Bechamp or Pasteur?
A Watershed Incident
Ethel Hume’s pioneering book, subtitled ‘a lost chapter in the history of biology’, was published in 100 years ago, and Pearson’s in 1942. The critique…… Read More »
Author: David Lorimer
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Spiritual Assessment
Member Dr Andrew Powell was the founding chair of the special interest group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on spirituality and psychiatry as far…… Read More » 
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 »