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    The Bhagavad Gita

    The Bhagavad Gita

    Author: Ravi Ravindra
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita, according to Ravi, is perhaps the single most important text to emerge from India. I have a number of editions, including those…… Read More »
    LIGHT UPON THE PATH

    LIGHT UPON THE PATH

    Author: Paul Fletcher
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    As President of Wrekin Trust, founded by Sir George Trevelyan in 1971, I attended a closing celebration of its work at Hawkwood College last month.…… Read More »
    THE HUMAN SITUATION

    THE HUMAN SITUATION

    Author: Aldous Huxley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), brother of Sir Julian Huxley and grandson of TH Huxley, was one of the most brilliant intellectuals of his generation and author…… Read More »
    SADNESS, DEPRESSION, AND THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL: transcending the medicalisation of sadness

    SADNESS, DEPRESSION, AND THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL: transcending the medicalisation of sadness

    Author: Glòria Durà-Vilà
    Reviewer: Larry Culliford
    Category: Medicine Health
    As a trainee psychiatrist in South Australia, forty years ago, I was sent to work in one of the 'back wards' for women in a…… Read More »
    The Cosmic Hologram

    The Cosmic Hologram

    Author: Jude Currivan
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, and planetary healer with a master's degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from…… Read More »
    THE LIVING UNIVERSE

    THE LIVING UNIVERSE

    Author: Duane Elgin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Duane Elgin is author of Voluntary Simplicity and Awakening Earth – here he sets out his understanding of a living rather than a dead universe…… Read More »
    Anthroposophy and Science: an Introduction

    Anthroposophy and Science: an Introduction

    Author: Peter Heusser
    Reviewer: Dr Michael Evans
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    "Anthroposophy and Science" is a remarkable state-of-the-art milestone in exploring the relationship of natural science with spiritual science as originally represented by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).…… Read More »
    UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

    UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

    Author: Nicholas Maxwell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Willis Harman, the first President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences who devoted the last few years of his life to exploring the metaphysical foundations…… Read More »
    AN UNCOMMON COLLABORATION

    AN UNCOMMON COLLABORATION

    Author: David Edmund Moody
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The author is surely correct in describing the collaboration between Krishnamurti (1895-1986) and David Bohm (1917-1992) as uncommon, since, as he points out, most collaborations…… Read More »
    QUANTUM NONLOCALITY AND REALITY – 50 Years of Bell's Theorem

    QUANTUM NONLOCALITY AND REALITY – 50 Years of Bell's Theorem

    Authors: Mary Bell, Shan Gao
    Reviewer: Paul Kieniewicz
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Fifty years ago John Bell published a ground-breaking paper, in which he suggested that quantum physics is nonlocal. In this highly technical book, physicists present…… Read More »
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