Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Okay, we can debate the merits, but to be fair I have to state as listowner, 
it's hard to stop commercial promotions once they get started on a list like 
this. As for being worth their weight in gold, I can't afford gold either ... 
And no one's arguing for plastic tablecloths, video games, or lab fragrances. 
They're bad, but that doesn't mean we need to shell out $700 for an essential 
oil "training". Further, we have no possible way of knowing which oils are 
adulterated or "poisonous" and which aren't and are supposedly worth a few 
months groceries. Personally I take special supplements like Zyflamend and 
IP-6 that are clinically proven, but I have yet to hear of clinical evidence 
for healing by smelling these oils. And it's safe to say my own ancestors 
didn't have rose petals and lavender soap.

I feel strongly about this thing of getting what you pay for. Frankly, I 
don't buy it. The food we get at Sunflower or Trader Joe's is as good or 
better than Whole Foods and at half the price. Life-giving foods and other 
needs can be had at lower cost if people make the effort and find a way. 
Reminds me of an old Joan Baez number, All My Trials: "If living were a thing 
that money could buy, Then the rich would live and the poor would die"...

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/28/2010 at 2:49 PM Laurie Ann Powell wrote:

>Trading Post Paul said:
>
><Interesting but I looked at your website, ridiculously expensive as a
>commercial promotion. I don't see why its price is in the stratosphere
>compared to plain old aromatherapy that ordinary people can afford. And
>I'm sure good diet is far more effective in maintaining good health and
>mental outlook.
>____
>
>Hey, Paul,
>
>I know that you, of all people, know that you "get what you pay for" in
>terms of food and health.  Cheap distillation methods, additive
>adulteration, and synthetic reproduction of fragrances make most
>aromatherapy oils smell good - and poisonous.  They are the equivalent of
>factory-raised food.
>
>Young Living Essential Oils and the Raindrop Training are both worth their
>weight in gold, because the oils really heal people, and the training
>helps you use them to their best effect. The level of training in what you
>called "a commercial promotion" is far more than selling the company's
>product.  The use of fragrances in our daily lives is a lost art - one our
>ancestors did every day without being aware that rose petals in their bear
>grease, thyme and cedar in their closets and lavender in their soap were
>actually healing them continually. The flowers on their tables that have
>been replaced by plastic, the gardening that has been replaced by playing
>video games and the lab fragrances in all our body care products are not
>health -neutral. They are destructive.
>
>Radical diet change  is the core for improving health - but when we hit a
>plateau where better food could do no more, learning about the therapeutic
>value of essential oils opened up a whole new level of health and
>well-being.
>
>I'd love to see our living on the land companions growing the plants
>needed to make therapeutic-grade oils more widely available and
>affordable.  It takes a lot of roses to make a tiny bit of rose oil -
>hence the steep price tag!
>
>All the best to you,
>Laurie Ann
>
>
>
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