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    The Secret Teachers of the Western World

    The Secret Teachers of the Western World

    Author: Gary Lachman
    Reviewer: Nicholas Colloff
    Category: Esotericism / Consciousness Studies
    An apocryphal story has Picasso confronted on a train by a man waving a photograph of his wife under his nose declaiming, "Why do you…… Read More »
    A Forgotten Truth

    A Forgotten Truth

    Authors: D.M.A. (Peter) Leggett, Max Payne
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Science And Religion
    Many readers will be familiar with Max Payne, whose obituary we published in this Review last summer, and who was a regular contributor of book…… Read More »
    THE TEACHER, VOLUME ONE: THE DAWNING EPOCH

    THE TEACHER, VOLUME ONE: THE DAWNING EPOCH

    Author: Beinsa Douno
    Reviewer: Edi Bilimoria
    Category: Spirituality / Esoteric Christianity
    The hundred-year period starting from around the middle of the nineteenth century was especially momentous for a new wave of spirituality that affirmed the Immortal…… Read More »
    ANCIENT SECRET OF THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

    ANCIENT SECRET OF THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

    Author: Peter Kelder
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Wellbeing
    I was recently travelling in the United States and stayed with a friend in Virginia, on whose shelf I found the first of these books.…… Read More »
    An Introduction to Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

    An Introduction to Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

    Author: Damian Hamill
    Reviewer: Chris Allen
    Category: Hypnotherapy / Psychology
    What if I'm in deep trance and the hypnotist has a heart attack and is unable to awaken me? Will I be stuck there? And…… Read More »
    THE MEDITERRANEAN ZONE

    THE MEDITERRANEAN ZONE

    Author: Barry Sears
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health / Nutrition / Diet
    Barry Sears introduced the idea of the Zone in a book 20 years ago, and has written about a dozen books further explaining the concept,…… Read More »
    TIME, LIGHT AND THE DICE OF CREATION

    TIME, LIGHT AND THE DICE OF CREATION

    Author: Philip Franses
    Reviewer: Paul Kieniewicz
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The subtitle of Philip Franses's book is Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order. Franses takes the reader in a journey through modern physics.…… Read More »
    BEYOND MATTER: WHY SCIENCE NEEDS METAPHYSICS

    BEYOND MATTER: WHY SCIENCE NEEDS METAPHYSICS

    Author: Roger Trigg
    Reviewer: John Maxwell Kerr, SOSc.
    Category: Philosophy Of Science
    Here is Roger Trigg at his most incisive and succinct as he returns to his examination of where the limits of the modern scientific enterprise…… Read More »
    THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

    THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

    Authors: Jon M. Mallat, Todd E. Feinberg
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science
    Ancient Origins fills a "gap" but not philosopher Joseph Levine's still-intractable, mysterious gap "between the physical properties of the brain…and the subjective experiences that the…… Read More »
    COSMOSAPIENS

    COSMOSAPIENS

    Author: John Hands
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Philosophy
    10 years in the making, this tour de force is a critical examination of scientific theories and evidence - systematic observation or experiment - about…… Read More »
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