Braintrust
What is Morality - a Question More Important Than Ever
To live by a moral code has always been a cornerstone of human interaction and socialisation. In order for people to live together in some…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Conversations with Socrates and Plato
Towards a Post-Materialist Social Order
When I was studying education in Cambridge, I was lucky enough to be taught by Sir Desmond Lee, who was the editor of the Penguin…… Read More » 
Dark Matters
Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering
This is a brilliant, profound and subtle contribution to the history of ideas, and more especially to questions relating to theodicy, suffering and evil. I…… Read More » 
THE DREAM HUNTERS OF CORSICA
When Dorothy Carrington first visited Corsica in the aftermath of the Second World War a stranger she met in her first days told her to,…… Read More »
JOHN MAIN
Earlier in the summer, we visited Laurence Freeman at the beautiful Abbaye de Bonnevaux, the headquarters of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM –…… Read More »
In STEP with Quaker Testimony
The STEP in the title stands for simplicity, truth, equality and peace - principles at the heart of Quakerism and in the writings of Margaret…… Read More »
The Translator of Desires
This is a collection of 61 love poems, regarded as a lyrical masterwork from the late 12th and early 13th century, and represents the first…… Read More »
The Art of Celtic Seership
Caitlin is a world authority on the practice of Celtic spiritual traditions and the author of over 80 books and card decks. The meaning of…… Read More »
Letters to a young poet
First published in 1929, three years after the death of Rilke, this is a book I have been meaning to read for many years, and…… Read More »
Everything is Your Fault
Readers might baulk at the last word in the title of this book, in which case you can substitute responsibility – which appears in the…… Read More »