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    Artificial You

    Artificial You

    Author: Susan Schneider
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: AI & Philosophy Of Mind
    Susan Schneider holds a chair at the Library of Congress and is the director of the AI, Mind and Society Group at the University of…… Read More »
    God's Grand Game

    God's Grand Game

    Author: Steven Colborne
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Theology / Spirituality
    Subtitled 'divine sovereignty and the cosmic playground', this is a logical elaboration of the proposition that everything we do is what God is doing through…… Read More »
    Practical Mystics

    Practical Mystics

    Author: Jennifer Kavanagh
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    Jennifer Kavanagh is a well-known spiritual writer and has written this book on Quaker faith in action based on her own experience and insights. I…… Read More »
    Your Vivid Life

    Your Vivid Life

    Author: Shayne Traviss
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Self Help/spirituality
    This book is an invitation to live a radically authentic life, drawing on the author's own journey and understandings gained on the way. The first…… Read More »
    How to be a Leader

    How to be a Leader

    Authors: Jeffrey Beneker, Plutarch
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics
    Plutarch (46-119 CE) was famous in his time for his work on parallel Greek and Roman lives and his essays entitled Moralia, from which the…… Read More »
    How to Think about God

    How to Think about God

    Authors: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Classical Philosophy / Theology
    This and the next book are the latest issues in the excellent classical series by Princeton, with the original language on the left and translation…… Read More »
    The Silent Messenger

    The Silent Messenger

    Authors: Dorothy Hopkinson, Tom Hopkinson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    This must be the definitive book on Meher Baba, about whom I previously knew comparatively little. The book is divided into two parts, the first…… Read More »
    The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

    The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

    Author: Lars Muhl
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    This profound book continues Lars' work on the esoteric message of Christianity and especially on the relationship between Yeshua and Mariam in his books The…… Read More »
    The Thirteenth Disciple

    The Thirteenth Disciple

    Author: Edmund Wigram
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    I met the author again after many years at our Cascadia conference in British Columbia at the end of September. There, he told the gripping…… Read More »
    Twelve Ways of Seeing the World

    Twelve Ways of Seeing the World

    Author: Mario Betti
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    Subtitled 'philosophies and archetypal worldviews for understanding human consciousness', this significant book makes an important contribution to the debate around the topic. It stems from…… Read More »
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