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    Buddhism, Virtue & Environment

    Buddhism, Virtue & Environment

    Authors: David E Cooper, Simon P James
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Buddhism / Environmental Ethics / Philosophy
    This book develops the relationship between the virtue ethics and environmental ethics in a Buddhist context. The authors note the revival of virtue ethics in…… Read More »
    Coming into Mind

    Coming into Mind

    Author: Margaret Wilkinson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Neuroscience
    Subtitled 'the mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective', this book examines the interface between neuroscience and analytical psychology. The author herself is a clinician and…… Read More »
    Sky and Psyche

    Sky and Psyche

    Authors: Nicholas Campion, Patrick Curry
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Astrology & Cosmology
    Subtitled 'the relationship between cosmos and consciousness', this volume originated in two conferences held in Bath under the auspices of the Sophia Centre in Bath…… Read More »
    The Wandering Sage

    The Wandering Sage

    Author: Robert Van Weyer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Wisdom Stories
    A charming and instructive book which reminds us of the value of the folk memory embodied in teaching stories. Here the figure of the wandering…… Read More »
    Paradise Reconsidered

    Paradise Reconsidered

    Author: R E Slater
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    Subtitled '9/11 and 7/7 - reincarnation and the lost gospel of Jesus', this book was written in the aftermath of these events when the writer…… Read More »
    The 8th Chakra

    The 8th Chakra

    Author: Jude Currivan
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Consciousness / New Age
    The sequel to her earlier book, 'The Wave', this new one explains the notion of an 8th chakra as the universal heart and higher awareness.…… Read More »
    God's Action in Nature's World

    God's Action in Nature's World

    Authors: Nathan Hallanger, Ted Peters
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science And Religion
    Robert John Russell is the founding director of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, which he established 25 years ago. This volume of essays…… Read More »
    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

    I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

    Author: Paul Waller
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    The author of this racy book is an Anglican priest writing for the agnostics of our time. He begins a startling by stating that Christianity…… Read More »
    The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran

    The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran

    Author: Robert Feather
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Biblical Studies
    A remarkable work of scholarship that reframes the origins of Christianity in the light of findings from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Following a lead given…… Read More »
    The Spirtuality of Marcus Aurelius

    The Spirtuality of Marcus Aurelius

    Author: Alan Jacobs
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality & Philosophy
    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the most famous philosophical books in the West. I first read it in the Penguin translation about…… Read More »
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