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    A Story Waiting to Pierce You

    A Story Waiting to Pierce You

    Author: Peter Kingsley
    Reviewer: David Connell
    Category: Spirituality / Ancient Philosophy
    This slim volume by Peter Kingsley seems to have one or two possible effects on the reader. The first response is to say "yes" to…… Read More »
    ABSENCE OF MIND

    ABSENCE OF MIND

    Author: Marilynne Robinson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Mind / Religion & Science
    These Yale University Terry Lectures on religion in the light of science and philosophy are subtitled 'the dispelling of inwardness from the modern myth of…… Read More »
    COMING HOME

    COMING HOME

    Author: Sean M. Kelly
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / History Of Ideas
    Many readers will be familiar with the work of Richard Tarnas, who endorses this book by saying that it is necessary reading for our time,…… Read More »
    THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

    THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

    Author: Hans Küng
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science And Religion
    Hans Küng and Keith Ward are among the best informed and most brilliant commentators on the science and religion interface writing today. Küng is perhaps…… Read More »
    Science & Religious Experience

    Science & Religious Experience

    Author: Grahame Miles
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Science & Religion
    These books attempt to reconcile science and religion. The manner of their failure illustrates the cultural dilemma of the 21st century. The most persuasive is…… Read More »
    Harmony

    Harmony

    Authors: Ian Skelly, Prince of Wales, Tony Juniper
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment / Philosophy
    One of the principal reasons why I wrote Radical Prince in 2003 was because I felt it important to explain the philosophy underpinning the various…… Read More »
    THE LIVING MATRIX, A film on the new science of healing

    THE LIVING MATRIX, A film on the new science of healing

    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Health & Healing / Alternative Medicine
    It is not surprising that this presentation of the science behind healing is presented as a DVD rather than a book. The science presented represents…… Read More »
    Eight Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery

    Eight Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery

    Author: Babette Rothschild
    Reviewer: Rolf-Ulrich Kramer
    Category: Psychology/Trauma
    Written in a friendly, caring style the book leaves no doubt about the well-meaning intentions of its author. Right in the Introduction she makes three…… Read More »
    The Story of Water

    The Story of Water

    Author: Alick Bartholomew
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Ecology
    Alick Bartholomew has been closely involved with the work of the Austrian forester and 'water wizard' Viktor Schauberger for over 20 years, and has been…… Read More »
    JUST ANOTHER APE

    JUST ANOTHER APE

    Author: Helene Guldberg
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science/Evolutionary Biology
    In response to the question is the human being Just Another Ape? Helene Guldberg, an Open University developmental psychologist answers no, on many counts. In…… Read More »
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