Zero to Birth
A Book With Many Sides
The average adult human brain weighs about 1.5 kg and accounts for about 2% of the adult body weight. It is very similar in shape…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
Cultures of Immanence
One of the strong endorsements for this book states that the author has never published a book that didn’t change how anthropologists think about the…… Read More » 
Knowledge Lost
Precarious Transfers
In 2019, I reviewed The Secular Enlightenment by Margaret Jacob on the relationship between the Enlightenment and secularism, where its emergence was accompanied by widespread…… Read More » 
A New Science of Heaven
A Plasma Universe
This ground-breaking and mind-stretching book is subtitled ‘how the science of plasma changes our understanding of physical and spiritual reality’ – and it certainly delivers…… Read More » 
American Values
Leadership by Example
It won’t have escaped your notice that Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently declared his intention to run for President on the Democratic ticket in…… Read More » 
Radical Love
Soil, Soul and Society
Albert Schweitzer once said that there are three ways of changing the world: the first is by example, the second is by example, and the…… Read More » 
The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism
Towards Human 2.0?
I reviewed Patrick Wood’s previous book, Technocracy and the Hard Road to World Order, two years ago (PE 135, pp. 57-8) and have since been subscribing…… Read More » 
Earth for All
Authors: Jayati Ghosh, Johan Rockström, Jørgen Randers, Owen Gaffney
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Systems Change
This new book has been released on the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth, which I myself read in the 1970s. Like the original…… Read More » 
Climate
Choose Life and Love
If you have not already read Charles’s article in this issue, then I suggest you do so before continuing with this review. I read it…… Read More » 
Proof of Spiritual Phenomena
Old Me > New Me
This engaging book by a cognitive neuroscientist tells the story of the author’s ‘flip’ from diehard materialist to open-minded seeker who comes to adopt a…… Read More »