Healing in a Hospital
This book is a fascinating story of how a research project proved that spiritual healing helped people improve their wellbeing. Some ten years of effort…… Read More »
Book Reviews
YOUR RESONANT SELF
The Cause of Mental Sickness is a savage Default Mode Network (not chemical imbalances. Eureka at last. Sarah Peyton is a healer who has studied…… Read More »
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON MENTAL WELLBEING
Hosting a 'Spirituality and Psychiatry' special interest group (SIG) since 1998, to which over 3,000 of its Members have signed up, the Royal College can…… Read More »
WHY THERAPY WORKS
I found this a very rich and engaging book, filled with the creative tensions generated by at least two fault lines which run through it:…… Read More »
THE POWER WITHIN
The 'power within' referred to in the title of this book is a phenomenon triggered by a breathing technique known as Holotropic Breathwork. The word…… Read More »
AN ESSAY ON METAPHYSICS
R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was a philosopher, archaeologist and historian, who was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford. His father was a painter and…… Read More »
THE MYTHOLOGY OF EVOLUTION
Chris Bateman offers in this book a set of myths (metaphors or stories) which he suggests are at the base of evolutionary theory as currently…… Read More »
I Have Seen It Tomorrow
This book is based on accounts from two people who have had extensive experience of out of body states. It contains some interesting insights about…… Read More »
Learning to Live Well Together
A collection of case studies based in Leicester showing how people from a variety of religious backgrounds and convictions have learned to coexist peacefully. Access… Read More »
Parenting with Values
A valuable and accessible book on twelve essential values, attitudes or qualities: security, self-respect, empathy, capacity to tolerate frustration, independence, gratitude, truthfulness, interest in the…… Read More »