Prophet for Our Times: The Life & Teachings of Peter Deunov – Edited by David Lorimer Foreword by Dr Wayne W. Dyer Reviewed by Ravi Ravindra This is a welcome new edition of the book published more than twenty-five years ago about the great spiritual teacher Peter Deunov. Master Deunov (1864-1944), […]
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Staff and members of The Scientific and Medical Network have been reviewing new publications since its inception. Many of these have appeared in its publications the Network Review and, more recently, Paradigm Explorer.
Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? – by David Ray Griffin Reviewed by David Lorimer Reactions to the recent Paris climate accord have been broadly positive, although with many reservations owing to its structure and lack of binding commitments. Elizabeth Kolbert, whose book The Sixth Extinction I review in books […]
Dying: A Transition (End of Life Care: A Series) – by Monika Renz Reviewed by David Lorimer Last month Peter Fenwick and I both spoke at a conference on death and dying in Elche, Spain. In our own ways we were articulating our understanding of death as transition rather than extinction. […]
Re-Enchanting the Forest: Meaningful Ritual in a Secular World by William Ayot Reviewed by David Lorimer Picking up this book, the first thing the reader notices is the fulsome tributes by many leading people from different disciplines, including a foreword by actor Mark Rylance. Read on, and you will certainly not […]
Light Changes: Experiences in the Presence of Transforming Light – by Annekatrin Puhle PhD Reviewed by David Lorimer Subtitled ‘Experiences in the Presence of Transforming Light’, this collection of over 800 cases spanning more than 100 years of research makes fascinating reading and opens up new vistas on the many dimensions […]
Rainbows, Halos, Dawn and Dusk: The Appearance of Color in the Atmosphere and Goethe’s Theory of Colors by Johannes Kühl This book explores the captivating colours that appear in the atmosphere of the earth: coronas, glories, halos, rainbows, dawn and dusk. It invites the reader to observe these ephemeral appearances with […]
Spiritual Activism: Leadership as service by Alastair McIntosh and Matt Carmichael Reviewed by David Lorimer As I mention in my review of Terra Nova in this section, Dieter Duhm’s experience of Marxism in the 1960s was that politics alone was not enough, and had to be underpinned by spirituality and community. […]
Full Spectrum Intelligence: A Practical Course on Behaving Wisely and Well By Chris Thomson Changemaker Books, 2014, 194 pp., £8.99, p/b – ISBN 978-1-78279-693-0 Reviewed by David Lorimer When Chris was working in Edinburgh as a lawyer, he was in the Court of Session in Edinburgh one day when Lord Stott was […]
The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness by Steve McIntosh Reviewed by Martin Lockley It’s coming to America first, the cradle of the best of the worst. It’s here they got the range and the machinery for change. It’s here they got the spiritual […]
The Science of Spirit Possession 2nd Revised edition by Dr. Terence Palmer (2014) Reviewed by David Furlong This book, based on Palmer’s Ph.D. thesis, is a scholarly and authoritative exploration into a little understood area of human experience. Palmer sets out his stall in the Introduction where he states: ‘The […]