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    Hunger Mountain

    Hunger Mountain

    Author: David Hinton
    Reviewer: Michael Tobert
    Category: Spirituality & Philosophy
    Hunger Mountain is to be revered. It reaches us through the poetic words of David Hinton, a translator of Chinese poetry, a meditator and perhaps,…… Read More »
    WHY SCIENCE DOES NOT DISPROVE GOD

    WHY SCIENCE DOES NOT DISPROVE GOD

    Author: Amir D. Aczel
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Religion & Science / Philosophy Of Science
    Amir Aczel, is a Boston University mathematician and prolific author of some 17 non-fiction books, many of which, like Why Science does not Disprove God,…… Read More »
    THE SACRED MATRIX

    THE SACRED MATRIX

    Author: Dieter Duhm
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / New Civilisation
    This is a truly radical and seminal book, ranking alongside the important work of Charles Eisenstein reviewed in previous issues. As readers will see, I…… Read More »
    CRACKED

    CRACKED

    Author: James Davies
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Psychiatry
    Aptly described on the cover as 'chilling reading' and 'a potent polemic', this book makes a good case to back up its subtitle of why…… Read More »
    THE SPARK IN THE MACHINE

    THE SPARK IN THE MACHINE

    Author: Dr Daniel Keown
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    One of the differences between Western and other medical traditions is that Western medicine does not acknowledge the existence of subtle energy or subtle bodies…… Read More »
    ASK THE BEASTS: Darwin and the God of Love

    ASK THE BEASTS: Darwin and the God of Love

    Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science & Religion
    This interesting exposition by Elizabeth A. Johnson (EAJ) Professor of Theology at Fordham University (New York) reminds us that the biosphere is a particularly exquisite…… Read More »
    NEANDERTHAL MAN: IN SEARCH OF LOST GENOMES

    NEANDERTHAL MAN: IN SEARCH OF LOST GENOMES

    Author: Svante Pääbo
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science
    It seems that the Scientific and Medical Network publishes a lot of spiritual commentary and not so much pertaining to mainstream scientific analysis. Much as…… Read More »
    The Fourth Phase of Water

    The Fourth Phase of Water

    Author: Gerald Pollack
    Reviewer: Charles Eisenstein
    Category: Science
    In The Fourth Phase of Water, Gerald Pollack offers an elegant new theory of water chemistry that has profound implications not only for chemistry and…… Read More »
    The Animal Communicator's Guide Through Life, Loss and Love

    The Animal Communicator's Guide Through Life, Loss and Love

    Author: Pea Horsley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Animals / Spirituality
    Woven around the story of the life and death of her own dog Morgan, this book records many communications between humans and animals along with…… Read More »
    The Oxford Companion to Food

    The Oxford Companion to Food

    Authors: Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Food & Culinary Reference
    The first edition of this magisterial work appeared 15 years ago, the fruit of over 20 years of labour by Alan Anderson, who retired early…… Read More »
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