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NEXUS MAGAZINE Volume 3, Number 4 JUNE - JULY 1996 EDITOR Duncan M, Roads CO-EDITOR Catherine Simons ASSISTANT EDITOR Ruth Parnell EDITORS' ASSISTANT Richard Giles OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Janine Carmichael CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Robert L. Allen, Peter Vogel, Sherrill Seliman, David G, Guyatt, David Wood, lan Campbell, Callum Coats, Christopher Bird, Alex Collier, Alistair Bodycomb, George M. Hollenback LAYOUT & DESIGN Duncan M. Roads CARTOONS Phil Somerville COVER GRAPHIC Pete Turner/The Image Bank PRINTING. ~ Lithosphere Print & Production, London, UK UK DISTRIBUTION 5. M. Distribution UK OFFICE - 55 Queens Rd, Fast Grinstead, West Sussex, RHI9 1BG, Ph: +44-(0)1342 322854; Fax: +44 (0)1342 324574 e-mail address: nexus@ukoffice.u-net.com FICE - PO Box 372, 8250 Aj Dronten, The Netherlands, Ph: +31-(0)321 380558; Fax: +31 (0)321 318892 ITALY OFFICE - c/- Avalon Edizioni, Piazza Mazzini 52, 35137 Padova. Ph: +39 49655443; Fax: +39 49 655443 USA OFFICE - PO Box 177, Kempton, IL 60946- 0177. Ph: (815) 253 6464; Fax: (815) 253 6300 web page: http//www.icom.net/~nexus NEW ZEALAND OFFICE - PO Box 34735, Birkenhead, Auckland. Ph: +64 (0)9 416 7320; Fax: #64 (0)9-416 7340 HEAD OFFICE - All Correspondence PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qid 4560, Australia. Ph: +61 (0)74 42 9280; Fax: +61 (0)74 42 9381 e-mail address: nexus@peg.apc.org web page: http://www.peg.apc.orp/—nexus/ STATEMENT OF PURPOSE NEXUS recognises that humanity is undergoing a massive transformation. With this in mind, NEXUS seeks to provide ‘hard-to-get’ information $0 as to assist people through these changes. NEXUS is not linked to any religious, philosophi- cal or political ideology or organisation, PERMISSION-TO-REPRODUCE POLICY While reproduction and dissemination of the information in NEXUS is actively encouraged, anyone caught making a buck out of it, without our express permission, will be in trouble when we catch them! Editorial | am often asked the question, "How do you cope with all the information that arrives in your office? Don't you ever get depressed?" Well, the truth is that | sometimes get saddened, sometimes angered, but never depressed. | always answer enquiries like these with the truth. | have a deeply spiritual outlook on life. By this | mean that, as humans, we are spiritual beings first, followed by the rest, i.e., physical, emotional, mental, etc. Now believe me, this does not mean that | walk around in a spiritually aloof cloud all day (I lose it as much as anyone else), but | guess what I'm trying to say is that ! believe there is a purpose for the trials and joys of human existence. Without going into a long-winded and deeply personal rave, | would sug- gest to people who want to know more about what | mean, that they read books by the likes of Richard Bach, Kahlil Gibran, Michael J. Roads, and especially Robert Monroe, author of Far Journeys and Journeys Out Of The Body. Actually, my recommended reading list is much longer, but if you digest these points of view, you'll probably understand why | don't get depressed about the information in NEXUS. The actual motivation for this lead-in to my editorial was to let people know (wistfully) that several of my 'heroes' have died over the last few months/year. Two such people to whom | would like to pay tribute are Robert Monroe (see above), and, more recently Christopher Bird, well- known co-author of The Secret Life of Plants and Secrets of the Soil (see obituary at the end of his article this issue). Now my ‘spiritual’ outlook did get sorely tested with the article on the dis- aster at Port Chicago. Here we have possibly the world's first atomic explo- sion, over a year before the first (official) A-bomb test, going off in a dock- yard just north of San Francisco and killing hundreds of people (mostly black)—AND IT WAS FILMED! The article titled “Hormone Heresy" is also a must-read, and not just for women. The global pharmaceutical companies rely on the trust, naivety, fear, vanity and vulnerability of women for their profits —and menopause is when they hit the cash jackpot. | will be very interested in reader feedback on the article titled "An ET Perspective on Earth". It is not often that we publish a 'rave' that is this hard to substantiate, but | have to say that his 'point of view' as a general picture is very interesting indeed. Speaking of reader feedback, please keep me informed of any unhappi- ness with advertisers in NEXUS. Please don't assume that, just because they advertise in NEXUS, they automatically have our 'seal of approval’. Like 99 per cent of magazines, we do not vet our advertisers. We try our best to ensure that we are not inadvertently giving space to con-artists (which has happened a couple of times), and we rely on reader feedback to let us know this sort of information. As a rule of thumb, if someone is advertising in NEXUS regularly, then you know that not only is that advertiser happy with their response from our readers, but our readers are happy with that advertis- er. Otherwise, we assume that you readers are intelligent and astute people (I mean, you read NEXUS, don't you?) and that you can spot a con as easily as we can. — Duncan ‘WARRANTY AND INDEMNITY Advertisers upon and by lodging material with the Publisher for publication or authorising or approving of the publication of any material INDEMNIFY the Publisher and is servants anda ents against all liability claims or proceedings whatsoever arising from the publication and without limiting the generality of the foregoing to indemnify each of therm in relation to defamation, slander of title, breach of copyright infringement of trademarks or names of publication titles, unfair competition or trade practices, royalties or violation of ane or privacy AND WARRANT that the material complies with all relevant laws and regulations and that its publication will not give rise to any rights against or liabilities in the Publisher, its servants or agents and in particular that nothing therein is capable of being misleading or deceptive or otherwise in breach of the Part V of the Trade Practices Act 1974. All expressions of opinion are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as expressing the opinion of the Publisher or its servants or agents. Editorial advice is not speciic and readers are advised to seek professional help for individual problems. © NEXUS New Times 1996 2 ¢ NEXUS JUNE-JULY 1996