Science and the Paranormal
It is a particular pleasure to review this book because last year I helped to organise its publication launch at the Society for Psychical Research…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
This book argues for the possibility of constructing a conscious machine as an emulation of the cognitive processes of the brain rather than through classic…… Read More »
Personality as Art: Artistic approaches in psychology
A rich and ground-breaking book, in that it brings together and begins to integrate an individual and creative approach to personality and psychology with the…… Read More »
The Varieties of Religious Experience: Centenary Essays
Another special issue of JCS devoted to reflections on William James's classic book, which everyone interested in philosophy of religion should have read. The eight…… Read More »
How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?
A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to the central question of conscious experience and its putative downward causative effect on brains.…… Read More »
The Force of Character
This book is the powerful sequel to The Soul's Code, which I reviewed when in San Francisco in the autumn of 1997. It takes the…… Read More »
HOW WE BELIEVE
"How" questions are supposed to be answered by objective scientific facts, whereas "Why" questions are often supposed to be matters of subjective meaning. Unfortunately "how"…… Read More »
Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience
Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience is the most sophisticated philosophical and theological analysis of the NDE to appear to date. In his introduction, Mark…… Read More »
Living the Life you Want
Authors: David Hughes, Sylvia Clare
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
A workbook enabling people to shift their beliefs and expectations in a positive direction towards a life of greater abundance. The approach is not simplistic…… Read More »
Dreams
In her introduction to this compendium of Jung's writings on dreams, Kathleen Raine writes that 'the greatest change in the mental experience of the modern…… Read More »