Reviewer: Damian Spendel
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 » 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 » Ancient Wisdom For Modern Use
The author of this book is a former dancer, licensed somatic psychotherapist, trauma specialist, yoga teacher and ‘heart-centred activist’. She has developed a holistic healing…… Read More » Climate, Collapse and Contemplation
Until I open this profoundly reflective book on the cause of the causes of the unfolding global catastrophe and how the contemplative’s spiritual life may…… Read More » Christian Hermeticism
I recently reviewed (PE 142) Harrie Salman’s excellent comparative spiritual biography of Peter Deunov and Rudolf Steiner as Christian mystics. In this biography of Valentin…… Read More » Further Evidence In Support of Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene Unveiled: Hidden Sources Restore her Broken Image by Annine van der Meer was first published in Dutch in 2021 and translated by the…… Read More » Who Am I?
Ravi Ravindra has written one of the great spiritual autobiographies of our time, vividly evoking significant conversations with his principal teachers - including Krishnamurti, Kobori…… Read More » A Hermeneutics of Being
This quite remarkable book consists of new translations of seven essential hermetic texts, including the poem of Parmenides and The Poimandres, with extraordinarily illuminating commentaries…… Read More » The Price of Moral Courage
Until the advent of the pandemic, Naomi Wolf was a respected liberal journalist, bestselling author and high-level Democratic consultant who found herself unceremoniously cast out…… Read More » A Labour of Love
Michel Odent, now in his 90s, has for decades been at the forefront of new thinking surrounding birth and its immediate aftermath, having written the…… Read More »