Manifesto for the Earth
Mikhail Gorbachev is what would in the 19th century have been called a 'world-historical figure' whose expanding vision now includes the future of nature and…… Read More »
Book Reviews
From Stress to Serenity
These days, we are all experts on stress. The accelerating tempo of modern living increases the sense of pressure and challenges us to find the…… Read More »
Nearing Death Awareness
The term Nearing Death Awareness (NDA) was coined by two hospice nurses, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley, 10 years ago. It refers to communications made…… Read More »
Science, Mystical Experience and Religious Belief
The author of this book is a trained physicist who is now emeritus professor of cellular immunology at Oxford. He sets out his understanding of…… Read More »
Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain and Making of a Therapist, A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey
Freud started out as a neurologist and when he moved on to his talking therapy many questioned this decision. How could simply talking to people…… Read More »
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
Science has discovered a great deal about the composition and the behaviour of the material world and about ways in which the material world can…… Read More »
The Spirit of Silence
John Lane is a painter, author and educationalist who was chairman of the Dartington Hall Trust and was instrumental in the creation of Schumacher College.…… Read More »
The Great Work
I somehow missed this visionary book when it first came out, and I am writing this review rather tardily in case other readers are in…… Read More »
The Pattern of Evil – Myth, Social Perception and the Holocaust
By now, sixty-two years after the collapse of Nazi Germany, with several thousand books describing and analysing the Holocaust, one might think that there is…… Read More »
THE MYTH OF EVIL
Evil has been a subject of analysis and interpretation since the year dot as it is part of everyone's experience in some way. Philosophers, theologians,…… Read More »