THE MOTIVATION MANIFESTO
In his endorsement of this book, the novelist Paulo Coelho remarks that it is a poetic and powerful call to reclaim our lives and find…… Read More »
Book Reviews
HOW SEXUAL DESIRE WORKS, THE ENIGMATIC URGE
Whether we like to admit it or not, sexual desire plays a central role in our lives. Fortunately for the majority of people it is…… Read More »
FINDING YOU IN A WORLD OF IT
Years ago in Cambridge, a friend gave me a copy of a famous book by the Hasidic philosopher Martin Buber – I and Thou. The…… Read More »
The Journey to Inner Power
Subtitled 'self-liberation through power psychology' and written from a psychotherapeutic background, this impressive book updates and extends the psychology of Friedrich Nietzsche based on the…… Read More »
MYSTIC CHEMIST – THE LIFE OF ALBERT HOFMANN AND HIS DISCOVERY OF LSD
Authors: Dieter Hagenbach, Lucius Werthmüller
Reviewer: Paul Devereux
Category: Consciousness & Psychedelics
Albert Hofmann was a chemist working for the Sandoz pharmaceutical company who synthesised Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, LSD, from ergot, (Claviceps purpurea), a parasite of rye.…… Read More »
A Hidden Wholeness
I had not heard of the work of Parker Palmer until a friend mentioned it and I ordered this book on Amazon. He is the…… Read More »
Waking the Buddha
Waking the Buddha by Clark Strand, spiritual writer and former Zen Buddhist monk, is a story about a very old religion taking a surprising, interesting…… Read More »
WHAT IS GOD?
In French there is a word 'distrait', which translates as absent-minded and is a cognate of the English word distracted. It is a commonplace to…… Read More »
Beyond Physicalism
Authors: Adam Crabtree, Edward F. Kelly, Paul Marshall
Reviewer: David Lawton
Category: Parapsychology / Consciousness Studies
It is now eight years since the publication of Irreducible Mind (IM). In that seminal work, the authors, led, as here, by Ed Kelly, set…… Read More »
The Power of Your Breath
A secret key to reshaping our looks, body, health and weight sounds a bit too good to be true. In particular since it is all…… Read More »