FANTASYLAND: HOW AMERICA WENT HAYWIRE
Anyone looking at the present political situation in the USA will probably agree that the country has become increasing fantasy prone: i.e., divorced from reality.…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Business Plan for Peace
Scilla Elworthy has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Oxford Research Group in developing effective dialogue between…… Read More »
RECLAIMING CIVILIZATION
In this stimulating and wide-ranging study, Brendan Myers invites readers to consider the nature of civilisation, what is wrong with it and what can be…… Read More »
FUTURE CONSCIOUSNESS
This sweeping magnum opus – subtitled 'the path to purposeful evolution' - integrates findings across science, technology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, ecology and futures studies to…… Read More »
OVERTONES AND UNDERCURRENTS
I once met a very conventional psychiatrist (his words) who told the story of how he had come to use exorcism in his work. One…… Read More »
Ayahuasca: Rituals, Potions and Visionary Art from the Amazon
Authors: Arno Adelaars, Christian Ratsch, Claudia Muller-Ebeling
Reviewer: Oliver Robinson
Category: Spirituality
I was listening to BBC Radio 2 several days ago. It was about 5.30pm, which means about six million listeners. The comedian Simon Amstell came…… Read More »
THE WILEY BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
In the last issue, I reviewed the Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality published in 2012 – this equally important Handbook was published a couple…… Read More »
I – REALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
This is the most brilliant and extraordinary book I have read on the nature of subjective reality and the spiritual path. About three years ago,…… Read More »
The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - A new translation and guide
Throughout the ages innumerable books have been written since the invention of the script. Many of which could save our lives, if we would live…… Read More »
An American Conscience – The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
I first read Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society in May 1979, and thereby hangs a tale. I was teaching in Edinburgh at the…… Read More »