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    Waiting to Die

    Waiting to Die

    Author: Kenneth Ring
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Near Death Studies / Spirituality / Ageing
    Ken Ring was the founding President of the International Association for Near Death Studies and author of a number of books on the topic. I…… Read More »
    Talking about Psychical Research

    Talking about Psychical Research

    Author: Mary Rose Barrington
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychical Research / Parapsychology
    Mary Rose Barrington is a retired lawyer and vice president of the Society for Psychical Research who has given many lectures to the Society and…… Read More »
    Claims of Reincarnation

    Claims of Reincarnation

    Author: Satwant K. Pasricha
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology / Reincarnation Research
    Dr Pasricha is well known for her research into children who remember previous lives and was a close collaborator of Prof Ian Stevenson. This book,…… Read More »
    Living Space

    Living Space

    Author: Paul Holman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Spirituality
    Paul Holman is a widely read doctor with 40 years' experience in psychiatry and psychotherapy. In this erudite book he explores the nature of spatial…… Read More »
    Yoga in the Gospels

    Yoga in the Gospels

    Author: Nicholas Cowan
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Comparative Religion
    This book brings together the author's lifelong interest in relationship between Christianity and yoga, using the structure of the four forms of yoga as a…… Read More »
    Your Meditation Journey

    Your Meditation Journey

    Author: Charla Devereux
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Meditation / Spirituality
    Charla will be well known to most readers for her many years of dedicated work for the Network, but perhaps less so as the author…… Read More »
    Can the Mind be Quiet?

    Can the Mind be Quiet?

    Author: J. Krishnamurti
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality & Philosophy
    This book is an exciting publication for aficionados of Krishnamurti, consisting as it does 60 unpublished encounters with people during the 1960s and 70s and…… Read More »
    The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

    The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

    Author: John Haldane
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    Elizabeth Anscombe was one of four brilliant women philosophers who were contemporaries at Oxford just before the Second World War – with Iris Murdoch, Mary…… Read More »
    Queenly Philosophers

    Queenly Philosophers

    Author: Jane Duran
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / History Of Philosophy / Women's Studies
    Subtitled 'Renaissance Women Aristocrats as Platonic Guardians', this is a fascinating study of five women who lived in England in the 16th and 17th centuries…… Read More »
    The Revolution of Values

    The Revolution of Values

    Author: Ramin Jahnabegloo
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy/Ethics
    This is a short and informative book on the origins of Martin Luther King's moral and political philosophy. Some of these roots are well-known and…… Read More »
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