HIV-AIDS DRUGS AND THE POWER OF INTENTION
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Things are connected in strange ways in the universe. What's the link between a lush rainforest in the South Pacific and a devastated center of American urban poverty, between factories each the size of a single cell at the University of California at Berkeley and the 1,000-mile trail of HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa?
The link was brought into manifestation by the "intention" of ethno-botanist Paul Alan Cox who went to Samoa after his mother died of cancer. Having been a missionary there before, he remembered that there were native healers in the rain forest and one of them might have had a cancer cure.
As his book, Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest, tells in dramatic detail, Cox got involved in the fight to save Samoa's endangered rain forest. He became a hero to the native tribes who showed him the plants that they used in healing.
A chapter in this story was written long after the book was published. In late 2004 an agreement was reached between the University of California Berkeley (UCalB) and the people of Samoa. Under the agreement scientists from UCalB will "isolate from an indigenous tree (one of the plants that Cox was shown) the gene for a promising anti-AIDS drug and to share any royalties from sale of a gene-derived drug with the people of Samoa." according to a press release from the University.
"The drug (Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree) currently is being studied by scientists around the world because of its potential to force the AIDS virus out of hibernation in the body's immune cells and into the line of fire of anti-AIDS drugs now in use."
So far so good for the power of "intention." This is a classic example of what Dr. Wayne Dyer talks about in his book, PBS-TV specials, and CDs.
Mystics say, "If your heart has an intention that is pure and positive, then the universe will conspire to help you." Our spiritual intelligence research tells us that each one of us affects the universe around us; and since scientists now say that the universe is one big energy field than what is affected by each of us affects everything in the universe. One act can create a ripple in the universal energy field just as one pebble thrown into the ocean affects the entire ocean.
It is obvious how this all relates to a devastated center of American urban poverty, and the 1,000-mile trail of HIV-AIDS orphans in Africa. In late 2005 the United Nations issued a report that the number of persons affected by AIDs has just pass 40 million worldwide and just passed 1 million in the United States, but AIDS related deaths are sharply declining among those who can afford treatment and necessary lifestyle changes.
One of the laws of unintended consequences is that as expensive treatment options became more available to those who can afford them, HIV-AIDS became more and more a poor person's disease. Thus, American media is paying less and less attention it.
However, now that UCalB scientists have pinpointed the key enzymes in the DNA of Prostratin (the drug from the mamala tree) and inserted them into E. coli bacteria, the scientists are able to create bacterial factories that can produce Prostratin.
If Prostratin can be harvested from bacterial factories then there will be no need to destroy mamala trees, thus helping to save the rainforest. Prostratin can be produced and harvested inexpensively for people in pockets of urban poverty and the developing world, the places where HIV-AIDS is still spreading like wild fire. This is an example of how the power of intentions and the law of unintended consequences produced something greater than was intended when he went off to Samoa looking for a cure for cancer.
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