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    On Human Nature

    On Human Nature

    Author: Sir Roger Scruton
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    This book is based on a series of lectures at Princeton, and, some of the same themes as his earlier book The Soul of the…… Read More »
    The Healing Power of Life Alignment

    The Healing Power of Life Alignment

    Author: Philippa Lubbock
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    As the title suggests, this book is about realigning body, heart and mind with soul purpose and is derived from work of Dr Jeff Levin,…… Read More »
    The Illumined Heart and Mind

    The Illumined Heart and Mind

    Author: Margo Kirtikar
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    Margo has been able to perceive other levels of reality since she was a child, and has spent a lifetime developing her spiritual understanding through…… Read More »
    Daily Reminders for Living a New Paradigm

    Daily Reminders for Living a New Paradigm

    Author: Anne Wilson Schaef
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Self Help
    The author is a clinical psychologist who has written 15 books. Here she uses 31 themes as reminders for living a new paradigm so that…… Read More »
    Stillness on Shaking Ground

    Stillness on Shaking Ground

    Author: Carol A Wilson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Buddhism / Spirituality
    This powerful and dramatic autobiographical novel involves visits to Tibet and Nepal, the latter in a humanitarian aid capacity around the devastating earthquakes. It is…… Read More »
    Mastering the Mind and Realising the Self

    Mastering the Mind and Realising the Self

    Author: Stephen Sturgess
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Yoga & Meditation / Spirituality
    Stephen Sturgess has been practising yoga and meditation since 1969, and is a disciple of Yogananda - who appeared to him in a superconscious dream…… Read More »
    The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic

    The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic

    Author: Owen Davies
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: History
    The history of this subject is nothing if not complex, with an interweaving between witchcraft and magic, both theoretical and practical, manipulative and defensive. The…… Read More »
    Ecclesiastica Celtica

    Ecclesiastica Celtica

    Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality / Celtic Christianity
    Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was the author of a 16 volume Lives of the Saints, from which the content of this book is taken. He was…… Read More »
    108 Mystics

    108 Mystics

    Author: Carl McColman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Mysticism
    This wide-ranging book is a celebration of the many types of mystic divided into nine loose categories of visionaries, confessors, lovers, poets, saints, heretics, wisdom…… Read More »
    Joan Chittister

    Joan Chittister

    Author: Tom Roberts
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    I don't imagine many readers have come across the work of Joan Chittister unless it was in review of one of her books a few…… Read More »
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