Letter to a Priest
Simone Weil was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, but her work is not widely known in English. This edition brings together…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Saint Columba
For anyone looking for a comprehensive account of the life of St Columba, this must be it, disentangling as it does fact from legend insofar…… Read More »
Leap to Freedom
This interesting book would have been better without including in the subtitle the word quantum referring to 'quantum guilt' based on vague analogy with quantum…… Read More »
The Karma of Everyday Life
Written by an oil engineer with an interest in Western and Eastern philosophy, this book explores karma through an exchange of letters with an Indian…… Read More »
The Art of Communicating
I love the work of Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen Buddhist monk now in his 80s. He writes with simplicity and directness, applying simple and…… Read More »
On Dialogue
This is perhaps surprising but very welcome choice in the Great Minds series - many readers of Bohm will be familiar with this concept and…… Read More »
The Undiscovered Self
The foreword to this edition is written by the editor of The Red Book and places this work in the context of Jung's thought. It…… Read More »
Myth and Meaning
Reissued under the Great Minds series, this book constitutes the 1977 Massey Lectures and gives a useful overview of Lévi-Strauss's thought also based on a…… Read More »
The Metaphysics of Ping Pong
This brilliant and highly entertaining book is ping pong's answer to Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance which I read in the 1970s…… Read More »
Meditation with Children
This small book by Laurence Freeman and associates introduces the teaching on meditation to children, whom they have found can be naturally present in the…… Read More »