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    Spirituality and Wellbeing

    Spirituality and Wellbeing

    Author: Bettina E. Schmidt
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    This valuable interdisciplinary volume is a significant contribution to the study of religious experience and health, especially given rising interest in both spirituality and well-being…… Read More »
    The Divine Within

    The Divine Within

    Author: Aldous Huxley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was one of the great minds of the 20th century. His grandfather was Darwin's bulldog, T.H. Huxley, and his brother the evolutionary…… Read More »
    Nonscience Returns

    Nonscience Returns

    Author: Brian J. Ford
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This is an updated edition of the book first published in 1971 as a scathing critique and parody of the way in which scientists dedicated…… Read More »
    A State of Fear

    A State of Fear

    Author: Laura Dodsworth
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Napoleon Hill was one of Franklin Roosevelt's advisers in preparing his speech with the famous lines 'there is nothing to fear but fear itself', a…… Read More »
    Hard to Break

    Hard to Break

    Author: Russell A. Poldrack
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Subtitled 'why are our brains make habits stick', this is a fascinating update on neuropsychological research, some of which necessarily impinges on philosophy in terms…… Read More »
    The Truth About COVID-19

    The Truth About COVID-19

    Authors: Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    A feature on Israel's fourth wave in The Week of August 21 describes how, despite 78% of adults having been double jabbed, 90% of the…… Read More »
    Paradigm Shift

    Paradigm Shift

    Author: Martin Cohen
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Although this stimulating book was published six years ago, its content is timely in raising issues related to the handling previous SARS outbreaks and the…… Read More »
    The Idea of the Brain

    The Idea of the Brain

    Author: Matthew Cobb
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Throughout human history human beings have tried to understand the role of the brain and/or how it enables us experience the world the way we…… Read More »
    Deep Reality

    Deep Reality

    Authors: Doug Matzke, William Tiller
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This ground-breaking book describes what the authors call Source Science going beyond classical systems and proposing that our quantum minds 'exist independently of and interact…… Read More »
    Science and Beyond

    Science and Beyond

    Author: Rolf Sattler
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Rolf Sattler is Emeritus Professor of Biology at McGill University, where he taught courses on plant biology, history and philosophy of biology, science and spirituality,…… Read More »
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