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10 BPA and you – what does it mean for your health?
by Martin Oliver In most instances, Australians are not being protected from BPA, and will for the foreseeable future be able to avoid it only through becoming informed, and then taking responsibility for their health. BPA exposure has been linked to a range of elevated health risks, including breast cancer, miscarriage, asthma and obesity.
26 Ban the bead
by Martin Oliver Microbeads – tiny beads with a macro effect, working its way up to you in the food chain. Because microbeads are far cheaper than natural ingredients, their use helps the company’s bottom line. However, natural alternatives are available and are used by responsible companies.
LIVING & LEARNING
13 Tripping over miracles by John Ptacek
Miracles are not about wishing. They are about seeing, and they’re all around you. Just pause for a moment and see for yourself.
14 I bumped into myself
by Katie Little Sooner or later, all of us will have to account for ourselves, and ourselves alone. We won’t be able to medicate or buy our way out, become workaholics or alcoholics – that itch that we just haven’t quite been able to scratch is not going to go away. This piece is a reminder to all of us that the best things, the simplest things, in life are free.
LIVING WITH SPIRIT 16 Healing ourselves, healing the earth
by Phoenix Arrien The earth can help us in ways we can hardly imagine… so why don’t we just head into the bush and, well, be healed?
28 Belonging – mythic dreams that put us in touch with the universe and keep us there
By Geoffrey Berry Geoff outlines Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey and suggests it could be extended to include ecology as a true myth of the times.
HEALTH & HEALING
20 Why we really do drugs
by Jost Sauer We are destined to live colourful, spontaneous and cosmically connected lives, and we are supposed to be expressive, eccentric, independent and uncaring of what the rest of society thinks of us. There is a way to get altered states, enhanced senses, a powerful feeling of belonging to a community and to the cosmos, without drugs.
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40 Is that really all it takes?
by Marlyse Carroll “She is still trying to figure out how I could possibly remember something that happened when I was six months old. Good luck to her! I don’t even understand this myself.”
METAPHYSICS
42 Birth of a guru
by Raym Richards Raym’s apprentice learns a lot about judgement as a client finds his life’s purpose while looking for something else.
38 Advertiser news and reviews
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48 October Stargazer
by Stella Woods Character is destiny – Australia’s new Prime Minister Jupiter & Saturn – new spring wardrobe October planetary shifts October new moon – new ways of embracing old traditions October full moon – turning dreams into reality October moon calendar
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