Let the world know it has lost a great soul by forwarding this message. The
discoverer of streptomycin and massage freedom fighter has passed.

"The cosmic religous feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for
scientific research"
-Albert
Einstein

Perhaps one of the best things that came out of publishing my newsletter, The
Rub, was connecting with some of the great folk that make this trade such a
pleasure to work in. Albert Schatz was one of those folk and I will sorely
miss his presence. Albert died on January 17th 2005.

To get an idea as to who Albert was in the realm of massage go to:

http://www.healingandlaw.com/Massage_Law_Newsletter/massage_law_newsletter.htm
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Tomorrow, Feb 2nd, on what would have been his 85th birthday, the New York
Times and Philadelphia Inquirer will publish his obituary and in the very near
future, I will upload four pages of background on Albert, provided to me by his
wife, to give you an idea as to what we have lost. This is my personal
remembrance…

Albert was totally opposed to state involvement in the governance of massage.
He went so far as to establish a church, in Pennsylvania, for those who
wanted to practice massage as a spiritual practice. It was on those two
levels,
politics and religion, he and I connected.

Albert was an early supporter of The Rub. When starting out, he was kind
enough to give me suggestions, resources, connections, helped me with things I
would not have considered for lack of knowledge around publishing as well as
permissions to publish some of the materials he had already published. The Rub
would have been even more short lived without him. For that I thank him.

He impacted me in the religious arena by helping me get over my fear of
declaring myself a ministry. From experience, I knew I did spiritual massage
but,
I was fearful of declaring it because of fearing peer reprimand or rejection.
In his scientific way, he convinced me I could put it out there if I wanted
too. He was right. The only folk I need to convince of anything are the folk
under my hands.

Thank you for having taken the time to help me along my path and thank you,
Dr Schatz, for having left behind such a great legacy folk can and, hopefully,
will plug into, that may help them along their path.

There will be a memorial service for Albert Schatz on the 6th of March, in
Philadelphia. Check the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer for details as
to how to honor his memory.

Robert Flammia,
Whatever...

Don't believe everything you think!

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