BREAKING NEW GROUND
I have read all Lester Brown's books over the last 20 years, and he has been a huge influence on my environmental and economic thinking.…… Read More »
Book Reviews
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
Authors: Gill Tavner, Sir John Houghton
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
As one of the world's leading climate scientists, the publication of Sir John Houghton's autobiography at this time is a very significant event, especially given…… Read More »
First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life
First Sight by James Carpenter, a practicing psychologist, is one among many recent publications with a high standard of scholarship that seeks to rethink mainstream…… Read More »
FOCUS
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 »
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 »