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    Buddha and Einstein Walk into a Bar

    Buddha and Einstein Walk into a Bar

    Author: Guy Joseph Hale
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    If you find this title obscure, then the subtitle is much more illuminating: 'how new discoveries about mind, body and energy can help increase your…… Read More »
    The Telomere Miracle

    The Telomere Miracle

    Author: Ed Park MD
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szoshow shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for their discovery that chromosomes are protected by telomeres…… Read More »
    Pilgrimages to Emptiness

    Pilgrimages to Emptiness

    Author: Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    I met the author at a recent conference in Italy, where he presented a fascinating lecture on the I Ching. In the 1990s, he was…… Read More »
    The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology

    The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology

    Author: Alain Negre
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This book is an interesting journey through what the author calls psychophysical rhythmic configurations, using the work of Jung and Pauli as a starting point…… Read More »
    Music by Numbers – From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

    Music by Numbers – From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

    Author: Eli Maor
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This is a fascinating study of the reciprocal relationship between music and mathematics in the West. The last 150 years have seen the breakdown of…… Read More »
    Causation in Science

    Causation in Science

    Author: Yemima Ben-Menahem
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The emphasis of this technical book is on causal constraints in science, i.e. general conceptual scaffolding and principles rather than causal relations between individual elements…… Read More »
    Blossoms

    Blossoms

    Author: Maxine F. Singer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    A cutting-edge book about the genetics behind flowers in five parts, explaining what plants are and what they can do, how genes work, the timing…… Read More »
    Gravity

    Gravity

    Author: Pierre Binetruy
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This is a brilliant and accessible illustrated book about gravity and gravitational waves, whose existence was only confirmed experimentally in 2016 and resulted in the…… Read More »
    The Secret Life of Science

    The Secret Life of Science

    Author: Jeremy J. Baumberg
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    In this brilliant, original and stimulating study, the author offers an acute and wide-ranging analysis of the state of what he calls the global scientific…… Read More »
    RESONANT MIND: LIFE REVIEW IN THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

    RESONANT MIND: LIFE REVIEW IN THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

    Author: David Lorimer
    Reviewer: Larry Culliford
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    David reviewed this book together with another. The review below covers both.SURVIVAL? DEATH AS A TRANSITIONDavid Lorimer Members of the Network will know David Lorimer…… Read More »
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