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    Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power

    Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power

    Author: Alastair McIntosh
    Reviewer: Margaret Hannah
    Category: Environment / Land Rights / Cultural History
    This is not an easy book to categorise and I don't envy the librarian trying to catalogue it. The book is part biography, part cultural…… Read More »
    Globalization – A Very Short Introduction / Global Civil Society? / Gaian Democracies

    Globalization – A Very Short Introduction / Global Civil Society? / Gaian Democracies

    Authors: John Jopling, John Keane, Manfred B. Steger, Roy Madron
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics / Current Affairs
    The starting point of the International Futures Forum of which I am a member is that we live in a complex and uncertain world that…… Read More »
    The Force of Character

    The Force of Character

    Author: James Hillman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology
    This book is the powerful sequel to The Soul's Code, which I reviewed when in San Francisco in the autumn of 1997. It takes the…… Read More »
    HOW WE BELIEVE

    HOW WE BELIEVE

    Author: Michael Shermer
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Psychology & Religion
    "How" questions are supposed to be answered by objective scientific facts, whereas "Why" questions are often supposed to be matters of subjective meaning. Unfortunately "how"…… Read More »
    Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience

    Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience

    Author: Mark Cox
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness / Parapsychology
    Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience is the most sophisticated philosophical and theological analysis of the NDE to appear to date. In his introduction, Mark…… Read More »
    JEHOVAH & HYPERSPACE

    JEHOVAH & HYPERSPACE

    Author: Frank Parkinson
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Science & Religion
    This book sets out a vast cosmological vision whereby all that exists, space, time , matter, swirling galaxies and human consciousness all of them come…… Read More »
    NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS

    NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS

    Author: Desmond Tutu
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics & Society
    This remarkable book tells the harrowing but redemptive story of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up as a 'third way' between Nuremberg-style…… Read More »
    SEANCES WITH GOD

    SEANCES WITH GOD

    Author: Jacqueline Jones-Hunt
    Reviewer: Lew Sutton
    Category: Parapsychology
    Don't for one minute be put off by the title of this book. No doubt Dr Jones-Hunt means to catch the eye of the general…… Read More »
    BEDE GRIFFITHS

    BEDE GRIFFITHS

    Author: Judson B. Trapnell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    When in 1992 Bede Griffiths came to Winchester to speak at the Mystics and Scientists conference, I invited Keith Ward down from Oxford to meet…… Read More »
    Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground

    Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground

    Author: B. Alan Wallace
    Reviewer: John Clarke
    Category: Science & Religion
    What have Buddhism and science to say to each other? At first sight, very little. On the one hand Buddhism is a world religion offering…… Read More »
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