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    Happiness is a State of Mind

    Happiness is a State of Mind

    Author: HH the Gyalwang Drukpa
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Self Help
    The title states the thesis of this excellent book written by an acclaimed spiritual teacher who is involved in environmental protection, education, medical services, relief…… Read More »
    Integration

    Integration

    Authors: Ann Betz, Karen Kimsey-House
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Neuroscience
    We are all shaped by the expectations of our families and the society in which we grow up; also by the experience of separation from…… Read More »
    First Steps to Seeing

    First Steps to Seeing

    Author: Emma Kidd
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    Emma Kidd studied the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, studying under Brian Goodwin and especially Henri Bortoft, whose books will already be known…… Read More »
    Microgenetic Theory and Process Thought

    Microgenetic Theory and Process Thought

    Author: Jason Brown
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Mind
    The aim of this volume is to establish some foundational psychological principles of the philosophy of mind grounded in process (what the author calls microgenetic)…… Read More »
    Completing Piaget's Project

    Completing Piaget's Project

    Author: Edward J. Dale
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology / Transpersonal Philosophy
    Subtitled 'Transpersonal Philosophy and the Future of Psychology', this is a dense, demanding and rewarding read, reframing as it does the seminal work of Jean…… Read More »
    Voices of the Sacred Feminine

    Voices of the Sacred Feminine

    Author: Rev Dr Karen Tate
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality & Gender Studies
    This wide-ranging book derives its 40 chapters mainly from a radio series of the same name with four main parts addressing deity, archetype and ideal,…… Read More »
    I Know how to Live, I Know how to Die – the Teachings of Dadi Janki

    I Know how to Live, I Know how to Die – the Teachings of Dadi Janki

    Author: Neville Hodgkinson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    One of my enduring memories of Dadi Janki was an occasion at a conference in Uxmal, Mexico in 1994 when the subject was science and…… Read More »
    Christianity and Reincarnation

    Christianity and Reincarnation

    Author: Rudolf Frieling
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    As many readers may be aware, Rudolf Steiner wrote extensively on reincarnation with a more Western view. The author was one of the founders of…… Read More »
    A Star in the East

    A Star in the East

    Authors: Rodney Stark, Xiuhua Wang
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Sociology Of Religion
    This new study is based on two major surveys, one with Chinese villagers, as well as the history of missionary activity in China and its…… Read More »
    Sun of gOd

    Sun of gOd

    Author: Gregory Sams
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Spirituality / Consciousness Studies
    Just in case you wondered, the spelling of gOd is not a typo but stands rather for the nameless ultimate principle, the visible counterpart of…… Read More »
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