GANDHI AND APPLIED SPIRITUALITY
One of the founders of the Network, George Blaker, knew Gandhi when he was working as a civil servant in India. He told me the…… Read More »
Book Reviews
HOW TO RAISE A WILD CHILD
On reading Scott Sampson's excellent exposition, I realised I had, like some others of my generation, been fortunate to have been raised as a Wild…… Read More »
HENRY DAVID THOREAU – Spiritual and Prophetic Writings
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was, as Jon Sweeney rightly puts it, 'an American prophet of deliberate simplicity, nonviolence, civil disobedience and care for the planet'…… Read More »
Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development
Authors: Delyse Springett, Michael Redclift
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This magisterial and comprehensive volume is indispensable reading for anyone wishing seriously to come to grips with the nature and scope of sustainable development. It…… Read More »
Science, Philosophy and Sustainability
Authors: Angela Guimaraes Pereira, Silvio Funtowicz
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
I feel I must begin with a comment on the Taylor and Francis/Earthscan pricing policy, which you can see above. Here is a book that…… Read More »
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
In 2006 Al Gore presented us with an "inconvenient truth", about climate change. But it was not so inconvenient that we felt compelled to radically…… Read More »
A BANKER REFLECTS ON MONEY, LOVE AND VIRTUE
The title of this remarkable book is designed to be arresting. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis there has been a great deal…… Read More »
SOUL SHIFTS
Barbara de Angelis has been devoted to the spiritual path since she was a teenager and in this inspiring book she distils the wisdom of…… Read More »
BRIEF PEEKS BEYOND
In this brilliant and combative book subtitled 'critical essays on metaphysics, neuroscience, free will, skepticism and culture', Bernardo Kastrup attacks the assumption and presumption of…… Read More »
DEMYSTIFYING THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE
The sensation of being outside of your body is a genuine experience. The question is whether you, as a separate self, have actually separated from…… Read More »