Dear Dr. Dunn

[Charles Gavette]

This is where we run into some difficulty, right? Until one understands that
the difference between the "more" and the "less" is a false problem, one may
run the risk of overlooking the possibility that the elucidation of the
actual mechanism referred to in the article may not require large numbers of
patients. But science always asks for reproduceable results, the" more" and
"less" once again coming into play. If it is true that the human immune
system may be composed of up to 25% consciousness,  a New Yorker may not
fare well in a study of this kind. These patients were Africans, and may I
remind you that psychologically speaking, Africans in general see the
Ambiguous Trident in the correct two-dimensional space that it is, rather
than the way Westerners perceive it as being in three dimensions. Asian
perception is also quite in line with perceiving the Ambiguous Trident
correctly. As Julia Kristeva has said of the Chinese female...."I can name
truly." (Kristeva, About Chinese Women)  Further, the Asian view of the body
and its pathology could be a metaphor in parallel to the example of this
perceptive test, because western medicine does not treat the kidney when
there is a problem with the ears, whereas Traditional Chinese medicine does,
for example. Mathematically, there is in reserve in the human immune system
every possible combination to counter a pathogen that could ever manifest
itself. This remarkable study in simplicity and complexity proves, at least
to me and some others, that the immune system is quite capable of handling
HIV/AIDS under the proper conditions. Oz never gave to the Tin Man nothing
that he did not already have. Using a few tonic herbs as a "subtle body" to
trigger first line defenses like the awesome peritoneal macrophages is not a
new idea: hydrophobia therapy uses the same macrophages. The image of any
established science never fares too well when a minor literature comes onto
the stage in the theaters of life. One example I know a bit about is the
morel mushroom. For perhpas 500 years it has been the goal to capture and
cultivate this fungus. When a student working on his master's degree in
Mycology first completed the life cycle opening the door to its cultivation,
most mycologists called it a fluke. Nevertheless, he got it right, and this
study went contrary to a few parameters of mushroom cultivation, one of
which remains quite important: sterilization, and the fact that he was
growing them on his kitchen table in his apartment. Lastly, it is well known
that the minute the shaman places a name on the malady, it has the potential
to devastate the patient, simply by implication. There is also a kind of
voodoo found in Epilepsy. Can you pretend not to see this? Deepak Chopra has
already spoken of this effect in his works.




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