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.~ REVIEWS . Reviewed by Duncan Roads, Catherine Simons & Ruth Parnell TOXIC PSYCHIATRY Drugs and Electroconvulsive Therapy: The Truth and the Better Alternatives by Peter Breggin Published by Fontana, UK, 1993 ISBN 0 00 637803 X RRP: $~ fully documented evidence, what the potentially damaging effects are that the patients of psychiatry are not being inConned about. ARKTOS--THE POLAR MYTH IN SCIENCE, SYMBOLISM, AND NAZI SURVIVAL by Joscelyn Godwin Published by IPhanes Press, USA, 1993 ISBN 0 933999 46 1 RRP: $28.00, 260 pages, soft cover Available: Aztlan Mail Order Books (see ad on page 61 l, or Sydney Esoteric 9.95, 57,8 pages, soft cover Bookshop (see ad on page 59). What an astounding book! This amazing book is the first ever writ­ There is no convincing evidence to sup­ ten about the archetype of the Poles­ port the claims of the medical-pharmaceu­ celestial, terrestrial, North and South. It tical establishment that 'mental illness­ takes us through the esoteric accounts of a es'-such as schirophrenia, depression, mythical Golden Age and explores the manic-depression, panic disorder, obses­ many tales of an ancient Arctic race. THE AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL OF sive-eompulsive disorder or attention Arktos covers research into past and pos­ MACROBIOTICS CooK,BooK deficit disorder-are physical or genetic sible future tilts of the earth's axis, and the by Roger Green Ecr. and can be cured by drugs or ,causes of planetary catastrophes. Published by The Australian School of 1be truth is that while these treatments Professor Godwin explores the origins of Macrobiotics, 1992 fund, justify and lend medical authority to modem neo-Nazi ideology, its 'polar' inspi­ ISBN 064608172 1 the psychiatric industry, millions of peo­ ration, and links with other occult myths­ RRP: $29.95, 150 pages, spiral bound ple-schoolchildren, housewives, the Hitler's survival, Gennan bases in Available: MCF, PO Box 57, Glebe, elderly, ete.-are not being told that the Antarctica, UFOs, the Hollow Earth, and NSW 2037. (Add $2.00 for postage,) 'miracle' cures they are being prescribed the hidden kingdoms of Agartha and are much less effective and more danger­ Shambala. Ifyou are into macrobiotics, or want a ous than they realise. His thesis is scholarly and responsible in simple introduction to macrobiotics, then Peter Breggin, MD, an eminently quali­ approach, and his extensive bibliography is this is the book for you. fied psychiatrist, draws on scientific a rich resource for polarphiles. Fascinating The bulk of the book is recipes. There research to expose in detail, and with care­ reading for the curious! are recipes in there that I am going to use, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993 NEXUS-57