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© REVIEWS factors in transfusions has been vehemently _on how to develop these abilities. B oO oO K Ss put down by scientists and drug companies By the year 2020 we have learned how to ‘ with vested interests in anti-AIDS drugs, test open our hearts and be more intuitive, sensu- Reviewed by uiniamell kits and their own egos. al, happy, humorous, generous and respect- POSITIVELY FALSE: Exposing the Not only has promising scientific enquiry ful. Fear only gets a look-in when viewed as Myths Around HIV and AIDS been sidelined in the name of profit and rep- a0 opportunity for emotional growth. by Joan Shenton utation, but many thousands in the industri. Mental health has become 'mindcare’ and Publisher: |. B. Tauris & Co., UK, 1998 alised West and Third World have died due people can visit clinics where they hook into ISBN: 1-86064-333-7 (291 pp he} to misdiagnosis and misprescribing. light machines' to enhance their knowledge on : ‘ and intuition. Relationships and family life, ernie Tet Hav riowell tel (02) CONVERSING WITH THE FUTURE: education, entertainment, communication, business and economics have all undergone 9427 2830; UK—I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, tel__ Visions of the Year 2020 fundamental positive shifts by 2020, accord- 0171 831 9060; USA—St Martin's Press, by Jenna Catherine ing to Catherine's visions. tel (212) 674 5151, 1800 321 9299 Publisher: Wild Flower Press, USA, 1998 So how do we get to this future paradise? pponents of the 'HIV = AIDS = Death' ISBN: 0-926524-45-3 (222pp tpb) Catherine suggests we should imagine it as hypothesis are gaining voice within the Price: AUD$29.95 + $7.50 p&h; £12.99; achievable and connect with it as though it scientific and medical communities, while NLGf n/a; USD$16.95 were already a reality. As for what happens millions of dollars are still being directed Available: Aust—Bhudevi, tel (07) 5534 in the meantime, we are left none the wiser. into the research, development and market- 9200; UK—Counter Culture, tel 01823 ing of drug therapies like AZT which has 698895; Europe—NEXUS office; already been proved to have fatal effects. USA—Access Publishers Network, tel One maverick medical journalist, British (616) 276 5196 award-winning documentary filmmaker hen we think about our concept of 'the Joan Shenton, has been tracking the contro- now’ and our place in it, we tend to versy between the HIV/AIDS orthodoxy and __ think in terms of the past and present. But its detractors for over a decade, and her to imagine that our totality includes our- book, Positively False, is a record of her selves in the future puts a whole new spin on investigations into this ongoing battle royal. _ reality. This is the basic premise of The leading light of dissent is microbiolo- Conversing with the Future, the jumping-off gist Dr Peter Duesberg who first went public _ point for author Jenna Catherine in her own in 1986 with his refutation of the 'HIV caus- _ mind-travelling forays into the future. es AIDS' hypothesis. His conclusion, that As an experiment, Catherine chose the HIV is nothing more than inactive genetic year 2020 as her destination, and with the fragments that cannot possibly cause AIDS, _help of a spirit guide and people from pre- seems to have been vindicated as more sci- sent and future time zones she discovered a entists realise that HIV has never been iso- Utopian society based on love. It is a world lated. His belief that AIDS is the result of where telepathy is the norm, but it's a type immune system breakdown caused by toxic _ that incorporates expansion of the physical overload from drug abuse, pharmaceutical senses, fluid energy flow and dynamic reso- drug 'treatments' and impure blood-clotting nance—and Catherine includes guidelines factors in transfusions has been vehemently put down by scientists and drug companies with vested interests in anti-AIDS drugs, test kits and their own egos. Not only has promising scientific enquiry been sidelined in the name of profit and rep- utation, but many thousands in the industri- alised West and Third World have died due to misdiagnosis and misprescribing. on how to develop these abilities. By the year 2020 we have learned how to open our hearts and be more intuitive, sensu- al, happy, humorous, generous and respect- ful. Fear only gets a look-in when viewed as an opportunity for emotional growth. Mental health has become 'mindcare’ and people can visit clinics where they hook into ‘light machines' to enhance their knowledge and intuition. Relationships and family life, education, entertainment, communication, business and economics have all undergone fundamental positive shifts by 2020, accord- ing to Catherine's visions. So how do we get to this future paradise? Catherine suggests we should imagine it as achievable and connect with it as though it were already a reality. As for what happens in the meantime, we are left none the wiser. JENNA CATHERINE y wo as NEXUS 77 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1998