Just Aware

Goethe’s character Faust is a potent symbol of Everyman in our modern hi-tech wonderland. If we have the money, we can have almost anything we ...

I followed my usual practice of reading the contents first – and the introduction at the end. I am glad I postponed the personal intro, ...

The world you live in is created, millisecond by millisecond, in technicolour virtual reality, by the most complex parallel biocomputer in the universe.  But it ...

What do we make of the primitive religions described in The Golden Bough in the 21st Century? It’s an amazing work of late Victorian anthropology ...

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a book published in 2009 by the polymath psychiatrist ...

We all of us have a philosophy, whether we know it or not. It’s the way we face life, dour or hopeful, cynical or romantic. ...

Quaker Worship: Reflections and Explorations by James McCarthy This is a thoughtful consideration of Quaker meetings for worship.  It’s a new addition to the Kindlers ...

Published in 1990, this book of psychiatry sold six million copies. Mine was bought this year for £1.50 from a second-hand store, and it has ...