“We have been alienated by costs that soared beyond the means of all but the well-insured or wealthy; by specialization and the cold, quantifying approach that brushes past human concerns, and by the growing despair that comes from spending without regaining health.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eight, Healing Ourselves, p. 244

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