Reader's letter:
Hello, Sergey Nikolaevich! Several years ago, my spouse and I were diagnosed with HIV. I was also found to have hepatitis C. We did not undergo HIV treatment because we came across the opinion of AIDS dissidents, who claim that it is a fabricated diagnosis. There is also a belief that therapy cannot fully cure HIV and only causes harm. Last year, both my wife's and my health deteriorated. My wife has gynecological problems – a precancerous condition. My diagnosis is still being clarified, doctors suspect cancer. We realized we were living wrongly and began to change. And we will continue to change! The actual question is this. Sergey Nikolaevich, what do you think about taking HIV therapy?
Respectfully…
Sergey Nikolaevich's reply:
I believe one should not refuse medication. Medications work not with the cause of the disease but with the consequence – therefore, they essentially do not cure but only stabilize the patient's condition. I think it makes sense to slow down the disease's progression to have time to work on the causes. The causes lie in the soul, in the subconscious. Usually, I tell patients: «Work on what the situation provokes». What does a disease like AIDS provoke, as does cancer? Both AIDS and cancer represent a slow dying, a loss of the future. Why does a person fade slowly instead of dying immediately? The disease is given not so much for something as for something.
The gradual deterioration of physical condition pushes a person to gradually overcome the attachment to the outside world, internally saying goodbye to life, to think about the eternal – about God, about love, about the soul. Disease is the result of subconscious aggression, and subconscious aggression is the result of accumulated attachment. Attachment is the result of sin, and sin is the removal from God. When a person moves not towards God but towards instincts, desires, spiritual and material values, then attachment and aggressiveness arise, followed by health and fate problems.
The Bible says that God is jealous. He takes away what a person places above love for Him. God is love, God gives us energy and life, God gives us everything. And when we turn away from Him, then we lose everything, and diseases appear. The current situation provokes you and your spouse into fear of the future, into despondency and regret. All these are forms of aggression towards time, and time is a fundamental quantity in the Universe. How to overcome the fear of the future?
Any religion helps to overcome this fear, and with it, the worship of the future and the instinct of self-preservation. Religion explains that our soul is eternal. Religion calls for sacrifice, that is, to humble one's desires, life, the instinct of self-preservation, – and this helps reduce dependence on life. As is known, development is dialectical. Without love, development is impossible. Love is the unity of two opposites. If there are no opposites, there is no development. What we call life is only half of our life. In fact, life is the unity of two opposites: life at the physical level and life at the field level (the soul's existence in the afterlife). These are two opposites that transition into one another. Worshiping one of these opposites hinders a person's development.
Worshiping life, pleasure, instincts, attachment to life, consumerism – all this leads to the fading of life. Contempt for life, renunciation of it gives the same result. For a person to develop normally, they must be able to manage life values, that is, use them but not be attached to them. We must understand that everything in this life is temporary. You are gradually losing the future, – this means you have increased attachment and aggression towards the future.
Disease is a forced sacrifice. You need to make a sacrifice not forcibly, but voluntarily. Remember all the moments of the future's collapse that you had in life. Injustice, destruction of ideals, hopes, well-being – all this must be accepted as treatment and salvation of your soul. Then remember all the traumatic situations related to the soul and accept the pain from loved ones, forgive them, remove the slightest claims to parents, remove despondency and dissatisfaction with oneself. Any pain of the soul must be accepted as necessary medicine.
When you accept pain, humiliations, and losses at all three levels – material, spiritual, and soulful, a feeling of love for God will begin to unfold in your soul. You need to internally detach from the values of this world for some time and pray, through repentance remove the aggression that binds you to this world, – aggression not only towards others but also towards yourself.
Such internal work will allow you to put your soul in order, restore the priority system. Then your energy will be balanced, as attachment will decrease, and recovery will become possible. HIV causes a drop in immunity. But there is information that AIDS often occurs even without the virus. Even without the virus, a person's immunity can drop.
Immunity is an indicator of the main life energy, which decreases when a person worships life and relates to life aggressively. When love for life goes away, the destruction of the person begins. To keep the love for life, passion must be turned into love, get rid of attachments, – then there will be neither aggression towards life nor worship of it. Our energy leaks excessively when we take on insurmountable tasks. When consciousness comes to the forefront, and the soul recedes to the background, then the person tries to control the outside world not subconsciously, with the soul, but with consciousness.
Our subconscious knows the past, present, and future. Our subconscious, connected with the soul, feels the Divine will, has unity with God, and can influence the surrounding world. And our consciousness, which knows too little, tries to control the surrounding world based on its limited perceptions. It is no coincidence that all religions call for detachment and suppression of consciousness.
Consciousness is suppressed through prayer, through sacrifice (since sacrifice is the destruction of the external «I», closely associated with consciousness), through fasting, asceticism. Consciousness is suppressed when we live by the soul, not by the head, when we understand that feelings are wiser than thoughts. Many seriously ill people, including those diagnosed with cancer, recovered after realizing the approach of death, they began to live, as the soul wishes.
When they managed to put consciousness in the background, then the soul came to the forefront, and then love and energy appeared. The soul must be in the first place: «Blessed are the poor in spirit». The first reaction to the world should be a feeling of love, – and then the instinct of self-preservation can kick in. Absolutely everything must be accepted as the highest good from the Almighty. Whatever God does, – it's for the best.
Every situation is given to us for the development of love in the soul. Therefore, internally we have the right only to love, humility, and absolute acceptance of everything that happens and will happen. And externally we conflict in accordance with the law of the unity and struggle of opposites. Unity should come first, that is, love and humility, and then – solving our problems, realizing our instincts.
You and your spouse need to trust in the Almighty and listen to your soul.
You need to pause consciousness and everything associated with it: plans for the future, superficial desires, claims, and grievances. It's necessary to feel that God is love, that the world is rational, and everything that happens to us is not accidental. Disease pushes a person towards love and development, to change their inner state, their worldview, and character. The soul must be freed from the yoke of attachments and a misguided system of priorities.
When you and your spouse begin to restore the correct system of priorities, then you will stop losing energy. You will no longer subconsciously fight with the outside world and start living in harmony with it.
S.N. Lazarev, «The Recipe for Happiness»
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