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    Book Reviews

    The Inversion

    The Inversion

    Author: Kingsley Dennis
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    The Machinic Impulse
    Rudolf Steiner turned out to be prescient in relation to what Kingsley calls ‘the growing presence of entropic, or counter-evolutionary, forces within humanity.’ (p. 135) He…… Read More »
    Subtle Agroecologies

    Subtle Agroecologies

    Author: Julia Wright
    Reviewer: Rahul Goswami
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    To Hear the Seed
    Open Access free to download: https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429440939 Some 25 years ago I met Bhaskar Save (pronounced ‘sa-vey’). He was a farmer, as he described himself. The…… Read More »
    The Story is in Our Bones

    The Story is in Our Bones

    Author: Osprey Orielle Lake
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Remaking a World In Crisis
    The author is founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), and in this eloquent and radical study she fundamentally…… Read More »
    The Great Upshift

    The Great Upshift

    Authors: David Lorimer, Ervin Laszlo
    Reviewer: Wendy Ellyatt
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Harnessing the Energies of Love
    We need to upshift our world, and for that, we need to upshift our consciousness. What a privilege it has been to review this book.…… Read More »
    Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction

    Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction

    Author: Kate Rigby
    Reviewer: Peter Reason
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    New Reflections On the Christian Creation Story
    Kate Rigby introduces her book by pointing to a peculiarity of human beings: we tend to puzzle over our very existence. Why are we here?…… Read More »
    Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil

    Spiritual Revelations from Beyond the Veil

    Author: Douglas Charles Hodgson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Life Lessons From the NDE
    Douglas Hodgson is a former Dean and Professor of Law living in Perth, Australia. His legal books have focused on human rights and justice, while…… Read More »
    Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased

    Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased

    Author: Evelyn Elsaesser
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    A Continuity of Consciousness
    In 1971, Network Member Dr Dewi Rees published a study in the British Medical Journal entitled The hallucinations of widowhood. The use of the term…… Read More »
    The Last Ecstasy of Life

    The Last Ecstasy of Life

    Author: Phyllida Anam-Aire
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Soul Care
    Phyllida is an Irish poet, bard, psychotherapist, wise woman and soul carer of the dying, who is also the author of A Celtic Book of…… Read More »
    The Lion Will Become Man

    The Lion Will Become Man

    Author: Keiron Le Grice
    Reviewer: Melinda Powell
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    The Sacred Art of Alchemy
    Keiron Le Grice, who is a professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (PGI), California, also served as Program Chair of the Institute’s Jungian…… Read More »
    C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time

    C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time

    Author: Marie-Louise von Franz
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Unus Mundus and Coincidentia Oppositorum
    C. G. Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul was one of the books in the four boxes I took with me during my…… Read More »
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