Dreams and Recollections
The subtitle indicates that the book is concerned with our immortal selves, but the argument is purely inductive and philosophical rather than relating to any…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
The Reason for All Existence
This is very much a book for the metaphysically inclined, dealing as it does with fundamental philosophical propositions and involving basic intuitive thinking to perceive…… Read More »
Tetralogue
The author of this four-way dialogue on truth and falsity, knowledge and belief, relativism and dogmatism is Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford. The dialogue…… Read More »
Philosophers of our Times
This collection of 18 lectures is drawn from the Annual Lecture series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and features many famous names in the…… Read More »
Teilhard's Mysticism
This book by physicist Kathleen Duffy is a real gem – subtitled 'seeing the inner face of evolution.' Seeing is the operative word, but including…… Read More »
Narrating Karma and Rebirth
Subtitled Buddhist and Jain multi-life stories, this interesting book explores how such stories of karma and rebirth are used to illustrate these foundational doctrines and…… Read More »
The Stoic Sage
Subtitled 'the early Stoics on wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates', this is a scholarly investigation of these themes starting from the two extant definitions that wisdom…… Read More »
A History of Pythagoreanism
In his History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell famously described Pythagoras as a cross between Einstein and Mary Baker Eddy. He has had an immense…… Read More »
A Hidden Wholeness
I had not heard of the work of Parker Palmer until a friend mentioned it and I ordered this book on Amazon. He is the…… Read More »
Waking the Buddha
Waking the Buddha by Clark Strand, spiritual writer and former Zen Buddhist monk, is a story about a very old religion taking a surprising, interesting…… Read More »