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    MERCHANTS OF LIGHT

    MERCHANTS OF LIGHT

    Author: Betty J. Kovacs PhD
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Consciousness Studies
    In this book of breathtaking scope and depth, Betty Kovacs reminds us of our inherent divine identity and capacity to create, and how the mystic-shamanic…… Read More »
    THE GOSPEL OF MARY OF MAGDALA

    THE GOSPEL OF MARY OF MAGDALA

    Author: Karen L. King
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    Since reading and reviewing The Gospel of the Beloved Companion with its subtitle the Complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene, I have been researching other scholarly…… Read More »
    INFORMATION MEDICINE

    INFORMATION MEDICINE

    Authors: Ervin Laszlo, Pier Mario Biava MD
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    It is 30 years since the publication of The Second Medical Revolution by Laurence Foss and Kenneth Rothenberg, subtitled 'from biomedicine to infomedicine' and which…… Read More »
    Secularity and Science

    Secularity and Science

    Author: Elaine Howard Ecklund
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science And Religion
    This book reports on the largest intercultural survey of the attitudes of physicists and biologists to science and religion with 20,000 participants and 600 interviews…… Read More »
    CONNECTED: The Emergence of Global Consciousness

    CONNECTED: The Emergence of Global Consciousness

    Author: Roger D. Nelson
    Reviewer: Vasileios Basios
    Category: Consciousness Studies / Parapsychology
    "Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of…… Read More »
    BEYOND REDUCTIONISM

    BEYOND REDUCTIONISM

    Authors: Arthur Koestler, J. R. Smythies
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Science
    In his preface to this remarkable volume, Arthur Koestler notes that his main interest over the previous 10 years had been the history and present…… Read More »
    When Wine Tastes Best 2020

    When Wine Tastes Best 2020

    Author: Matthias Thun
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Food & Drink
    The biodynamic calendar for wine drinkers indicating the best days to drink wine – on fruit and flower days when the flavours are more expressive.… Read More »
    The Moon Gardener's Almanac 2020

    The Moon Gardener's Almanac 2020

    Author: Therese Tredoulat
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Gardening / Biodynamics
    A best-selling book in France (100,000 copies a year) providing a complementary resource to the work of Maria Thun, now also available as an app.… Read More »
    The Maria Thun Biodynamic Calendar 2020

    The Maria Thun Biodynamic Calendar 2020

    Authors: Maria Thun, Matthias Thun
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Biodynamics / Gardening
    The classic annual biodynamic calendar that has cumulatively sold more than 100,000 copies. As well as giving advice on sowing and planting, there are features…… Read More »
    My Son - My Light

    My Son - My Light

    Author: Lilian M. Niven
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Survival/Afterlife
    This is an evidential book of communications from the author's son, who died in 2002, in the form of dreams, visions, synchronicities and communications through…… Read More »
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