‘Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door’ by Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2025-04-18 ISBN: 978-1-541601-24-6 Reviewed by Caroline Warnes [...]
‘GreenSpirit Reflections’ Compiled by Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
GreenSpirit Book Series, 2020 ISBN 9798633141962 Reviewed by Chris Holmes [...]
‘What’s Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner’ by Dan Levitt
Harper, 2023 ISBN: 978-0063251182 Reviewed by Ian Mowll ___________________________________________________________________________________________ This [...]
‘Walks for Mind and Spirit – Britain’ Edited by Madeleine Sadler
Duncan Petersen (2023) ISBN 978-1739668419 Reviewed by Piers Warren [...]
‘Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making’ by Chris Packham and Andrew Cohen
William Collins (2023) ISBN 978-0008507206 Reviewed by Piers Warren ___________________________________________________________________________________________ [...]
‘Cherishing the Earth – Nourishing the Spirit’ by Maria Curtis (Ed)
Lindsey Press, 2023 ISBN-13: 978-0853190981 Reviewed by [...]
‘Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible’ by Simon Barnes
Simon & Schuster, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1471175428 Reviewed by Ian [...]
‘Wildlings: How to raise your family in nature’ by Steve Backshall and Helen Glover
Two Roads (2022) ISBN: 978-1399802864 Reviewed by Piers Warren _____________________________________________________________________________________ [...]
‘Magical Britain: 650 Enchanted and Mystical Sites’ by Rob Wildwood
Wild Things Publishing (2022) ISBN 978-1910636305 Reviewed by Piers Warren ___________________________________________________________________________________________ [...]
‘Eat Your Weeds’ by Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal
Merlin Unwin Books (2022) ISBN: 978-1913159375 Reviewed by Piers Warren [...]
‘Gaia Alchemy: The Reuniting of Science, Psyche, and Soul’ by Stephan Harding
Bear & Company, 2022 ISBN: 978-1591434252 Reviewed by Ian Mowll [...]
‘Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature’ by Sajah Popham
North Atlantic Books, 2019 ISBN: 978-1623173135 Reviewed by Emma Farrell [...]
‘Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work: Spiritual Practices in a Scientific Age’ by Rupert Sheldrake
Coronet, 2019. ISBN:9781473653436 Reviewed by Marian McCain __________________________________________________________________ What [...]
‘The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe’ by John F. Haught
Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-0300217032 Reviewed by [...]
‘The Visionary Spirit: Awakening to the Imaginal Realm in the Transformocene Age’ by Mick Collins
Permanent Publications, 2018 ISBN: 978-1856233156 Reviewed by Trevor Sharman ___________________________________________________________ [...]
‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuval Noah Harari
Vintage, 2015 ISBN: 978-0099590088 Reviewed by Ian Mowll ________________________________________________________ [...]
‘The Biotime Log’, introduced by Maddy Harland, with illustrations by Jane Bottomley
Permanent Publications, 2018 ISBN: 978-1856233217 Reviewed by Hilary Norton ____________________________________________________________ [...]
‘Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe’ by John Hands
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, (2016) ISBN 978-0715651216 Reviewed by [...]
‘If Woman Rose Rooted’ by Sharon Blackie
September Publishing:2nd Revised edition (2016) ISBN: 978-1910463666 Reviewed by Ian [...]
‘The Vegan Cook & Gardener: Growing, storing and cooking delicious healthy food all year round’ by Piers Warren & Ella Bee Glendining
Permanent Publications, 2018 ISBN: 978-1856233187 Reviewed by Marian Van Eyk McCain [...]
‘Wayside Medicine: Forgotten Plants and how to use them’ by Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal
Merlin Unwin Books, 2017 ISBN: 978-1910723357 Reviewed by Diana Lee _____________________________________________________________ [...]
‘The Empowerment Manual: A guide for collaborative groups ‘ by Starhawk
The Manual seeks to identify the key elements that enable collaborative groups to thrive, how their healthy development can be facilitated with many practical exercises and rituals drawn from and credited to a wide range of sources. Starhawk illustrates her concepts by applying these elements and processes to a dramatically created fictional co-housing cooperative working its way through difficulties and challenges. And she ends by referring to the amazing levels of global collaboration offered by digital technology and how all organisations must adapt and evolve to the changing contexts of our times.
‘Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology’ by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
A physicist and a professor of molecular biology lead us into a new scientific world in which physics and biology talk to one another – and the results are very exciting. In the past quantum physics pretty much had the monopoly of physics, and biology was limited to the world of classical science. The experiments by which the quantum world was understood required very precise conditions which are not found in the messy world of Nature. However, as this book demonstrates life at every level depends on the movement of fundamental particles that are governed by quantum rules.
‘A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey’ by Matthew Fox
This book is primarily about Thomas Merton (31 January 1915 – 10 December 1968), a Trappist monk in the USA. But it is also about Creation Spirituality (as articulated by Matthew Fox) and Meister Eckhart, a Christian mystic of the Middle Ages who influenced both Thomas Merton and Matthew Fox. It is a good way not only to understand Thomas Merton but also to see the strands of Creation Spirituality in Eckhart, Merton and Fox.
‘This Changes Everything’ by Naomi Klein
Klein's book is crammed with case studies from the frontline of the climate movement – from companies and organisations working on new ‘solutions’ to global warming to the shady coalitions and funding deals that are sealed behind closed doors. It could easily have descended into a depressing catalogue of reasons why we – and the Earth – are doomed, but the main message is one of hope It’s not too late to save the planet if we act now; but the action must be dramatic and all-encompassing.
‘Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service’ by Alastair McIntosh and Matt Carmichael
Spiritual activism is about being both ‘spiritually active,’ i.e. inspiring others, as well as being ‘spiritually grounded,’ i.e. being a compassionate activist with protests and practical action. It has ten chapters covering a wide range of territory, each ending with a case study featuring a well-known person who has been involved in spiritual activism such as Julia Butterfly Hill, Gandhi, Muhammad (pbuh) and Desmond Tutu.
‘The Practitioner’s Encyclopedia of Flower Remedies: The Definitive Guide to All Flower Remedies, their Making and Uses’ by Clare G. Harvey
Clare Harvey writes that Dr Bach told her grandmother that though his essences were complete in themselves in the future there would be the need for essences from all over the world. Over the last 30 or so years there has been a worldwide explosion of new essences so that from the first 28 discovered by Dr Bach there are now literally thousands. In this compilation the writer has collected over 3,000 essences and combination remedies and listed them by continent and producer with the explanations and applications provided by their suppliers. Each section has its own introduction and the whole provides a very comprehensive reference book.
‘Urban Acupuncture’ by Jaime Lerner
Most urban spaces and buildings in the West are designed and built with no sensitivity whatsoever to these subtle energy currents. Which is why Jaime Lerner's book is called 'Acupuncture'. It is all about bringing life back into dead spaces and restoring the flow of energy to places where it has been blocked or stifled. Lerner, who was three times mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, and is also an architect and a popular advocate for sustainable and liveable urbanism, describes how some city planners have worked to restore life and dynamism to ailing urban areas.
‘Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea,’ by Carter Phipps
We have, as a human race, to combat climate change, over population, the destruction of species and more. These have to be addressed collectively by humans, no one country or group can go it alone. How can we do this? This book provides sign-posts, sometimes answers, sometimes questions, but at least broad pointers to the ways in which we can integrate an overarching story to help us to address the pressing issues of today.
‘The Living Goddesses’ by Marija Gimbutas (Edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter)
In this book Marija Gimbutas provides us with a scholarly but also readable account of the Goddess tradition of Europe from the late Palaeolithic and Neolithic eras, through the megalithic and henge building periods and into recorded history.