PLURALISM AND THE MIND
This impressive book provides a thorough overhaul of consciousness studies in both philosophical and psychological terms. Broadly speaking, it argues that conventional reductive materialism cannot…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
On Dragonfly Wings
This is another book originating in the death of a loved one, the author's younger brother Michael who drowned just before his 20th birthday. She…… Read More »
Meditation in the Wild
Written by a former professor of sociology at Brandeis University, this must be the ultimate study of Buddhism's origin in the heart of nature by…… Read More »
Century of Insight
Derry Macdiarmid was a Jungian analyst and NHS consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist. This book is based on a course of lectures given to junior psychiatrists…… Read More »
First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life
First Sight by James Carpenter, a practicing psychologist, is one among many recent publications with a high standard of scholarship that seeks to rethink mainstream…… Read More »
FOCUS
Dan Goleman will be well known to many readers for his work initially on emotional intelligence and then on social and ecological intelligence as ways…… Read More »
PSI WARS: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet
I imagine that most readers will be familiar with the story of TED taking down the TEDx talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock on…… Read More »
Awakening the Universal Heart
'If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.' Marc Chagall In the Thatcherite 1980s in Britain, many left-wing…… Read More »
The Book of Afformations
I am sure you won't have heard of the word 'afformation', but it is a very useful invention. This book goes back to an experience…… Read More »
Beyond Happiness
What is beyond happiness? The author's answer is inner peace, which can be attained by reaching pure awareness - observing without interfering - beyond the…… Read More »