Unreferenced Novels

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Hi Jane,

 

> There are three books I know of that address vegetable oils as opposed to

> essential oils ... Len Price's " Carrier Oils for Aromatherapy & Massage " , Liz

> Earle's " Vital Oils " and Jan Kusmirek's " Liquid Sunshine " . I think I read in

> Butch's comments on Vitex something along the lines of 'regurgitated wisdom' -

> but I'm sure I've quoted him wrong .... As with so much in our line of work,

> there is no science or scientific research. A lot of people are re-writing

> everyone else's books and articles! Go by personal experience and preference.

> That's all we can do. Jane

 

My comments (for years now) were in reference to one of the reasons that

AT will remain a cottage industry .. never be validated or controlled.

That reason is that we thrive on the fruit of the poison tree when it

comes to information.

 

There is a lot of misinformation, disinformation, rumor and marketing

hype in AT .. folks repeat it enough and it almost becomes dogma. Folks

write it enough and it becomes " reference material " even though they are

doing no more than publishing unreferenced novels that quote or slightly

change the misinformation in previously published unreferenced novels

that ... etc.

 

Some writers post Bibliographies and call them References. Any of us

can make a laundry list of novels and call our novel a referenced novel

in this industry.

 

I starting reviewing Suzanne Catty's " Hydrosols: The Next Aromatherapy "

and didn't make it past the first 30 pages before I got writer's cramps

from listing the errors. I do accept that its easier to critic a book

than it is to write one .. and I acknowledge Catty's efforts in putting

together something that was missing in this industry .. and I hope she

will update it some day .. or some one else will do a take off on it and

do another one. I believe she asked a number of " so-called " experts for

information during her research and the so-called experts simply turned

to the unreferenced novels and provided that information.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com