In late 2002, I was invited to visit a gentleman who had been pursuing alternative approaches to the medical care of his 48 year old son. I soon learned that his son was diagnosed as having schizophrenia at age 18. His parents were determined that he not be institutionalized. Instead, he has remained at home for the last 30 years. While I enjoyed conversing with the son, I felt the stress of the inevitable misunderstandings and both emotional and verbal outbursts. I marveled at the resilience and sacrifice that his parents had made and indicated so to the father. "It's nothing John," he replied. He then told me of his friends being shot dead during World War II, and having survived how could he be anything but thankful for his life. He was, however, concerned with what was going to happen to his son. He told me how his wife and he had formed a non-profit foundation along with two other sets of parents of children with mental illnesses. They had named it MI Hope for Mental Illness hope. "Could I possibly use it," he asked. It was refreshing to have someone offer a gift, no strings attached, "just make good used of it" was his request. I accepted an appointment to their Board of Directors and then their resignations. Next day I called the IRS for further instructions. As I tend to do with everyone who will listen, I started talking about stealth viruses and then about the generosity of the individual providing the foundation. The IRS official interrupted "But I thought schizophrenia was a chemical imbalance." "Yes, I replied, but the question is what causes the chemical imbalance? It may well be the types of viruses I am studying." He quickly grasped the idea and enthusiastically suggested I might want to go further than a private non-profit foundation. "Why not make it a public non-profit?" He then proceeded to tell me the type of ruling I should request from the IRS. I asked if I could then build a membership-based organization. "Not only can you, but you should," was his reply. The dye was cast.

I next received a call from another outstanding individual. A year earlier, he had suffered the loss of both legs, extensive damage to both arms and widespread burns from an assassination attempt in the Philippines. With extraordinary courage, true grit and a lot of MSM, he was determined to rebuild his remaining body and go back into the fray. He was also there to help me. I held onto the phone line as he made the call to Bonnie Armstrong, secretary to Mr. Beryl Wolk, a marketing genius in Philadelphia. Send Mr. Wolk an e-mail was Bonnie's reply. The response was clear, "I would be delighted to help." I was riding a wave. Even in his office, I seemed to fit Mr. Wolk's model that "Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous." I was equally impressed by a quotation in a letter he had received from a prominent business leader "While it is nice to be important, it is more important to be nice." Mr. Wolk's strategy is: Synergy is leverage. At age 27, he founded the American association of Retired Persons (AARP). He is also credited with newspaper inserts, Parade magazine, etc., etc. I should simply work within his vast network of contacts. First thing is to develop a Portal on the internet, rather than have a simple web site. His friend Marty Berne from Florida could help. Provide benefits to members far beyond any membership fees to be charged. Then tell the world of your concerns. I took pride in his assessment that I had long put any greed aside and simply wanted to do what was right. His ending comments from a wonderful two day visit was that "The Biophysics Institute,"(my suggested new name for the Center for Complex Infectious Diseases), was too narrow. "Dr. John you need a catchier label like M3 for Medical Miracle Maker." I shuddered to think how this would be received by my wife or friends.

The next night, M became S and the words became Scientific, Social and Spiritual. S3Support, that was what was needed. As if more than a coincidence, I was meeting with Shari Galardi for breakfast next morning. She had assembled a group of talented individuals to assist her develop a Sacred Arts Conference Center for spiritual leaders in southern Oregon. She was willing to buy 260 acres. I soon learned of her interests and prior experience in creating low level income housing. Her growing support team already included a polished author whose work is showcased on the internet at angelfingerprints.com; a hard hitting publisher of Dandelion Books, a film producer from Los Angeles, and a talented business plan organizer from Hawaii. Here were the two S's to complement the Scientific component. With time, I could see how we would all merge into a collective effort. Synergy was indeed to be the leverage to achieve our common goal and accountability to the group's conscience was to keep us focused on doing what was right.

The model of a University with its component Schools, Institutes, Departments and Faculty members, soon sprang to mind. I had accomplished some good science with two additional publications finally appearing in the journal Experimental and Molecular Pathology. I knew I could write several more papers and was reassured they would be well received by the Journal's editor. More importantly, I knew what studies were needed to "pin down" the ideas suggested by the earlier work. I needed to move faster with the Master Plan so as to be able to resume research. I also recognized the talents of a loosely knitted clinical research team that was beginning to form. Dr. Tom Magee an outstanding diagnostician, with a yearning to test his very bright ideas, many of which extended beyond the limits of conventional medicine. Dr. Praban Mishra, a skillful, Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, with training in veterinary medicine, ophthalmology and ageing medicine. He too wanted to be in academics. Dr. Daniel Darvish, who had taken on the challenge of conquering an inherited inclusion body myopathy that had affected him and other Jewish individuals from Iran. Dr. James Julian, who at 78 was an icon for ageing medicine. He had kindly opened his Hollywood offices to me and to many proponents of alternative medicine. Several other uniquely knowledgeable healthcare providers, along with an array of truly outstanding individuals, entered my life with their generous willingness to share. None would be considered successful by any monetary standards, but they each excelled in the richness of life experiences.

Then there were the physicists who were willing to think beyond the conventional discipline. They all believed that Dr. Royal Raymond Rife had the answer to cancer and infectious diseases way back in the 1930's. The victim of the assassination attempt was also a devotee of Dr. Rife and had kindly supplied me with detailed drawings of Rife microscopes, circuits, etc. I became acutely aware of the barriers that thwarted many pioneering researchers. I would read with some sadness the uphill battles of individuals such as Drs. Rife, Edgar Cayce, Edward Rosenow, and others.

Yet I knew of successes, sometimes in unexpected ways. Possibly led by Dr. Cayce's ideas on animated ash, Clayton Tedeton from Calhoun, Louisiana had devised a soap that was helping restore health when used in daily hot baths. For nearly 20 years, his products were being sold on a limited scale under the name of Miracle II. Typically they would sell for $16.00 from his factory or at less than $10.00 from discounting distributors. The product caught the attention of the Schlegel brothers. Jeff Schlegel had worked with HerbaLife and knew what to do. Package the products under a new name, increase the cost of individual items to $22.00 and start a multi-level marketing program. In less than a year, he had assembled over 14,000 distributors with greater than a million dollar monthly sales. Gosh, I thought, this is a testament to the existence of the epidemic that I was trying to convey to Public Health officials. In exchange for encouraging your distributors to join S3Support, I offered to do the much needed double blinded study. I could understand how the product might be working by helping remove and/or reduce (in the chemical sense) the ACE pigments present in stealth virus infected patients. As part of a comprehensive plan and without the hullabaloo as to ingredients, this type of product, if validated by double-blinded studies, and if sold at the lowest possible price, could potentially be very helpful. Unfortunately, with the growing success of the company, the idea of my challenging their basic assertions with a double blinded study no longer sparked any interest. Again it seemed that while money is needed to realize good intentions, yearning for it can also hinder the willingness to "do what is right." Although a set back to the overnight infusion of 14,000 or so members to S3Support, this type of experience once more strengthened the justification to establish an organization that was willing to go on record as being guided more by patients' interests than by profits. With this theme in mind, I have been amazed at the willingness of others to forego the business model for a truly humanitarian effort. While S3Support is still growing, it is now ready to accept members.