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    The Cosmic Hologram

    The Cosmic Hologram

    Author: Jude Currivan
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Science & Spirituality
    Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, and planetary healer with a master's degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from…… Read More »
    THE LIVING UNIVERSE

    THE LIVING UNIVERSE

    Author: Duane Elgin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Spirituality
    Duane Elgin is author of Voluntary Simplicity and Awakening Earth – here he sets out his understanding of a living rather than a dead universe…… Read More »
    Anthroposophy and Science: an Introduction

    Anthroposophy and Science: an Introduction

    Author: Peter Heusser
    Reviewer: Dr Michael Evans
    Category: Science & Spirituality
    "Anthroposophy and Science" is a remarkable state-of-the-art milestone in exploring the relationship of natural science with spiritual science as originally represented by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).…… Read More »
    UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

    UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

    Author: Nicholas Maxwell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Science
    Willis Harman, the first President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences who devoted the last few years of his life to exploring the metaphysical foundations…… Read More »
    AN UNCOMMON COLLABORATION

    AN UNCOMMON COLLABORATION

    Author: David Edmund Moody
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    The author is surely correct in describing the collaboration between Krishnamurti (1895-1986) and David Bohm (1917-1992) as uncommon, since, as he points out, most collaborations…… Read More »
    QUANTUM NONLOCALITY AND REALITY – 50 Years of Bell's Theorem

    QUANTUM NONLOCALITY AND REALITY – 50 Years of Bell's Theorem

    Authors: Mary Bell, Shan Gao
    Reviewer: Paul Kieniewicz
    Category: Science / Physics
    Fifty years ago John Bell published a ground-breaking paper, in which he suggested that quantum physics is nonlocal. In this highly technical book, physicists present…… Read More »
    My Heart is too Big for my Pacemaker

    My Heart is too Big for my Pacemaker

    Author: Shane Jagger
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Poetry
    This short of book of poems is written by a long-term resident of the Sufi centre at Chisholm House in the Scottish Borders. The poems…… Read More »
    Heav'nly Tidings from the Afric Muse

    Heav'nly Tidings from the Afric Muse

    Author: Richard Kigel
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: History & Biography
    This is an eye-opening biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), who arrived in the US at the age of around seven in 1761 as a slave…… Read More »
    Temenos Academy Review 2016

    Temenos Academy Review 2016

    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality & Wisdom Traditions
    The annual Temenos Academy Review is always a feast of wisdom, and this year is no exception. It provides about 20 articles on a wide…… Read More »
    Face Value

    Face Value

    Author: Alexander Todorov
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology
    This book is a nice complement to the one above with its extensive reporting on studies about the face, with an emphasis on the irresistible…… Read More »
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