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Philosophy and Psychedelics

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Psychedelics and Possibility

“Philosophy and Psychedelics - Frameworks” is a valuable piece of literature that has emerged after the “decade of the brain”, advances in neuroscience, the responses…… Read More »

BEYOND MATTER

Author: Oliver Lazar

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Transformative Research

Dr Oliver Lazar has written a landmark book combining his personal journey involving remarkable spiritual experiences and a subsequent research programme on the accuracy of…… Read More »

Embodied Self Awakening

Author: Nitdya Gessel

Reviewer: Gunnel Minett

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

Ancient Wisdom For Modern Use

The author of this book is a former dancer, licensed somatic psychotherapist, trauma specialist, yoga teacher and ‘heart-centred activist’. She has developed a holistic healing…… Read More »

FUGUE

Author: Stephen G Wright

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

Climate, Collapse and Contemplation

Until I open this profoundly reflective book on the cause of the causes of the unfolding global catastrophe and how the contemplative’s spiritual life may…… Read More »

Valentin Tomberg and the Ecclesia Universalis

Author: Harrie Salman

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

Christian Hermeticism

I recently reviewed (PE 142) Harrie Salman’s excellent comparative spiritual biography of Peter Deunov and Rudolf Steiner as Christian mystics. In this biography of Valentin…… Read More »

Mary Magdalene Unveiled

Author: Annine van der Meer

Reviewer: Lee Strasburger

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

Further Evidence In Support of Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene Unveiled: Hidden Sources Restore her Broken Image by Annine van der Meer was first published in Dutch in 2021 and translated by the…… Read More »

Blessed by Mysterious Grace

Author: Ravi Ravindra

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

Who Am I?

Ravi Ravindra has written one of the great spiritual autobiographies of our time, vividly evoking significant conversations with his principal teachers - including Krishnamurti, Kobori…… Read More »

The Light of Hermes Trismegistus

Author: Charles Stein

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

A Hermeneutics of Being

This quite remarkable book consists of new translations of seven essential hermetic texts, including the poem of Parmenides and The Poimandres, with extraordinarily illuminating commentaries…… Read More »

Facing the Beast

Author: Naomi Wolf

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Medicine Health

The Price of Moral Courage

Until the advent of the pandemic, Naomi Wolf was a respected liberal journalist, bestselling author and high-level Democratic consultant who found herself unceremoniously cast out…… Read More »

Can Humanity Survive Socialised Birth?

Author: Michel Odent

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Medicine Health

A Labour of Love

Michel Odent, now in his 90s, has for decades been at the forefront of new thinking surrounding birth and its immediate aftermath, having written the…… Read More »