The Mission of Bogomilism
This book arrived from Bulgaria and was originally published in 1937 by Boyan Boev, who was a close disciple of Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov). It…… Read More »
Book Reviews
How (not) to be Secular
This book provides a guide to Charles Taylor's major but rather inaccessible work, A Secular Age. His focus is what the author calls 'a shift…… Read More »
The Golden Dawn
This is the story of the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn inaugurated in 1888 more or less dissolving 15 years later through internal politics.…… Read More »
Humble before the Void
This is a very unusual book, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, about a three-week Science for Monks programme building on his interest in…… Read More »
Fearless In Tibet
Few readers will have heard of the 19th and early 20th century Tibetan lama Terton Sogyal, who is the subject of this fascinating and well-written…… Read More »
Inside The Cosmic Mind
Some readers will already be familiar with the work of Richard Tarnas on archetypal astrology (Cosmos and Psyche) and the follow-up by Keiron le Grice,…… Read More »
The Shaman Within
Claude Poncelet is a physicist specialising in nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology, who has also been involved in sustainable development and has taught shamanism for…… Read More »
Kierkegaard
I first read Kierkegaard on an existentialism course at St Andrews University in the 1970s. He had a tortured personal life and allegedly drew out…… Read More »
Hegel
Hegel was a giant in his day and his philosophy has been hugely influential, especially on Karl Marx. As Peter Singer points out, his prose…… Read More »
Schopenhauer
I have a shelf of Schopenhauer's work gleaned in various second-hand bookshops – he was a great aphorist and one classic remark was if only…… Read More »