Dumke goes beyond the phenomenon of AIDS to gain a clear understanding of its esoteric background. Working with a firm conviction that the systematic study of the human being contained in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science has a decisive and clarifying contribution to make toward an understanding of AIDS as an illness, the author examines the methodology of modern microbiological and medical research and demonstrates how a "complementary knowledge" based on the development of human thinking needs to be fostered in an endeavor to grasp the totality of the human being.
