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    Book Reviews

    Amazing Grace

    Amazing Grace

    Author: Serge Beddington-Behrens
    Reviewer: Steve Taylor
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Memories of a Transformational Journey
    There is one genre of spiritual books which has always appealed to me: the spiritual autobiography. I especially love Richard Jefferies’ The Story of My…… Read More »
    Higher Purpose

    Higher Purpose

    Author: Robert Holden
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Sing Your Whole Song
    The title for my review comes from a story related in Robert’s book about his daughter wanting, at the age of 11, to sing Hallelujah…… Read More »
    The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton

    The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton

    Author: Hugh Turley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    An Accidental Death?
    This is the first really thorough study of the mysterious death of Thomas Merton since it occurred in Bangkok in December 1968. David Martin has…… Read More »
    Messages from a Transcendent Dimension

    Messages from a Transcendent Dimension

    Author: Anne Baring
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    A New Pentecost
    These prophetic messages contain a vital message for our time, also communicated in Anne’s 2020 article in Issue 134 – A Crucial Time of Choice.…… Read More »
    The True Origins of Jesus

    The True Origins of Jesus

    Author: Colm Holland
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Jesus 888
    The original version of this searching study was published by the late Geoff Roberts under the title Jesus 888 in 2012. It draws on wide…… Read More »
    Cosmos in Stone

    Cosmos in Stone

    Author: Tom Bree
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    The Path of the Soul
    Reading this quite remarkable, beautiful and ground-breaking study is an initiation in itself. I realised the extent to which we live in a metaphysical flatland…… Read More »
    The Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy

    The Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy

    Authors: Matthew Dahlitz, Richard Hill
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Medicine Health
    Cutting Edge Psychotherapy
    This book starts with a quote from Einstein: “science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind”. Paraphrasing this to ‘science without psychotherapy…… Read More »
    Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective

    Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective

    Author: Thomas Mayer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Supersensible Perceptions
    In 1917, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures entitled The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death, which makes sobering reading with respect to human…… Read More »
    Bechamp or Pasteur?

    Bechamp or Pasteur?

    Author: RB Pearson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    A Watershed Incident
    Ethel Hume’s pioneering book, subtitled ‘a lost chapter in the history of biology’, was published in 100 years ago, and Pearson’s in 1942. The critique…… Read More »
    Spirituality and Psychiatry

    Spirituality and Psychiatry

    Authors: Andrew Powell, Christopher C. H. Cook
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Spiritual Assessment
    Member Dr Andrew Powell was the founding chair of the special interest group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on spirituality and psychiatry as far…… Read More »
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