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    Blessed by Mysterious Grace

    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

    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

    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?

    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 »
    Lies My Gov't Told Me

    Lies My Gov't Told Me

    Author: Robert W. Malone
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    5 G Warfare
    Almost exactly a year ago, Robert Malone published an essay on fifth generation warfare – see link below from his Substack January 15, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20240114225706/https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/5th-gen-warfare-terms-and-tactics…… Read More »
    THE TRANSCENDENT BRAIN

    THE TRANSCENDENT BRAIN

    Author: Alan Lightman
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Spirituality Overtaking Materialism
    I read this little book twice and enjoyed the easy clarity of expression, as well as some familiar subject matter lightly presented. Lightman is evidently…… Read More »
    Forgiving Humanity

    Forgiving Humanity

    Author: Peter Russell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The Great Unravelling
    Subtitled ‘the curse of exponential change – how the most innovative species became the most dangerous’, this is a deeply challenging book. Readers can refer…… Read More »
    Biocivilisations

    Biocivilisations

    Author: Predrag B. Slijepčević
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Autopoiesis Not Cybernetics
    In introducing Predrag Slijepčević’s Biocivilisations, I can do no better than quote from the foreword by Vandana Shiva, who calls it a vital book for…… Read More »
    Tyranny Against Human Consciousness

    Tyranny Against Human Consciousness

    Author: Kaleb Seth Perl
    Reviewer: Kingsley Dennis
    Category: General
    An Oppression Against Human Perception & Awakening?
    Tyranny Against Human Consciousness is the first book penned by the author known as Kaleb Seth Perl and which opens a trilogy called ‘A Revolution…… Read More »
    Magnificent Rebels

    Magnificent Rebels

    Author: Andrea Wulf
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    The Romantic Revolution
    When you read this brilliantly evocative and vividly written book – which you must – you will understand why Rupert and Merlin Sheldrake encouraged me…… Read More »
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