Parasites

A parasite is any organism — microbe, insect, worm, or other living being — that has a population explosion within another organism.

The word "parasite" is a label we give to something that is simply following natural law. Like the word "weed," it describes our feeling about an organism rather than any objective quality of the organism itself.

Parasites are not invaders or villains; they are organisms responding to natural law. They appear predictably, in proportion to available nourishment, and in accordance with biological laws.

In nature, every species flourishes in proportion to its food supply. When the right kind of nourishment increases, the population increases. When nourishment decreases, the population decreases. This feedback loop keeps everything in balance. Parasites are no exception: they appear — and multiply — wherever their particular food supply is abundant. And when that food supply diminishes, so does the parasite population.

This is not a GHK-specific principle; it is a fundamental ecological law. GHK, through the five biological laws, gives us the framework to understand exactly which "food supply" any given parasite is responding to.

Parasites and Special Biological Programs

In the context of special biological programs, parasites follow the Fourth Biological Law: they participate only in the healing phase, never during the conflict-active phase, and only where there is excess tissue or material that is no longer needed by the organism.

Biologically, the difference between the microbes (fungi, mycobacteria, and bacteria) that participate in the healing phase of special biological programs and what we call "parasites," (tapeworms, blood parasites, skin parasites, intestinal worms, etc) is that "parasites" are generally not coded into the host's genome. However, the organisms still follow the ecological laws from which the five biological laws derive.

Specifically, parasites flourish wherever there is an excess of the specific nourishment they require. Intestinal parasites thrive in conditions of nutritional excess or dysbiosis (due to multiple relapses of morsel conflicts); blood parasites in excess blood tissue (following the healing phase of a leukemia program); skin parasites in an environment of excess surface material or moisture (especially with relapsing attack or touch-separation conflicts). The nutritional excess is created when the organism creates the tissue through special biological programs.

Parasites Are Not Only Biological

The same pattern applies metaphorically. Toxic or draining relationships flourish in an excess of attention, emotional charge, guilt, or need. Addressing the excess by addressing the DHS's of "lack" that initiated the special biological programs that led to the excess tissue (or attention, emotional charge, etc) is the only durable solution. Eliminating the parasite without addressing the excess that is its food supply only produces a cycle in which it returns as soon as that supply is restored.

What to Do About Parasites

The conventional approach — eliminating the parasite through antibiotics, antiparasitic drugs, or "cutting off" a toxic relationship — addresses only the symptom. It does nothing about the underlying dynamic.

The GHK approach asks two different questions:

• What "excess" does this parasite indicate?
• What sense of lack preceded that excess?

When its food supply – the "excess" created by the host organism – diminishes, the parasite or parasite population will naturally diminish because it has nothing left to feed on; the infestation, overgrowth, or toxic dynamic will rapidly decline. This is not passive resignation. It requires the real work of identifying and resolving the biological conflicts and psychic patterns that created the excess in the first place.

Note: what are called "parasites" can also simply be organisms that attack us: piranha, mosquitoes, and so on. These are not really parasites according to the biological laws of nature, and when they attack an organism, unless that organism makes the appropriate meaning and initiates a DHS and biological conflict about being attacked, this will simply be an injury or poisoning: a biological program rather than a special biological program.