Episode 19: Freddie Buckley

In this episode of How Positive Are You, the name of the podcast is given new meaning. Host Celia Farber has a paradigm shifting conversation with Freddie Buckley, a UK citizen living in Madrid, who has been HIV positive and healthy since 1997, never having taken ARV medications.

Freddie, who met Farber at the Oakland Rethinking AIDS conference in 2009 (http://ra2009.org), is not a “survivor,” but rather, he has fully transcended the HIV meme, and all of its expected burdens.  Not only is he healthy, he has not permitted the anti-body test to diminish his spirit, plans, or lust for life at any level. “I was moved and changed after this interview,” says Farber. “I have been waiting for Freddie Buckley for a very long time. What we have needed, but not realized we needed, was to ascend not in our scientific understanding, but in our spiritual willpower. Do we want to be free, or do we want to stay inside the meme and suffer? Who creates our suffering? Where does the command come from, to live at a lower frequency, under the HIV atomic cloud? Is it possible we could be free right now, this instant? Freddie made me realize that the answer is yes, we could be. Some might say he can afford to think like this because he has never been sick. I submit that it’s the other way around: That getting a handle on the meme right from the outset is the greatest predictor for health. Freddie is one of the first people I have ever spoken to who cast off the meme in its entirety.”

“I woke up one day,” he says in the interview,  “and I realized there was nothing wrong with me.”

“This statement, when he said it, made us both laugh,” says Farber. “Even among dissidents, it amounts to a kind of faint heresy. You’re supposed to remain in a kind of… negotiating relationship with your antibodies. Freddie shows us all a third way, a new exit, back to what we might call fully normal life. I think Freddie and his message are a sign of the times.”

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