One Self: Life as a Means of Transformation
Non-duality is one of those deceptively simple ideas which appeal to many of us and which we think we understand, but which, on reflection, we…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
LOVE, LIFE, GOETHE – how to be happy in an imperfect world
While he is a man of great interest to many Network members, so much has already been written about him that some readers may sigh,…… Read More »
Gurdjieff: a Master in Life
With this problematical chaplet of forty-nine personal souvenirs and homilies Tcheslaw Konstantinovitch Tchekhovitch is introduced to an English-speaking readership as a full-blown apologist of the…… Read More »
A Pocket Guide to Ethical Issues
The author of this highly informative book is an Anglican priest who teaches ethics at a theological college in Oxford. He begins by observing how…… Read More »
Persephone Wakes
Subtitled 'of minds, machines and immortality', this is a novel set in the far future in which a conscious android, Persephone, creates problems with her…… Read More »
Alone in the World?
This is a series of Gifford lectures about human uniqueness in science and theology, specifically in the fields of theological anthropology and paleoanthropology. The author…… Read More »
The Essential Gnostic Gospels
Alan Jacobs is a very good guide and translator this selection of the gnostic gospels. As a poet and mystic himself (he is the editor…… Read More »
Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code
Written by a scholar of the early Church and the life of Jesus, this book unearths what we actually know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and…… Read More »
The Blade of Grass and the Footprint of the Calf
Writing out of the Vedic tradition of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the author of this subtle book takes on the impossible task of describing the infinite…… Read More »
Wild Love
The 'wild' in the title of this book signifies authentic, genuine. Its main argument is that whenever we try to be good or expect others…… Read More »