United States of Candida: How Our Country is Candida to the Gay Community

After reading about the characteristics of Candida, my mind got to tossing around the idea that the manner in which Candida decomposes the body reflects the way society attacks the gay community. When I observe how culture reacts and has reacted in the past to gays, lesbian and transgenders I’m reminded of how a Candida bacteria mutates and keeps on attacking in order to kill the body and decompose it’s corpse. The most godawful, hateful, cruel and spiteful diatribes and invectives are hurled at gay people by millions upon million of zealots and bigots in this country. Why spit such venom if there was not a sadistic, twisted and malevolent thought and energy hiding behind those pious faces. Violence comes in many forms, yes there is physical violence, but there is also energetic and spiritual violence that is quite effective to the morphic energy body forming field of the gay community.

Let’s consider this idea of society as a Candida fungus aimed at killing or debilitating gays a bit further. Real Candida thrives on a diet of sugar, junk food and simple carbohydrates. If my concept is applicable, then our community needs to stop feeding society sugar. How do we stop the sugar rush? Well, my thought is that our political system is the Candida yeast. Most of us probably understand our nation’s politicians don’t truly represent their constituencies but rather pay tribute to significantly larger pockets. When, as a community, we go hat in hand, to beg for special handouts like equal rights, ability to get married, safety from hate crimes and to be able to adopt children, rights that other citizens automatically possess, we are feeding sugar to the yeast. The system is never going to recognize us as healthy because to it we are the disease.

Remember this quote from above, “Candida yeast is an extremely complex and difficult condition to overcome once it infiltrates the body. It is one of the most obstinate, clever and highly adaptive organisms you will ever encounter. It has the ability to mutate and develop stronger forms of itself.” Yes, we may get a bone or two thrown our way but the overall plan leaves no doubt as to our status. The debate swirling around gays constantly shifts from teaching in schools, to having and raising children, to AIDS is god’s retribution, to you can’t get married and on and on and on. Every single time there is an election gay rights issues take center stage because most candidates know they can’t do anything about the real issues that are bankrupting this country and taking away our freedoms, but they do still want to get reelected and keep their cushy jobs. Hate is effective.

Now, for the proliferation of antibiotics that also causes Candida overgrowth. In society, our antibiotics are our political, business, social, academic and religious leaders and yes the media. It is antibiotic authorities that are supposed to protect us from lies, corruption, graft and violence that would do the social or community body great damage. To the contrary, these antibiotics are constantly promising real change, better plans, new approaches, sounding just like a candida yeast would as it devours you, but not only does nothing change the situation degenerates. When is enough...enough?

I am definitely not saying to go ahead and fight fire with fire, then you become the Candida yeast yourself. That’s ridiculous. What’s really at stake is our physical, mental and spiritual well being and our cohesion as a community. There is a tremendous loss of energy, which pours out and is lost into a Candida system, when our community constantly runs around trying to put out political fires and keep up a good image that our leaders don't particularly appreciate anyway. I say stop it. We conserve our energy and define ourselves through true self-remembering. We decide what we are and what we stand for and what we believe in by knowing our own as well as society's programs of self destruction and imbalance. I for one am through acting like a child who’s desperate for his distant, neglectful parent’s affection. How about you?

Once again, we don’t fight fire with fire, fighting is reactionary. We act for our own destiny by acquiring and applying knowledge not acting against another. Reacting is mechanical and machine-like anyway, we are certainly more creative and affirming than that as a community. This proposal is my idea of how to pursue one’s own destiny of a healthy and balanced existence free of the lie of HIV/AIDS, and more aware of the subversive and destructive schemes of social and emotional programming via the media and other oppressive elements of society.

The concept of recycling is also doubly important for energy. We need to be more saavy about the emotional and spiritual energy we as a community generate. It's tremendous. Remember what I said in the beginning, creation happens from thought down. If we understand how to best utilize and recycle our energies then higher awareness and evolution are realistic and sustaining. In my own personal life, I have ceased pleading for approval from those who don’t and won’t ever approve of me which just makes solid energetic sense.

The reason I would write an article like this is because the health of the gay community does not simply rely on the medications or vitamins we take or even going to the gym but is connected to how we fit into society, how we interact with our families and what we absorb through media. Health is more than physical, it is energetic, emotional and thought oriented as well. I'm also grateful for the likes of the Larry Kramer's of this world and the drag queens, hustlers, transgenders and any others who were there at Stonewall as I can now live more openly due to their valiant efforts. My words certainly are not meant to invalidate the contributions of these brave souls but are written to get us to think realistically about our political system, our individual state's and our country's precarious financial status and how we are going to cope in a world which in a few short years or months may be unrecognizable.