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    The Twilight of Democracy

    The Twilight of Democracy

    Author: Anne Applebaum
    Reviewer: Elisabet Sahtouris
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    A very seasoned prize-winning journalist, with deep roots in Europe and America, writes a fascinating personal narrative on how individual players get involved in responding…… Read More »
    The Blind Guardians of Ignorance

    The Blind Guardians of Ignorance

    Author: Mats Larson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    The author is a business consultant who has spent 30 years helping companies with strategy development and the management of change, with a special emphasis…… Read More »
    Transformative Learning

    Transformative Learning

    Authors: Pavel Cenkl, Satish Kumar
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    In 1990, the year before the launch of Schumacher College, I went down to Dartington to discuss with Satish Kumar my possible involvement with the…… Read More »
    How Everything Can Collapse

    How Everything Can Collapse

    Authors: Andrew Brown, Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Rumblings of the potential collapse of our modern civilisation date back over 100 years to Oswald Spengler, then the work of Arnold Toynbee and Pitirim…… Read More »
    The Division of Light and Power

    The Division of Light and Power

    Author: Dennis Kucinich
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    I have been following the career of Dennis Kucinich for many years, and most people are unaware that when in the House of Representatives he…… Read More »
    Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife

    Luminous Landscape of the Afterlife

    Author: Matthew McKay
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    The scribe of this remarkable channelled text is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who lost his son Jordan in a fatal knife incident.…… Read More »
    Surviving death

    Surviving death

    Author: Leslie Kean
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    Leslie Kean is a journalist who has made her personal investigation of this question as well as reading widely in the literature; she was closely…… Read More »
    The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce

    The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce

    Author: Michael Mendizza
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) was an expert in child development who devoted his life to exploring how we could actualise our highest potential and capacities…… Read More »
    Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan

    Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan

    Author: J. Morgan Penberthy
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    This mother-daughter navigational handbook is a unique resource in drawing on personal and professional experiences – including those of the authors – cutting-edge scientific research…… Read More »
    Spirituality in Psychotherapy

    Spirituality in Psychotherapy

    Author: Amalia E. M. Carli
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    This fascinating book based on interviews with Western European psychotherapists discusses how they understand, navigate, experience and integrate spirituality in their professional encounters with clients.…… Read More »
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