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Since 1982 tens of thousands of people have come to HEAL meetings in New York City to get an alternative view and approach to health and healing. HEAL provided the necessary resources to help them evaluate their actual health risks, and access alternative healthcare providers if they decided to use an alternative approach.

The ‘AIDS Zone’ is a mass trance that creates an imaginary hyper-desperation and helplessness in all who unknowingly slip into it. When participating and making choices within the Zone it is itself, in my opinion, the most dangerous and under-rated risk for developing AIDS-indicator diseases. For most people, primarily people who have tested ‘positive’, whenever discussing or even thinking about HIV or AIDS they do so unaware of their trance logic. The most important thing HEAL offers people is a way out of the trance; a way out of the Zone.

Could you be in the AIDS Zone? Take this simple test:

• Do you think every symptom and minor health problem is the beginning of the end?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions you are unknowingly operating with the Zone. This is dangerous because desperate people always make desperate choices.

Unfortunately, escaping from the AIDS Zone is not enough. When choosing a healthcare provider one is wise to ensure that the practitioner you are considering is not him/herself stuck in the AIDS Zone. In the late eighties, a new breed of alternative and holistic practitioners began offering their services within the western allopathic context of treating ‘HIV disease’. When HEAL talks about taking an alternative or holistic approach to maintaining or rebuilding health we are talking about practitioners who design a personalized protocol based on their patients’ or clients’ individual needs. This approach has been disregarded by these ‘new’ practitioners who instead treat ‘HIV infection’. We recommend that people replace these practitioners with someone who practices classical alternative (or holistic) medicine, someone who views them as people with health problems and imbalances, rather than people with HIV or AIDS. Although many of these new ‘alternative HIV’ practitioners are well intentioned, they are best avoided and HEAL advises people to avoid any and all practitioners who treat "HIV infection." The task is to address genuine health risks and any problems people are actually experiencing.

We also recommend that people with or at risk for AIDS indicator diseases be aware of the special health risks that come with being viewed as being infected with HIV, which include: intense chronic fear and social isolation, relentless programming to get sick and die, and the fact that in far too many cases every problem they have will be blamed on HIV.

So before considering what kind of help you need it is important to calmly evaluate your health outside of the Zone. Because the tests for both HIV antibodies and the HI-Virus are simply not scientifically valid 1 , if you haven’t taken an HIV test – don't!

If you have already tested so-called ‘HIV positive’ it is best to consider all the risks associated with getting a false positive result and address the risks themselves. HEAL considers all positive results to be false positives in lieu of viral isolation. At most a positive result is, outside the Zone, a marker for possible serious health risks, and not the death sentence one gets within the Zone. As there is no specific evidence which demonstrates HIV has been properly isolated one may not think of oneself as HIV positive.

In order to help people better evaluate their prospective practitioner I offer you the Ellner test:

1. If you are otherwise healthy and have simply tested positive you must look the prospective practitioner in the eye and say: I am ‘HIV positive’ and am told that I’m at risk for AIDS. Do you think it is possible for me to live a long and healthy life? If the practitioner says anything but yes, find another practitioner!
2. If you have one or more AIDS indicator diseases or conditions, the test is a little different. In addition to eye contact, you must physically make contact with the doctor and say: I have ‘AIDS’. Do you think it is possible for me to regain my health and live a long healthy life? If the practitioner says anything but yes run for your life! Then calmly find another practitioner.

In certain situations conventional medical care can be and is lifesaving. But, to do with ‘AIDS’, only in the context of actual diseases, i.e. the ‘opportunistic’ diseases themselves. In all other cases I believe AIDS specialists (both conventional and alternative) who are helping you wage a war against HIV can only hurt you and ultimately shorten your life.

Remember, educate yourself and then question, challenge and fire any and all healthcare providers who want to treat you inside the AIDS Zone.

1.Papadopulos-Eleopulos et al. Is a positive western blot proof of HIV infection?. Bio/Technology 11, 6/93.

Rev. Dr MICHAEL ELLNER is a driving force in alternative healthcare. He has earned worldwide recognition as the President of HEAL – Health Education AIDS Liaison, New York City. A prominent hypno-healer, he has received many honors including the first International Association of Counselors and Therapists’ Mind/Body/Spirit Award and two Hypnosis Humanities Awards from the U.S. National Guild of Hypnotists (1989, 1994). His significant new book Quantum Focus written with Richard Jamison Ph.D. explores self-healing and empower-

From the following studies of HIV/AIDS survivors/nonprogressors, adapted from a comprehensive list by HEAL Portland, Oregan, two important points emerge:

Neutralizing and infection enhancing antibody responses etc. Montefiori DC. Journal of Infectious Diseases 173:60 (1996).

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