Religion
Written by a leading sociologist, this fascinating and important book analyses what religion is, how it works and why it matters, using an approach combining…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Way of the Lover
Subtitled 'Sufism, Shamanism and the Spiritual Art of Love', this book takes the reader on a profound journey drawing on a wide variety of sources…… Read More »
Sufism
This is a new and seminal history of Islamic mysticism dealing with both the ascetic and mystical elements related to practice and teachings - also…… Read More »
A Matter of Life and Death
With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this is a collection of 60 reflections on death and its implications, divided into five parts: personal encounters…… Read More »
Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure
Here is another book from a neo-Stoic perspective, partly as an antidote to self-help books and written in the spirit of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus…… Read More »
How to Die
Seneca (4 BC to 65 AD) speaks down the ages with his perennial reflections on the human condition and the inevitability of death. This is…… Read More »
A New Stoicism
There has been quite a revival of Stoicism in the last few years as a form of ethical naturalism. The author asks the interesting question…… Read More »
The Logic of Madness
This book follows up the author's earlier study entitled The Logic of Self-Destruction by presenting a new theory of mental illness based on the same…… Read More »
Soul Mind Body Science System
This is an unusual book as a combination of Taoism, science, spirituality and healing, written by a doctor who is also a spiritual teacher giving…… Read More »
Other Minds – The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
The author brings together two of his passions to this fascinating book, namely history of science and scuba diving, combining philosophical rigour with empathy towards…… Read More »