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    BUSH AND CHENEY – How they ruined America and the World

    BUSH AND CHENEY – How they ruined America and the World

    Author: David Ray Griffin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics / Current Affairs
    This brilliant, meticulous and searing analysis is David Ray Griffin's most powerful and important book about the hegemonic foreign policy ambitions of US neoconservatives and…… Read More »
    THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF AGEING

    THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF AGEING

    Author: Elizabeth MacKinlay
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    As a nurse and Anglican priest, the author brings both knowledge and empathy to her subject, arguing in this study that the spiritual dimension constitutes…… Read More »
    The Ways of the Soul

    The Ways of the Soul

    Author: Andrew Powell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Spirituality
    Some 30 years ago, I reviewed an important book by Jacob Needleman entitled The Way of the Physician, in which he argued that in order…… Read More »
    TIME AND THE ROSE GARDEN

    TIME AND THE ROSE GARDEN

    Author: Anthony Peake
    Reviewer: Paul Kieniewicz
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    The theatre is not usually the medium for communicating complex scientific or philosophical thought. Yet many eminent playwrights have tried. Bernard Shaw presented his ideas…… Read More »
    THE FINAL CHOICE

    THE FINAL CHOICE

    Author: Michael Grosso
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies / Parapsychology
    I read the first edition of this provocative and erudite book in 1985, the year after I had met the author in New York on…… Read More »
    Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences

    Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences

    Authors: Anthony Peake, Karuppiah Jagadheesan, Mahendra Perera
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology
    Over the last 40 years, near-death experiences have become familiar to the general public and are now taken seriously within science and medicine – 65…… Read More »
    THE CONCEPT OF THE SOUL

    THE CONCEPT OF THE SOUL

    Author: Michael Fuller
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Religion
    This volume originates in a conference organised by the Science and Religion Forum in 2012, bringing both scientific and religious perspectives. The general trajectory of…… Read More »
    BELONGING TO GOD

    BELONGING TO GOD

    Author: William Keepin PhD
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    Subtitled 'spirituality, science and the universal path of divine love' and with a foreword by Fr Thomas Keating, this book breaks new ground in bringing…… Read More »
    The Territories of Science and Religion

    The Territories of Science and Religion

    Author: Peter Harrison
    Reviewer: Ernest Lucas
    Category: Science & Religion
    Administrators in the university in the USA in which I worked in the early 1970's would often 'correct' what seemed to them an obvious typo…… Read More »
    Secular Spirituality

    Secular Spirituality

    Author: Harald Walach
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Science
    In this brilliant and searching study, Harald Walach argues that the Enlightenment is as yet incomplete, having thrown out the baby of spirituality along with…… Read More »
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