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REVIEWS = illness is being treated. In the case of inflammatory bowel disease, he utilises powdered licorice, slippery elm and golden seal. This humble healer has helped countless people recover from debilitating diseases, and his regimens offer promise for "hopeless" cases. BREAKING THROUGH THE illness is being treated. In the case of Filing, and his professional friendship UNTOUCHABLE DISEASES inflammatory bowel disease, he utilises with editor Theodore Dreiser. Fort was by Gerald Green powdered licorice, slippery elm and nearly 40 when he turned his attention Sagax Publishing, Monmouth, 2008 golden seal. This humble healer has to serious research into "oddities" — ISBN 0-9532407-8-9 (145pp tpb) helped countless people recover from proof that "the world was a very strange Available: UK—www.autoimmune- debilitating diseases, and his regimens place", and evidence for the existence of offer promise for "hopeless" cases. "X", a guiding force throughout nature. herbalist-geraldgreen.co.uk/ erald Green of East Sussex, UK, became a herbalist as a result of Charles Fort's interest in anomalies, CHARLES FORT: The Man Who from fish falling from the sky to finding natural remedies for his life- Invented the Supernatural mysterious airships and teleportation (a threatening ailments, from emphysema by Jim Steinmeyer term he coined) » Was one part of his to coronas heart disease which. William Heinemann, London, 2008 metaphysical stance to find significance y near ’ ISBN 978-0-434-01629-7 (338pp hc) out of chaos. Fort was a true iconoclast, orthodox medicine could not cure. Available: www.rbooks.co.uk a sceptic against scientific rationalism In his accessible guidebook, he harles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) had and a cult hero whose influence has explains his philosophy on immunology his first Fortean work, The Book of permeated into modern takes on while tackling the major auto-immune the Damned, published in 1919, but it conspiracy theories, science fiction and diseases—which he says are the end was his writing style, his curiosity and _ the paranormal. result of the normally friendly yeast we scepticism and his railing against the Candida becoming a rampant parasitic P fae scientific establishment that set him and fungus. Many pharmaceutical drugs his work apart. Indeed, the term that are used to treat auto-immune "Fortean" owes itself to this writer who diseases like Crohn's disease and popularised the unexplained and ulcerative colitis kill off the good anomalous in the 20th century. intestinal bugs and mask any beneficial Jim Steinmeyer, an illusionist and medicinal effects they may have; the author/TV consultant on stage magic, same goes for chemotherapy drugs used — does great justice to Fort in this in battling cancer. impressive biography. We learn of Green has found a way to treat all Fort's upbringing by an authoritarian auto-immune diseases, including father in Albany, New York, his multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid fascination for nature, and the ups and arthritis and systemic lupus, and even downs of his life as a newspaper cancer by prescribing wormwood to kill __ reporter, editor and fiction writer (many the out-of-control Candida, a diet low in examples of his writing are featured). sugar/yeast content and capsules of We read of his travels in North America "Triple Alliance" herbs. His herbal and abroad, his marriage at age 22 to remedies vary depending on what childhood friend and supporter Anna 72 ¢ NEXUS Filing, and his professional friendship with editor Theodore Dreiser. Fort was nearly 40 when he turned his attention to serious research into "oddities" — proof that "the world was a very strange place", and evidence for the existence of "X", a guiding force throughout nature. Charles Fort's interest in anomalies, from fish falling from the sky to mysterious airships and teleportation (a term he coined), was one part of his metaphysical stance to find significance out of chaos. Fort was a true iconoclast, a sceptic against scientific rationalism and a cult hero whose influence has permeated into modern takes on conspiracy theories, science fiction and the paranormal. ors -. a Te pn es APT Te ‘rcasereel www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2008 — JANUARY 2009