The rampant commercial attitude of many organizations, even within charities, healthcare and spiritual pursuits, has been a continuing revelation and source of distaste for me. We have seen the social and political movements of the sixties to the nineties, a complete turnaround from mass political protest and spiritual endeavours to the me-generation and so-called market forces and globalization of today.

As individuals, how we choose to support causes, complementary medicine in particular, may literally save our lives.