FREE THE CHILDREN
I first heard Craig Kielburger speak to 700 people at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco in 1997. It was an astonishing…… Read More »
Book Reviews
THE UNSELFISH SPIRIT
Mick Collins' own remarkable spiritual journey underpins this erudite and practical book about the fundamental ecological challenge we have created with our thinking, values and…… Read More »
AN UNKNOWN WORLD
Going beyond the immediate concerns of environmentalism, Jacob Needleman asks what is the purpose of life on Earth, and what is the role of human…… Read More »
PIONEERING THE POSSIBLE
It would be a real triumph for the leap of consciousness advocated in this book if, at the fourth nomination, Scilla Elworthy were actually to…… Read More »
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 »
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: Psychology Consciousness Studies
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 »