Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial by Peter C. Gotzsche Reviewed by David Lorimer Last April I reviewed Peter Gotzsche’s earlier book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, which was a systematic exposition of the corruption of the medical system through the pervasive influence of the pharmaceutical industry that effectively controls education, journals, […]
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Terra Nova. Global Revolution and the Healing of Love by Dieter Duhm Review by David Lorimer The central theme of this visionary yet practical book is how we generate a new form of humaneness based on trust and mutual support. In the late 1960s, the author was a Marxist activist, but […]
Talking with the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds edited by Jack Hunter and David Luke Reviewed by Paul Williams This far-reaching collection of essays portrays the subtle differences in world-wide beliefs in the existence of spirits of the dead, and explains how their energy can be harnessed by the […]
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop Reviewed by Nicholas Colloff Grevel Lindop’s new and excellent biography opens with Charles Williams, who, by poverty, was forced to abandon his formal education at seventeen, lecturing to spellbound, ever increasing, audiences at Oxford University in 1940. He was allowed to lecture only […]
Celestial Twins: The Codes of Destiny by Elizabetha Levin, Ph.D. Reviewed by Jon and Troya Turner For me the two most striking questions from these comparative stories are: Why do bad things happen to good people? Can it be that the non-genetic temporal Theta-factor is even stronger than all the known […]
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder Reviewed by Steve Minett, PhD As its title implies, this is a very dark book about a very dark subject; the Holocaust and its causes. Snyder’s innovative theory is that the immediate cause of the terrible, and almost […]
Walking Shadows: Archetype and Psyche in Crisis and Growth by Dr. Tim Read Reviewed by David Lorimer In this bold book, Tim Read skilfully navigates the SMN guidelines of intuitive insight and rational analysis by combining his own psycho-spiritual journey with his extensive psychiatric experience of spiritual emergence and emergency, […]
Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon Reviewed by Martin Lockley Much as I love my thrice-annual copy of the Network magazine, I find the articles and book reviews, while fascinating, sometimes thematically rather similar, dealing with, among other things, sometimes hard-to-define, alternative world views, and intractable […]
Lost Teachings of the Cathars: Their Beliefs and Practices by Andrew Phillip Smith Reviewed by David Lorimer Living down in Cathar country makes one aware of the extent to which it is the brand of the region. There is the Sentier Cathare, Cathar castles and even – rather ironically given their […]
30 Second Brain – The 50 Most Mind-blowing Ideas in Neuroscience Edited by Anil Seth, Foreword by Chris Frith Reviewed by Gunnel Minett Neuroscience is a new and very exciting area of research that looks at the brain and its central role, particularly for human beings who rely on a […]