Waking the Buddha
Waking the Buddha by Clark Strand, spiritual writer and former Zen Buddhist monk, is a story about a very old religion taking a surprising, interesting…… Read More »
Book Reviews
WHAT IS GOD?
In French there is a word 'distrait', which translates as absent-minded and is a cognate of the English word distracted. It is a commonplace to…… Read More »
Beyond Physicalism
Authors: Adam Crabtree, Edward F. Kelly, Paul Marshall
Reviewer: David Lawton
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
It is now eight years since the publication of Irreducible Mind (IM). In that seminal work, the authors, led, as here, by Ed Kelly, set…… Read More »
The Power of Your Breath
A secret key to reshaping our looks, body, health and weight sounds a bit too good to be true. In particular since it is all…… Read More »
The Temenos Touch
Evelyn's life journey is remarkable by any standards. After studying economics at Glasgow and Stanford, she embarked on a successful 20-year career as an economist,…… Read More »
SPIRITUAL PSYCHIATRIES
With her background as a medical anthropologist, Natalie is able to take a wider view of the relationship between culture, beliefs and medicine with special…… Read More »
FREE
The subtitle 'why science hasn't disproved free will' encapsulates the argument of this rigorous and interesting book. The question of free will has a long…… Read More »
The Theorem of Love
Authors: Antonella Vannini, Ulisse di Corpo
Reviewer: Gerri McManus
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Have you read this book? I am really interested to hear what people with much more expertise than me make of it. For me it…… Read More »
Syntropy – The Spirit of Love
Authors: Antonella Vannini, Ulisse di Corpo
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
In 1942, the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappie coined the term syntropy as a law symmetric with entropy that produces 'a continuous increase in complexity through…… Read More »
HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS
"How the Hippies Saved Physics" took me back to my undergraduate quantum mechanics courses and my frustrations with my teachers. I wanted to understand quantum…… Read More »