How (not) to be Secular
This book provides a guide to Charles Taylor's major but rather inaccessible work, A Secular Age. His focus is what the author calls 'a shift…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
The Golden Dawn
This is the story of the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn inaugurated in 1888 more or less dissolving 15 years later through internal politics.…… Read More »
Humble before the Void
This is a very unusual book, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, about a three-week Science for Monks programme building on his interest in…… Read More »
Fearless In Tibet
Few readers will have heard of the 19th and early 20th century Tibetan lama Terton Sogyal, who is the subject of this fascinating and well-written…… Read More »
Inside The Cosmic Mind
Some readers will already be familiar with the work of Richard Tarnas on archetypal astrology (Cosmos and Psyche) and the follow-up by Keiron le Grice,…… Read More »
The Shaman Within
Claude Poncelet is a physicist specialising in nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology, who has also been involved in sustainable development and has taught shamanism for…… Read More »
Kierkegaard
I first read Kierkegaard on an existentialism course at St Andrews University in the 1970s. He had a tortured personal life and allegedly drew out…… Read More »
Hegel
Hegel was a giant in his day and his philosophy has been hugely influential, especially on Karl Marx. As Peter Singer points out, his prose…… Read More »
Schopenhauer
I have a shelf of Schopenhauer's work gleaned in various second-hand bookshops – he was a great aphorist and one classic remark was if only…… Read More »
Leibniz
At the end of this informative and scholarly work, the author quotes Diderot as saying that 'when one comes to one's senses and compares one's…… Read More »