'HIV TREATMENT DERIVED FROM CRYSTALS--IS THIS FOR REAL?' BY REVEREND BARBARA SEXTON "THE BIBLICAL BIOCHEMIST-WHERE SCIENCE MEETS THE CROSS"

'HIV TREATMENT DERIVED FROM CRYSTALS-IS THIS FOR REAL?' BY REVEREND BARBARA SEXTON "THE BIBLICAL BIOCHEMIST-WHERE SCIENCE MEETS THE CROSS"

CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. CHEREPANOV & COLLEAGUES AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON & HARVARD UNIVERSITY --A TOME OF GRATITUDE AND GUIDE TO EASY READING AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THIS IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT BY REVEREND BARBARA SEXTON February 2, 2010

Talk to someone about the use of 'crystals' in alternative medicine and there is a good chance that they will laugh at you or 'humor you' and perhaps listen out of curiosity. But the scientific use of crystals is so far beyond the imagination of some people, that nothing less than a crazy piece such as what I've written here will open up their minds up to any such understanding.

And open up their minds, they will, if their lives or that of a loved one, depends on it. But before I continue, first some background food for thought. Please bear with me as I stand in awe of the work of researchers DR. CHEREPANOV & COLLEAGUES AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON & HARVARD UNIVERSITY. I don't know anything of the 'faith lives' of these brilliant people, but that they have furthered the understanding of all of us in our quest to get closer to understanding God's Master Planning and Design is undeniable. I, for one, am grateful and wish to share some thoughts from a religio-scientific standpoint, easy enough for all of us to understand. If you like puzzles, deductive reasoning, logic and are just plain curious, you will enjoy the intellectual calisthenics. And surely we can all join in THANKING these researchers for the GREAT GIFT they have given all of humanity at a point in history when we need all the encouragement we can get.

So let us begin:

Crystals are used as cleansing, balancing, adjusting, absorbing and energy-dispelling tools in any number of healing traditions, including laying-on-of-hands. In my personal experience, animals and comatose humans are excellent demonstrators of the effectiveness of this extremely effective therapy. Crystals not only help healing and supplement both traditional and nontraditional forms of therapy, but they can also increase energy in a person who is energy-deficient. I'm willing to entertain the skepticism of those who do not believe my claims, but I will point them to any number of scientific references that detail the use of crystals (quartz, specifically, both natural but more commonly man-made, nowadays) in electronics. This will prove to be a case where 'the scientific validates the spiritual', as you shall see!

Our friends at Wikipedia state: "When a crystal of quartz is properly cut and mounted, it can be made to distort in an electric field by applying a voltage to an electrode near or on the crystal. This property is known as piezoelectricity. When the field is removed, the quartz will generate an electric field as it returns to its previous shape, and this can generate a voltage. The result is that a quartz crystal behaves like a circuit composed of an inductor, capacitor and resistor, with a precise resonant frequency. (See RLC circuit.)" AND: "A crystal oscillator is an electronic circuit that uses the mechanical resonance of a vibrating crystal of piezoelectric material to create an electrical signal with a very precise frequency. This frequency is commonly used to keep track of time (as in quartz wristwatches), to provide a stable clock signal for digital integrated circuits, and to stabilize frequencies for radio transmitters and receivers. The most common type of piezoelectric resonator used is the quartz crystal, so oscillator circuits designed around them were called "crystal oscillators".
Quartz crystals are manufactured for frequencies from a few tens of kilohertz to tens of megahertz. More than two billion (2×109) crystals are manufactured annually. Most are small devices for consumer devices such as wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers, and cellphones. Quartz crystals are also found inside test and measurement equipment, such as counters, signal generators, and oscilloscopes" I couldn't say any of this better and you can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_oscillator .The only point I am trying to make with these references is that crystals resonate and under the right conditions can 'manipulate things electrical'.

This said, consider this. The good old human body is nothing more than (albeit an exquisitely intelligent design of our Divine Creator--accident of amino acid soup and lightning, my FOOT!) a big old bag of bioelectrically charged water with a handful of biochemicals thrown in! Our physiology is very much affected by, run by, giving off and resonating with electrical energy. On a 'good day' when I am strong with healing-energy-to-spare, thanks be to God, I can make the skin on your arm 'buzz'. This is nothing extraordinary, actually, for with practice and concentration anyone can do this. Yes, it is a fascinating phenomenon.

Will it surprise you to learn that just as quartz crystals used in electronics can modulate a circuit, humans can use crystals and their own energies to modulate the circuits of the human body? No? Good, because now you're convinced of but one use of crystals and we are on to a second one.

Mineralogists have known for centuries that in the science of crystallography, 'the rule of constancy' applies to crystal geometry from gross specimens down to very smallest of samples. In the modern age, this has included the molecular and atomic levels as revealed by advance x-ray radiocrystallographic equipment. What this means, by way of example, is that the little cubic structure of table salt is reflected in large chunks of natural halite, the salt in our shakers and x-ray diffraction 'patterns' reflect the same cubic structure on a much smaller scale. This is a useful trait, indeed, for the study of not only mineralogy, gemology, geology, and the like, but also for biochemistry. I will explain why in view of this most exciting recent scientific report on HIV research!

The link below details research into an enzyme (a 'catalyst'-like small bit of protein) which allows the HIV virus to 'invade and take over' the nuclear material of host human cells. Scientists believe that if this enzyme known as "integrase" can be interfered with in some way, perhaps the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) will not be able to infect humans anymore! Indeed, there are pharmaceutical drugs in use today that do just that--they interfere with integrase and are somewhat effective. But just HOW these drugs work has been a secret, partly because the complete STRUCTURE of integrase has hitherto been unknown.

Somehow, researchers needed to determine the complete structure of, in crystalline form, the integrase molecule. A note here: enzymes are often 'freeze-dried' in tiny amounts and the crystalline form can either be in an amorphous (free) form or a more structured, crystalline form. You might think of sea salt 'as is' versus crystallized sea salt, for a loose analogy.

Here below is an excerpt of from newly published results of the structure of integrase based on crystal studies:
"Over the course of four years, the researchers carried out over 40,000 trials, out of which they were able to grow just seven kinds of crystals. Only one of these was of sufficient quality to allow determination of the three-dimensional structure.Dr Peter Cherepanov, the lead author of the study from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London, said: "It is a truly amazing story. When we started out, we knew that the project was very difficult, and that many tricks had already been tried and given up by others long ago. Therefore, we went back to square one and started by looking for a better model of HIV integrase, which could be more amenable for crystallization. Despite initially painstakingly slow progress and very many failed attempts, we did not give up and our effort was finally rewarded."
In the case of the integrase, the process of crystallization was a MEANS TO AN END to determining the structure of an intimidating molecule. The researchers realized that if they could sequentially 'crystallize' bits of the enzyme and put these bits together in order to get a 'whole crystal' of the enzyme, they could visualize the thing by modern x-ray microscopy...The true STRUCTURE of the molecule has been deduced. And now that it is, newer and better ways to destroy/interrupt/block the enzyme can be found. The hope then is to make existing pharmaceuticals more effective and to come up with more pharmaceuticals for HIV positive patients in need.

Now, read the link here with this base of understanding and hopefully it will be clear to my readers:http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_1-2-2010-8-59-3

Again, I want to say, "God Bless You and Thank You" to these researchers. They surely have contributed to human scientific knowledge. Whether they are believers or not, I wonder if they are doing God's work here on earth to the extent that they may further reduce human suffering? Only the Almighty knows and all I can do is pray--and I ask that you join me-- that Dr.CHEREPANOV and COLLEGUES realize the important significance of their undertakings. Heaven forbid their knowledge be used for harm. 'May they walk in faith with discernment as they walk the halls of their laboratories'. May it be so. AMEN.
Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist--Where Science Meets the Cross"
Dear Ones Healing Ministry http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/
February 2, 2010