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    Cathars, White Eagle and St John

    Cathars, White Eagle and St John

    Author: Colum Hayward
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    Colum's grandmother, Grace Cooke, was an early visitor to the Cathar region in 1931, where she had a visionary experience at the castle of Lordat…… Read More »
    A Little Book of Unknowing

    A Little Book of Unknowing

    Author: Jennifer Kavanagh
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Mysticism
    Many readers will be familiar with The Cloud of Unknowing as a well-known 14th century spiritual text. Unknowing involves letting go of control and being…… Read More »
    Edge of Grace

    Edge of Grace

    Author: Prajna Ginty
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Memoir
    This is the story of a spiritual quest with peaceful periods in an ashram and then transformational episodes arising directly from family life and the…… Read More »
    The Rose Chamber

    The Rose Chamber

    Author: Caroline Brown
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Esoteric
    This is a remarkable chronicle of a profound spiritual journey leading the author into a deep understanding of the hidden patterns of transformation operating at…… Read More »
    Reading Philo

    Reading Philo

    Author: Torrey Seland
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / History
    Philo of Alexandria was one of the foremost thinkers of his time and renowned as a theologian, philosopher and politician. He was a contemporary of…… Read More »
    The Original Gita Aphorisms

    The Original Gita Aphorisms

    Author: Gerard D.C. Kuiken
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Eastern Philosophy / Religion
    The Original Gita predates the Bhagavad-Gita and can be considered its core. This short book by the author of Eastern Thought and the Gita: The…… Read More »
    Dreams and Recollections

    Dreams and Recollections

    Author: Jack Call
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Immortality
    The subtitle indicates that the book is concerned with our immortal selves, but the argument is purely inductive and philosophical rather than relating to any…… Read More »
    The Reason for All Existence

    The Reason for All Existence

    Author: David McLeod
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Metaphysics
    This is very much a book for the metaphysically inclined, dealing as it does with fundamental philosophical propositions and involving basic intuitive thinking to perceive…… Read More »
    Tetralogue

    Tetralogue

    Author: Timothy Williamson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Logic
    The author of this four-way dialogue on truth and falsity, knowledge and belief, relativism and dogmatism is Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford. The dialogue…… Read More »
    Philosophers of our Times

    Philosophers of our Times

    Author: Ted Honderich
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    This collection of 18 lectures is drawn from the Annual Lecture series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and features many famous names in the…… Read More »
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