared.

When my health broke down over the past year, I knew that I simply must share some of my secretarial responsibilities. I recognise that I have no time to promote the CRN projects to celebrities, large charitable organisations or grants foundations. For nearly a year now, I have invited others from affluent countries (not necessarily Australia) to accept such promotional responsibilities, but no-one has volunteered. If no-one volunteers, then this aspect of CRN work simply remains undone. As the work expands, the duties must be shared and taken on by others. Marielle has accepted responsibilities of chairing the Inner Planning Circle discussion, to which I am very thankful. It is the lack of interest in further contributing, either through donations or sharing secretarial duties of a significant degree, that is now causing much despondency within CRN. Even if we chose now to aim towards the sponsorship of just the one further alternative treatment project, the degree of substantial support for the work of CRN is now at such a low ebb, and very soon the mood of despondency may turn again to despair, and the activity of CRN would collapse.

There had been hope that the results of the Imusil project would be more positive, and could be used to enthuse renewed sponsorship and contribution. But with the HIV viral load for patients A and B doubling each two months, and the lymphocyte (CD4) count remaining at a seriously low level, and the doctors expressing grave concerns for the patients’ future health, we must conclude that the Imusil project results have been disappointing. They do not indicate criteria by which the medical profession can suggest that we have found a possibly curative treatment for HIV/AIDS.

The completion of the Imusil project has been very positive in some ways. To begin with, we have now completed the trial for one of the nine alternative treatments on our 9-treatment comparative assessment program. We remain convinced that two or three of these nine treatments will demonstrate remarkable curative results. When all nine treatments have been trialled, we would then have guidelines for proposing more extended trials (with say 500 patients) for the more promising of the treatments. The full funding on a tight budget and completion of this one trial is therefore a significant result in itself.

Secondly, the Imusil project has demonstrated the capacity for CRN to carry through a very difficult challenge through to completion. Several of the members of CRN have dared the burning ground of discipleship in service for humanity, and though the challenge seemed so immense, we nevertheless have through our group faith held on and achieved our initial result. We have demonstrated the Science of Manifestation, by which the Divine Plan for humanity’s redemption becomes anchored upon Earth. The challenge of completing the Kinshasa Imusil project remains modest in comparison with the immense global need, but it demonstrates that great sacrifice and goodwill service by a few can result in completion of projects that had previously been perceived of as being of insuperable dimensions.

The Spiritual Challenge

We have discussed the probable result if CRN tried to continue according to its previous level of support, and accepted the challenge of funding and facilitating just one further alternative treatment project in Africa. Because of the limited public response and limited flow of compassion from the general public, we may from the beginning run into serious funding problems, and disappointment and discouragement may very quickly turn to despair and hopelessness.

We lack the material funds, resources and support to complete even one more such alternative treatment trial. We must therefore invoke the pathway of collective responsiveness to God’s Plan and His Will. Need arises and urgency decrees. Because of the dire situation in Africa, if we choose to be receptive to God’s Great Love, then we must invoke the fiery pathway of planning, funding and facilitating all eight alternative treatments simultaneously, all be completed over the next two years.

The formation of CRN and completion of the Kinshasa Imusil project was made possible through the creation of a triangle of synthesis (involving Albert Mananga, Sergei Belkovsky and myself) and making immense sacrifices through goodwill service, with faith that our material needs would be met through God’s abundant supply. Our efforts resulted in the completion of the Kinshasa Imusil project, despite starting with no material resources, and thus we have demonstrated the pathway for the Science of Manifestation.

The challenge now is to return to the subjective or esoteric and lay anew the foundations for a four-fold to eight-fold expansion in CRN activity. With such expanded activity, the eight remaining comparative treatment trials will possibly be completed within two years.

How then do we lay the esoteric or subjective foundations for such an expanded level of group activity for CRN?

From its commencement three years ago, CRN invited broad group participation. Offers to assist in the service activities were carefully considered and responded to. A fortnightly prayer update sheet provided not only prayer goals, but also updates of recent events and esoteric articles to attract service activity. The response from readers in affluent nations was sufficient (just) to fund the Kinshasa Imusil project, but now with the disappointing results of the Imusil blood tests, support may have waned. Now CRN has no funds to promote further projects, there are no indications of imminent donations, and secretarial support (that we have shared for six months is desperately needed) has not come. From Africa we now have eight goodwill servers or groups eager to help facilitate trial projects similar to the Kinshasa Imusil project. CRN cannot however proceed with any of these projects unless funding or secretarial support comes from affluent countries.

The support needed is within the capacity of about two committed goodwill workers in affluent countries to plan, fund and facilitate one alternative treatment project for three advanced HIV/AIDS patients receiving treatment and blood testing over six months. Such a triangle of synthesis was central to the completion of the Kinshasa Imusil project. As two of our triangle were from poorer nations, my modest disability pension was the only regular source of income and most of that had been committed to send regular donations to service groups or projects in the Third World. As a group, we identified unconditionally with the millions in Africa with HIV/AIDS, using a meditation of synthesis. The pathway to completing the project was not easy, and we all had to make immense sacrifices. My own health broke down and I had to go into debt to fund the project (setbacks which will pass and for which I have no regrets). Albert facilitated the project voluntarily, receiving no wages for his continual goodwill service activity to get the project proceeding well. At times he had no money for food, and he was recently evicted from his rented premises. Sergei suffered over the past 18 months with severe viral infections, for which his experience in psychological and spiritual healing only partly helped. It seems his extreme illness has been a sacrifice made to promote God’s Plan.

We now have eight committed goodwill servers in Africa willing to make deep sacrifices to facilitate a treatment and blood testing project. But where is the support in funds and goodwill service from affluent nations? With simply a four-fold increase in true and committed goodwill servers, our entire nine-treatment project could be realised in practice. But the reality is that support has dwindled, and there is as yet no hint of deep commitment from affluent countries sufficient to facilitate even one further treatment project.

I am now weary from the indifference in affluent nations to our work. My health has suffered recently, and I have gone into debt which will take a year to pay off. I need to step aside from some of my secretarial duties to let others serve.

To our knowledge, no-one else has conducted a similar comparative survey of alternative treatments for HIV/AIDS. Many believe that the cure for HIV/AIDS will come from alternative treatments. But as long as the providers for these treatments support testing only for their own treatments, the truly compassionate NGOs will suspect excessive spin when reading about their claims. It is just common sense that a comparative survey needs to be undertaken by an independent global group. And we need to invoke support for such a group from the men and women of goodwill around the world. The destiny of humanity lies through the creative and intelligent use and application of the energies of love and goodwill. Without such a comparative survey, there seems little hope that we will be able to demonstrate a cure for HIV/AIDS.

Compassion Response Network has received numerous letters of support for our vision and projects, but only a small proportion of this has been of a practical nature. Who is there willing to make the needed deep sacrifice and goodwill commitment? It will need only eight or so dedicated and fully committed goodwill workers to turn everything around. Most of our support is simply words, with very little on a practical level being contributed. The flow of compassion to facilitate meaningful direct response to urgent need is lacking. The providers of alternative treatments are not interested in a comparative survey. Who then will release the abundant flow of goodwill energy and compassion? I am now weary of inviting such committed contributions, as I have done for the past four years. Our circulars are eagerly read, but most readers place a greater priority in their personal comfort and leisure, and in the meantime the AIDS pandemic grows and grows and the children of Africa continue to despair.

Anchoring True Brotherhood Upon Earth.

When so few people care for the suffering of countless millions, and are not willing to sacrifice their comfortable lifestyle for a modest contribution, then what hope is there for humanity? If we neglect to organise ourselves to, through our cooperative activity, to resolve humanity’s problems, then these very problems will become the burden of our children, who will be forced to face them with twice the suffering. For only as we collectively choose to take those practical steps that will bring about real change on the outer levels, only then will humanity’s greatest problems find a pathway towards resolution.

Too few there are who pray and meditate, yet also choose to take those practical sacrifices that will build the cooperative activity that can transform global problems.

In Discipleship in the New Age I, p721, by Alice Bailey, we read;

"The Masters are, therefore, anxious to 'burn up the disciple in the fire of the will-to-love so that he is set free and the barriers to the inflow of avataric (Christ) force may be dissolved'. Why is this? Because it is the disciples in the world and not the mass of men who today hinder the Coming of the Avatar (Christ) and render useless His intention. He dare not come until the disciples and aspirants in the world bring about the needed changes in themselves, for the reason that there would not be enough of the will-to-love with the fiery essence."