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Dan Goleman will be well known to many readers for his work initially on emotional intelligence and then on social and ecological intelligence as ways…… Read More »
Book Reviews
PSI WARS: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet
I imagine that most readers will be familiar with the story of TED taking down the TEDx talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock on…… Read More »
Awakening the Universal Heart
'If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.' Marc Chagall In the Thatcherite 1980s in Britain, many left-wing…… Read More »
AN ATHEIST'S HISTORY OF BELIEF – UNDERSTANDING OUR MOST EXTRAORDINARY INVENTION
Matthew Kneale grew up in what can be termed a non-religious family yet found himself surrounded by structured belief systems, including having to recite the…… Read More »
ARE YOU AN ILLUSION?
Are You an Illusion? Mary Midgley poses the question both whimsically and seriously. Given that a vast corpus of contemporary neuroscience and psychology denies the…… Read More »
FALLING UPWARD
Readers of Jung will be familiar with his thinking about the second half of life in the overall individuation process. In this perceptive and sympathetic…… Read More »
EXPLORING EARTHINESS
Anne Primavesi's latest book is a magisterial treatment of how humans have over history alienated themselves from Earth and look set for their destruction. She…… Read More »
THOMAS MERTON – SELECTED ESSAYS
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was undoubtedly one of the great Christian writers of the 20th century, and this new selection of essays introduces him to another…… Read More »
A Silent Melody: An Experience of Contemporary Spiritual Life
It began, in so far as beginnings have any meaning here, with a teenager walking to music practice, passing a beech tree, probably passed many…… Read More »
THE ILLUSION OF "TRUTH"
In his legend of the Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky brings Jesus back to 16th century Seville during the period of the Spanish…… Read More »