Book Reviews

The Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy

This is Cutting Edge Psychotherapy

This book starts with a quote from Einstein: “science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind”. Paraphrasing this to ’science without psychotherapy…… Read More »

THE COURAGE TO FACE COVID-19

Authors: John Leake, Peter A McCulloughH

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Medicine Health

Real World Evidence

Until the advent of COVID-19, Peter McCullough was a respected physician with prestigious positions as a professor of medicine, editor-in-chief or senior associate editor of…… Read More »

Planetary Health

Authors: Howard Frumkin, Samuel Myers

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Medicine Health

A Great Transition?

This must be the single most authoritative and comprehensive volume on planetary health taking an integrated systems perspective, one element of which is the relationship…… Read More »

The Full Extent

Author: Richard Botelho

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Science Philosophy of Science

First Mind

This morning, Avigail Abarbanel sent me an article with the headline Quantum Physics Could Finally Explain Consciousness, Scientists Say ([https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40898392/quantum-physics-consciousness/]) in which two physicists and…… Read More »

Two Greatest Ideas

Author: Linda Zagzebski

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Science Philosophy of Science

Just Beyond Our Grasp?

In the summer of 1973 and in advance of my final year at St Andrews, I read Bertrand Russell’s magisterial History of Western Philosophy, which…… Read More »

The Journey of Soul Initiation

Author: Bill Plotkin

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

Homo Imaginans - Loving the World

Bill Plotkin describes himself as a wilderness guide, eco-depth psychologist, and agent of cultural regeneration. Since 1980, he has guided thousands of people on what…… Read More »

The Dawn of Everything

Authors: David Graeber, David Wengrow

Reviewer: Chris Todhunter

Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

What Makes Civilisation?

This is an ambitious book, as its title proclaims: THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING. If each generation needs to re-write history according to its own standards,…… Read More »

Pseudopandemic

Author: Iain Davis <

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

Gppp and the New Normal Technocracy

Iain Davis is a journalist, author and blogger who is a frequent contributor to news media organisations. In this dense and well-informed book with over…… Read More »

States of Emergency

Author: Kees van der Pilj

Reviewer: Edward Curtin

Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

A World War Conducted On Multiple Fronts

This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one…… Read More »

Dreaming, waking up and falling into Being

Author: Primož Potočnik

Reviewer: Marko Pavliha

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Adventures and Explorations of Consciousness

There are not many books about post-materialist view of the world which go beyond commercialised New Age manuals, guides and companions, and are published in…… Read More »