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REVIEWS REVIEWS @ unknown to science. Cox has worked with Hudson and his team and has recreated this powder, but he goes a step further in explaining how the ancients made the elixir of health and immortality. Finally, Cox spills the beans on the secret to converting the white powder of these precious metals into the red powder, the elixir which was used by the priests and kings to expand their consciousness and commune with the gods. Yet he is well aware of the dangers of producing this miraculous substance and so has decided from hereon to limit himself to theoretical research. A fascinating study that removes the veils of a closely guarded secret through the ages. THE ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY by Robert E. Cox Inner Traditions, Rochester, USA, 2009 ISBN 978-159477303-7 (193pp tpb) Available: www.InnerTraditions.com Awe both as a physical and a piritual science, was at the heart of ancient civilisations from China and India to Egypt and the Middle East, says alchemy and metallurgy researcher Robert Cox. The alchemists of mediaeval Europe drew from an ancient tradition, probably the Egyptian, in preparing the philosopher's stone, the elixir of life and immortality. Cox, who has a master's degree in Vedic Studies, says it wasn't until the late 19th century that translation of the Rig Veda revealed an understanding of this alchemical tradition in ancient India, so this was unlikely to have been the source of the European alchemists’ knowledge. However, Cox speculates on how pre-lron Age metallurgists could have stumbled across these techniques. In the 1980s, David Hudson from Arizona rediscovered the precursor to this red-coloured elixir by refining gold and platinum into a white powder that contained orbitally rearranged monatomic elements, or ORMEs, and he and his metallurgical chemists uncovered properties THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MUSIC edited by Justin St Vincent Xtreme Music, New Zealand, 2009 ISBN 978-0-473-15690-9 (213pp tpb) Avail: www.musicandspirituality.com or this book at any page and you'll find snippets of wisdom from diverse people in the world of music. This is an inspiring collection of material that explores the relationship between music and spirituality, and there are some surprising contributions. Amongst the pearls: "True spirituality seeks to 70 * NEXUS re-unite a thread that connects all of us to the rest of life and, thus, brings us together", and "there is really a music of the spheres and a rhythm and pulse coming from the heart of the universe that harmonizes..." This collection is compiled by New Zealander Justin St Vincent, founder of Xtreme Music. There are contributions from vocalist Sheila Chandra and sitar master Ravi Shankar, sound healers Sharry Edwards and Jonathan Goldman, jazz keyboardist George Duke, GAIAM composer Peter Davison and a host more. It strikes home how music can be explored and lived from a variety of perspectives. It is people who bring significance to music, says St Vincent in the encore to his book which rings an harmonious chord. THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JUSTIN ST. VINCENT www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010