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    An Interrupted Life

    An Interrupted Life

    Author: Etty Hillesum
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Crushed or Polished?
    I remember hearing a lecture at St James’s Piccadilly by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross when she said that we are all put through the ringer of life,…… Read More »
    Yes to Life

    Yes to Life

    Author: Viktor E. Frankl
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Crushed or Polished?
    I remember hearing a lecture at St James’s Piccadilly by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross when she said that we are all put through the ringer of life,…… Read More »
    Travelers to Unimaginable Lands

    Travelers to Unimaginable Lands

    Author: Dasha Kiper
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Medicine Health
    Not Just One Sufferer
    When we talk about dementia, we usually assume that there is just one sufferer but this book reveals that there are at least two. Although…… Read More »
    Presidential Takedown

    Presidential Takedown

    Authors: Kent Heckenlively, Paul Elias Alexander
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Politics Trumps Science
    This insider account by a senior pandemic adviser to the COVID-19 task force is aptly subtitled ‘How Anthony Fauci, the CDC, NIH and the WHO…… Read More »
    Healing Ourselves

    Healing Ourselves

    Author: Shamini Jain
    Reviewer: Damian Spendel
    Category: Medicine Health
    Biofields and Energetic Healing - Modern and Ancient Perspectives
    Shamini Jain is a scholar practitioner specialising in biofields and energy healing. This book is an effort to combine data-driven studies and evidence-based medicine to…… Read More »
    Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

    Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

    Author: Brian Spittles
    Reviewer: Isabel Clarke
    Category: Medicine Health
    A Proposed Psychospiritual Revolution For Psychiatry
    This book is heartily to be welcomed and well overdue. It makes a powerful and unequivocal claim, backed up by the author’s own research and…… Read More »
    The Self-Assembling Brain

    The Self-Assembling Brain

    Author: Peter Robin Hiesinger
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Who is the Smartest of Us All?
    How the brain works and how the neurons link up and develop is something that has intrigued science throughout history. What makes a neural network…… Read More »
    Natural Philosophy

    Natural Philosophy

    Author: Alister McGrath
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Recreating Conceptual Space
    The author of this important study has a background spanning chemistry, molecular biophysics and theology. He has recently retired as the Professor of Science and…… Read More »
    Cosmogenesis

    Cosmogenesis

    Author: Brian Thomas Swimme
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Self-Reflexive Knowing
    Cosmogenesis is the bold and visionary articulation of the new story whereby Cosmos becomes Cosmogenesis, the static becomes dynamic, the fixed becomes evolutionary in a…… Read More »
    Return of the God Hypothesis

    Return of the God Hypothesis

    Author: Stephen C. Meyer
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Intelligence Fine-Tunes the Cosmos
    This ‘weighty’ book is Meyer’s third, and something of a blockbuster divided into five parts. His second book Signature in the Cell won the Times…… Read More »
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