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    Choosing Earth

    Choosing Earth

    Author: Duane Elgin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    The title of my review comes from the film corresponding to the book and which reflects our collective evolutionary challenge on which Duane has been…… Read More »
    Mission Economy

    Mission Economy

    Author: Mariana Mazzucato
    Reviewer: Chris Todhunter
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    What I find most encouraging in this book is the firm conviction that when we work together, amazing things are possible. The author calls it…… Read More »
    Women of Ideas

    Women of Ideas

    Authors: Edmonds David, Nigel Warburton, Suki Finn
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    This book features 29 interviews from the podcast Philosophy Bites with leading women philosophers, beginning with an interesting chapter on what it is like being…… Read More »
    In Praise of Ageing

    In Praise of Ageing

    Author: Carmel Shalev
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Subtitled 'awakening to old age with wisdom and compassion', these reflections are divided into four sections – reality, vulnerability, identity and meaning – with individual…… Read More »
    Pilgrimage for Peace

    Pilgrimage for Peace

    Author: Satish Kumar
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    'Si vis pacem, para bellum' – if you want peace, prepare for war is a Latin adage characteristic not only of the Roman Empire, but…… Read More »
    Quaker Quicks - in STEP with Quaker Testimony

    Quaker Quicks - in STEP with Quaker Testimony

    Author: Joanna Godfrey Wood
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    The STEP in the title stands for simplicity, truth, equality and peace - principles at the heart of Quakerism and in the writings of Margaret…… Read More »
    Touched by the Light

    Touched by the Light

    Author: Yvonne Kason
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Yvonne Kason MD is President and Co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International, and Past-President of IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies. In 1990, she was…… Read More »
    Ensoulment

    Ensoulment

    Author: Natalie Zeituny
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    This is a book of remarkable spiritual and cosmological insight based on the author's own unfolding deep purificatory process of what she calls ensoulment, 'the…… Read More »
    When I Was Someone Else

    When I Was Someone Else

    Author: Stéphane Allix
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Stephane Allix is a prominent French journalist who is also founder of the Research Institute on Extraordinary Experiences (INREES) which has a magazine, conferences and…… Read More »
    The Black Madonna

    The Black Madonna

    Author: Annine van der Meer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    This is an extraordinary overview and guidebook to the Black Madonna that includes short descriptions of 450 Black Madonnas in France -- there is even…… Read More »
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