BEYOND MATTER
Transformative Research
Dr Oliver Lazar has written a landmark book combining his personal journey involving remarkable spiritual experiences and a subsequent research programme on the accuracy of…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Philosophy and Psychedelics
Authors: Christine Hauskeller, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
A New Look At Psychedelic Drugs
Ways to achieve altered states of consciousness have been known to mankind throughout human history: initially via sacred rituals, usually performed by specially initiated people,…… Read More » 
James and Whitehead on Life after Death
Arguments For Immortality
David Ray Griffin made his name in process philosophy and parapsychology before unexpectedly becoming engaged in writing a series of forensic studies about 9/11, which…… Read More » 
Soul and the Sea
A Sacred Contract
Benig has written a profoundly reflective book on healing, weaving together her own life and therapeutic work, where a key insight is that ‘healing lies…… Read More » 
Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi
Authors: Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Stefano Varese
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
The New Animism
Readers may have noted my review of Initiated by Spirits in the last issue, along with Frédérique’s corresponding article. In it, I noted the fundamental…… Read More » 
Proof of Spiritual Phenomena
Old Me > New Me
This engaging book by a cognitive neuroscientist tells the story of the author’s ‘flip’ from diehard materialist to open-minded seeker who comes to adopt a…… Read More » 
Psychiatry and the Spirit World
Authors: Alan Sanderson, Edith Fiore
Reviewer: Natalie Tobert
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
London Psychiatrist Talks to Spirits
Alan Sanderson was a practising psychiatrist, who used hypnosis to engage with his patients, in order to explore their memories, including those of previous lives.…… Read More » 
Soul Lessons from the Light
Sustained by a Loving Higher Power
Yvonne is a family physician and transpersonal MD psychotherapist who coined the term spiritually transformative experience (STE, and see pp. 26 and 102 ff) in 1994,…… Read More » 
LOVED BY THE LIGHT
Cosmic Choreography
John’s highly acclaimed book is a remarkable contribution to the literature of STEs, and is endorsed by a galaxy of well-known authors in the field…… Read More » 
The Embodied Mind
Consciousness and Cellular Memory
Thomas Verny is an academic clinical psychiatrist who is also the author of bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn Child. In this brilliant and…… Read More »