Book Reviews and Recommendations

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Index of Review Titles

• 9/11 Contradictions
  Book review on 9/11 Contradictions by Griffin, David Ray
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• 9/11 Pearl Harbour Revisited
  Book review on The New Pearl Harbour Revisited by Griffin, David Ray
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• 9/11 Revisited
  Book review on Debunking 9/11 Debunking by Griffin, David Ray
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A Book for Our Times
  Book review on Postsecularism by Mike King
  Reviewed by Oliver Robinson - Read book review
• A Clear Line of Progress?
  Book review on Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Fara, Patricia
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• A Good Childhood
  Book review on A Good Childhood by Layard, Richard; Dunn, Judy
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A Good Death
  Book review on The Art of Dying by Fenwick, Peter and Elizabeth
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A Gurdjieff Anthology
  Book review on The Inner Journey: Views from the Gurdjieff Work by Needleman, Jacob (ed)
  Reviewed by Tilo Ulbricht - Read book review
• A Human Approach to World Peace
  Book review on A Human Approach to World Peace by Dalai Lama
  Reviewed by Lorimer, David - Read book review
• A Japanese Frame
  Book review on Near-Death Experiences by Corrazza, Ornella
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A New Role for Religions
  Book review on Integral Spirituality by Wilber, Ken
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A New Science
  Book review on Cymatics - A Study of Wave Phenomena by Jenny, Hans
  Reviewed by Peter Welsford - Read book review
• A New Synthesis
  Book review on Jehova and Hyperspace by Parkinson, Frank (SMN)
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• A Psychohistory of Modernity
  Book review on Hell and High Water by McIntosh, Alastair
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A Spiritual Radical
  Book review on Natural Selection and Beyond by Smith, Charles; Beccaloni, George (eds)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• A Tangled Hierarchy
  Book review on God is Not Dead by Goswami, Amit
  Reviewed by John Kapp - Read book review
• A Tranpersonal Omission
  Book review on Hand book of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality by Paloutzian, Raymond; Park, Crystal (eds)
  Reviewed by David Fontana - Read book review
• A Transcendental Philosophy
  Book review on Zen Brain Reflections: Reviewing recent developments in meditation and states of consciousness by James H. Austin
  Reviewed by Peter Fenwick - Read book review
• Acausal Connections
  Book review on Revelations of Chance by Main, Roderick
  Reviewed by F. David Peat - Read book review
• Accountable to Gaia
  Book review on Animate Earth by Harding, Stephan
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Advancing Well-Being
  Book review on Happiness by Layard, Richard
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Altruism and Health
  Book review on Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Post, Stephen; Neimark, Jill
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Am I Conscious Now?
  Book review on Ten Zen Questions by Blackmore, Susan
  Reviewed by Peter Fenwick - Read book review
• An Angelic Riposte
  Book review on Darwin's Angel by Cornwell, John
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• An Authority Check
  Book review on The Essence of Reality by Nehrer, Thomas Daniel
  Reviewed by Malcolm Hollick - Read book review
• An Evolutionary Jihad against Devolution
  Book review on The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit by Pearce, Joseph Chilton
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Another Ruse
  Book review on Evolution and Religion by Ruse, Michael
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Architectural Morphogenesis
  Book review on A Vision of a Living World - The Nature of Order, Book 3 by Alexander, Christopher
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Ask a Neuroplastician
  Book review on Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Begley, Sharon
  Reviewed by Carol Lee Flinders - Read book review
• Awakening from Dreams
  Book review on The Conscious Mind and the Material World by Stokes, Douglas M.
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Becoming More Conscious
  Book review on New Dimensions in Healing by Neate, Tony
  Reviewed by Serge Beddington-Behrens - Read book review
• Beyond Disparate Languages
  Book review on Science, Theology and Ethics by Peters, Ted
  Reviewed by John Maxwell Kerr - Read book review
• Bliss is Best
  Book review on Prozac as a Way of Life by Elliott, Carl and Chambers, Tod (eds)
  Reviewed by Max Mackay- James - Read book review
• Breathing - Miracle Cure or Just Folklore?
  Book review on The Oxygen Prescription by Altman, Nathaniel
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Bringing Science and Spirit Together
  Book review on The End of Materialism by Charles T. Tart
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Building a Science-Faith Accord
  Book review on Engaging the Cosmos by Brown, Neville
  Reviewed by Eric Priest - Read book review
• Childhood Roots of War
  Book review on Parenting for a Peaceful World by Grille, Robin
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Compassion and Vulnerability
  Book review on Essential Writings by Vanier, Jean
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Complex Food for Thought and Imagination
  Book review on Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought by Bird, Richard J
  Reviewed by Jane Lorimer - Read book review
• Corporate Responsibility
  Book review on Wolves of Water by Busby, Chris
  Reviewed by Roger Taylor - Read book review
• Cosmos and Psyche
  Book review on Metaphysics and the Cosmic Order by Milne, Joseph
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Cumulative Probabilities
  Book review on The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Dawkins, Richard
  Reviewed by Richard Milton - Read book review
• Death's Lessons for Life
  Book review on Practising Conscious Living and Dying by Hemmingway, Annamaria
  Reviewed by Penny Sartori - Read book review
• Depth Psychology
  Book review on Wisdom of the Psyche by Paris, Ginette
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Did Anything Good Ever Come from Psychedelic Drugs?
  Book review on Higher Wisdom, Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics by Walsh, Roger; Grob, Charles S.
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Dietary Decline
  Book review on Foodwise, Understanding What We Eat and How It Affects Us by Cook, Wendy E
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Do Numbers Count?
  Book review on The Enigma of Numbers by Lance Storm
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• Does Accepting you will Die Make you Happy?
  Book review on Human Immortality: Death and Adjustment Hypotheses Elaborated by Mohammad Samir Hossain
  Reviewed by Peter Fenwick - Read book review
• Does Science + Spirit = Almost Everything?
  Book review on The Emergence of Everything by Morowitz, Harold J.
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Does the Brain Have a Mind of Its Own?
  Book review on The Brain That Changes Itself by Doidge, Norman
  Reviewed by Carol Lee Flinders - Read book review
• Elucidating Confusions
  Book review on Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience by Bennett, M.R. and Hacker, P. M. S
  Reviewed by Peter Fenwick - Read book review
• Embodying Wisdom and Love
  Book review on The Return of the Perennial Philosophy by Holman, John
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Fairy Tales & Truth
  Book review on The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter by Trevarthen, Geo
  Reviewed by Graham Dunstan Martin - Read book review
• Getting a better balance
  Book review on Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God by Isabel Clarke
  Reviewed by Julian Candy - Read book review
• Glad Handers and Gland Handlers: a chronicle of medicine run amok
  Book review on Charlatan: The Fraudulent Life of John Brinkley by Brock, Pope
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Good Question!
  Book review on Why Can't We Be Good? by Needleman, Jacob
  Reviewed by Claudia Neilsen - Read book review
• Guarding Against Error
  Book review on The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth by Northcote. Jeremy
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Hemispheric Imbalance
  Book review on Left in the Dark by Wright, Tony and Gynn, Graham
  Reviewed by Steve Taylor - Read book review
• If This Be Magic
  Book review on If This Be Magic by Playfair, Guy Lyon
  Reviewed by Turner, David L. - Read book review
• Immortal Reality
  Book review on Your Immortal Reality by Renard, Gary R.
  Reviewed by Kurt Dressler - Read book review
• Independent Science
  Book review on Homage to Gaia by Lovelock, James
  Reviewed by Crispin Tickell - Read book review
• Intentional Extension
  Book review on The Sense of Being Stared At by Sheldrake, Rupert
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Interpersonal Neurobiology
  Book review on Being a Brain-Wise Therapist by Badenoch, Bonny
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Is this the Holy Grail?
  Book review on Science & Religion at the Cross Roads by Frank Parkinson
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• It's Great to Integrate
  Book review on Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution by McIntosh, Steve
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Joining the Dance?
  Book review on Dancing in the Streets: A Collective History of Joy by Ehrenreich, Barbara
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• Jungian Perspective
  Book review on Coming Into Mind - the Mind-Brain Relationship by Wilkinson, Margaret
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Kindness as the Heart of Blessing
  Book review on Benedictus by O'Donohue, John
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Know your Intended Message
  Book review on The Genie in Your Genes by Church, Dawson
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Life after Death Proved (Maybe)
  Book review on The Eager Dead: A Study in Haunting by Roy, Archie, E.
  Reviewed by Guy Lyon Playfair - Read book review
• Light Refreshment
  Book review on Life from Light by Werner, Michael and Stockli, Thomas
  Reviewed by Shirley Ali-Khan - Read book review
• Meaningful Connections
  Book review on The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture by Main, Roderick (SMN)
  Reviewed by Victor Mansfield - Read book review
• Meditation and the Brain
  Book review on The Blissful Brain by Nataraja, Shanida
  Reviewed by David Fontana - Read book review
• Meridian Based Therapies
  Book review on Evolving Thought Field Therapy by Diepold, John H. , Jr.; Britt, Victoria; Bender, Sheila S.
  Reviewed by Daniel Benor - Read book review
• Missing the Point
  Book review on The Many Faces of God by Campbell, Jeremy
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• More Than Meets the I
  Book review on The Mindful Brain in Human Development by Siegel, Daniel
  Reviewed by David Fontana - Read book review
• Msg Snt
  Book review on Txtng - The Gr8 Db8 by Crystal, David
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Myers for the 21st Century
  Book review on Irreducible Mind by Kelly, Edward; Kelly, Emily Williams; Crabtree, Adam; Gauld, Alan; Grosso, Michael; Greyson, Bruce
  Reviewed by Jonathan Edelmann - Read book review
• Nature and Meaning
  Book review on The Underlying Order and Other Essays by Raine, Kathleen
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Neuropsychology
  Book review on The Ten Best Ever Anxiety Management Techniques by Wehrenberg, Margaret
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• New Atheists
  Book review on God and the New Atheism by Haught , John F.
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• No Philosophers Admitted?
  Book review on A History of Natural Philosophy by Grant, Edward
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• Not Good Enough for God
  Book review on The New Atheists by Beattie, Tina
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• Now or Never
  Book review on Making Time by Taylor, Steve
  Reviewed by Tmothy Glazier - Read book review
• Oil, War and the Future
  Book review on The Party's Over by Heinberg, Richard
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Partly Whole
  Book review on The Tao of Holism by Jones, Howard
  Reviewed by Malcolm Hollick - Read book review
• Pause and Effect
  Book review on Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Truss, Lynne
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Peace is the Way
  Book review on Spiritual Compass by Kumar, Satish
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Peak Experience 1
  Book review on Planet Earth We Have a Problem by Wasdell, David (ed)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Peak Experience 2
  Book review on Peak Everything by Heinberg, Richard
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Peak Experience 3
  Book review on The Transition Handbook by Hopkins, Rob
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Progressive Spirituality
  Book review on New Spirituality: An Introduction to Belief Beyond Religion by Lynch, Gordon
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Questioning Christian Origins
  Book review on The Jesus Papers by Baigent, Michael
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Rabbits Out of Hats
  Book review on The Re-emergence of Emergence by Clayton, Philip and Davies, Paul (eds)
  Reviewed by Graham Dunstan Martin - Read book review
• Realising the Self
  Book review on The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras by Ravi Ravindra
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Rediscovering the Mystery?
  Book review on Why Us? by James Le Fanu
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Research as Discovery
  Book review on Acupuncture Research by MacPherson, Hugh et al (eds)
  Reviewed by Charmian Wylde - Read book review
• Research into the Life between Lives
  Book review on Exploring the Eternal Soul by Tomlinson, Andy
  Reviewed by Peter Hardwick - Read book review
• Rhythmical Vines
  Book review on What is Biodynamic Wine? by Joly, Nicolas
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Satsang and Spirit
  Book review on Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom by Robinson, Rita Marie (ed)
  Reviewed by Beata Bishop - Read book review
• Science and Politics – the Issues
  Book review on Global Warming - The Complete Briefing by Houghton, Sir John (SMN)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Science and Religion: the Indian Achievement
  Book review on Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore by David L Gosling
  Reviewed by Ronald Russell - Read book review
• Science and the Sacred
  Book review on Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism and Spiritual Evolution by Rennison, Susan Joy
  Reviewed by Roger Taylor - Read book review
• Science, War and the Devil’s Pact
  Book review on Hitler's Scientists by Cornwell. John (SMN)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Secret Life of the Universe
  Book review on The Quest for the Soul of Science by Amy Corzine
  Reviewed by James Lyons - Read book review
• Secularism
  Book review on Secularism: The Hidden Origins of Disbelief by King, Mike
  Reviewed by Frank Parkinson - Read book review
• Silver-Branch Perception
  Book review on What the Curlew Said by John Moriarty
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Socio-Ecology
  Book review on How the Rich are Destroying the Earth by Kempf, Hervé
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Sociological Implications for Spirituality
  Book review on A Sociology of Spirituality by Flanagan, Kieran ; Jupp, Peter C.
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Strategic Presence
  Book review on Power, Faith and Fantasy by Oren. Michael B.
  Reviewed by Charla Devereux - Read book review
• Subtle Landscapes - Subtle Mindscapes
  Book review on Goethe's Science of Living Form by Hoffmann, Nigel
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Suffer and Survive
  Book review on Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of Dr J S Haldane by Goodman, Martin
  Reviewed by Roger Newman Turner - Read book review
• Teaching the Group Mind
  Book review on The Living Classroom by Bache, Christopher M.
  Reviewed by Graham Dunstan Martin - Read book review
• Teilhard: Anthropologist Extraordinaire
  Book review on The Jesuit and the Skull by Aczel, Amir D
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• The Art of Knowing
  Book review on Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Lehrer, Jonah
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• The Deep Roots of Mammalian Love and Affection
  Book review on Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith by George E Vaillant
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• The Dreams of the Dead
  Book review on Dreams and History by Pick, Daniel; Roper, Lyndal (eds)
  Reviewed by Roderick Main - Read book review
• The Emptiness of Physics
  Book review on Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics by Mansfield, Victor
  Reviewed by Chris Clarke - Read book review
• The Greatest Superstition
  Book review on The Power of Premonitions by Larry Dossey
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Illusion of Simplicity
  Book review on Deep Simplicity by Gribbin, John
  Reviewed by Brian Goodwin - Read book review
• The Intimate and the Ultimate
  Book review on The Intimate and the Ultimate by Bhave, Vinoba
  Reviewed by Lorimer, David - Read book review
• The Long Trip
  Book review on The long trip: a prehistory of psychedelia by Devereux, Paul
  Reviewed by Rick Strassmann - Read book review
• The Meaning of Gaia
  Book review on Earthly Realism by Midgley, Mary (ed)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Miracle of Human Wholeness
  Book review on Functional Morphology: The Dynamic Wholeness of the Human Organism by Rohen, Johannes W.
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• The Miracles of Forgiveness
  Book review on The Disappearance of the Universe by Renard, Gary R.
  Reviewed by Kurt Dressler - Read book review
• The Nature of Transmutation
  Book review on Modern Alchemy by Morrisson, Mark S.
  Reviewed by Peter Stewart - Read book review
• The Neuroscience of Empathy
  Book review on Mirroring People by Iacoboni. Marco
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Path of Pollen
  Book review on The Shamanic Way of the Bee by Simon Buxton
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The People behind the Quantum
  Book review on Quantum by Kumar, Manjit
  Reviewed by Chris Clarke - Read book review
• The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
  Book review on Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Thaler. Richard H.; Sunstein, Cass R
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Power of Presence
  Book review on The Mandala of Being by Moss, Richard
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Reinvention of Religion
  Book review on The Participatory Turn: spirituality, mysticism, religious studies by Jorge N Ferrer and Jacob H Sherman
  Reviewed by Chris Clarke - Read book review
• The Soul Genome
  Book review on The Soul Genome by von Ward, Paul
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Spiral of Empowerment
  Book review on Getting a Grip by Lappé, Frances Moore
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• The Spirit of Barfield as Interior Transforming Agent
  Book review on Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age by Blaxland-de Lange, Simon
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• To CAM or Not To CAM?
  Book review on Cancer - The Complete Recovery Guide by Chamberlain, Jonathan
  Reviewed by Beata Bishop - Read book review
• Towards a Culture of Love
  Book review on The Ways and Power of Love by Sorokin, Pitirim
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Towards a Gnostic Science
  Book review on The Snake and the Rope by Bilimoria, Edi D.
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Towards an Agnostic Spirituality
  Book review on Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality by Lorimer, David ed.
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• Towards the Primacy of Consciousness
  Book review on Mind Before Matter by Pfeiffer, Trish; Mack. John. E. , Devereux, Paul (eds)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Transforming Trauma
  Book review on The Body Remembers - The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Rothschild, Babette
  Reviewed by Ann Roden - Read book review
• Travelling through the Glass Darkly
  Book review on Living on Purpose by Martin, Graham Dunstan (SMN)
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Trick or Treatment
  Book review on Trick or Treatment? ? Alternative Medicine on Trial by Singh, Simon; Ernst, Edzard
  Reviewed by Beata Bishop - Read book review
• Two Integral Visions
  Book review on The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul by Vrinte, Joseph
  Reviewed by Julian Candy - Read book review
• Vaccines: Science versus Sense
  Book review on Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A Offit MD
  Reviewed by Peter Mansfield - Read book review
• Was it Something We Said?
  Book review on The Unfolding of Language by Deutscher, Guy
  Reviewed by Martin Lockley - Read book review
• Well Tried, But ?
  Book review on Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Amit Goswami
  Reviewed by Max Payne - Read book review
• What Really Happened on the Road to Damascus?
  Book review on The Jesus Mystery: Astonishing Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul by Lena Einhorn
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• What Reincarnates?
  Book review on New Clothes for Old Souls by Playfair, Guy Lyon
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Where is the Moral Compass Really Pointing?
  Book review on How Jesus Became Christian by Wilson, Barrie
  Reviewed by Gunnel Minett - Read book review
• Women's Peace
  Book review on Urgent Message from Mother by Bolen, Jean Shinoda
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review
• Wu-wei – Tao in Action
  Book review on Gentle Action by Peat, David
  Reviewed by David Lorimer - Read book review