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detailed correspondences with the descriptions (to reiterate, provided well conform to the sacred geometries of the
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sacred geometries of religions whose over a century ago from the remote various religions is that this molecule
origins are separated by epochs, and viewing of atoms and their constituent of biological life embodies the very
matching maps of all levels of reality, particles) confirm the proposition that mathematical nature of Divine Mind
Books in this section can be purchased via the Network web site (www.scimednet.org) from both physical and superphysical. the tetractys, the Tree of Life and other that these geometries are supposed
Amazon.co.uk and the Network will receive a 10% commission. In addition, the Network receives That being the case it would be forms of sacred geometry not only to represent. This assertion is made
unrealistic to go into details about all express the multidimensional nature on the basis of enormous detail on
a 5% commission on all sales if you log on through our web site! the various correspondences, rather of space-time but also embody the the nitrogen base triplets in the DNA
to present some highlights. The dynamics and structure of superstrings. molecule that encode the amino acids
chapter on Pythagoras shows why it For me, the most intriguing and and the sacred geometry of RNA.
is that ‘the tetractys [or Pythagorean original chapters are those concerning
science-philosophy of and perfume of a rose. Non-scientific
readers should bear this in mind. But
hence on a harmony of number
and proportion. Sacred geometries triangle] is the “Rosetta Stone” music theory, the human skeleton and
In summary, then, Phillips’s work
has demonstrated with mathematical
science for a convincing proof of the arguments therefore contain scientific information that enables sacred geometry to be
converted into numbers of universal,
DNA, Sri Yantra and the I Ching. Taken
as a whole, their overarching message
verification the increasing congruence
presented, it is not possible to ‘throw about holistic systems by way of of modern physics with the mystical
the baby out with the bathwater’; a mathematical prescriptions through therefore scientific significance. Sacred is the unity behind the various mystical
 lato said God
P insights of the custodians of the
grasp of mathematical physics to, say, gematria (assigning a numerical value geometries are Divine Ideas frozen in traditions of both east and west, and
perennial wisdom. He has revealed
Geometrizes continually - university undergraduate level would be to a word or phrase) by the ancient space. The tetractys is the key that their correspondences with (mapping
how the true nature of Pythagorean
Plutarch a serious asset. The fundamental truths Hebrew names of God. Numbers
deciphers their representation into on to) the human being and matter.
number mysticism provides the key to
intelligible information about holistic Phillips shows the connections
Edi Bilimoria of Nature are reflected in mathematical are not merely symbols expressing understanding the process whereby
systems,’ and, as Blavatsky states, and archetypal patterns between
relationships as affirmed by the likes of scientific magnitude but also embody the infinitesimal building blocks of
‘it symbolizes both the ideal and the the structure and interactions of
THE MATHEMATICAL Pythagoras and Newton; and in more a qualitative aspect of religious and
visible universes’. Unsurprisingly, then, superstrings, the intervals between the matter conform to the pattern of the
CONNECTION recent times by James Jeans. And spiritual meaning. Nature ever builds by
it has connections with both Jewish and notes of the seven musical scales (used cosmic blueprint: the ‘image of God’.
mathematics never tells lies, nor can it form and number, as Pythagoras, Plato,
BETWEEN RELIGION AND be so distorted to misrepresent facts Blavatsky and others have taught.
Hindu mysticism, as later portions of for centuries in church music), the bone He has shown the equivalence of the
SCIENCE without this becoming apparent to a The range of topics covered is vast,
the book demonstrate. structure of the human skeleton, and sacred geometries of the mystical
Stephen Phillips (SMN) Another fine case in point is the the codons and anticodons in human traditions of both east and west,
discerning reader. as a listing of the contents under the and demonstrated how they embody
remote viewing of subatomic particles, RNA that parallel the 64 hexagrams in
nthony Rowe Publishing, 2009, 494
A The book is profusely illustrated in broad headings of philosophy, religion information about holistic systems, be
pp., no price on book itself but £33.27 at intervals over a period of nearly the Chinese I Ching (regarding which
colour, with an appendix, a bibliography and mysticism, modern physics, music,
on Amazon - ISBN 9781905200856 forty years from 1895 to 1933, by Phillips wisely avoids discussion on they the nature of music, the human
and two indexes, one for subjects and human anatomy, genetics, divination two pioneering theosophists, Charles its supposed divinatory merits and body or DNA. The reason that the
another for significant numbers. But and their overall interconnections Leadbeater and Annie Besant, using instead focuses on a demonstration of sacred geometries within the mystical
Religion is based on dogma and there is no picture of the author and will reveal: Pythagoras’ Life and a form of ESP virtually unknown to its correspondence with other holistic traditions of world religions are
belief, whereas science is based only the barest three-line biodata on Philosophy; The Kabbalistic Tree of parapsychologists although long known systems). All of this is convincing
him; his website is similarly lacking. Life; Superstring & M-theory; Remote isomorphic is that they were revealed
on doubt and questioning. Thus do in India as a yogic siddhi (psychic faculty) proof that neither matter nor mankind to prepared and deserving human
many scientists opine these days There is a message to be gleaned from Viewing of Subatomic Particles; The having the Sanskrit name of ‘anima’. is the product of blind forces of
this. So at this juncture it would not be Outer & Inner Tree of Life; The Tree minds through contact with Divine
– the likes of the Nobel chemist and What was observed and meticulously nature or merely random evolutionary Mind. The considerable persistence
devout atheist Harold Kroto, who is inappropriate to state that Dr Phillips of Life Basis of Superstring Theory; recorded by them in Occult Chemistry adaptations. On the contrary, the visible
is an eminent theoretical physicist who The Five Platonic Solids; The Holistic and tenacity necessarily demanded of
deeply suspicious of the Templeton has demonstrable consistency with the and subtle counterpart of the human the reader are richly rewarded, each
Foundation’s sympathies with both graduated from Cambridge. He acquired Nature of Music; The Tree of Life Nature established facts of nuclear physics body, down to the minutest speck of
his M.Sc. from the University of Cape of the Human Skeleton; The I Ching as page revealing the author’s reverence
science and religion. Stephen Phillips’s and with the theories of quarks and matter, are structured according to for, and profound understanding of,
book, nay, a veritable encyclopædia, Town, gaining the university’s premier Sacred Geometry; The Sri Yantra; The superstrings, with the qualification the cosmic blueprint (prototype) of the
research scholarship, and earned his Polyhedral Tree of Life; The Universal his subject. In a recent SMN article,
proves with chapter and verse that such that not all their interpretations can ‘image of God’ referred to in mystical
Ph.D. at the University of California, Nature of Sacred Geometries; How Professor Marilyn Monk, UCL Emeritus
presumptions are the product of crass be taken at face value because the and religious traditions, such as in
where he also taught mathematics and Sacred Geometries Encode DNA; and Professor of Molecular Embryology,
ignorance, blind prejudice and appalling very act of clairvoyance disturbed biblical Genesis 2:27. But the reader
arrogance. For the greatest of mystics physics. He has published in several finally Conclusion, which addresses what was observed (faint echoes should beware that this has nothing observes that most scientific endeavour
and religious sages saw no polarized academic and scientific journals, and questions and criticisms, makes some of the Uncertainly Principle here). to do with the naïve and literal notion nowadays ‘is piling more facts on an
animosity or dichotomy between is also the author of three erudite predictions, deals with the meeting of Nonetheless this is the only recorded of ‘intelligent design by a creator god’ existing pile of facts initiated on some
science and religion. Just one example books on the links between modern science, mysticism and the paranormal, example of a whole series of ESP propounded by the Christian creationist- arbitrary basis that could be leading
is the Lebanese poet-mystic Kahlil particle physics and extrasensory and summarizes the holistic nature observations where one can have cast- fundamentalists; it is all to do with in the wrong direction. Few scientists
Gibran, who saw no incompatibility perception. Needless to say, his book of matter. iron certainty that any charge of fraud or pointing towards our transcendent work on the edge of the known and
between science and religion, only shows him to be abreast of the latest What have all these subjects to the unconscious use of sensory clues origins, our ‘image’ so-called being the unknown and very few are seen to be
between science and faith. Equally, developments in quantum physics, do with the principal theme of Sacred can be demolished a priori by the total mathematical paradigm that it signifies asking questions in the unknown.’ For
such legendary scientists as Newton, relativity and cosmology; add to this Geometry? The answer is the resounding absence of the scientific information and is embodied in sacred geometries. sheer originality of thought and ‘asking
Einstein, Schrödinger, Jeans and the Kabbalah and ESP phenomena message so clearly demonstrated in and concepts that they verified, only It is worth drawing special attention questions in the unknown’, Phillips
Eddington – to name a mere handful – (the product of a lifetime’s study) and the book: that wholeness is ontological to be discovered decades later. For to the chapters dealing with the human is poles apart from the herd. It has
intuited the connection between science if they were not enough, knowledge in nature, being the manifestation example, after the first edition of skeleton and DNA. Phillips shows how been an exacting task, but a privilege
and religion so eloquently expressed about human anatomy, genetics, music (or explication) of the wholeness Occult Chemistry in 1908, Rutherford the Tree of Life represents the 206 and a humbling experience, to peruse
by the Nobel physicist Wolfgang theory and theosophy – such breadth (or implicate order) of Divine Being confirmed the nuclear model of the bones of the human skeleton, the his magnificent work, which is living
Pauli: ‘I consider the embracing of of coverage and depth of thought is (Transcendent Consciousness) at the atom two years later; the neon‑22 ‘trunk’ of the Tree representing the testimony to Schiller’s renowned saying
both rational understanding and the quite remarkable as the work of a microscopic scale of space-time. So isotope was discovered four years axial skeleton (80 bones of the skull, from The World of Thinking Beings,
mystical experience of unity [Religion single scholar. everything in our world bears the holistic later by Aston’s mass spectrograph vertebral column and thoracic cage) quoted on the epigraph: ‘The Universe
with a capital R], to be the mythos Taking into account the profoundly impress of its cosmic blueprint or (clairvoyantly detected in 1908 and and its ‘branches’ representing the is a thought of the Deity. Since this
of our present day and age.’ One esoteric and abstract nature of his template – the Image of God in Matter, referred to as ‘meta-neon’); Bohr appendicular skeleton (126 bones of ideal thought-form has overflowed into
cannot embrace without connecting, subject, his style is extremely lucid, but so to say – on the basis of the Hermetic presented his theory of the hydrogen pectoral girdles, pelvic girdle and upper actuality, and the world born thereof
and that connection is attained without any rhetoric, and the argument Axiom, ‘As is the Inner, so is the Outer; atom five years later; Chadwick and lower extremities). The number of has realized the plan of its creator, it
through Mathematics – a subject that is developed with a magisterial as is the Great so is the Small; as it discovered the neutron twenty-four acupuncture points in the human body is the calling of all thinking beings to
unfortunately puts off many readers, inexorableness rather like the unfolding is Above, so it is Below; there is but years later; and the first quark model (the 361 ‘Classical Points’) is also rediscover in this existent whole the
but this need not be so. For one does of a Bach fugue. And like a fugue, there One Life and Law …’. So whether we was proposed by Gell-Mann and Zweig shown to be embodied in the outer original design.’
not have to be an ace quantum physicist is a principal theme running through talk of such disparate things as the five fifty-six years later in 1964. form of the Tree of Life. Later on Phillips
to sense the intrinsic worth of a lucidly the entire densely concentrated Platonic solids, the biblical Tree of Life, But even more than showing the states that the only plausible reason
presented scientific exposition, any work of 494 A4-sized pages: Sacred the Hindu Sri Yantra or I Ching, they consistency of Occult Chemistry with (disregarding the sceptic’s charge Dr Edi Bilimoria is a consultant
more than one needs to be an academic Geometry – that the underpinnings of are all equivalent representations of a the facts of modern science – a feat in of miraculous coincidences) why the engineer, classical pianist and lifelong
botanist to appreciate the beauty the cosmos are based on geometry, universal blueprint; hence they show itself – Phillips further proves that these morphology of the DNA molecule should student of the perennial philosophy.

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The Myth of Science ■  Religion: There is no agreement claim of science to be monolithic super-concept. This smoothing out is further by Harry Collins[1], who gives carried out on various perpetrators of
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Edward James on principles and no agreed truth. And a new world view may take never reached by democratic decision, an example. The word TREE represents the Science Myth as the only true myth.
‘way of progress’. a century to provide convincing results but through imposition by the strongest a concept bag’. A definition (a short In my own view, all these con-
■  Theory of Art: There are as many and become accepted. Such a ‘result’ group. sequence of words) connects concept siderations cannot be separated off
 HE TYRANNY OF
T may also be uninteresting to one bags representing other concepts. This from Theology and from the personal
theories as theorists.
SCIENCE community, and destructive to another, Dehumanising Humans cannot be replaced by something more ethical viewpoint which controls how we
Paul Feyerabend ■ Philosophy: There are different such as interference with the natural Here Feyerabend summarises the systematic. All engineers use tacit choose to see the world: but that is for
schools, but no agreement operation of DNA. Furthermore, a new whole argument of the book. The

Polity, 2011, 153pp., £12.99, knowledge, the tools of their trade, further debate[8,9,10].
since the earliest Greeks. world view may happen to clash with chasm between scientific theorising which cannot be written down, since
p/b ISBN 978-1- References
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gave to a general reality. He says that the word foot round it just as earlier investigators But was this separation the result of In fact, the most complete and compact CPNSS/projects/orderProject/
audience in Italy ‘system’ implies removing had to pussy-foot round the dictates of ‘objective’ research? Before Science summary of Feyerabend’s ideas are Publications.aspx
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94) devoted his them in an artificial pattern Abundance of Nature not by theorists. So what theory has Feyerabend’s close involvement with 6. John Dupré: see http://www.
whole life to tackling which can be taught. But that The science discussed so far is shown staying power over millennia? Kuhn, Popper and Lakatos , all pioneers galilean-library.org/manuscript.
those very same pattern is simply a fashion. theoretical, and different from that of Feyerabend cites Christianity, which in the Philosophy of Science. The latest php?postid=43815
issues. The lectures “If you search for truth, practical experimentalists. has continued against all attacks from edition of that book carries a reprint 7. Chris Bateman: The Mythology of
are a condensed don’t come here”, he announces. In Philosophers of Science tend to materialists, and grown in strength. of an introduction for a new Chinese Evolution Zero Books 2012
version of the course he continuously fact, all scholars tell stories; some are ‘explain’ only science theoreticians Feyerabend says he has been telling edition, a superb three-page précis of ISBN 978 1 78099 649 3
redeveloped while teaching at Berkeley just more complicated than others. like the Logical Positivists. In contrast, stories, while others want a ‘systematic his views, together with an informed 8. A.N.Whitehead (1925): Science
and elsewhere from 1958 to 1992. The author chooses in this book to Feyerabend sees the experimenter as formal account’, using principles and introduction by Ian Hacking[3]. and the modern world Simon and
As ever, Feyerabend does not preach illustrate his views by telling the story a rhetorician, on a separate level from logical processes. But where does that Sadly, Feyerabend may be known Schuster, USA, 1997
solutions here, but challenges basic of philosophy from the earliest times the theorist. The scientific theorist all come from? Why use the latest best for his aphorism “Anything goes”, ISBN 978 0 684 83639 3
preconceptions. He offers new ways of in Greece. is closer to the philosopher, for no viewpoint rather than an earlier, why not which often taken out of context by 9. Nancy Murphy and George Ellis:
looking at the ethical responsibilities of The early Greeks saw a unity behind practical experimentation is required use a different school of philosophy? detractors. It simply refers to the On the Moral Nature of the Universe
being a scientist. the variety of experience, like water by either. Why use experiments we construct multitude of different ways that science Fortress Press 1996
I can provide only an outline of his behind its appearances as solid, liquid, Feyerabend introduces a stronger today? “Because they are successful”. is undertaken and how scientists work. ISBN 978 1 78099
argument here, since our book provides mist and steam. But science nowadays idea of myth as presently conceived, as Do the results of scientific experiments And it suggests a genuine openness to 10. Ian James Kidd: Receptivity to
a final non-technical sketch of ideas seems mainly concerned with fitting a higher theory of how things came to be. bring peace, make us more loving, give new ideas, a foundation principle of our Mystery: Cultivation, Loss and
detailed elsewhere in a lifetime of new discoveries into a pre-existing All societies have detailed procedures us what we really want? Network, which is surely breaking the Scientism See http://www.
study and teaching, ranging from basic pattern, a previous theory. for living, but also foundation myths. Where did the ‘laws’ which Science bonds of the Science Myth right now. academia.edu/1831353/
research in physics to the philosophy These myths are similar in position to uses to produce a problem ‘solution’ The general thrust of all the foregoing Receptivity_to_Mystery
of science. The Disunity of Science abstract mathematical theory among come from? Feyerabend says that there is that Science cannot develop a
The lectures are reported verbatim Feyerabend quotes Monod as the founders of the Western rationalist is no single answer to any problem. A serious view of the world without taking Edward James lectured at Imperial
in the book, which also records the disgusted that ‘objective truth’ tradition. study of history does not provide a into account all of previous human College.
question and answer sessions after (Scientism) has not swept away all Has science been successful as unique answer, but shows that there thinking and viewpoints other than
other forms of thinking and “has not a result of regular observation and have been many answers to a given the traditional ‘Scientific’ one. Every
each lecture. Feyerabend, as ever,
written an end to the covenant between experiment? No; a new principle may problem in the past. scientist has a belief system which The Cunning Mind
denies the possibility of any systematic Paul Kienewicz
presentation and takes the role of a man and nature”. But does Science’s be opposed to a particular experiment. So back to Greek philosophy: underlies their statements, it is just not
story-teller. I provide a terse overview “prodigious power of explanation” And many principles have no basis in Originally, philosophers were rich made explicit. And all these underlying
of this cornucopia of ideas presented (he means materialism) make people experience, e.g. laws held to be valid amateurs. Then professionals arose, preconceptions need to be brought out  CIENCE IN THE
S
in each lecture. kinder, more loving, or less selfish? throughout the whole of space time who showed how to win by cheating and into the open. TWENTIETH CENTURY
The naivety of scientists (how things and temperature range. Why? This is being able to justify it. They built the AND BEYOND
are) when they talk of philosophy (how the biggest myth of all, with no chance sciences of Rhetoric, how to persuade, His Continuing Influence Jon Agar
Conflict and Harmony: things come to be) can be clearly of proof by experience. Does the and Logic, how to convince those who During the reign of the science myth
Let us consider two world concerns: demonstrated. You can easily destroy concept not depend on a overarching disagreed. They showed that they in the public mind over the last 50  olity Press, 2012, 614 pp., £15.99,
P
naive materialism with more complex p/b - ISBN 978-0-7456-3470-8
first, the Big Bang theory; secondly, power, God or Reality or whatever, as a could find an ingenious logic to justify years, Feyerabend has been seen as
the present disorder round the world, arguments, but you need use only primal cause? any course of profitable action. a renegade peculiar. But now there When looking at today’s scientific
with terrible events close to bestiality common sense. In earlier times, a local tribe was How did the professionals justify their is a growing group of philosophers of paradigms, one has to wonder why
taking place. However, we can accept useful under the local god, other tribes were ideas? They used a variety of teaching science who relate to Feyerabend. science in the twentieth century
How can we make sense of both results from current Science without under their own gods. The tribes methods: epic history, lyric poetry, In particular, members of the original developed the way it did, to become
together? accepting their views as the only true intermingled and the differences drama, scientific prose. Herodotus ‘Stanford School’, including Nancy primarily reductionist and materialistic.
‘Pure’ science and everyday life church. Feyerabend provides detailed among the gods were smoothed out. used the novel, the short story, one Cartwright[4], John Dupré[5], and Ian Why did laboratory psychology and
seem unconnected. Currently, science examples of Science ultra-simplifying But a single God can become dominant liners, and instructive examples in Hacking[3], joined in spirit more recently behaviouristic psychology dominate
claims openness to discussion and real-world experience to produce theory, only by trampling over original his histories. Plato rejected all these by Ian James Kidd [6] at Durham. university departments and not
continuous attempts to falsify existing and then complexifying the resulting differences; e.g. The Indian culture methods, and used simulated dialogue The computer game designer Chris depth psychology? How did Natural
theory: but there is no prize for theory to ‘explain’ the experience when destroyed in North America; or earlier for all difficult problems. Bateman[7] is becoming involved in Selection come to be accepted as
aesthetic or ethical quality in research: it doesn’t fit that existing theory. Chinese cultures, more advanced than But every original experience this area. This is significant because the dominant evolutionary mechanism
furthermore, inside science, there is no But then Science cannot develop in the West, which have been ignored. consists of much more than can be he could gain the interest of younger while alternative mechanisms such
connection between e.g. basic particle in a strictly ‘Scientific’ manner, for Feyerabend provides more written. Much more about any subject people who already know of his work. as Lamarckian were rejected? Vitalist
theory and economic theory. progress implies change; which implies examples from Greek History; the remains only in the memory of those We owe continuing gratitude to hypotheses to explain certain biological
What alternative approaches to a an openness to a new world view; which suppression of individual differences present. Feyerabend explains: Polyani members Mary Midgley and Rupert processes also fell out of favour. Were
world view exist? conflicts with any previously existing between concepts to form a single called it Tacit Knowledge, developed Sheldrake for their great hatchet jobs they wrong or politically unpopular?

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Jon Agar, senior lecturer at UCL, proposed eugenic programmes to psychiatric disorders also explains how issues as to the value of science, The introduction explains the thesis to the chase in a literal fashion,
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traces the history of twentieth century improve society’s genetic stock. the mind (when it was finally recognised) whether science should concern of the book and the meaning of involution while Soul is more expansive and
science, looking carefully at how and Genetics was seen as a cure for the was seen as material, resulting solely itself with human values, were left on in this context. It is related to collective imaginative. Reason refers disdainfully
why certain developments took place. mentally ill, chronically unemployed, from the brain’s activity. the sidelines. Scientists developed memory through acts of consciousness, to ‘a spoonful of soft syllables to
The book represents a tremendous the poor, “weak minded” and criminals. The 1960s brought many changes to biological weapons and eugenic recovering and transcending what help all sophistry slip down’ and is a
amount of research and thoughtful In the United States sterilization laws the sciences as a result of cultural and programmes without any regard to their has gone before. Genius plays the little impatient with the paradoxes of
analysis. It is largely free of any political were introduced in 28 States. By 1939 social upheavals of the times. For the morality. This begs the question of role of being an advanced emissary quantum mechanics. Soul reminds the
agenda, exploring the hidden social 30,000 people had been sterilized first time the morality of what scientists whether that lack of concern with moral of consciousness enabling others to reader that:
forces behind scientific discovery on eugenic grounds, half of them in did was questioned. Previously the values results from the “working world” follow in their understanding. Philippa’s
but without placing a value on those California. Other countries such as application of certain discoveries was understanding of the basic impetus of ‘The world is all en-folded mind.
agenda. That the working world erases
influences. Britain and Germany also had their questioned but not the science per a sense of morality, so that all that evolution is not as accidental mutation The yeast of any forward thinker
Agar’s primary thesis is that “no eugenic programmes. The appeal of se. Scientists had led various protests matters to the scientist is to serve that but rather ‘behaviour or act as the critical Leavens the whole loaf entire.’
meaningful science has been generated eugenics was no doubt the promise of against the use of nuclear weapons; the working world. In that case should we driver of change.’ This is elaborated in
without a working world origin.” By social control by scientific means. The Russell-Einstein manifesto of 1955 for blame the science per se for our wars? the series of six propositions: The reader is able to consult the
the term “working world” he implies sterilization of the “unfit” was a theme example. But during the 60s, scientists For our planet in crisis? Agar does not footnotes on the way through and
military, commercial, pharmaceutical, also championed by Julian Huxley in the found themselves on the defensive. Interaction
■  leads to inter- alternate between the mode of poetic
raise that particular question, but it
philanthropic or political influences film, “Heredity in Man.” Later, the Nazis The cosy connections between iorisation narrative and more detailed background
certainly needs to be asked.
that drive scientific research. Rarely were to take eugenics to appalling Universities and military laboratories Internal selection increasingly
■  explanation, which demonstrates
do scientific discoveries come as a lows, sterilizing over 400,000 people were questioned. In campus protests Paul Kieniewicz holds advanced overrides natural selection - the author’s considerable erudition.
result of a scientist’s idle, disinterested and euthanising the mentally ill. In this the value of science was questioned. degrees in astronomy and geophysics, mind is the driver of change Perhaps the best way is to read through
curiosity; more commonly a “working program the medical profession led Many writers recognised that physical, has taught courses in astronomy, a canto and then reread it looking up
world” is behind them. During the the charge. biological and psychological sciences geology, philosophy and the Gaia Interactions between organisms
■  the references so that the narrative
twentieth century science was largely The desire to use science to played an undesirable role in Theory. A specialist in the Earth’s and environment are retained as is not interrupted all the time. The
driven by military objectives because of control people, to shape society undermining religious beliefs and moral gravity and magnetic fields, he has memory - the development of reader passes through the early states
two world wars, the cold war and then and human nature was also why codes. The result was not necessarily mind leads to autonomy of unity - what Barfield called original
studied the geology of most of
the war against terror. The war efforts laboratory psychology triumphed positive. the Earth’s continents. He lives in participation - through the genesis of
Matter is in‘formed’ by mind
■ 
gave us familiar hardware such as over psychoanalytical approaches. The growing distrust of science Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 3 acres, tools and language, the world of the
through memory
aeroplanes, radar, computers, silicon Psychologists wanted to construct a in the 60s was brought to the fore in which he is transforming into a bio- Greeks, Archimedes and Alexandria,
chips and GPS and the internet. Also science without considering the human the work of Rachel Carson, “Silent diverse garden. He is the author Memory of evolution is stored
■  the dark ages and the preservation
less familiar developments resulted being’s subjective experiences --- a Spring”. Because she was a biologist, of Gaia’s Children and Immortality of culture through monasteries and
Involution in man occurs
■  Muslim thought, the Renaissance
including quantum mechanics, nuclear science that treated the human being well-connected with oceanographers, Machine. through the recovery of memory (especially art) then the Enlightenment
physics, penicillin, artificial fertilizer, as an object with measurable quantities ornithologists and other specialists,
- we have the entire memory and rationality leading onto Modernism
pesticides and IQ testing. such as behaviour. her work on the harmful effects of
Agar criticizes the commonly held John Watson, chair of psychology DDT carried a great deal of influence. Reconciling Science to of our evolutionary path and and dissolution before finally arriving
God understand its connection with at love and reunion, Barfield’s final
view that scientists direct their efforts at John Hopkins University, wrote in In the battles that followed her book’s
everything else. Consciousness participation where Reason falls silent
in response to directives from above. his 1903 paper, “Psychology as the publication, the layman saw the David Lorimer
is able to return to its origins and Soul continues the narrative.
More correctly the relationship between Behaviourist sees it”: squabbles between scientists who
and recover a lost sense of
the scientist and the “working world” is “The time seems to come when offered conflicting views, and didn’t EVOLUTION-INVOLUTION Following on is an appendix
wholeness.
a two way street. With few exceptions psychology must discard all reference know who to believe. The commercial discussing the relationship between
P.A. Rees (SMN)
scientists were in the front line, pushing to consciousness; when it need no interests that supported the use of DDT The theory has parallels with the work mysticism and science and drawing on
forward new ideas for military weapons, longer delude itself into thinking that it were out in the open. The effect was ollaborArt Books, 2013, 427 pp.,
C of Teilhard de Chardin, Ervin Laszlo, William James, among others, but also
is making mental states the object of overall to increase public scepticism £17.99 p/b – ISBN 978-0-9575002-0-4 mystics from different cultures, those
pressuring politicians to deploy them. David Bohm, Carl Jung and Rupert
During World War II, hundreds of observation.” of scientific work, doubt its value --- a Sheldrake, all of whom have found their who have experienced a more ultimate
scientists enthusiastically developed Even so, psychology struggled for legacy we see today in the debate over Philippa Rees is a polymath brought up own ways of reconciling the scientific state than reason can attain. This
Britain’s chemical and biological a long time before it was accepted as climate change and public scepticism in South Africa who studied literature, with the spiritual. Many readers would is the work of the intellect, properly
weapons program. The microbiologist a science. The first breakthrough was of Darwinian evolution. science and theology and who has agree that we are paying a ‘high price speaking, our capacity to apprehend
Paul Fildes drew up a plan to target the definition of IQ and intelligence Overall Agar makes a persuasive brought these strands together with for science’s limited certainties’ by unity, as also explained in my review
three major German cities with anthrax, testing, applied to the military rank and case that the “working world” has been her own experience in this brilliant epic excluding subjective experience in terms of sacred psychology below. Some
killing three million civilians, a plan file to find candidates for promotion. a major driver behind scientific discovery poem telling the story of the Western of revelation, inspiration and intuition. mathematicians like Poincaré and
thankfully not carried out for political Other applications were in commercial and has given us the technological Odyssey of the mind with parallel Philippa’s approach opens up access to Penrose have followed in the footsteps
reasons. He was by no means unique marketing of new products. In all world we have today, however I question explanations in 150 pages of notes. these realms, all the more so through of Plato and understand harmony
in his zeal to see new, more destructive cases, the complex human being was his broad brush stroke. In much of She has been working on this theory the use of poetry as her medium and in a deeper way. In an Afterword,
weapons deployed. approximated, reduced to measurable today’s astronomy and astrophysics of involution for many years and was in a counterbalance to the dominance of Reason and Soul explore the author’s
Developments in the fields of quantities. Behaviourism was I see very little connection to the correspondence with Arthur Koestler, the left hemisphere not only in science, experiences leading to her thesis
genetics, biochemistry and evolutionary embraced particularly in the United “working world”. Sure, the Hubble Konrad Lorenz and EF Schumacher in also in academia in general. As she – ‘the brain is the soul’s receiver.’ I
biology were also largely driven by States because it offered tests useful Space Telescope resulted from a close the 1970s. The nine Cantos of blank points out, the metaphorical language should also mention that there are
political factors. In Russia, geneticists in schools and asylums, in a country relationship between astronomers verse – a dialogue between Reason of poetry is able to address the implicit informative charts at the end of each
driven by the need to develop science that was growing fast and experiencing and the US Department of Defence. and Soul reminiscent of Iain and paradoxical and express set of canto as a way of conveying
along the lines of dialectical materialism urban pressures. Being statistical, it However studies such as cosmology, M c G i l c h r i s t ’s involution as mystical science. information in a different mode.
supported materialistic explanations could be applied to masses of people. dark energy or the exploration of extra- The Master and This is scientia in its broader I know of no comparable work
for inheritance rather than vitalist. The development of psychiatric solar planets have no foreseeable His Emissary – form as acknowledged by the covering the Western Odyssey in its
The early work of Chetverikov and drugs in the 1960s provided a practical application on Earth. The same chart our cosmic perennial philosophy. Some many thematic variations and using
Dobzhansky on the wild populations boon to pharmaceutical companies. can be said of geophysical studies of journey, ending thinkers like Parmenides (as an interplay of poetry and prose to
of Drosophila proved pivotal in the They also provided an opportunity the Earth’s core. Will the discovery of up, like Anne explained by Peter Kingsley) convey the adventure of the journey
“evolutionary synthesis” in the 1940s to control people. A patient doped the Higgs Boson lead to any practical Baring’s Dream of and Wittgenstein have and arrive at a more comprehensive
where genetics, biochemistry and up on chlorprozamine would be too application? I’m not holding my breath. the Cosmos and realised this - philosophy is understanding of reality as a whole.
Darwinian evolution came together to indifferent to cause trouble and could A non-trivial amount of science is clearly Richard Tarnas’ essentially intuited rather The author’s grasp of the principal
create the picture we have today. Only be deinstitutionalized. Obviously not done because the results might in The Passion of than deduced. elements of Western culture is
then was Natural Selection accepted as approaches such as psychoanalysis any way bring us new technology. the Western Mind, The dialogue between masterly and her poetic narrative is
the dominant mechanism of evolution. or other forms of therapy could not The history of twentieth century with a phase of Reason and Soul is woven together with extraordinary
No sooner was Mendelian genetics compete with the economic and political science is one of great achievements love and reunion in sometimes tense, some- subtlety and eloquence. The result is
accepted than biologists such as power of the pharmaceutical industry. in the physical, biological and medical which we come full times creative. Reason a heroic tour de force that deserves
Charles Davenport and Willet Hays The focus on chemical treatment of areas. Most troubling is that moral circle. is always wanting to cut the widest readership.

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medicine-health of all the relevant literature on autism, Association for the Study of Spirituality  rom Mental Illness to
F There are two observations I would  eforming the Culture of
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she has similarly let her patients (and (BASS), have been taking this paradigm Insight make about the book which I think are Healthcare
her own autistic child) be her principal forward, beginning not simply to make relevant to potential readers. The first
Uniquely Precious teachers. Her message is that autistic it work, but to render it increasingly
Janine Edge
is that, after quoting what her mother
Margaret Hannah
Lessons from Autistic people experience the world in a way indispensible. says, the author often describes in some
Fellow Travellers that serves well to remind us of the A renewed emphasis is involved  HE GIFT OF
T detail what she feels her mother really INTELLIGENT KINDNESS:
Larry Culliford importance of an often disregarded on the basic human capacity for what ALZHEIMER’S – Heart means, together with her own reactions John Ballatt and Penelope
spiritual dimension in our lives. may be called ‘spiritual awareness’, a and Soul Journey and interpretations. In this way, the Campling
She writes, “Spirituality plays a faculty common in childhood that does approach of the author is heuristic  oyal College of General Practitioners,
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A significant role in the lives of many not depend on any type of religious
Maggie La Tourelle (SMN)
(although the book does not pretend 2011, £25, h/b - ISBN: 978 1 908
SPIRITUALITY - Psyche, autistic individuals and their families. instruction, practices or beliefs. This
vailable on Amazon, 2013, 272 pp.,
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to be academic qualitative research.) 020 04 8
£12.99, h/b - ISBN: 978-0-9575552-0-4
Self and Spirit in the . . (It) can be a powerful element that bold new paradigm depends rather Some readers might feel they In a profound, timely and nuanced book,
will help autistic individuals and their It may be hard to imagine
People on the Autism on a kind of holistic vision, one that
how a conversation
want to challenge interpretations Ballatt and Campling delve into the
families to overcome their difficulties comprehensively unmasks the illusion reached by the author, but to
Spectrum and find meaning in their lives”. with a person suffering human dynamics, which lie at the heart
of so-called ‘objectivity’ on which the engage with the book in this way of effective healthcare. They begin
Olga Bogdashina Part of her explanation is that, “What from Alzheimer’s could
earlier, scientific paradigm has been would, in my view, be missing the by describing the roots of the word
Jessica Kingsley, 2013, 272 pp., can be detected by some autistic constructed. become an utterly point. The author conveys over
£19.99, p/b - ISBN 978-1-84905-285-6 absorbing read. Yet kindness, which is linked to the words
people would not necessarily be Objectivity works well for investigating and over again her authentic
this is the result of this “kin” and “kinship” reflecting both a
There are two kinds of knowledge. noticed by the majority. . . Some autistic the physical and biological dimensions, and fully disclosed perspective
highly unusual book by sense of obligation towards others and
Science is material knowledge, about individuals’ senses are very acute”. but has only partial value where and, like all heuristic accounts,
Maggie La Tourelle about the actions and feelings, which derive
the world and the universe. Wisdom is While admitting that not every person psychology and the social sciences are going with the author on her
the relationship with her from that sense of connectedness with
sacred knowledge, about who we truly with autism displays this degree of concerned. It now becomes necessary subjective journey is what
mother in the last four our fellow human beings. Kindness lies
are, and about how to be and behave for hyper-awareness, Bogdashina reports, for people to engage themselves fully enables our own eyes to be
years of her life. at the heart of the therapeutic alliance
the best. Learning – and teaching each “What makes autistic individuals – therefore subjectively too – in the opened by it, even if it does
The book starts with – the essential basis of effective
other – how to grow in wisdom, I want to more open to spiritual experiences is processes of discovery. Those who see not reflect our personal world
the move of the author’s healthcare, mobilising patients’ inner
suggest, is a vital aspect of all vocational their sensitivities: sensory, emotional, this, and choose to explore further, soon view.
mother to a care home resources in their recovery from illness.
endeavours. There is more to exemplary cognitive and spiritual – all caused discover the need to do the experiment The second observation
by fundamental differences in their and a frank account of But being kind carries risk - maybe
medical and nursing practice, for for themselves, to examine their own is that the author only includes in the
neurobiological development”. her close family members so that getting things wrong or getting hurt in
example, than simply gaining scientific personal spirituality and recognize it as book those parts of the conversations
We are told that, most of the time, so- we have a context for understanding the process. It also takes courage,
knowledge and accomplishment. involving a kind of journey – sometimes with her mother which she considered
When, many years ago, I was training called ‘normal’ people know only what what follows. The main part of the to overcome self-interest, anxiety and
difficult – towards greater maturity contained wisdom and insight. In the conflict. Kindness takes a certain
to become a psychiatrist, a wise comes into their reduced awareness book is referred to as the ‘Heart and
and wisdom, opening themselves up, last chapter the author says she could, intelligence to be useful and wise. It is
man (who happened to be a Buddhist (which is further consecrated as Soul Journey’ and consists of edited
perhaps painfully, to the innate wealth of conversations which took place between therefore, be said to have ‘romanticised’ both natural and necessary for effective
monk) gave me some good advice. genuinely real by concepts and language).
their compassion. the author and her mother together with the reality of the Alzheimer’s condition. healthcare and yet, as the authors go on
A few of my patients were causing In autism, contrariwise, there are no
As dormant powers of spiritual a personal commentary by the author. The author also acknowledges that to explain, there are many reasons why
me concern because their illnesses sieves or filters to stop the flooding
awareness are awakened and kindled, The last chapter contains the author’s the experience of others caring for it has been marginalised and corrupted
had not responded to prolonged and of information, which then seems to
part of that journey will involve the reflections relevant to us all, as well those with Alzheimer’s might be that in the 21st century NHS.
extensive treatment. They were simply accumulate in a kind of ‘preconscious
discovery of something greater than as inspiring guidelines for carers and of relentless negativity, through no Written by two people with extensive
given accommodation within the mental system’. Taking in information with
ourselves that touches us deeply within, therapists who are looking after those lack of love on the part of the carers. clinical and managerial experience
hospital, where they stayed indefinitely the conscious ego-self ‘absent’ from
the process, and storing it in a pre- becoming a trusted and valued source with Alzheimer’s. I would say rather that the orientation in the NHS, the book contains timely
for their own protection and for the
safety of others. conscious reservoir, they sometimes of guidance, inner strength, courage and What the author discovers is that of this book is to focus on the upside reminders of recent tragedies. They
I found the plight of one man surprise not only those around them, hope, especially in times of adversity. the degeneration of her mother’s brain aspects of Alzheimer’s, as its very title quote from the first Francis report on
particularly distressing. Often tearful but themselves too, by expressing For people on this journey (and results in dissolution of self, past and conveys. I would still urge those caring Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, which
and crying for help, he seemed to be knowledge they never thought they had. ultimately, of course, this means present, so there is only now. It is this for a person with Alzheimer’s to read described abject levels of care and
in almost perpetual torment. When It has the quality of ‘unknown knowing’, everyone), autistic people, in contrast which the author believes enabled this book even if their experience is abuse of patients. The authors apply
I spoke of him, the monk helped me and so is comparable to fruits of the to being seen as disabled and her mother to access other levels of very different for the author’s. As the a psychodynamic lens to the question
see that the pain I first had to deal contemplative methodology of many burdensome, can be seen rather as consciousness, referred to in the book author says, it is very easy for carers of why people stopped being kind and
with was my own. He explained that mystical traditions, and the practice in offering unique, rare and special learning as ‘the Other World’. Her mother’s state to project their own suffering about the started to abuse. They point out that
the reason for my discomfort was that particular of meditation, aimed at the experiences, not only about themselves also allows for complete honesty in the situation onto their loved ones, and this frontline staff day in and day out face
I cared. Compassion is innate, he said. acquisition of wisdom. and how best to get along with them, but moment about what she is experiencing, book beautifully models how to free the experience of “ill-being” in their
It may be dulled. We can try to ignore Comparing people on the autistic also about ourselves, about aspects of helped by the unconditional loving oneself from this projection and engage patients. Given this experience of “ill-
it, but we have no powers to switch it spectrum with children (and even our truer, deeper natures that we may presence of the author who is able in a more positive way. Further recent being” is a complex state of unease
off altogether. animals), Olga Bogdashina tells well – individually and collectively – have to hear what her mother is saying as scientific research on the effect of with themselves and their environment,
Compassion means ‘suffering with’ us, “(They) often perceive spiritual been neglecting. meaningful. Alzheimer’s on the brain, referred to in it is an uncomfortable place for staff
people; so it must hurt if it is to be experiences only because they haven’t Page by page, chapter by chapter, The result, on one level, is the author the last chapter of the book, shows why to inhabit without space and time to
genuine. Questioning what could be yet been conditioned not to”; helpfully Olga Bogdashina shows us what experiences the new psychic abilities some of the experiences of the author process the difficult feelings that can be
done in this situation, I was told that, adding, “The person with autism may precious fellow travellers on life’s often of her mother, including telepathy and should not be unique. evoked. As a result, emotional defences
instead of thinking we must always help simply not be fully cognizant of her very difficult and perplexing but ultimately precognition. On another level, the This book is by no means just for build-up, burying feelings of vulnerability
by giving something, a remedy of some special gift, and may assume everyone rewarding journey people with autism new state of consciousness of the those people caring for those with and sadness and diminishing the
kind, it is better on occasion to think communicates this way”. may be. We are truly wise to take them mother allows for healing to take place Alzheimer’s or those who have an capacity for kindness. On top of this,
of taking something too, in the sense Pioneers like William James, Pierre as our teachers. for herself in respect of her past and interest in the dying process. I have treating people who are ill is inherently
of letting the person inform you about Teilhard de Chardin, Carl Jung, Aldous There are two kinds of knowledge, in respect of other members of the already made good use of some of the uncertain. We don’t know beforehand,
yourself… About your compassion and Huxley and Evelyn Underhill; and more science and wisdom. This book offers family, including the author herself principles articulated in the last chapter who will get better and who wont, who
the accompanying distress, and about recent authorities like James Fowler, an exemplary synthesis of them both. and her deceased sister. And on yet in my encounters with people who are will live or die. Facing this on a daily
your need to learn how better to manage David Fontana, John Swinton and Victor Giving thanks to the author, I recommend another level, the mother is able to gain alive and well. Most important of all, this basis can make it difficult to distinguish
it. In other words, the wise man said, Schermer; have all pointed towards a engaging with her gift to us in these insight into the process of dying, both book should be read as a testament to between a treatment, which simply
“You must let your patients, and those new paradigm for psychology that insists pages without delay and as fully as you in this world and the Other World, with the power of love in overcoming disease didn’t work and feeling oneself to be a
you encounter who suffer, from time to on the inclusion of a spiritual dimension know how. the result being a profound absence and dysfunction. failure. This can engender a sense of
time be your teachers”. if it is to make sense. Organizations of fear of death. All this is revealed in helplessness, leading to self-blame, and
And that is what Olga Bogdashina like the Spirituality and Psychiatry Dr Larry Culliford is author of The the staggeringly honest, emotional and Janine Edge is a mediator and guilt, which in turn can lead to anger,
is also saying to us in this remarkable ‘Special Interest Group’ of the Royal Psychology of Spirituality: An intimate exchanges between mother Chairman of the Scientific and Medical dislike and even hatred for a person or
book. In order to write it, fully cognisant College of Psychiatrists, and the British Introduction. and daughter. Network Charitable Trust. people that provoked such feelings.

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These are difficult areas to explore,  ealth, Creativity and

H - that inherited patterns of familial Through the Mother Cow she explains and among ourselves. This in turn leads fallacy of thinking ourselves objective
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when staff are so stretched, with little Fertility for the Soul behaviour have the potential to manifest the mysteries of the sacred breast, us to a “failure to succeed” in what we leads to the view that the universe
time for reflection. The book offers as physical disease – unless we decide surrounding the heart chakra and need to do, which is to make a better is merely a physical cosmos, and
some very useful ways in which this Annie Davison to literally and figuratively change our symbolising the power of unconditional world and be caretakers of the cosmos. that consciousness is essentially a
can be addressed, with an emphasis on minds! love. A woman’s breasts, she says, are While one may balk at the notion that meaningless epiphenomenon arising as
“good enough” care based on the ideas  HE HEALING POWER OF
T Dr Page hypothesises that the the intermediary between the earthly we are a special or exceptional species the by-product of matter (neural tissue),
of Winnicott, mindfulness training, THE SACRED WOMAN patriarchy subdued the feminine world of the Dragon Queen and the with dominion over nature, most of our rather than the primary datum, or what
supervision and support for staff. One Christine R. Page M.D. because they knew women possessed spiritual world of the magnificent Queen cultural traditions recognize that we a fair number of visionary scientists
of the ways of achieving this is by re- ear & Company, 2013, 384 pp.,
B
powers far more potent than physical Bee, who we experience through the are unique, and if not created in the (usually “cosmologists” ) refer to as
balancing the effort of quality assurance £16.99, p/b - ISBN 978-159143144-2 strength and the accumulation of crown chakra and the all-important image of God, at least uniquely able to the “mind of God.” [While it may be
from outside inspection towards more financial wealth. And over time women pineal gland. conceptualize God and “reflect” on our true that until humans became self
autonomy for staff but with transparent have denied their own inner urges and As she tells us from her own self-consciousness and linguistic and conscious, we did not “tune in” to this
accountability to the patient. Too much inner feminine guidance - often, as she inspiration, received from the archetypal creative abilities. These in turn led to particular consciousness frequency,
threat in a system fatally undermines did, to succeed in a man’s world. consciousness of the Great Mother, the our “fall” into self awareness and our that does not mean that other states
the capacity for kindness. Rather than This conditioning and programming Queen Bee ‘holds the door open to separation from unconscious nature. If or levels of consciousness did not exist
think the way to achieve high quality of the female psyche continued over the Great Mother’s void or primordial cosmic evolution bequeathed us these in actuality or potentially as part of the
care is through cajoling and chasing many generations and it is inevitable waters of no-thingness’ gifts, including our ability to recognize dynamic fabric of universal, cosmic or
poor practice, the emphasis should that the distortion of the truth will The message of Christine Page’s the Anthropic Principle, holding integral consciousness – what Gebser
shift to supporting and enabling staff to eventually present itself in physical book - which includes personal stories that all evolved to make intelligent called the wellspring or “ever present
do what they would want to do in most illness; particularly in the breasts and and healing rituals as well as in- consciousness possible, surely we origin.” After all, our ancestors evolved
cases – provide great care. fertility organs. The physical body acts depth historical and archaeological should recognize these gifts and act into the physical world, to see, hear and
This book is not just about as the soul’s most perfect messenger; research - is clear and authoritative. accordingly. This means that it was just smell before they developed the senses
understanding individual staff the body never gets the message wrong. “When a culture decides to disregard as natural for us to evolve out of nature’s to experience them fully and experience
behaviours and how they might be Cancer she says, like all life-changing or disconnect from the feminine, warm cocoon of unconsciousness as them as meaningful, in the way we
supported to work with attentive experiences, gives us the opportunity to productivity cannot be sustained, it is for the babe to be born abruptly might appreciate them. Ergo, the
care, but also explores these The violations of sacred womanhood, stop and ask ‘where am I not being true economies become depressed, into a sometimes dangerous world. ability to appreciate new dimensions
human dynamics at every level – in says Dr Christine Page, go back more to myself’ infertility levels increase and the land This means, therefore, that we should of consciousness and experience
teams, services, organisations and than 3,000 years, to the time when In Meeting Our Ancestral Grand- becomes barren and dry”. recognize the caretaker responsibility new world views, is a part of a co-
government. In the last third of the book, sexuality and spirituality became mothers, she tells us that in prehistoric We have reached a tipping point that comes with human consciousness, evolutionary or participatory process,
the authors make a devastating critique separated and a woman’s naked body, times women were seen as living in the world today. Unless there is and recognize that doubting our ability made conscious in this and other, like
of the incessant change processes, especially her genital organs, came representatives of the Great Mother, a rebalancing of the masculine and to do so is pessimistic and lazy, a failure statements].
which have be-devilled the English to represent a dirty and evil force. whose cyclical and potent energy gave feminine energies our cultures and to rise to the challenge of making the Because of our self consciousness
NHS in the last two decades. They This disconnection from sacred birth to all existence. The feminine was civilizations will also be drastically world a better place. we are dwellers in two worlds, as many
show how these destructive reforms sexuality and sacred femininity can seen as having not only the power to reduced or will die out. She calls on For Network readers, although the a metaphor will confirm, one apparently
reflect a failure of political and NHS been seen in the prevalence of sexual give life but also the ability to intercede every single woman to begin to honour book follows many familiar and paths more tangible and visible than the other.
leaders to contain their own anxieties, violence, pornography, rape, abuse with the supernatural world. and respect her essential and sacred and thinkers who eschew scientism and Perhaps as a direct result our world
creating fragmentation and alienation against woman, not to mention the Symbolically this continuous flow purpose here on earth, which goes far, reductionism, I found Lachman’s user views are equally divided between faith
in the health service and staff who abuse of Mother Earth in the world’s between the worlds of life and death is far beyond mere procreation. friendly treatment refreshing. Although in the tangible-visible and the intangible-
are disorientated and distracted from cultures today. expressed through the menstrual cycle the caretaker theme is common in invisible. When the tangible world
their core task of caring. The insights By anyone’s standards Dr Page is a with the blood of menses being seen a Annie Davison author of The Wise enlightened circles such comprehensive becomes mundane to our sensibilities,
from Intelligent Kindness point to a remarkable woman. As a young child mystically endowed with the power of Virgin and currently Time to Change: expositions in this type of evolutionary it is a sign we have “fallen” and lost
new political economy of health. Rather she was in constant communication purification and death as well as rebirth a guide to life after greed. context are rarer. Lachman’s depth of our connection. We become homesick
than evading crucial political, moral with spiritual beings whose wisdom and renewal. reading and research are admirable, for that other world that seems full
and ethical judgments through the use and knowledge she has learned to trust A woman’s power stems from deep and he weaves the story well, developing of the promise of spiritual fulfillment
of spurious economic calculations, over the years. She trained as a medical within her being and once she connects what is becoming increasingly obvious and a relationship with the divine. As
the authors suggest engaging with
the messy complexity of reform as a
doctor and worked in both allopathic
and complementary fields for almost
to this core strength nothing can stop
her achieving her destiny. She asks
philosophy-religion – that all of human history reflects the
evolution of consciousness. Specifically,
mystical experiences inform us such re-
connecting (religiere) is participatory. In
human process. twenty years, but gave up medicine each woman to fall in love with the as we only separated conceptually from as much as God saves us, we save God
It is refreshing to read a book, which when she realised she had lost touch shape of her own unique body, with Making a Better World nature recently, so we are only just now by transmuting matter into spirit. Here it
presents the current crisis in the NHS with her spiritual foundations. Now each precious organ and cells, which Martin Lockley beginning to recognize our evolutionary seems, at least in our present stage of
not as a technical challenge, but a known as a mystical physician, she holds the memory of what it is to be a relationship to the biosphere, and evolution, lies all that is meaningful and
human one. Whilst sketchy in terms is an international seminar leader on sacred woman.  ARETAKERS OF THE
C cosmos. Incidentally, cosmos is not the good in existence, and its seems, to
of how to bring it about, it is clear healing and empowerment. Sex is a sacred and healing act. same as the physical universe, rather it quote Van Dusen, good “has a general
that the quality of services rely less In her attempt to ‘lift the veil Through the medium of the Dragon
COSMOS also reflects the qualities of the good impulse towards existence.” This
on economics and technology and far that shrouds the sacred purpose of Queen Dr Page travels intimately through Gary Lachman and beautiful we recognize. Given our theme or at least that of positive value
more on people and how they create womanhood’. this deep, affecting and the process of a woman’s sexual Floris Books 2013, p/b, £16.99, human ability to reflect on evolution it is and purpose was recently expounded by
a positive therapeutic environment. healing book is made even stronger by arousal, exploring how each aspect $29.95 ISBN: 978-178250-002-5 but a small step to realize that evolution Steve McIntosh in Evolution’s Purpose
Healthcare needs to move on from its including us in her own story. Diagnosed prepares a woman to receive healing Do you have doubts about humanity or has become a conscious process. (Network 109). Failure to recognize
technical, industrially-inspired mindset, with breast cancer she realised that in energy and inspiration, which ultimately worry the world is in a mess? Do you Julian Huxley said this explicitly in this impulse is tantamount to failure
recognising the work as a psycho-social her desire to fit in and be accepted she affects the fertility and evolution of the fear that human nature dooms us to walk 1957. More fundamentally, not that to recognize our human worth. Max
process, involving human relationships had become disconnected from her consciousness of this planet. the road to ruin? If so, take heart and Huxley’s point is not paradigm-shifting, Scheler’s hierarchy of values informs
emotion and the capacity to think own true feelings and ‘fallen out of love Sex is a process of evolution and read Caretakers of the Cosmos where our perceptions and consciousness us that we indeed veer inexorably in
about and care for others. This is not with herself’. “I seemed to have joined creativity that comes from our deep and Gary Lachman, (see Network 104), define the limits of what we see, and value enhancing directions, and that
going to be achieved through external the ranks of all the ‘nice’ people who eternal connection to Source whether points out that such human doubts thus the limits of what we define as the our impulses towards altruism are not
reform, but inner change in those of us get cancer”. it is called god or the Great Mother. are a type of collective, post-modern world. This in turn means that the world simply because we have selfish genes.
working in health services, recognising But instead of devastating her, ‘the Sexual arousal in a woman causes lack of self-esteem, born of a fear of (our world view) changes as we evolve, We have what George Steiner calls a
ourselves as participants in a creative, turmoil released untapped sources her magnetic body to light up, allowing appearing self serving or arrogant. Our and that we are a participating organ in “speculative lust” for the “drug of truth.”
courageous, human and kindly of assertiveness and inner strength’. her to raise her consciousness to species, therefore, suffers from the so- the process and not detached objective [I proffer the suggestion that just as the
endeavour. Illness, she says, is highly influenced the crown chakra as well as providing called “the fallacy of insignificance,” a observers. If this sounds familiar, it is. Schelerian hierarchy of needs develops,
by the perceptions and beliefs we hold her partner with ‘a transformational type of nihilism and ennui. This “false Thinkers from Owen Barfield to quantum in individual ontogeny, through sensual,
Dr Margaret Hannah is a consultant about ourselves. In Listening to the pathway that leads to transcendence humility” misrepresents our historic physicists have pointed this out, vital, intellectual/spiritual and sacred,
in public health in Fife and a member of Wisdom of the Body, she suggests – and healing’. This is information we blunders and failures as a failure of our and warn of the fallacy of a scientific so such progression has necessarily
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phylogeny, leading, at times slowly!, to the spirit in others, not just in humans point is, that it is for us to remember By doing so, this book escapes the of knowing and being. Milne covers the of John Scotus Eriugina. The human
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enhanced cultural values]. Lachman and sentient animals but in all creation. our heritage as story-tellers, that the confining categorisation of spiritual or forgotten metaphysics, the ancient view soul is not so much a microcosm as
makes the excellent point that serious It is this integration of spirit and matter power of our own song is the gift, the New Age literature, no doubt reaching of nature, creation and revelation, and the image of God’s knowing. So true or
thinkers have repeatedly come to that will make us mature citizens and sharing of which is the warp and weft an audience who would otherwise the mystical destiny of the universe. ultimate knowledge is divine knowledge
similar conclusions. Such perennial, caretakers of the cosmos. But first the new story. dismiss it, but the absence of any Each culture has its own orientation - what Walter Russell calls knowledge
internal consistency in expositions on we must get beyond the “fallacy of As such, then, this is not a new sense of its perennial heritage left me towards the real in terms of ontology, of causes rather than effects. In a
human nature seems to argue in favor insignificance” and know ourselves and story at all, but an age old perennial dissatisfied, even uneasy at times: epistemology and ethics. passage of extraordinary subtlety,
of their reality. our spiritual worth. tale and the more I read, the more I is not the depth, the richness of our Our ideas of the meaning of Eriugina refers to the manifestation of
So, evolution has created a human felt that The More Beautiful World sense of interconnection arrived at knowledge no longer correspond the hidden, the comprehension of the
consciousness capable of asking the Martin Lockley is Emeritus Professor Our Hearts Know is Possible is a through seeing the tapestry the threads to those of Plato and Aristotle who incomprehensible, the understanding
caretaker question. This does not give of Palaentology at the University of Bhagavad Gita for our time. It is rare of this story have woven through time, regarded the quest for knowledge as of the unintelligible, the materialisation
us dominion over nature as an earlier Colorado, Denver and author of How not to hear a note of despair in the and the vast variegated experience of one combining pure intellect and virtue. of the spiritual and the visibility of the
consciousness suggested, but rather voices of people who see themselves human endeavour to keep them alive? The proper end of knowledge involves invisible - all of which is predicated
reminds us of our responsibility. Many Humanity Came into Being. In the same way, Eisenstein distances ‘a correlation between the knower and on the idea that the creation is God
aligned against a mighty army of
current efforts to make a better world exploitative corporations, banks, the realisation of this collective the known’ and the ultimate form of made manifest and can be understood
prove this impulse to be true. Excessive and the governments and ideologies enlightenment from the process of knowledge is the divine understanding mystically in its essence. This cannot
hunting preceded the conservation and L iving the Story of a that facilitate them, but Eistenstein’s spiritual techniques and practices, with which humans can align; this is be understood either by literalist
ecological movements, and as Rudolph instead advocating the Taoist principle what he calls a reciprocal epistemology. fundamentalism or its scientific
Steiner suggested, it is only human
Beautiful World advice is the same as that of Krishna’s
of wu-wei, non-forcing, or freedom The mind is thought to have an intrinsic counterpart reductive materialism.
Rupert Crisswell to the faltering Arjuna: act but do not
consciousness that recognizes, and be attached to the fruit of your actions from reflexive doing. Nevertheless, affinity with the truth of things, and In the final lecture, Milne reminds
then solves “problems.” Lachman and make each act a gift from the implicit in the book is the demanding all things are oriented towards being us that the ancients would not have
suggests that the poet Rilke may  HE MORE BEAUTIFUL
T heart wherever you are and whomever practice of learning to recognise the known. Properly speaking, the intellect understood the modern divorce between
have a hit on the crux of the caretaker WORLD OUR HEARTS you meet. conditioned, often reactive, ways - as opposed to discursive reason - mind and the intelligibility or being of
problem in modern times. Again, it is we use the language of separation gives us our capacity to discern the things. To know the mind of God is to
the perennial problem of our separation
KNOW IS POSSIBLE Eisenstein counters criticism of
continually to prolong and extend the unity of things. For the Greeks, intellect know the knower of all things, and this
Charles Eisenstein his naivety through explaining that
from the world, our creation of “pseudo naivety is the fertile ground in which narrative of separateness in our daily and conscience, wisdom and virtue, beatific vision ‘is the true mystical end
things” with which we cannot resonate.  orth Atlantic Books, 2013, 272 pp.,
N lives. I found myself wanting a sharper reason and ethics are connected and of human knowing.’ Meister Eckhart
$19.95, p/b – ISBN 978-1-58394-724-1 the miraculous seeds of the new story
Thus we fail to appreciate real things, focus on this at the expense of some the concern of justice is to ‘bring the expresses something very similar when
can flourish. He recounts anecdotes
or make them the beloved furnishings of the slightly repetitive meandering of human realm into harmony with the our knowing is understood as the very
of Occupy protesters responding to
of our interior world through Herzwerk the middle section of the book. Overall, universal order.’ This is a wonderful knowing of God so that it seems that
police brutality and pepper spray with
(heart work). This is again a means I felt the book could have been edited concept, even if rather foreign to our God is knowing in us rather than us
smiles and invitations to dinner, of
of transmuting matter into spirit, more thoroughly and that some of the understanding, and one well worth knowing on our own account. Within
an unassuming shrimp boat operator
producing new vibration spheres in the chapters, psychopathy, for example, recovering. this understanding, God knows things
preventing a multinational chemical
universe – new spiritual intensities, new deserved a couple of paragraphs in the Plato did not separate good and truth, actually that humans only potentially
company from building the complex know. If we can conform our minds
consciousness structures, perhaps chapter on evil, and that fewer chapters while for Aristotle every part of nature
which she feared would pollute the Gulf would have created a clearer, more ‘seeks to actualise its own perfection the truth of things, then we will also
even a new species. This, it seems,
coast where she lived and worked. He effective narrative. and at the same time serve the good know how to act since ‘knowledge of
gives new and vital meaning to creativity,
cites these as examples of the kinds There is no doubt that as I of the whole’, thus reconciling diversity the true and of the good are ultimately
conscious evolution and participation:
of culture jamming needed to enact the was reading, I felt Eisenstein was and unity. Knowledge participates in inseparable.’ This stage can only be
and thanks to Lachman and Rilke for
new story but to those for whom such articulating what I, and I’m sure many the truth of things and is responsive achieved by a spiritual transformation
expressing it so vividly. The skeptic
direct engagement is difficult or too others, have felt for a long time and in a to reality rather than representing of perception and an orientation of the
may scoff at the invisible-intangible. But
a black hole is also invisible and out frightening, his message is reassuring, fresh, inspiring way. I would recommend it. Milne points out that we have lost human being not only towards the true
of it a new universe is born as a white the seeds of the new story are sown the book for that alone. However, I this connection between the true and but also towards the good and indeed
gusher. This too is transformation and in the simple actions of everyday lives did wonder whether this book might good at the same time as reducing the beautiful. The ultimate value of
that is the name of the evolutionary and these are as important as grand become fertile ground for a sequel that our orders of knowledge to science culture must be the extent to which
game, so much on everyone’s lips acts of protest, televised speeches, would consider in greater depth the which is claimed to be value free. He its creations are reflections of these
these days. Evolution is so dynamic and best selling books. language and art of story telling in the gives a very clear account of Aristotle’s three principles. The book is closely
that I willingly side with those who In this, Eisenstein brings a new twist light of the story tellers and stories that physics and the terms he uses. His written and deserves careful study
believe in a creative evolution, where, to an old tale. Claiming no definitive have passed on the narrative of the concept of thinghood is represented especially since the modern mind is not
the as-yet-little-understood dynamics of personal awakening, he strips himself heart through the age of separation. by ousia, while energeia means being- immediately structured to understand
intentionality and negentropy, trump the of guru status, and the story of any at-work. These two then merge into his our original orientation to reality.
destructive forces of entropy and heat cloying mystical exclusivity by affirming Rupert Crisswell is an English teacher, concept of entelechia, ‘being-at-work-
that enlightenment is a collective act family man and wild mushroom forager staying-itself.’ His Phusis is defined in
death. Death, a necessary corollary of
and that everyone has a role to play in
The Healing of Creation
life, is for many not the end, but what a dynamic way as the activity of things
its realisation. To this end, Eisenstein Sue Bayliss
Teilhard called a “change of state,” a Meeting Charles Eisenstein over dinner ‘seen in their birth, growth, and self
transformative process. on a winter’s evening in Scotland, I was has avoided signposting his book maintenance and independence of
Lachman ends with Scheler’s idea left with the impression of a man who with references to the august canon Knowledge and Virtue things and equilibrium of the parts of the CHRIST OF THE CELTS
that God is not just an omniscient, has stepped into the wellspring of his of perennial texts and personages. David Lorimer cosmos.’ This dynamic understanding John Philip Newell
mind, a disembodied good idea, but message and whose gift is to share Despite alluding to a few selected resonates with Goethe, while his idea ild Goose Publications, The Iona
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rather a vulnerable and weak entity. that story with us. He is aware, though, passages from his own translation of of self-moving reappears in the modern Community, 2008, £13.50, p/b - ISBN
This is surely so if we are created in the Tao Te Ching, and a passing mention THE MYSTICAL COSMOS term autopoeisis even if stripped of 987-905010-52-3.
that the significance of sharing is more
his/her image. He/she had to enter of Gandhi, most of his references, Joseph Milne its teleological context. Milne’s review On a recent visit to Iona I attended a
in the enjoyment of giving than in the
the chaotic, messy, tangled jungle gift itself. In person, as on the page, it quotations and anecdotes are local Temenos Academy, 2013, 71 pp., no also reminds one of the participatory book reading at the Abbey book shop.
of matter in order to complete him/ and contemporary. Although there is no ISBN – see www.temenosacademy.org philosophy explained by Richard Tarnas As I listened to John Philip Newell
is the buoyancy, the optimism of this
herself, just as any artist must grapple doubting that his ideas are underpinned These lucid lectures take up the thread in the epilogue of The Passion of the expressing his rejection of the concept of
awareness that makes his a vital voice
with matter in transforming an idea into by a keen and knowledgeable intellect, of Joseph Milne’s previous book, Western Mind. The universe comes to original sin, embracing the importance
in a zeitgeist chorus of brittle denial or
a creation. It is part of human destiny I could see that Eisenstein wanted to Metaphysics and the Cosmic Order. know itself through the human. of the feminine and revealing his deep
apocalyptic doom. Many readers will be familiar with
to be a spiritual being and ask about democratise a story that often seems They are short and elegant expressions desire for the whole of Christianity to
His message is a simple one: we are descriptions of mystical experience
our place in the universe and, of late, to exist only for souls living in the of metaphysics, something all too rare honour the Earth as Celtic spirituality
living in the exhausted denouement of whereby the form of knowledge is
our caretaker role. Moreover, spirit is rarefied heights of advanced spiritual in our time. Moreover, we tend to be so does, I felt tears running down my face.
the story of separation and ‘we need immediate; the knower is one with
never an object or “thing” but always attainment but, I wondered, wasn’t the blinkered by our own preconceptions Tears of gratitude for the poetic way
to enter a fundamentally different the known, as pointed out as long
a personified “I” and as such we sermon on the mount an attempt to do that we fail to see the inadequacies of he gives expression to a Christianity
instinctively know we should recognize story’, the story of interbeing. His precisely that too? ago as the ninth century in the work
our worldview in relation to other orders based on the wisdom of the Celts.

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from the true root of our being.’ Newell For Newell God is immanent in all Science most valued today, which is of quote Diarmuid’s Pause on page 95:
psychology-
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writes:” To say that the root of every nature and the universe, something course the kind of Science questioned “It is not that those ancient people told
person and creature is in God, rather which is easy to sense whilst on the by the Scientific and Medical Network. literal stories and we are now smart consciousness
than opposed to God, has enormous I don’t feel like reviewing this book enough to take them symbolically, but
implications for how we view ourselves,
beautiful island of Iona. Indeed John
Philip Newell prefers to pray in the ruins in the ordinary way, I feel like cheering they told the stories symbolically and studies
including our deepest physical, sexual of the nunnery than in the rebuilt abbey it, and saying – yes, of course, this we are dumb enough to take them
and emotional energies.” church. “ The nunnery sits open to is the truth! And truth given in a kind, literally”. Modern rational cultures are Does it Work in Theory?
From this insight it becomes creation. Whether in sun or in storm, careful, elegant way, allowing the largely oblivious of symbolism, of the David Lorimer
apparent that the concept of original whether in the open skies of a clear reader to pause from time to time depth of being – though of course many
sin has no place in this new vision of morning or the infinite stretches of in each chapter and consider what individuals relate and find their personal
Christianity. In his view it is a doctrine has been said without expectation from paths to a deeper understanding. Our
SUPERNORMAL
space at night, in the nunnery one is
that was taken up by the builders of the author. knowledge in general is rational not Dean Radin
aware of the elements, of birdsong, of
empire in Roman times. Newell refuses ivy leafed toadflax.. of unbridled wind. The sense of Spirit is present spiritual, concerned with usefulness  eepak Chopra Books (Random House,
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to expose his youngest son to such from the beginning of the book – the rather than with meaning. 2013, 369 pp., $14, p/b – ISBN 978-
It is this that so many of us are looking
negative messages: “I will not have Spirit which is different from Soul and The majority of societies on 0-30798690-0
for in our spiritual journey today, a
him sit through liturgies or sermons connection between spirit and matter, Religion – ‘soul’ is too individual in the earth have seen the Spirit not There is a well-known story about a
that subject him to the belief that his the ancient bond between the wild and way we usually mean it, and religion is as an impersonal power, but as a French consultancy company who had
deepest energies come from a sinful the sacred, an openness in relationship too prescriptive with its God seen as a personal presence in each of us, their own very distinctive ideas. When
place.” I can only commend such between prayer and cosmos.” dominating male human figure. But as a and in the universe as a whole, confronted with something that worked
sentiments having reluctantly repeated: These are uplifting sentiments in Christian, the author has contemplated creating a multitude of relationships in practice, their question was: does
‘There is no health in us.’ many times an uplifting book and I feel honoured and lived with the Holy Spirit, the third at all levels of life – with individuals, it work in theory? This is the difficulty
as part of the service of evensong to have enjoyed the author’s gentle and person of the Trinity: what he wants, friends, families, animals and plants, faced by many scientists when dealing
whilst my son was a chorister. modest presence. though, is the inclusion of what he organisations, causes, the earth and with parapsychology. Within their current
In subsequent chapters Newell calls the Great Spirit – the spirit of the the universe – all these are alive. We materialistic framework, ESP does not
provides Celtic teachings to help Sue Bayliss is holistic psychotherapist, universe in which all creation shares. can relate from our own deepest being, work in theory since it contravenes
us reconnect to the Earth and its wellbeing consultant and trainer. In the Christian Trinity, God the Father, because the Great Spirit is at the heart their understanding of basic scientific
Outside the room the rebuilt Abbey and creatures, challenges the idea of www.sulisconsulting.com and Jesus, are of course the first divine of all being, over time and space. We principles: hence the need to explain
the beautiful island of Iona provided the creation ex nihilo and explores the figures, very central. The Holy Spirit has come from spirit and return to spirit at the research away or attribute it to
perfect backdrop for the much needed “Celtic belief that the Heartbeat of life been seen in what he calls a ‘more death. This has been at the heart of methodological flaws or fraud. However,
revival of values crucial to the healing of is Love.” According to Celtic tradition The Web of Life ambiguous’ role for many Christians – so many cultures since the beginning as Lawrence LeShan pointed out in a
our world, the healing of creation in fact. “Christ comes to show us that matter Jean Hardy though less so in the Orthodox churches of human life on earth. But it is not recent book, impossible things do not
The starting point of his book is matters. Creation will be saved only if influenced by Eastern understanding. a common experience in the modern happen, so it is your theory that needs
the disillusionment he sees ‘within we learn to revere matter, whether that IN THE BEGINNING The middle chapters of the book are world. This dimension is largely missing modification if it is unable to explain
the Christian household today.’ He be the matter of our human bodies, a survey of some of the earlier spiritual in most of our societies and in our the data. This is an uncomfortable
writes: “There is despair about much the matter of the body of the earth, or
WAS THE SPIRIT: beliefs of the human race. He gives present world order. It is also denied situation.
of what Christianity has to offer. So the matter of the body politic and how SCIENCE, RELIGION an extended and fascinating account in most of the sciences and religions, Dean Radin will be known to many
many of its teachings and practices we relate to one another as sovereign AND INDIGENOUS of indigenous peoples and their and in the present organisation of readers from his previous books The
seem either irrelevant to the deepest nations. The elemental notes of the SPIRITUALITY relationships to each other, to land, to human knowledge, where the Western Conscious Universe and Entangled
yearnings of the human soul or flatly universe are alive with Spirit.” Diarmuid O’Murchu spirituality and to the universe, in what propensity for cutting through the whole Minds. He is a senior scientist with
opposed to them. Why? Is it not in Newell sees Christ on the cross we now call Africa, South and North often destroys the integrity of what is the Institute of Noetic Sciences and
 rbis Books, 2012, 240 pp., $22, p/b
O is one of the most distinguished
part because we have been taught to as an expression of love rather than America, and Australia. He considers there. Western thought is dualistic –
– ISBN 978-1-57075-995-6
distrust our deepest yearnings rather atonement for our sins, rejecting the too the ancient religions of the East, things are either good or bad: but the and experienced parapsychologists,
than to see them as sacred? And is it idea that Jesus had to be sacrificed in This is a careful book and a very bold especially in India and China, especially wiser older understanding is that ‘good’ having been President of the
not also because we have been given order for God to forgive us. In his vision: book. Diarmuid O’Murchu is seeking Hindu, Jain and Taoist understanding of and the ‘ bad’ is present in all: we live Parapsychological Association. His
the impression that Christ comes to “The whole cosmos is a Self-giving to push out the present boundaries of the roots of our existence. Whatever with ambiguity and need depth. books combine a comprehensive
subdue or deny our deepest desires of God. And we will find our place in modern Science and Religion, which the difference in the content of So many of us feel that human knowledge of the field with lucid
rather than to nurture and heal them?” the great dance only to the extent that are rooted together in the values of the early religions, their deepest society is following a disastrous path accounts of his own experiments and
Drawing upon Celtic Christian texts we love.” sixteenth and seventeenth century approach to the mystery of their lives in many ways. This book is a plea for sophisticated philosophical discussion
and sources such as The Acts of This is a refreshing and encouraging Europe. These values were and are is expressed by Chief Seattle, an us to follow an older wiser path, where of psychological factors affecting
John and the Secret Book of John he view of Christianity, one very much in empirical, rational, investigatory, American Indian protesting in 1854 at humans are seen as a recently arrived interpretation of experiments. Here
encourages us to form a different view line with the vision of Matthew Fox who materialistic and individualistic. They the enslavement of his country by the presence in a very old universe, and we he takes a slightly different starting
of Christ and of ourselves. In the first has provided much inspiration to John saw the beginnings and growth of Europeans: “Humankind has not woven need compassion, humility and wisdom, point, reflected in his subtitle of
chapter: The Memory of the Song, he Philip Newell. True to the Celtic tradition, capitalism worldwide; the emergence the web of life. We are but one thread not acquisition. In the beginning was ‘science, yoga and the evidence for
explores “the Celtic image of Christ as Newell writes poetically, somewhat of our present proof-based science; the within it. Whatever we do to the web we the Spirit: she is still here. extraordinary psychic abilities.’ The so-
the memory of what we have forgotten. reminiscent of the wonderful Irish European exploration and possession do to ourselves. All things are bound called siddhis are an integral part of
He remembers the dance of the mystic and poet John O’Donohue. This of cultures that had previously been together. All things connect.” We have Dr Jean Hardy, a longstanding member yoga philosophy and these capacities
universe and the harmony that is deep is the language of soul, the language largely unknown to Europeans, in Africa, only to look at the dangerous mess of of SMN and author of four books, are expected to develop in advanced
within all things. He is the memory of of the right hemisphere, metaphorical, India, northern and southern America, our modern world to see how true this takes great delight in Diarmuid’s latest spiritual practitioners such as the guru
who we are.” Newell believes that at relational, pointing beyond itself. The Australia; and a Christianity which has is when this understanding is lost. contemplative and original study, as of Yogananda – Sri Yukteswar - and
the heart of all humans lie wisdom, whole book works with the metaphor been based on the authoritarian values What can we learn from earlier she always recognises his search for in the West figures such as St Padre
creativity and a longing for union. Our of music as the titles of the chapters of Empire from the 3rd century onward societies that is relevant today? A the mystery of creation as being similar Pio and the Bulgarian sage Peter
task is not to change our essence but testify: The Memory of the Song, under Rome. These values dominate long section of Diarmuid’s book is an to her own: more than that, he here Deunov. Exercise of these powers is
to reach down to the forgotten core of the Rhythm of the Earth and Broken our modern world. They put humans exploration of the original Great Spirit seeks the transformation of the whole not encouraged as they are considered
ourselves which is in harmony with the Cadences. at the centre of the Universe, and in a based on our early close connections of Christianity! something of a distraction from true
natural world. Newell was warden of Iona Abbey for grasping and arrogant way. with the earth and its creatures, where spirituality. Dean explains the Indian
According to the lost Gospel of many years after his studies of Celtic Diarmuid, a Catholic priest of the life is mysterious and the spirit present background and shows that all the
Thomas and other writings, Christ Christianity in Edinburgh. For those Sacred Heart Missionary Congregation, in all beings. In Eastern thought, spirit phenomena investigated by modern
tells John that he has come to awaken of us who have become disillusioned is the author of many books exploring the is synonymous with Chi, energy, the parapsychology have their counterparts
us from a deep sleep, a “bond of with traditional Christian practices and deep and profound roots of Christianity life force, our essential being. In Hindu in yoga philosophy.
forgetfulness”. Our destructive doctrines this book provides a holistic and its sense of the sacred. He has thought, Brahman is the Great Spirit The three parts cover the general
tendencies come from a false sense alternative which is vital for the shift considered the global dimensions of and Atman that element of the spirit background of legendary yoga
of self. Sin is what happens when we in consciousness necessary for the Christianity for major disciplines in at the individual centre of every living superpowers, systematic research
are not being truly ourselves, ‘not living healing of our world. the West, especially the materialistic being: it is all One. I would like to by modern science and speculation

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about future directions. In his foreword, extraordinary claims. This is especially As one might infer from the title, Larry feels that consciousness is and soma. In addition, the divine is
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Deepak Chopra already highlights the true of Ganzfeld experiments. Larry brings together a wide range of the elephant in the living room of conceptualised both in terms of a
issues with prejudice when confronted The fundamental issue is one of the phenomena to consider in the light of science and that the integrity of personal God and an absolute divine
with contravening facts. The outcome politics of knowledge and the psychology his thesis. At the beginning of the book, science and scientists will ultimately essence. One can appreciate that
is frequently that people don’t so of belief. All too often, investigators he makes a number of predictions lead to a transformation. His final these different ontological levels have
much change their minds as interpret like Michael Shermer have interesting about what would be possible in the chapter is devoted to transcendence their own epistemology and that much
things to confirm their previous beliefs. things to say about the beliefs of other light of One Mind at different levels. He and the spiritual implications of One of modern thought operates at the
He quotes Max Planck as saying people, but they do not apply strictures describes many and varied experiences Mind experiences characterised level of the body and the senses while
that he regards consciousness as such as confirmation bias to their own that are hard or indeed impossible by a ‘hyperreal level of awareness, neglecting or even denying the higher
fundamental and matter as derivative views. There is a strong taboo effect to explain within the conventional connection, intimacy, and communion levels of soul and spirit.
from consciousness, since we cannot that keeps the current worldview in scientific model. This will be familiar with the greater whole’ also imbued Many of these writers are
get behind consciousness. place, and this may well be reinforced by territory to many readers, including with love. uncompromising in their stance with
Over 50 years ago, CD Broad the predominance of sensing-thinking- research on the sense of being Even the most hard-headed reader, if respect to knowledge and religion,
outlined what he regarded as the judging personalities in the higher stared at, coordinated animal and bird he reached the end of the book, would condemning anything that falls short of
basic limiting principles of science, echelons of business, academia and movements, animal telepathy, creativity, be obliged to admit that Larry is onto their rigorous standards. For Schuon,
with which parapsychology seems to government agencies. Intuitive-feeling telesomatic experiences, NDEs, something important. However, he there can be no science of the soul
conflict: it is impossible to have an people are much more likely to be open survival of consciousness and healing. might wish for the thesis to be further without a metaphysical basis, and
effect before a cause, direct mind- to the kind of research presented in this Other parts of the book, like the urge to developed philosophically and applied this is precisely what is missing from
matter interactions are impossible, book and also more likely to have such save others, are less familiar territory rigorously at a number of different modern psychology, especially insofar
mental events depend completely on experiences themselves. All this helps and postulate an immediate empathy levels, which Larry begins to do in as it is based on an empirical and
the brain, and finally that we cannot explain the resistance to changing as an aspect of One Mind. his chart on the universal spectrum reductionist approach characteristic of
gain information about anything scientific paradigms, but Dean puts He describes as neuromythology of love where he discusses various modern science. He sees psychology
outside the body except by means of his hope in the younger generation and the assumption that consciousness is types of interacting systems along as a usurper of religion with disastrous
the ordinary senses. These four limiting sees some signs of progress. However, entirely dependent on brain processes, with the evidence and expression of effects whereby the abolition of guilt
principles rule out a priori the entire these younger people depend on their and the evidence that he adduces makes interaction. This pioneering book is ‘allows the patient to go serenely to
subject matter of parapsychology: seniors for advancement and so there Mind which was in a sense omniscient. this proposition impossible to sustain. a brilliant synthesis mapping a vast hell.’ Guénon writes about the confusion
precognition, psychokinesis, healing is an inherent conservatism built into Although Hudson mentioned this However, scientists would regard territory of One Mind experiences, but I of the psychic with the spiritual, which
at a distance, out of body experiences, the system. possibility, his own model is somewhat much of as anecdotal and therefore there is surely still further work to do on is undoubtedly an important issue.
survival of consciousness, clairvoyance On the basis of the scientific different, and is based on his reflections unconvincing. This argument misses elaborating the detail of how One Mind Burckhardt is concerned about the lack
and remote viewing. Textbooks rarely studies cited, Dean concludes that about hypnotism and the capacities to the point since it postulates that only as a unitary domain of intelligence of a higher explanatory principle able
mention the topic, and, if they do, only the supernormal abilities described which this state enabled access. He one way of knowing and methodology operates in different contexts. to explain the nature of the soul. The
to dismiss it (Dean provides examples in Patanjali’s yoga sutras have been distinguishes between the objective as valid and fails to recognise that contribution by Philip Sherrard on the
of this). Towards the end of the book, and the subjective mind. The first is anomalous human experiences still science of consciousness dates back to
he presents his own version of these
verified beyond reasonable doubt. One
the recognisably analytical and linear need to be explained within some
Spiritual Psychology a conference in 1992 in Athens, which
important pioneer in this field is the David Lorimer
limiting principles consisting of realism, Dalai Lama, who has been in dialogue mind, which he supposes is dependent kind of framework. It is not enough I attended. I read his books around the
localism, causality, mechanism, with scientists through the Mind and Life on the brain. The subjective mind, by simply to dismiss them and say that same time and his basic argument is
physicalism, materialism, determinism conferences for over two decades. This contrast, has unlimited powers and he life experiences cannot be reproduced  SYCHOLOGY AND THE
P that the knowledge of the nature of
and reductionism. University students is another forum in which the spiritual equates this with the soul that survives in the laboratory so they don’t count. PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY consciousness does not lie within the
absorb these doctrines without realising the death of the body. Interestingly, he The important point is that Larry tips Edited by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos competence of the modern scientist
and empirical scientific views can meet
that they are in fact assumptions and gives some of the same examples as the balance towards oneness, when so who has not attained the highest state
in a spirit of openness and rigour. The  orld Wisdom, 2013, 220 pp., $23.95,
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guidelines rather self-evident facts. in Larry’s book, including miraculous much of our thinking is predicated on of consciousness. The way in which
Dalai Lama challenges scientists to p/b – ISBN 978-1-936597-20-8
Dean points out, like Rupert Sheldrake, mathematical calculation and separation and individualism. For this something appears to me depends
expand their views of reality, as does This book is published in the series
that these doctrines have all been clairvoyance. reason, he feels that the hypothesis on my mode of consciousness. The
this book - much depends on how many Studies in Comparative Religion,
falsified by advances in physics. Charles Haanel, in his Master Key of One Mind is important for the future 18 pithy reflections are followed by a
scientists take the trouble to read it. which is devoted to ‘the exposition
The second part of the book System, also influenced by Hindu of humanity. The key quality is that all more extensive explanatory letter - I do
Like his previous books, the current of the teachings, spiritual methods,
presents scientific studies in telepathy, thought, takes the model further. He these experiences involve unbounded believe that some of these concerns
one is a very important statement symbolism, and other facets of the
precognition, psychokinesis in too upholds the distinction between the or nonlocal extended awareness, what were addressed at the conference, but
and required reading for those on the religious traditions of the world,
living and inanimate systems, and subjective and objective minds, but he Rupert Sheldrake calls the extended perhaps not to Sherrard’s satisfaction.
clairvoyance. In many cases, Dean cutting-edge of consciousness studies. mind. Larry also quotes Jeremy Rifkin together with the traditional arts and The second part covers a wide
further postulates that the Divine Mind
adds detailed accounts of his own is also subjective and amenable to on the differences between old and new sciences which have sprung from range of themes relating East and
research and methodology. He explains suggestion. In his model, the subjective science. While old science views nature those religions.’ Its perspective is West, science and religion, Buddhism
the role of meta-analysis and the The Great Connect mind is equated with the subconscious, in terms of objects and manipulation, perennial philosophy and essays by and modern psychology and the whole
nature of effect sizes, which are often David Lorimer which also enables people to access the new science sees nature as many of its leading exponents appear issue of drug induced mysticism. The
small in extensive studies. He also the Divine, which some modern thinkers relationships and partnership. These in this book: Titus Burckhardt, Ananda five bugbears of modern thinking for the
elaborates on the nature of Bayesian ONE MIND would equate with the Superconscious. are important trends that are also Coomaraswamy, René Guénon, Seyyed perennial philosophy are psychologism,
statistical analysis as a useful method Walter Russell also experienced being reinforced by other disciplines, Hossein Nasr, Marco Pallis, Frithjof scientism, evolutionism, syncretism
Larry Dossey MD (SMN) Schuon, Lord Northbourne and Huston
for objectively specifying how an omniscience through an alignment especially environmental and our and New Age thought; one can also add
investigator’s previous beliefs ought  ay House, 2013, 339 pp., £12.99,
H with the Divine Mind, as described technological connectedness. There is Smith. There are four parts to the reductionism and relativism to this list.
p/b – ISBN 978-1-78180-1963 book: critique, theoria, praxis and
to change when confronted with new in my review of his book in the last also a host of new metaphors including The first three have a tendency from
data. The null or chance hypothesis is Regular readers of this Review may issue. All this is to say that the idea the hologram and the implicate order as reviews of books by Eckhart Tolle, Ken this viewpoint to explain the greater
set by the investigator and the outcome recall that, over the last two years, of One Mind put forward by Larry has well as non-locality and entanglement Wilber and Jorge Ferrer. The authors the terms of the lesser, which does not
should be determined by an analysis I have reviewed a number of books a distinguished ancestry. Indeed, his already mentioned. believe that we live in a desacralised allow for emergence. One can most
of the alternative hypothesis compared from the late 19th century New own first intellectual encounter in this Having traversed with his vivid and and indeed profane world and that readily see their point when psychology
with the null hypothesis. Of course, this Thought movement, including the 1890 sense was with Ralph Waldo Emerson, engaging narrative an extraordinary this is reflected in our science and is used to explain the spirit from within
can be set up to make a result almost landmark publication by Thomas Jay who influenced the thinkers already and diverse landscape of ideas and psychology. They espouse a distinctive its own terms of reference, reducing the
impossible, but it does provide a logical Hudson entitled The Law of Psychic cited - especially his extraordinary experiences in the light of the One metaphysic that I have personally spiritual to the psychological. This lies
framework of measurement. Throughout Phenomena. Hudson influenced many essay on the Oversoul, which Larry Mind, where does Larry see the future? found very illuminating. William at the root of the perennialist critique
the book, Dean demonstrates that the subsequent thinkers, including Thomas read as a 16-year-old before being As with so many books reviewed on Stoddart explains this understanding of Jung, with some justification. Jung is
accumulated scientific evidence for Troward, Charles Haanel and Napoleon subjected to the intellectual straitjacket these pages, he calls for the expansion of the threefold constitution of man given credit for taking religion seriously,
these phenomena under consideration Hill. All of these thinkers posited an of reductionist medical training. The of science beyond its existing as consisting of Spirit or Intellect, soul but castigated for treating meta-physical
give odds against chance of millions unlimited aspect of the human mind fact that he is an identical twin adds philosophical assumptions, especially and body corresponding to the Latin assertions as merely psychological
if not billions to one, which should whereby the individual mind was a a very personal understanding to his the hypothesis that the brain gives spiritus/intellectus, anima and corpus phenomena and for statements such
count as extraordinary evidence for microcosm of the Universal or Divine treatment of the One Mind. rise to the mind and consciousness. and the Greek pneuma/nous, psyche as ‘the mind cannot establish or assert

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anything beyond itself.’ One suspects states as altered traits. He is critical of being challenged to let go of the old and that we can all manifest the higher Some estimates put the value of these years. They discovered a great deal in
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that this may have been the meaning Huston Smith, himself sympathetic to embrace the new. We are both acquiring and deeper aspects of ourselves in services at $100 trillion, twice the the process, especially close linkages
of Jung’s statement that he knew entheogens and who complained that and disposing. Elisabeth explains that physical incarnation and even merge global GDP. between the various natural systems.
that God existed as a psychological he never regained the initial insight death serves life because it consumes more closely with our guidance. This The book is based mainly on Tony’s We need to remember that the Earth
construct rather than a metaphysical provided by acid. Upton adds that everything that life no longer needs for is true creative self-expression. She own experiences and research of best is similarly a sealed off habitat. The
reality. In other writings he seems to Eliade considered the introduction of its perpetuation and progress. This also refers to a red thread of inner practice to offset destructive human individual chapters consider soil, light
go further, but one should remember entheogens to shamanic techniques actively supports the dynamic of change determination, which we should seek to activities in various environmental and photosynthesis, eco-innovation,
that he was constantly being criticised as a form of decadence. It seems to underlying the whole of life as Goethe align with. domains. There is no bibliography pollination, natural pest control, water,
by his colleagues as a mystic and was me that it all depends on the context understood when he said that death is At the beginning of the third part and some parallels that might have
the seas, then Nature as a form of
trying to remain true to his calling as a and intent. life’s way of producing more life. Death (p. 112), there are some memorable been made, for instance with the
insurance and as a natural health
scientist. He was therefore treading a The third part on praxis is is in this sense a great transmuter of aphorisms about death as a human eco-economy proposed by Lester
useless aspects. Brown, are not mentioned. Instead, service. As well as pointing out critical
narrow middle path. For perennialists, shorter, with an important essay by construct and ways in which we can
the intellect enables human being to Fear is a very important theme break down this barrier. We need a Tony proposes his own model of a issues, Tony gives many examples of
Coomaraswamy on metanoia or being
apprehend absolute reality, so they feel in one’s right mind. This is also relevant in relation to death, and Elisabeth new culture of death, towards which bioeconomy, which amounts to the encouraging initiatives that are moving
that Jung was implicitly denying the to the earlier critique of drugs in that explains that it dampens and delays the many people have been working over same thing. Each chapter begins in the right direction. Among these are
existence of the intellect. metanoia implies the transformation process of dying by creating resistance: the last 40 years. The ideal across with a few striking statistics, of which wetlands being managed as sewage
In his essay, Sotillos covers other of one’s whole being from human we cling to life because we have not many cultures is conscious death the following is a sample: one third – treatment facilities, the creation of
psychologies from a perennialist thinking to divine understanding. This learned to die. Consequently, delaying unimpeded by fear, but this can only farmed soil degraded since the mid- marine reserves and the protection
viewpoint but also through the lens is a real change of mind, not simply death simply lengthens a miserable be reached through serious spiritual 20th century; 70 billion – annual cost of coal reefs and the maintenance of
of his conviction that we are living in of state. As a whole, the book makes life of reduced quality. She therefore work and reflection, as every reader of nitrogen pollution in Europe; larger mangroves to contain storm surges.
the decadent era of the Kali Yuga, for bracing reading and shakes up encourages readers to disengage the will recognise. An important part of this than Germany – area of forest cleared In the last chapter, Tony looks at the
a traditional speculative framework modern complacency by obliging the idea of death from fear, which requires process is understanding one’s main 2000-2010; $1 trillion – annual sales prevailing model of Nature whereby the
that he almost personalises by reader to consider a more metaphysical considerable spiritual work. As she purpose, which itself requires desire dependent on animal pollination; $50 liquidation of natural capital is treated
attributing spiritual trends to its perspective and exploring the real used to say in her workshops, fear of and courage to become an expression billion – extra value that could be gained as a stream of dividends rather than
influence. Psychoanalysis becomes a meaning of sacred psychology. It would death translates into fear of life, fear of love, which Elisabeth affirms is the from well-managed fish stocks; over spending of capital. Some readers may
symptom of cultural decay. Scientism be interesting to set this up as a of fully engaging. She encourages ultimate substance of life. Readers will 50% – proportion of oxygen produced know of Earth Overshoot Day where
imprisons us within the five senses, conference. us instead to regard death as a life- appreciate that this remarkable book by plankton; $6.6 trillion – annual human consumption of renewable
while syncretism is seen as a parody enhancing experience leading to contains a hugely important message, global environmental damage caused natural resources exceeds supply –
of synthesis and new age thought as transformation. An important corollary not only about death, but also about by human activities (11% of world GDP);
wrenching spirituality from its religious
The Great Transformer is the modern separation of the human the nature of life and transformation. $34 billion – costs associated with the
this now happens at the end of August.
David Lorimer (ego) from the divine. People who do not In other words our consumption is
context and producing a counterfeit Even those already familiar with the loss of vultures in India.
based more on the ego than the spirit. feel themselves separate experience field will learn a great deal and will be This last figure is one of the most unsustainable in the long-term. This is
The same applies to psychotherapy DEATH AND LIFE their essence as a divine being that can challenged to live more deeply and fully. interesting cited, and is an excellent a reflection of a more endemic problem,
insofar as it aims to restore balance by definition not be extinguished: ‘only example of an unpredictable systemic namely short-termism, both political
Bruno Bitterli-Fürst
to the ego. Huston Smith produces a in the falsely perceived absence of effects with far reaching implications. and economic. One CEO is quoted as
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succinct summary of the principles of God does death appear as something In 1993, there were around 40 million saying in relation to his interests in
given, p/b – ISBN 978-0-956-704009
the perennial philosophy (p. 90), while final.’ The book gives some powerful vultures in India, but by 2007 the land and forests that ‘natural resources
Ken Wilber comes in the firing line for The pioneering work of Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross on death and dying will be
examples of people coming to terms ecology-futures population of the two lane species has are limited, and I need to take them
the way in which he characterises the
possible integration of pre-modern known to many readers. She herself
with death after a terminal diagnosis.
The lesson is to maintain contact with
studies dropped by 99.9% and 97% respectively.
The cause was an anti-inflammatory
before they’re gone.’ This represents an
ecological version of a Ponzi scheme.
religion with modern science, especially died in 2004, and I came across this the structure of the soul rather than drug with the usual unpronounceable Although many people are quoted
as he takes an evolutionary view. book on a table at Hawkwood College in being completely preoccupied with the Natural Capital pharmacological name – diclofenac. It as saying that business as usual is
Segura regards his project as a category September. On opening it, I discovered reality of the senses. David Lorimer turned out that its dramatic beneficial
that it claimed to be a message from not an option, this is precisely what we
error: ‘the mixing of metaphysics-based In a striking sequence, Elisabeth effects on sick animals made the drug are doing.
Elisabeth about her experiences since
traditional postulates with reason-
her own transition and her current
describes her own transition, for which  HAT HAS NATURE
W very popular but if these animals were His answer, referred to above, is
founded secular science’ and therefore she was uniquely prepared through her treated only a few days before their
a misunderstanding of truth and an understanding of the nature of death life work. There was a great sense of
EVER DONE FOR US? death, traces remained in their bodies,
a bioeconomy, which Tony has been
and dying. Having read it on a trip to Tony Juniper promoting to companies for some
assumption that religion is essentially reunion, expansion and joy but then she which were then eaten by the vultures.
Italy in October, I am convinced that this  rofile Books, 2013, 324 pp., £9.99,
P years. Perhaps the most encouraging
a man-made rational construct. This was immediately presented with a new This poisoned them in large numbers
is a genuine message from Elisabeth p/b – ISBN 978-1-84668-5606 example of a country reorienting itself
critique is extended in the book review assignment of accompanying people on as many vultures feed on a single
section at the end, which certainly and one of the most important books their transition - described as a service Tony Juniper is one of Britain’s best- carcass. Needless to say, carcasses is Costa Rica, which has reversed its
gives the reader a very different view of ever published on the subject. Part of of love. First, however, she had to take known environmentalists, a former left out to putrefy in the sun of health deforestation and become a major
these thinkers. her work concerned the transformation leave of her physical body and thank it director of Friends of the Earth and hazard. In addition, the Parsi community magnet of ecotourism, enhancing its
Another key theme is drug-induced is implied in the dying process, and this for all its service. She explains how the one of the co-authors of Harmony by was no longer able to leave their dead GDP per capita in the process. Tony
mysticism - the mescalin hypothesis theme comes through very strongly in finer structured bodies emerge from HRH the Prince of Wales, who writes a bodies out for the vultures and had to feels, quite rightly, that religions can
of Aldous Huxley. The two essays are the current book. As you can imagine, the physical at death, but then there long and passionate foreword to this invest in expensive new technology. In play a significant role in changing
by Whitall Perry and Charles Upton. the author himself was somewhat is also a corresponding psychological book. It is obvious to those who have the early 1990s, these vultures were attitudes and realising that nature is
Perry states that ‘nothing could be sceptical when Elisabeth came through, process that can take a thought deeply about the issue that we consuming about 12 million tonnes of ‘the source of essential services: a
more erroneous than the belief that but her voice is powerful lot longer, especially for need to revise our attitude towards and meat a year, which it was calculated provider of insurance, a controller of
the magical operation of some external and distinctive as ever. those who have found it understanding of Nature. Our present would feed an additional 4 to 7 million disease, a waste recycler, an essential
power on the psychic faculties could in The title suggests difficult to let go. We can attitude is exploitative and manipulative dogs. This seems to have been what part of health provision, a water utility,
itself effect a real and lasting trance the intrinsic relationship initiate this kind of process based on the separation of humans happened, and these feral dogs also a controller or pests, a massive carbon
mutation of soul, especially apart between death and life. during life by clearing from Nature and an attempt on our part carry diseases, not to mention an extra capture and storage system and as
from all question of suitability and Transience means that out thoughts, emotions to subjugate it and use it exclusively for 40 million dog bites because of this the ultimate converter of solar energy.’
preparation of the vehicle involved.’ In no form is permanent and possessions we no our own ends. This goes back to the increase in numbers and also around
and indeed nature is in Eventually, we will have to live within the
other words, there are no shortcuts, longer need. Elisabeth mechanistic understanding of the 17th 48,000 additional deaths from rabies overall natural resources available, but
and Huxley is confusing the psychic a continuous process of challenges readers to century, which has also been translated in the period 1992-2006. All in all,
transformation. Out of it would be sensible, as this readable
with the spiritual in spite of his erudite reflect deeply on their into economics and still dominates the cost of the loss of the vultures is
decay and death comes and hugely informative book suggests,
background. The interview with Charles attitude to death and biology. With this background one estimated at $34 billion.
Upton is fascinating because he new life, as we can see what this means for their can understand that economists have At the beginning of the book, Tony to move consciously in this direction
himself was once an advocate of drug- from the compost heaps corresponding attitude started to think about the value of explains the Biosphere 2 experiment sooner rather than later.
induced mysticism and is now a stern in our garden. We are to life (pp. 84, 128). She the services provided by Nature that where a small group of people was able
critic. The aim is not so much altered constantly in a position of affirms the possibility actually underpin our economic activity. to live inside a sealed off habitat for two

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The Patterning of Hope the present moment, transformational

general self-confidence. When combined with Mindset is based on a simple and One comes away with the conviction
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David Lorimer change as repatterning rather intelligence, these will take a person powerful distinction between a fixed that fostering a growth mindset is a
than an extension of the present, much further than intelligence alone. and a growth mindset, which has hugely important priority.
transformative innovation working with  haracter, Values and
C The reader will observe that Tough implications for business, parenting, Neil Hawkes has been working at
THREE HORIZONS three different qualities of the future, Achievement lists what are technically known as schools and relationships. Dweck’s developing a values-based education
Bill Sharpe the collective practice of bringing three David Lorimer performance virtues rather than moral starting point is understanding how for the last 30 years as a teacher, head
T riarchy Press, 2013, 127 pp., £12, p/b basic perspectives into the room, and virtues, which are more of a focus in people cope with failure, which led her teacher, local authority administrator
– ISBN 978-1-909470-27-9 the recognition that every person is a Neil’s book. A key educational issue to formulate her theory. She found that and consultant. He is the founder of
unique source of transformative insight
HOW CHILDREN around the world is the achievement some young people relished challenges the Living Values Network, which has
and human potential. SUCCEED gap between students from different and realised that every failure enabled affiliates around the world. The book is
In the Spring issue,
We see the pattern, Paul Tough social backgrounds. Tough rightly them to learn something important to widely endorsed by influential educators
I reviewed a book
put ourselves in the  andom House, 2012, 231 pp., £12.99,
R points out that this has a biological and increase their capacity. Believing that from around the world. It is written very
called Dancing at the
picture and are enabled p/b – ISBN 978-1-84794711-6 biochemical aspect with the pathways your qualities are carved in stone - directly with the reader in mind and
Edge by Graham Leicester
to convene the future. laid down in the first few years of life as defined as the fixed mindset - means you there are various points to pause and
and Maureen O’Hara
The next part describes a result of parental interaction. In this have to prove yourself repeatedly and reflect throughout the text. Neil’s basic
of the International MINDSET country, much of this important work are correspondingly nervous of failure. mission is to inspire children and adults
Futures Forum, with these practices in more
Carol S. Dweck has been reported by Paul Gilbert in his On the other hand, the growth mindset to be the best they can be and to adopt
whom I myself have been detail with the useful
phrases ‘holism with onstable and Robinson (Random
C book The Compassionate Mind. One is based on the belief that one can a practical living philosophy for life
working since 2001. House), 2006, 277 pp., £9.99, p/b –
focus’ and ‘learning to implication should be to put parenting improve one’s capacity through effort. and education. The starting point for
This book comes out ISBN 978-1-78033-200-0
love uncertainty.’ We begin skills for further up the list of priorities, Dweck gives the number of real-life values-based education is flourishing
of the same stable and and relationships. Neil draws on the
to recognise patterns of as we find, not only in rats but also in examples to show how those different
articulates a particular humans, that licking and grooming or mindsets would respond. Many talented work of Nel Noddings, with her moral
model that has been integrity and ways in which FROM MY HEART their equivalent is crucial in the healthy people with fixed mindsets regard vision of education as ‘nurturing the
successfully used in a we can make wholeness Neil Hawkes
through creative integrity development of self-esteem. Parents themselves as special, superior and growth of competent, caring, loving and
number of contexts by I
ndependent Thinking Press, 2013, need to support but also challenge their entitled and they blame others when lovable people’ beyond a curriculum
the IFF. The premise while respecting the 178 pp., $23.95, p/b – ISBN 978-1-
perspectives of other people. children, helping them cope with and they do not perform up to scratch or the based on verbal and mathematical
of their work is that 78135-106-2
learn from adversity. high expectations of a parent. In sport, achievement. The reader will notice that
we live in a world that we cannot fully A useful chart summarises Readers may be aware that I have been At the end of the 1990s, the KIPP John McEnroe is a textbook example of both performance and moral virtues
understand or control, but there are both negative and positive perspectives running a values programme in schools (knowledge is power program) helped this attitude, which partly resulted from are included here. This means that
creative ways of navigating uncertainty. of each horizon on the other. for a number of years, both through young people from disadvantaged his father’s disposition. People who the teacher as role model is critical,
The Three Horizons framework is The section on case studies the Network and more recently through backgrounds achieve outstanding regard themselves as hugely talented especially as their words can either
one of these methods and is clearly explains the three phases of sense Character Scotland, a charity of which I academic results, but then many of are sometimes reluctant to put in the empower or disempower their pupils.
articulated in this stimulating book. making, strategic conversation and am chief executive. The programme is them failed to graduate from college effort of extra training, while athletes Neil emphasises the importance of
The aim is to help readers develop ‘a visionary action leading to patterns called Inspire> Aspire and you can find with a growth mindset would take this
because they did not have the emotional unconditional positive regard in the
future consciousness’ in the present of renewal. Clients include the details on our website – www.inspire- and psychological preparation for necessity for granted - this gives them development of relational trust.
by realising that there are different Carnegie Commission on Rural aspire.org.uk The project focused on independent study. This is where Martin the chance to learn and improve. He defines a value as a principle
perspectives that can be incompatible. Community Development, the Schools London 2012 has just come to an end Seligman’s learned optimism came There are individual chapters on that guides our thinking and behaviour
Horizon 1 (H1) embodies established Inspectorate, NHS Fife, the Scottish and our current project is Global Citizens into the picture and helped students business, relationships, parenting and involving both reflection and practice,
patterns of thinking and behaviour Broadcasting Commission and in the Making around the Commonwealth close the gap. Researchers came up coaching, with plenty of stimulating especially in positions of leadership.
while Horizon 3 (H3) represents the Southcentral (Health) Foundation in Games in Glasgow in 2014. We use a with the following list of qualities: grit, examples. In the business chapter, we The rest of the book is devoted to
emergence of a new pattern and Alaska. Quite frequently, the initiative special template to encourage young self-control, zest, social intelligence, find that big egos can lead to a host an exposition of the ten focuses of
Horizon 2 is transitional. This is more will inspire two or three key members of people to gain self-knowledge and self- gratitude, optimism and curiosity. They of problems, including a behaviour values-based education: a focus on
easily understood graphically where H1 staff who are prepared to try something awareness, inspiration and to define then created a programme based on pattern of pleasing the boss rather the environment, atmosphere and
is declining, H2 currently rising and H3 different and support each other in their aspirations for the future. It is a the development of these qualities. than telling him your true opinion. routines, a focus on you, a focus on
only rises at some point in the future. the process. The patterning of hope powerful exercise and we have over It was also found that affluent young Examples are Lee Iacocca, Ken Lay, your relationships, a focus on adopting
There comes a point when we realise involves living rather than knowing our 25,000 young people signed up this people use relatively more alcohol and Steve Case and Jerry Levin. On the reflective practices, a focus on ethical
that aspects of H1 are inadequate way into the future and is much more year. In addition, the Jubilee Centre drugs, apparently because of excessive other hand, Jack Welch adjusted his vocabulary, a focus on being a role
and their recipes for improvement fall pragmatic than ideological. It is also for Character and Values has been achievement pressures and physical style and therefore achieved far greater model for values, a focus on school
short - the whole system loses its personal rather than mechanistic and established in Birmingham University and emotional isolation from parents. success by fostering a culture of growth assemblies, a focus on the school’s
fitness for purpose. H3 is intrinsically reflects natural processes of growth. under the leadership of Prof James There is an interesting case and teamwork. Across education, curriculum and its leadership, a focus
transformative, bringing in new patterns It goes beyond the extended present Arthur and also supported by the John study concerning the chess team at parenting and business, the wrong kind on community and finally a focus on
that are out of reach for H1 mentalities. and hope as defined by Bill expresses Templeton Foundation. This is by way of Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn. of praise - praise of ability rather than values assessment. There are plenty of
H2 sits in the middle as a transition the possibility of ‘a renewal of the background to these important books. With an inspirational teacher, these effort - leads to a sense of entitlement examples drawn from schools around
and transformation zone responding human,’ both personal and collective. The first two are based on recent disadvantaged young people achieved but at the same time fragility. It is the world and these chapters provide
more immediately to the shortcomings He uses a good analogy of a group of scientific, educational and psychological extraordinary results in national healthier to praise effort than to invaluable advice for any principal trying
of H1 while anticipating some of the musicians improvising together once research, while the third explains competitions. The chapter is entitled assume that results come only from to embed a values-based approach
thinking emerging in H3. The overall they have chosen a theme. They can Neil’s development of values-based ‘how to think’ and one can readily intrinsic ability. A growth mindset also in their schools. There are simple
approach explores the future as an then respond to each other in order education. In a nutshell, as Zig Ziglar appreciate that the process of playing leads to healthier relationships where recommendations like the wording of
interaction between the three horizons to fulfil a common purpose and a famously put it, it is your attitude rather chess on a regular basis not only couples can grow together rather than signs, the importance of pausing to
or perspectives. They correspond to unique mutually supportive pattern of than your aptitude that determines encourages this capacity, but also expect things to work out without any be and especially of fostering trust.
distinctive mindsets: H1 is managerial relationships. your altitude. teaches one to learn from one’s effort. Dweck agrees with Tough that Many of us suffer from what Neil
and attempts to maintain the system, Bill ends with a Polynesian The subtitle of the appropriately mistakes, and challenges the ability to the best parenting combines nurturing calls TBD - too busy disorder - stress
H2 is entrepreneurial in its approach metaphor of navigating with the help named Paul Tough’s book is ‘grit, control emotions under pressure. These with challenge. Just as in business, leading to strains on relationships and
to opportunities while H3 is visionary of imagined islands. He proposes curiosity and the hidden power of students demonstrated grit defined as intimidating coaches do not in the long consequent misunderstandings.
and aspirational. These models and islands of abundance, infinite diversity, character.’ It is a fast paced journalistic self-discipline wedded to a dedicated run achieve the best results. The last The responsibility of the leader of
attitudes can be creatively applied mutuality and finally a floating island report that uses personal stories to pursuit of a goal. There is also a focus part of this ground breaking study helps the school is primarily for its values,
to a great many different situations of improvisation underpinned by hope. bring the science alive. Partly as a on individual students so that one can readers to apply the growth mindset vision, culture, philosophy and practice.
while recognising the world in terms of Whatever your strategic challenge, I reaction to the cognitive hypothesis that understand what it takes to close the to various aspects of their lives, It is these that mark out a values-
constantly shifting patterns of activity. can guarantee that using the Three IQ is the crucial variable, recent research achievement gap and successfully welcoming rather than resisting change. based school in a qualitative fashion.
Bill takes forward his analysis with Horizons framework will shed light has shown that what really matters is finish a college course. There is She poses a number of dilemmas and Neil goes further by referring to the
five key propositions relating to the on the process, and I recommend the development of a set of qualities much for policymakers to ponder on explains how the respective mindsets development of greater consciousness,
nature of future consciousness as an this lucid and engaging book as an including persistence, self-control, in formulating practical responses to would respond, and at the end provides which he defines as awareness with a
awareness of the future potential of essential primer. curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and these findings. a helpful chart summarising the thesis. purpose. At the end of each chapter

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books in brief
there are points to ponder and applied lives. Each chapter begins with an on what Brendon calls growth friends,
b o o k r e v ie w s

b o o ks in b r ie f
to answer situation. This important arresting coaching story illustrating the which enables readers to review the
and inspiring book is a conversation appropriate theme and showing how types of friendships they already have
between the author and the reader, but powerful the right question can be when and work more consciously to develop
also a conversation of the reader with posed at the right time. The structure of these and support our existing friends. David Lorimer
him or herself. One is left in no doubt of the book falls into two parts: first, the five I know from my own work with young
the importance of embracing universal, baseline drives for control, competence, people that friendship is a top priority,
positive values that transcend congruence, caring and connection; then as it also remains throughout life. Note: many of these books are now available in downloadable electronic form
specific cultures and are ultimately a what he calls the five forward drives of The forward drives are about
contribution that each of us can make. change, challenge, creative expression, shakeup, the future and being bold;
It is a simple but powerful message. contribution and consciousness. The they stretch our limits, encouraging us
Taken together, these books highlight
the importance of developing character
charged life is defined as ‘a consciously
designed existence that feels evenly
to learn and grow. One client was able
to manage change successfully in his
Science/Philosophy of Scientism
by John Cowburn SJ
in terms of both performance and moral engaged, energised and enthusiastic.’ organisation, but not in his personal Science Alban Books Ltd 2013, 162 pp., £16.99, p/b.
virtues alongside cognitive capacity. The emphasis is on conscious design life. Brendon goes to the edge with his
This is a comprehensive introduction to scientism, from both a
Indeed, recent research indicates that rather than allowing one’s life to unfold clients, prodding them where it is most Brain Bugs historical and philosophical point of view. The author, a Jesuit
schools where character is emphasised by default. Once our basic needs uncomfortable but also setting up a by Dean Buonomano philosopher, defines scientism as ‘the belief that science can
are also those where academic have been satisfied, we need novelty, constructive relationship that takes explain and do everything and that nothing else can explain or
attainment is highest. This should challenge, connection and expression them both forward. He encourages John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2012, 310 pp., £10.99, p/b.
do anything: it is the belief that science and reason, or scientific
not be surprising given the personal in order to feel more alive. The three us to regard change in terms of gains An authoritative overview of how brain flaws shape our lives by a and rational, are co-extensive terms.’ More concisely, it is the
qualities required for any outstanding recognisable lives are categorised as and also to be very clear and practical professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA. Much of the belief that only scientific knowledge is valid. Physics is given
achievement, which is why my own the caged life, the comfortable life and about our choices, plans and intentions. vocabulary is technological, hence the reference to the brain as pride of place and the world is thought to be value free. This work
programme focuses on the translation finally the charged life as defined above. Challenges stretch our efforts and a device or piece of technology when it is in fact an organ – our explains the origin of the term and the influence of scientism
metaphors are mechanical. The book is highly readable and in various fields before moving on to a philosophical history.
of inspiration into aspiration. Too many of us are stuck in the first two abilities, and are fundamentally about covers a wide range of phenomena including memory, temporal
categories, and this book shows how the journey rather than the destination. In modern times, E.O. Wilson has been a central proponent of
distortions, fear, and unreasonable reasoning where our the scientistic view with his book Consilience. Various chapters
we can emerge into the third by making As Jim Rohn says, the importance of opinions are influenced by arbitrary factors. A useful and key explore determinism and responsibility, values and morality,
Feeling more Alive more demands on ourselves. goals is the person we become as a phrase is that of associative architecture used by advertisers criminal justice and the history of scientific psychology. There
David Lorimer For instance, the first chapter on result of achieving them. He quotes a to create fabricated associations within the brain allied to is also a long chapter on eugenics and on the scientism and
control shows how we can choose speech by Theodore Roosevelt about desirable qualities. As well as being essential for memory, it religion. The author makes it clear that he is not anti-science,
our outlook and how we react to the action and daring greatly. He himself mediates our susceptibility to psychological manipulation. but is questioning the adequacy of a scientistic approach to
THE CHARGE The distorted sense of time can have a dramatic effect on reality. In the final chapter, he describes levels of reality and the
things that happen. We can all control has been setting thirty-day challenges
Brendon Burchard our financial, health and environmental policies, while fear nature of scientific reduction, including that science is indeed
the quality of person that we are an in various areas of his life for the last
F ree Press, 2013, 254 pp., $26, h/b – everyday basis and focus on being the 15 years. can cloud our judgement and influence our behaviour in many not the only valid or rational kind of human knowledge and
ISBN 978-1-4516-6753-0 ways. The situation is made more challenging by the fact that that great scientists are not necessarily paragons of wisdom.
greatest person we can be given our Stephen Covey writes about the the brain itself acts as an editor and censor in relation to the
Brendon Burchard is He also observes that determinism and the argument that
special qualities. This is importance of legacy, treated here conscious mind - the author gives a neat demonstration of this the world is value free are in fact circular propositions that
the founder of the a conscious process as contribution. We can both give of by inserting an extra ‘the’ into a sentence and then pointing it advocates do not seriously ascribe to themselves. This is a
High Performance and one that thrives on ourselves and to others. Brendon’s out in the next one! Unreasonable reasoning includes cognitive thorough coverage of a significant field.
Academy and one of novelty and challenge. model is investing in and serving people, biases, which the author himself unwittingly demonstrates in
the top performance Brendon suggests ways and he has come to find that much of his chapter on supernatural bugs. He is quite right that many
trainers in the world.
He gives away an
of introducing novelty his giving is what he calls fate funding, beliefs are irrational and in the case of Christian Science
can lead to unnecessary deaths, but then he lumps together
Medicine/Health
into our lives on a depending on the people who cross his
enormous amount of regular basis, which just path. He also enables people to realise animistic beliefs with telepathy, ghosts and clairvoyance. These
great free material, requires a bit of forward more fully what contribution they are arguments should be evidence-based and subject to reason. Inside an Autistic World
and even sent me The last chapter discusses debugging techniques, enabling by Wolfgang Weirauch
planning. Controlling our already making, and illustrates this with
a copy of this book readers to be more aware of unconscious biases so that we
workflow is key, and for an inspiring story about an extraordinary can more easily compensate for our brain bugs. He quotes a Temple Lodge Publishing 2013, 204 pp., £12.99, p/b.
for postage only. many of us this means bank manager. Finally, there is the drive Spanish neuroscientist as saying ‘as long as the brain is a Subtitled ‘spiritual experiences of people with autism’, this
His story is that controlling email flow; for consciousness, the area perhaps mystery, the universe – a reflection of the structure of the brain extraordinary book recounts the development and memories of
he was involved he defines the inbox most familiar to readers of this Review. – will also be a mystery.’ three autistic individuals through a technique called Facilitated
in a serious car as a convenient way of This is about being conscious of our Communication. Two of the individuals - Erik and Andreas - are
accident at the age organising other people’s thoughts, energy, feelings, presence, twins and the conversation takes place with their mother, Hilke.
of 19, as a result agenda, and warns against openness to coincidence, to love, to
The Sense of Being Stared At If one is to believe Erik’s account, he was an anthroposophist
of which he asked by Rupert Sheldrake (SMN) in his previous 20th century incarnation and died at Bergen-
being taken over by this wonder. By genuinely working through the Belsen as a result of torture for having hidden Jewish friends.
himself three at the expense of working contents of this highly engaging book, Park Street Press 2013, 386 pp., $18.95, p/b.
This experience apparently made him extremely reluctant to
critical questions: more strategically. Today, I every reader can become more than This is a revised and updated edition of a ground-breaking book incarnate and goes a long way to explaining his present condition
Did I live? Did I am prioritising book reviews, they already are, enjoying the feeling published 10 years ago and covering many aspects of what when he did not initially wish to speak. The descriptions of his
love? Did I matter? These are similar and will not be checking my of being more energised, engaged and Rupert calls the extended mind. The chapter headings in the experiences are graphic and disturbing, but they are redeemed
questions to others undergoing a life- email until much later in the day. This enthusiastic; however, this does require book have been reorganised so that the section on the power by his perception and understanding of Christ, who apparently
threatening crisis, but in his case they will help keep me on track. Brendon commitment, which is the real test. It is of attention now comes first, followed by sections on telepathy persuaded him to incarnate and continue the process of
have become the foundation of a multi- challenges us to undertake reflective all too easy to fall back into our existing and remote viewing. The book summarises more than 25 human evolution. He describes the Nazi period as one of the
million dollar business helping people years of scientific research including the recent work that he darkest and explains that the guards and torturers would have
exercises as we go along, which can patterns. has been able to carry out as director of the Perrott-Warwick
share their message and become more had to experience what it is like to be on the receiving end of
then be applied in everyday situations. project. This means that he is able to draw on more than 5,000 their treatment in their life review. This scarcely bears thinking
authentic in their lives. I have also Competence includes stretching case histories and 4,000 questionnaire responses involving about, especially as these same guards were driven by fear that
benefited from his book The Millionaire ourselves and setting new goals, but more than 20,000 people. His thesis is that these powers are they themselves would be killed if they failed to follow orders.
Messenger, which is available as an also reviewing past success. in fact a part of our biological nature, and some like telepathy It turns out that the third character, Martin, remembers being
e-book and on CD. This helps people Congruence is about self-image and can be proved in animals as well. He puts the whole range of a guard at Dachau and being compelled to carry out appalling
work out what is unique about their life self-definition, living into the future and topics within an evolutionary framework, showing persuasively orders. All this is explained within the framework of Rudolf
story and what they can usefully share maintaining a positive mood; again that we need a hypothesis of mind extended beyond the brain Steiner’s philosophy of evil involving Ahriman. The reader gains
with others. Brendon gives the reader tips on how and that many subtle communications are mediated by the a further important insight into the inner condition of autistic
This inspiring and empowering book, to achieve this. Care includes self- invisible connections represented by what he calls morphic people and realises that they have in many cases an exquisite
with its accompanying Web resources, fields. The result is an authoritative and up-to-date description sensitivity and concern with spiritual development; they may
care, feeling safe, worthy and loved, also have clairvoyant abilities and the capacity to communicate
is a tremendous resource to help of research across a wide range of areas. Essential reading for
and also maintaining a healthy lifestyle. those who missed the first edition, and for those who did read with nature spirits. It seems that the distinction normally drawn
readers define who and what they are, Connection embraces family and friends, it at the time, much new research is reported, including recent between inner and outer is different for these individuals. This
and how best to move forward in their and there is an incredibly useful section experiments with phone and text telepathy. is certainly an eye-opening book.

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