In Praise of Ageing
Subtitled 'awakening to old age with wisdom and compassion', these reflections are divided into four sections – reality, vulnerability, identity and meaning – with individual…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Quaker Quicks - 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 »
Ensoulment
This is a book of remarkable spiritual and cosmological insight based on the author's own unfolding deep purificatory process of what she calls ensoulment, 'the…… Read More »
The Black Madonna
This is an extraordinary overview and guidebook to the Black Madonna that includes short descriptions of 450 Black Madonnas in France -- there is even…… Read More »
From a Mountain in Tibet
This book tells the harrowing story of a young boy's escape with his older brother from Tibet, after the Chinese invasion of 1959. It chronicles…… Read More »
Why We Are Restless
Authors: Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
As indicated by the subtitle, this culturally significant book engages our quest for contentment through the genealogical lenses of four French moralists -- Montaigne, Pascal,…… Read More »
This Life
At first glance this seems to be a book of two halves. The first half deals with our basic understanding of life in terms of…… Read More »
The Divine Within
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was one of the great minds of the 20th century. His grandfather was Darwin's bulldog, T.H. Huxley, and his brother the evolutionary…… Read More »
AFTER
This is the most important book to be published in the field of near-death studies, certainly since Consciousness Beyond Life by Pim van Lommel. Bruce…… Read More »
THE ELECTROMAGNETIC BRAIN
This book is an excellent literature review of work spanning a century from about 20 multidisciplinary and independently funded scientists, all of whom believe that…… Read More »