Seven Decades – How We Evolved to Live Longer
This authoritative book gives an anthropological and evolutionary perspective on our capacity for longevity initially evolved among hunter gatherers rather than being the product of…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Reefs of Time – What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival
Starting from the premise that corals live naturally with cyclical change, this fascinating book looks at what we can learn from the history of Coral…… Read More »
Your Brain on Porn – Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
The social and sexual impact of Internet pornography, particularly among young men, has recently been prominently featured in the press following the publication of Pornocracy…… Read More »
The Metaverse of Consciousness – Mapping the Multiple Dimensions of Reality
This book follows up from Tantric Psychophysics, reviewed last year. Its underlying premise is that the universe is full of life and consciousness in multiple…… Read More »
Looking-Glass Universe – The Emerging Science of Wholeness
Authors: F. David Peat, John P. Briggs, Jonathan Allday
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
This pioneering book was published 40 years ago, and features the work of four honorary members of the Network – David Bohm, Ilya Prigogine, Karl…… Read More »
LAO TZU AND CONFUCIUS MEET HEISENBERG
Danah Zohar’s work will be well-known to many readers as the author of the best-selling The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society. She is also…… Read More »
THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY
As Alex Gomez-Marin notes above, AN Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World was published 100 years ago. My own copy is dated August 1979 and…… Read More »
SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD
No modern thoughtscape makes sense except in light of the mental atmosphere brought about by science over the last four hundred years. The English mathematician…… Read More »
An End to the Upside Down Cosmos
This is one of a series of controversial books in which Mark questions consensus views, exposing what he considers to be flaws and inconsistencies. This…… Read More »
Zerons – The Theory of Nothing
The thesis of this book is that zerons are perfectly balanced energy entities which support both an ‘active nothingness’ and everything in physical existence. The…… Read More »