Imbalanced Immune System
The flow of energy is regulated by seven energy centers, called chakras. Any illness or disease can be described as an out-of-balance condition. AIDS (or being HIV positive) is an out-of-balance condition affecting the immune system. The immune system is governed or controlled by the thymus gland, which in turn is regulated by the heart chakra. The heart chakra is that part of our energy system affecting and affected by our perceptions of love. AIDS, then, is an out-of-balance condition that is in some way related to the individual's perceptions of love.The disease began among those members of our society whose life-styles created a sense of separation from those they love. Without the love they needed, and seeing no way out of their dilemma, those people decided at some point that they would rather die. The immune system then deteriorated so that their wishes could be carried out.
Homosexuality and AIDS
Among the members of the homosexual community, the determination to assert the freedom of sexual expression was accompanied by a need to hide this sexual preference from parents, from business associates, and from members of the heterosexual community in general, for fear of not being accepted, not being loved.With the generally puritanical attitudes of the heterosexual community, the fears were often justified, but the situation also created in many members of the gay community a non-acceptance of themselves, a judgmental way of seeing themselves that stimulated even more of an assertive tone to the exercising of their sexual preferences, with a louder demand for acceptance.
Without the individuals' acceptance of themselves, however, they would have difficulty recognizing the acceptance of others. There would remain the suspicion that others were judging them as they were judging themselves.
Separation from Love
In the Haitian community, the harsh martial rule imposed by the Duvalier dictators created an atmosphere of suspicion and fear, even between members of the same family, overshadowing the love. Again, the lifestyle or the people created a sense of separation from those they love. And so, AIDS was born there, too.Drug users, too, who were affected, were living life-styles separating them from those they love, and so they closed their hearts. Children born to them, not finding the love they needed, also began to die - again, from lack of love. When these children went to public schools, they were separated, ostracized, and again, not loved - because they were ill!
They were feared, and parents of healthy children demanded that the AIDS children be removed from the schools. So, there was more non-acceptance. Our perceptions create our reality. We can say that those who developed AIDS had the perception that they were not loved. That perception was fed and reinforced, and these people were able to affirm even more their basic belief that they were not loved, and prove to themselves that it was true. Then, they asked themselves, what was there to live for?
