VOL 1, ISSUE 26

Our Making The Most Of Massage feature will give you a solid overview of massage including how to find the right massage and what questions you should ask of your massage practitioner, and what benefits you should expect to receive from a massage. Our article on ‘Chavutti Thirumal by Lauren Hall describes a new type of massage to Australia which uses the foot rather than the hand, and  we look at ‘Tui Na’, the Eastern massage alternative. Featured articles include ‘The Pan Pharmaceuticals Payout’, ‘Rising Collective Consciousness’, ‘Guardians of the Sacred Flame’, ‘The Voice of Date Rape’, ‘Satori’ and ‘Feng Shui/Geomancy’.

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The Pan Pharmaceuticals Payout

In 1974, Jim Selim founded Pan Pharmaceuticals (PAN) which by the 1990s had become Australia’s largest manufacturer of complementary medicines. In January 2003, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) found that one of the products manufactured by PAN, Travacalm (a pharmaceutical medicine used for people experiencing travel sickness), contained an excessive amount of one of it’s ingredients. What followed, by order of the TGA, was a recall of complementary medicines from shelves across Australia, the largest recall of therapeutic goods in Australian history. In 2008 PAN commenced court action against the TGA and a class action that has the potential to exceed $200 million.

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Guardians of the Sacred Flame

Yoga is the essential thread running through all of the great religions of India, and yogis have been the guardians of the sacred flame of truth throughout history. As an ancient wisdom tradition, yoga’s main purpose is self-understanding. As a spiritual path, its raison d’etre is the liberation of the human soul from the self-constructed prison of the mind and senses. In this article our US Correspondent Wes Millman elucidates why it is never too late to begin the path of yoga and live a sacred life. ‘By creating an environment in which the human spirit can flourish, life will be a creative adventure filled with joy and hope.

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The Voice of Date Rape

This is a story about date/acquaintance rape that happened to the author, Janet Goldblatt-Holmes, almost forty years ago. “During the last couple of years, while I  have come across articles pertaining to rape, rape survivors and their stories, I have found that the voice of date rape has rarely been represented. This invisibility exacerbates the difficulty women experience as they try to recover. Because of the dearth of individual voices that address this crime, I am compelled to speak out and hope that young people will feel that they can address their realities and begin the healing process long before they reach their 40s or 50s, as in my situation.