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Philosophy and Psychedelics

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Psychedelics and Possibility

“Philosophy and Psychedelics - Frameworks” is a valuable piece of literature that has emerged after the “decade of the brain”, advances in neuroscience, the responses…… Read More »

BEYOND MATTER

Author: Oliver Lazar

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Transformative Research

Dr Oliver Lazar has written a landmark book combining his personal journey involving remarkable spiritual experiences and a subsequent research programme on the accuracy of…… Read More »

Philosophy and Psychedelics

Authors: Christine Hauskeller, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

Reviewer: Gunnel Minett

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

A New Look At Psychedelic Drugs

Ways to achieve altered states of consciousness have been known to mankind throughout human history: initially via sacred rituals, usually performed by specially initiated people,…… Read More »

James and Whitehead on Life after Death

Author: David Ray Griffin

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Arguments For Immortality

David Ray Griffin made his name in process philosophy and parapsychology before unexpectedly becoming engaged in writing a series of forensic studies about 9/11, which…… Read More »

Soul and the Sea

Author: Benig Mauger

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

A Sacred Contract

Benig has written a profoundly reflective book on healing, weaving together her own life and therapeutic work, where a key insight is that ‘healing lies…… Read More »

Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi

Authors: Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Stefano Varese

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

The New Animism

Readers may have noted my review of Initiated by Spirits in the last issue, along with Frédérique’s corresponding article. In it, I noted the fundamental…… Read More »

Proof of Spiritual Phenomena

Author: Mona Sobhani

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Old Me > New Me

This engaging book by a cognitive neuroscientist tells the story of the author’s ‘flip’ from diehard materialist to open-minded seeker who comes to adopt a…… Read More »

Psychiatry and the Spirit World

Authors: Alan Sanderson, Edith Fiore

Reviewer: Natalie Tobert

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

London Psychiatrist Talks to Spirits

Alan Sanderson was a practising psychiatrist, who used hypnosis to engage with his patients, in order to explore their memories, including those of previous lives.…… Read More »

Soul Lessons from the Light

Author: Yvonne Kason

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Sustained by a Loving Higher Power

Yvonne is a family physician and transpersonal MD psychotherapist who coined the term spiritually transformative experience (STE, and see pp. 26 and 102 ff) in 1994,…… Read More »

LOVED BY THE LIGHT

Author: John R. Audette

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Cosmic Choreography

John’s highly acclaimed book is a remarkable contribution to the literature of STEs, and is endorsed by a galaxy of well-known authors in the field…… Read More »