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    THERAPY BEYOND MODERNITY

    THERAPY BEYOND MODERNITY

    Author: Richard House
    Reviewer: Chris MacKenna
    Category: Psychotherapy
    This is a crusading and passionate book. Richard House writes as a practising counsellor who has become deeply disenchanted by the forces which are driving…… Read More »
    Breaking Open the Head

    Breaking Open the Head

    Author: Daniel Pinchbeck
    Reviewer: Paul Devereux
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    This is a savvy, well-written piece of work that gives the autobiographical account in 38 short, sharp chapters of a cynical New Yorker's journey from…… Read More »
    CONSCIOUSNESS: AN INTRODUCTION

    CONSCIOUSNESS: AN INTRODUCTION

    Author: Susan Blackmore
    Reviewer: Guy Saunders
    Category: Psychology
    There has been a plethora of books on consciousness in the last ten to fifteen years; most of these are recognisably each author's particular take…… Read More »
    Revisioning Transpersonal Theory

    Revisioning Transpersonal Theory

    Author: Jorge Ferrer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Transpersonal Psychology
    Many Network Members have been exploring participatory approaches to science and reality for some years, and may well have read the brilliant epilogue of Richard…… Read More »
    Science and the Paranormal

    Science and the Paranormal

    Author: Arthur J. Ellison
    Reviewer: Bernard Carr
    Category: Parapsychology / Psychical Research
    It is a particular pleasure to review this book because last year I helped to organise its publication launch at the Society for Psychical Research…… Read More »
    The Sceptical Idealist

    The Sceptical Idealist

    Author: Roy Tseng
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Philosophy
    Michael Oakeshott was one of the leading British 20th century philosophers, and for anyone who wishes to do research into this dispiriting area, this book…… Read More »
    A Mind's Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography

    A Mind's Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography

    Author: S. L. Jaki
    Reviewer: John Maxwell Kerr
    Category: Science & Religion
    The distinguished author of forty-one books, Stanley Jaki's writing is well known to those whose field of research is the historical relationship between physics (especially…… Read More »
    IS NATURE EVER EVIL?

    IS NATURE EVER EVIL?

    Author: Willem B Drees
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Religion / Science
    This collection of essays is billed as an exploration into religion, science and value. What moral meaning can be discovered when we confront the world…… Read More »
    Rebuilding the Matrix

    Rebuilding the Matrix

    Author: Denis Alexander
    Reviewer: John Maxwell Kerr
    Category: Science And Religion
    Many of the books written in the field of science and religion are unremarkable reiterations of material too frequently cited elsewhere. Denis Alexander has produced…… Read More »
    LOTUS BIRTH

    LOTUS BIRTH

    Author: Shivam Rachana
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Birth/Parenting
    This book brings up a very important issue – the role of the placenta for the newborn baby. Current practice in the modern cultures around…… Read More »
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