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The Awakened Brain

Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies

Two Options for Humankind's Future

Spirituality is usually evident whenever deeply personal experiences take on a special universal quality, and psychology professor Lisa Miller courageously treats us to numerous such…… Read More »

The Body Keeps the Score

Author: Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Reviewer: Damian Spendel

Category: Science Philosophy of Science

The Transformation of Trauma

The role of the body in personal transformation and healing is no secret for practitioners of spiritual disciplines. The Body Keeps Score is an explanation…… Read More »

How Religion Evolved

Author: Robin Dunbar

Reviewer: Steve Minett

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

Religion as a Bonding Agent For Human Groups

This is a book about religion through the lens of evolutionary psychology. The author, Robin Dunbar, gives two definitions of religion; firstly, Durkheim’s, that religion…… 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 »

Breath

Author: James Nestor

Reviewer: Gunnel Minett

Category: Medicine Health

Is Breathing the New Frontier In Medicine?

Breathing is essential for all human life. We count a lifetime from a person’s first to their last breath. Still we don’t seem to know…… Read More »

Mission Economy

Author: Mariana Mazzucato

Reviewer: Chris Todhunter

Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

What I find most encouraging in this book is the firm conviction that when we work together, amazing things are possible. The author calls it…… Read More »

From a Mountain in Tibet

Author: Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

Reviewer: Anne Baring

Category: Philosophy Spirituality

This book tells the harrowing story of a young boy's escape with his older brother from Tibet, after the Chinese invasion of 1959. It chronicles…… Read More »

Helgoland

Authors: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre, Simon Carnell

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Science Philosophy of Science

The title and context of this beautifully written book evoke the wild landscape of the barren island of Helgoland where Heisenberg had gone to reflect…… Read More »