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    Book Reviews

    The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century

    The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century

    Author: Paul Harremoes et al
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Policy
    This is a remarkable and timely book subtitled 'late lessons from early warnings'. We have to respond both to scientific uncertainty and ignorance in the…… Read More »
    Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?

    Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?

    Author: Alva Noë
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    A special edition of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to reflection on the latest work in psychology about change blindness and inattentional blindness leading…… Read More »
    An Introduction to Meaning and Purpose in Analytical Psychology

    An Introduction to Meaning and Purpose in Analytical Psychology

    Author: Dale Mathers
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology / Analytical Psychology
    A wide-ranging consideration of the role of meaning in analytical psychology that draws on a number of other fields including cognitive psychology, literature, ecology, politics…… Read More »
    Beyond the Mind

    Beyond the Mind

    Author: Bernard de Montreal
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    This is an original and challenging book about the true and deeper nature of the mind and its unfolding in evolutionary psychology. It is important…… Read More »
    Memories of God and Creation

    Memories of God and Creation

    Author: Shakuntala Modi MD
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Consciousness
    A follow-up to her 'Remarkable Healings', this book has much in common with Michael Newton's work derived from hypnotic sessions with his patients. The fascinating…… Read More »
    Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul

    Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul

    Author: F Holmes Atwater
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology / Remote Viewing
    This is a significant book, as attested by Dean Radin in his foreword. Set within the wider context of the author's autobiography, it tells the…… Read More »
    Otherwhere

    Otherwhere

    Author: Kurt Leland
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness & Survival
    Written in a narrative style, this book tells the story of the author's excursions into the afterdeath state, for which he provides his own map.…… Read More »
    Love and the World

    Love and the World

    Author: Robert Sardello
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality & Psychology
    An extended meditation on spiritual psychology as the practice of love of oneself, others and the world. Sardello defines it has 'an active practice that…… Read More »
    Quantum Change

    Quantum Change

    Authors: Janet C'de Baca, William R Miller
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Spirituality
    This is a book about sudden epiphanies and insights that transform ordinary lives – hence the 'quantum leap' metaphor. The changes described are 'vivid, surprising,…… Read More »
    Jung and the New Age

    Jung and the New Age

    Author: David Tacey
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Spirituality
    This is possibly the most generally interesting of the four books on Jung reviewed here. The author makes a good case that the New Age…… Read More »
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