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    TO LIVE WITHIN

    TO LIVE WITHIN

    Authors: Lizelle Reymond, Sri Anirvan
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Mysticism
    Lizelle Reymond (1899-1994) was a Swiss seeker who studied deeply within Oriental traditions and spent extended periods in India, where she met her spiritual master…… Read More »
    THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF UNIVERSALISM

    THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF UNIVERSALISM

    Author: Nicholas Hagger
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Philosophy
    This book offers a comprehensive philosophy of the universe. At these words one's heart sinks. Here is yet another elaborate metaphysical cloud castle which seeks…… Read More »
    THE HIDDEN SPIRITUALITY OF MEN

    THE HIDDEN SPIRITUALITY OF MEN

    Author: Matthew Fox
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    We have heard a great deal about the Sacred Feminine, but the Sacred Masculine is a much less familiar phrase. Emerging from patriarchal dominator traditions…… Read More »
    IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE

    IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE

    Author: Ralph Waldo Trine
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit / New Thought
    Over the last 18 months I have read extensively among the original New Thought authors, going back to the essays of Emerson, which I reread…… Read More »
    THE CASE AGAINST FLUORIDE

    THE CASE AGAINST FLUORIDE

    Authors: H.S. Micklem, James Beck, Paul Connett
    Reviewer: Peter Mansfield
    Category: Health
    Some issues drive debate into deeply entrenched positions. The cause is rival assumptions that are beyond debate and never declared. When industrial politics is part…… Read More »
    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPIRITUALITY

    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPIRITUALITY

    Author: Larry Culliford
    Reviewer: Isabel Clarke
    Category: Psychology/Spirituality
    This book is well structured and easy to read. It sorts its material effortlessly into straightforward categories and carries the reader painlessly along. Each chapter…… Read More »
    NATURE AS MIRROR

    NATURE AS MIRROR

    Author: Stephanie Sorrell
    Reviewer: Eleanor Stoneham
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    The idea behind this book is that nature is a mirror, reflecting back at us our own soul, the fractures and chasms within our own…… Read More »
    THE HEALING JOURNEY / THE NUTRITIONAL THERAPY OF CANCER

    THE HEALING JOURNEY / THE NUTRITIONAL THERAPY OF CANCER

    Authors: Alastair J. Cunningham, Lawrence Plaskett
    Reviewer: Beata Bishop
    Category: Health & Medicine
    The subject of cancer medicine crops up regularly in the media, as a rule heralding a new wonder drug, promising treatment or genetic discovery (which…… Read More »
    GETTING DARWIN WRONG

    GETTING DARWIN WRONG

    Author: Brendan Wallace
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Psychology
    Although evolutionary psychology (EP) was only 'announced to the world' as a discipline in 1992, this 'extremely modern science' (if it can be called a…… Read More »
    THE SOLITARY SELF: DARWIN AND THE SELFISH GENE / WHAT DARWIN GOT WRONG

    THE SOLITARY SELF: DARWIN AND THE SELFISH GENE / WHAT DARWIN GOT WRONG

    Authors: Gerry Fodor, Mary Midgley, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini
    Reviewer: Edward James
    Category: Science
    Mary Midgley and Gerry Fodor are both renowned philosophers, but both are also deeply concerned with the constructs and procedures of Natural Science as they…… Read More »
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