Book Corner The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching by Rosemarie Anderson While living and teaching in Asia in the late 1970s, I learned to read basic Chinese in order to identify the women’s restroom, read street signs, and buy more items than I could readily identify such as eggs, vegetables, and beer. Soon I fell in love with Chinese etymology and calligraphy and deepened my understanding […] Rosemarie Anderson April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner A Quest for Wisdom – Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life, by David Lorimer At the age of 24, I pressed the “Eject” button from my conventional career path in City merchant banking and set off on my quest for wisdom and deeper understanding of life. I arrived at Champagne Moet & Chandon in Epernay in the autumn of 1976 with four boxes of books, combining reading with guiding […] David Lorimer April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Uncategorized The Faces of God: A Kabbalistic “Myth” and its Implications for Consciousness Last year I was invited to contribute a chapter to a book with the provisional title “Perspectives on consciousness”. My initial impulse was to decline the invitation due to a high workload for Alef Trust related tasks, exacerbated by responsibilities to a child needing home schooling during the pandemic and an ageing father requiring increasing […] Les Lancaster March 10, 2021April 9, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Transpersonal Coaching Handbook, by Jevon Dangeli et al The second edition of the Transpersonal Coaching Handbook (TCH) was launched on 4th March 2021 by the book’s lead author Jevon Dangeli (Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Course Leader at Alef Trust). The TCH is a comprehensive, interactive, and practical guide for coaches at all levels, including anyone interested in learning the transpersonal approaches to coaching and […] Jevon Dangeli March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Mind to Matter, by Dawson Church The author is the founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (www.niih.org) for the study and implementation of evidence-based psychological and medical techniques, including EFT. His starting point for this informative book is that every creation begins as a thought. The computer on which I am writing this began as a thought, and this […] David Lorimer January 25, 2021January 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner An End to Upside-Down Living, by Mark Gober I met Mark at the conference that we arranged with the Laszlo Institute in the summer of 2018. He had just finished his first book, An End to Upside Down Thinking, which I reviewed in the December 2018 issue, in which he also contributed an article. He was originally a Wall Street investment banker and […] David Lorimer December 6, 2020January 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Kabbalah & Healing, by Maggy Whitehouse Maggy Whitehouse is an independent sacramental minister and teacher of Kabbalah in the Toledano Tradition who has recently found a second strand of work as a professional stand-up comedian. In this remarkable and profoundly wise book, she leaves her own journey to the final chapter entitled ‘a life of miracles’ where she describes various critical […] David Lorimer November 4, 2020March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner The Flip, by Jeffrey J. Kripal Jeffrey Kripal is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and chairs the board of the Esalen Institute. He gave two brilliant and lucid talks at the science of consciousness meeting in Interlaken in June, and this superb book fully reflects these qualities. The flip of the title refers to epiphanies of mind […] David Lorimer October 30, 2020March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner The Veiled Pulse of Time, by William Bryant I imagine that every reader has at some point asked themselves if there is some underlying emergent pattern in the way their lives unfold. When I was 22, I read Testimony of Light by Helen Greaves, where she explains the idea of an agreed blueprint for a life before one incarnates – this made a […] David Lorimer October 15, 2020March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Re-Enchanting the Academy, ed. Angela Voss Max Weber first popularised the idea of disenchantment over 100 years ago, a process that has intensified since that time. This book emerged from a conference at the University of Kent in Canterbury in 2015. It is based on the premise that education has to nourish and inspire both heart and mind ‘if it is […] David Lorimer September 3, 2020March 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
