Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Friday, April 30, 2021

Is the brain a spiritual organ?

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The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain: A Neurologist’s Search for the God Experience Kevin Nelson, M. D. Nonfiction 326 pages Concentrating on ...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Too good to be true?

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Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind Brian Clegg Non-fiction, 321 pages If you’re looking ...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Gravity. Bet you fall for it too

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Gravity: How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives Brian Clegg Non-fiction, 335 pages Books like this don’t have happy endings....
Friday, April 09, 2021

Ephemera? I don't think so

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Brain Wars the scientific battle over the existence of the mind and the proof that will change the way we live our lives Mario Beauregard No...
Friday, April 02, 2021

We have met the enemy and he is us.

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The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle Steven Pressfield Non-fiction, 167 pages "The War of Art" like Sun Tsu’s similar...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Keeping its secrets

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Incognito: the secret lives of the brain David M. Eagleman Nonfiction 290 pages Pantheon. 2011 You may think you know who you are, but accor...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Allied Alchemists

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137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession Arthur I. Miller Nonfiction 363 pages Despite the title, you’ll have to read the...
Friday, March 12, 2021

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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain Lisa Feldman Barrett Nonfiction, 180 pages, 2020 This is a book of essays. It could have been a tex...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Jung at heart— the psychiatrist’s memoir

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Memories, Dreams, Reflections C. G. Jung. Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, Translated by Richard and Clara Winston Non-fiction, 430 page...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Of butterflies and dreaming sages

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The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality Robert Lanza, MD and Matej Pavšič with Bob Berman Non-fiction, 289 pages In this third...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Thanks for all the fish

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Saving Fish From Drowning Amy Tan Fiction, 508 pages The relationship between mothers and daughters is a theme frequently associated with Am...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Hopes of glitz and glory

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The The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner Fiction, 448 pages Whatever your politics, numbers don’t lie. Too m...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

How we think we're driving when we're really just along for the ride

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The Hidden Brain: how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, and save our lives Shankar Vedantam Nonfiction, 270 pages Wha...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Science, religion, physics and God

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The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing in Einstein, Darwin and God Bernard Haisch Nonfiction, 222 pages New Page Books. 2010 In this follow-...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Help, I'm a cop

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Burmese Days George Orwell Fiction, 291 pages  "It's a drag being a cop" ~ Frank Zappa, "Help, I'm a rock" Geo...

It's like the egg laying the chicken - or mixing metaphors - Ouroboros

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Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death Robert Lanza and Bob Berman Non-fiction, 224 pages In t...