7.2.2 What can you do to assist in the struggle against AIDS?

The rise and spread of AIDS is a function of the sickness and aridity of our time. We have, collectively, lost contact with the healing powers inherent in fully realised models of reality. In the widest sense, we have lost sight of our roots in that – as a result, we are sick and the sickness manifests as AIDS, as well as other horrors.

The morally crippled, who in our society include many religious extremists and sexual bigots, have a tendency to put the blame for causing AIDS on those who suffer AIDS. Those who seize on the rise of AIDS to enforce their prejudices against the sexual activities of others will, inevitably, incur negative karmic consequences in this life or one of the lives to come. What is required to deal with AIDS is not divisive moral bigotry and complacency, but compassionate activity directed at individual and cultural healing.

AIDS is a moral issue in the widest sense of enforcing our cultural awakening to the unified nature of reality. One way or another, AIDS will touch everybody’s life in the late-twentieth century. Quite simply, AIDS hammers home the point that, underlying our apparent separation and isolation from each other, our lives are all connected.

The only safe cure for AIDS lies in the development of meditation-enhanced healing techniques. Dedicated meditative practice will bring about the profound changes in attitude necessary to inhibit the progress of the virus, both in individual cases and in general. Mere treatment of the physical symptoms alone, without such a profound change in inner orientation, will inevitably fail to heal the whole person.

The meditative techniques of Implicate Technology, or of any other fully developed model of reality, allied to an understanding of the integrated and unified nature of the human psycho-physiological system, offer the best approach to mitigating or curing AIDS. Research into this area can be undertaken by individuals or small groups, without dependence on the chemicals and equipment produced by our expensive and dangerous Western explicate medicines and their associated industries. Practice of the world-healing meditation, as taught at the end of this chapter, will enable you to contribute positively to the struggle against AIDS.

AIDS is a problem we all face – East and West, black and white, rich and poor, heterosexual and homosexual, male and female. AIDS transcends any of the artificial and divisive boundaries humanity has imposed on itself. When we learn to accept and express our needs through unifying and fully developed models of reality, then the karmic causes of AIDS will gradually cease to be active.

The root cause of AIDS is the widespread cultural and individual disharmony resulting from our fragmented and divisive views of the world. Immersed in a futile quest for individual fulfilment through material prosperity and sensual pleasures alone, our cultural values have led us to widespread conflict and division. This disharmony in our lives has evolved into the matrix of unhealthy lifestyles and barren attitudes which encourage the AIDS virus to flourish. The root cure for AIDS is the individual and cultural harmony which will result from the widespread acceptance of integrated and unifying worldviews.

Follow your intuition, as you engage in the world-healing process to heal yourself and others.