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    MYSTICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD

    MYSTICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD

    Author: Paul Marshall
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    The question of spirituality is a key issue for the Scientific and Medical Network. What do we mean by the term, and is it a…… Read More »
    MIND AND EMERGENCE – FROM QUANTUM TO CONSCIOUSNESS

    MIND AND EMERGENCE – FROM QUANTUM TO CONSCIOUSNESS

    Author: Philip Clayton
    Reviewer: Graham Dunstan Martin
    Category: Philosophy
    The status of mind and consciousness, and its relation to matter, is one of the major controversies in today's philosophy. (1) Are mind and matter…… Read More »
    SPIRITUALLY-ENGAGED KNOWLEDGE

    SPIRITUALLY-ENGAGED KNOWLEDGE

    Author: Jennifer Crawford
    Reviewer: Chris Clarke
    Category: Spirituality
    The Prologue of this book opens with scene from a time when the author was a backpacker in India during a period of drought: a…… Read More »
    ENTANGLED MINDS

    ENTANGLED MINDS

    Author: Dean Radin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology
    Some readers will remember that Dean Radin's previous book, The Conscious Universe, was awarded the Network book prize in 1997. Here he takes both the…… Read More »
    A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

    A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

    Author: Eckhart Tolle
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Spirituality
    Eckhart Tolle's first book, The Power of Now, was published some years ago and has become a 'spiritual classic' and bestseller in a number of…… Read More »
    DO CHRISTIANS KNOW HOW TO BE SPIRITUAL?

    DO CHRISTIANS KNOW HOW TO BE SPIRITUAL?

    Author: John Drane
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    In this thoughtful book, Aberdeen theology lecturer John Drane adds his voice to the recent spate of books on grass-roots spirituality and the so-called spirituality…… Read More »
    FREETHINKERS – A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SECULARISM

    FREETHINKERS – A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SECULARISM

    Author: Susan Jacoby
    Reviewer: Mike King
    Category: History / Religion & Secularism
    Journalist Alexander Chancellor, writing in the Guardian during the 2004 US elections suggested that "In Britain, flaunting religious faith is a political liability; in America,…… Read More »
    Values, Education and the Human World

    Values, Education and the Human World

    Author: John Haldane
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Education & Culture
    This volume forms part of a series entitled the St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, edited by John Haldane who directs the Centre…… Read More »
    THE MEASURE OF GOD

    THE MEASURE OF GOD

    Author: Larry Witham
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion / Science
    Subtitled 'our century-long struggle to reconcile science and religion', this book is the story of the Gifford Lectures delivered in the ancient universities of Scotland…… Read More »
    The Science of Oneness

    The Science of Oneness

    Author: Malcolm Hollick
    Reviewer: Chris Clarke
    Category: Science & Spirituality
    The state of humanity today is at least as tragic as it is glorious, and perhaps at the root of our tragedy is the absence…… Read More »
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