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    DEATH IS AN ILLUSION

    DEATH IS AN ILLUSION

    Author: Else Byskov
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Subtitled 'A Logical Explanation Based on Martinus's Worldview', this book is about much more than death. It is a comprehensive overview of Martinus's 'world picture'…… Read More »
    AUTOGENIC THERAPY

    AUTOGENIC THERAPY

    Authors: Christine Pinch, Jane Bird
    Reviewer: Jane Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Autogenic Training is an astonishingly simple but powerful form of self-healing. It is a series of mental exercises which can bring results comparable to those…… Read More »
    Healing as a Sacred Path

    Healing as a Sacred Path

    Author: L. Robert Keck Ph.D.
    Reviewer: Andrew Powell
    Category: Medicine Health
    Bob Keck begins by describing his own childhood and his passion for athletics. He was brought up in a loving stable family – it sounds…… Read More »
    LIVING DOWNSTREAM

    LIVING DOWNSTREAM

    Author: Sandra Steingraber
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    This remarkable book about cancer and the environment extends Rachel Carson's earlier work that culminated in her epoch-making Silent Spring. Carson herself died of breast…… Read More »
    Energy Medicine

    Energy Medicine

    Author: James L. Oschman
    Reviewer: Bo Ahrenfelt
    Category: Medicine Health
    James L Oschman has written a wonderful book on energy medicine, with a demanding subtitle - The Scientific Basis. He belongs, as many of our…… Read More »
    KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

    KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

    Author: John Henry
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Francis Bacon comes in for a lot of stick these days, much of which is unjustified, according to this new book by John Henry. Many…… Read More »
    FABULOUS SCIENCE

    FABULOUS SCIENCE

    Author: John Waller
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The history of science, certainly as taught at school and undergraduate level, is usually seen as a clear upward curve of progress. Key points on…… Read More »
    HEAD AND HEART

    HEAD AND HEART

    Author: Victor Mansfield
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Victor Mansfield is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Colgate University, where he also teaches courses on Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology. This book follows…… Read More »
    THE EMERGENCE OF EVERYTHING: HOW THE WORLD BECAME COMPLEX

    THE EMERGENCE OF EVERYTHING: HOW THE WORLD BECAME COMPLEX

    Author: Harold J. Morowitz
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Can any 200 page book live up to the ambitious goal of considering everything? (Morowitz's title reminds me of Wilber's Brief History of Everything). Although…… Read More »
    A New Physics of Homeopathy

    A New Physics of Homeopathy

    Author: Colin Lessell
    Reviewer: Lionel Milgrom
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    It would be lovely to say Colin Lessell's latest book is a tour de force, a real thorough-going excavation into the science underlying homeopathy. Sadly,…… Read More »
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