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    THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT

    THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT

    Author: Rupert Sheldrake
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology
    Rupert Sheldrake's latest book extends the research of his previous two books Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and Seven Experiments That…… Read More »
    CONSCIOUS ACTS OF CREATION

    CONSCIOUS ACTS OF CREATION

    Authors: Michael J. Kohane, Walter E. Dibble, William A. Tiller
    Reviewer: Jim Lyons
    Category: Science / Physics / Consciousness
    The appearance of a new book by William Tiller has to regarded as something of a special event. Following the publication of his earlier ground…… Read More »
    How to Love Again, Moving from Grief to Growth

    How to Love Again, Moving from Grief to Growth

    Author: John Monbourquette
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Grief And Bereavement
    Writing this review with Karl Richter's St Matthew Passion in the background gives it all the more pathos. It is not surprising that there are…… Read More »
    Polling Station

    Polling Station

    Author: Gordon Graham
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Political Philosophy
    A sustained argument questioning the legitimacy - both in terms of its scope and 'democratic' underpinning - of the modern State, which has expanded to…… Read More »
    Temenos Academy Review

    Temenos Academy Review

    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    The fifth in the new series of Temenos Academy Reviews. The first article is an important statement by HRH the Prince of Wales about his…… Read More »
    Oxford Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

    Oxford Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

    Author: Elizabeth Knowles
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Reference
    Drawn from the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, itself modelled on the classic and idiosyncratic dictionary by Brewer, this book provides a huge range…… Read More »
    The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotation

    The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotation

    Author: Susan Ratcliffe
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Reference
    This is one of the best and most useful collections of quotations to appear in recent years. I have already given two away as presents.…… Read More »
    Toothpicks & Logos, Design in Everyday Life

    Toothpicks & Logos, Design in Everyday Life

    Author: John Heskett
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Design
    A gripping book about the history and multiple aspects of design, as the book's title suggests. It begins with stone-age design of tools and weapons…… Read More »
    Changing the Mould of World Politics

    Changing the Mould of World Politics

    Author: Jan Maria Szymanski
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: World Politics / Political Philosophy
    This is an ambitious book that is the fruit of a lifetime's experience and reflection. The author is a Pole who lived through the second…… Read More »
    Poetry for the Spirit

    Poetry for the Spirit

    Author: Alan Jacobs
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Poetry / Spirituality
    This is a paperback version of The Element Book of Mystical Verse reviewed in Network 67. It is the first major chronological compilation of mystical…… Read More »
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