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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ <!--Remove -->{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Jankel -->{{Frontpage|-author=Frederic Seager| styletitle="widthJesus, the Man and the Myth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Jewish Reading of the New Testament[[image:1999731506.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999731506/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Spirituality and Religion| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel]]=== [[image:2star I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingOther than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle{{Frontpage|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religionauthor=Peter Owen Jones|title=Conversations with Nature|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion]] ''Spiritual Atheist|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual s not very long. Having read the religiousbook twice over, according I'm brought back inescapably to the taglineSpanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broad. This In this case I'm brought to the idea that the length of life is a taboo smashing book which solves not the point; the problem of modernity and explains how to be a point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in gods Guide to Life|rating=4. Touching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers 5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a 'path to meaning'firm believer that sometimes we choose books, allowing and sometimes books choose us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill_Atlas''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.jpg|left|link=https://wwws.amazonp.co.uk/gp/product/1783706961?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783706961]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence]]==is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-FictionFrontpage|isbn=Hill_Atlas|title=The Atlas of Monsters|author=Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality summary=There are monsters and Religion]]mysterious characters, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] There are monsters and mysterious characters, such such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one… [[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|Full Review]]}}<!-- Micheal -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1999731506| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Spiritual Atheist|author=Nick Seneca Jankel[[image:Micheal_Revelation.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524666866?ie2|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524666866]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal]]=== [[image:1.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality ''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how to be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Edward K Michael has taken the brave step of laying out his spiritual journey for all to seelove freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. It is a deeply personal book and heTouching on everything from 'brain science's honest enough - genuine enough - to wonder if he would have taken AI, Jankel offers a different 'path if he had known then what he knows nowto meaning', but he's generous enough too allowing us to hope that people will find comfort in the supernatural manifestations he has seenmove beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. Before you begin reading you will need to accept that the book seems to have been written without editorial intervention: you are hearing the real man speak }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789015200|title=Be Your Higher Self|author=Samesh Ramjattan|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and what you will read is very close to stream Religion|summary=There are a lot of consciousness. [[Revelation Ch:25 self- A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal|Full Review]] <!-- Mahnke -->|-| style="widthhelp books about: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mahnke_Loreit's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it.uk/gp/product/1472251652?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472251652]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The World of Lore Even with hard work and dedication, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke]]=== [[image:4obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]] Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, [[:Category:Spirituality karma and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]]reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek?}}Every country, every town{{Frontpage|isbn=Mahnke_Lore|title=The World of Lore, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, there's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today. [[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke|Full Review]] <!-- Saxena -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Saxena_Jaya| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Basic Witches|author=J Saxena and J Zimmerman[[image:Saxena_Jaya.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1594749779?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1594749779]]  Spirituality and Religion| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Basic Witches Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and would know how to levitate by J Saxena and J Zimmerman]]=== [[image:4starthe end of the first chapter. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how to dress and Religion|Spirituality act like a witch and Religion]] Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and would know how to levitate by the end of the first chaptercontains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how to dress }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wright_Universe|title=The Universe and Life but Not Everything|author=Anthony Christian Wright|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and act like Religion|summary=I often wonder - usually after a witch moment of shaking my fist at the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments society would look like were I to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix bingewrite it down. [[Basic Witches by J Saxena I have all sorts of thoughts about these things, from the metaphysics of who we are and J Zimmerman|Full Review]] <!where we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. I've never done such an exercise -- Wright -->mostly because I lack the time, the patience and the diligence required. It seems like an enormous task.}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1850788332| styletitle="widthRosie: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Note to Self |author=Claire Connor and G P Taylor[[image:Wright_Universe.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524682012/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] General Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textIn the first of a five book deal Claire Connor, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us a modern romance based loosely on the story of Ruth from the Bible. This is total chick-align: left;"|===[[The Universe lit, and from the first few pages I thought it was just going to be a very light, funny romance story. However, the story quickly takes a depressing turn and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright]]===the rest of the book is as much an exploration of grief as it is a romance novel.}}{{Frontpage[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{Santiago_Returning|title=Returning Home|author=Stephan Santiago|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religionsummary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] I often wonder - usually after has experienced life in a moment of shaking my fist at the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I way that's led him to write it down. I have believe we're all sorts of thoughts about these things, from the metaphysics of who on a soul journey back home – that place we are and where inhabited before we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policieswere born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children. I've never done such an exercise - mostly because I lack the time, the patience and the diligence required. It seems like an enormous task. [[The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wilbourne_Shepherd|title=Shepherd of Another Flock|author=David Wilbourne|Full Review]]rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion<!-- Santiago -->|-| style|summary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Santiago_Returning.jpgCategory:David Wilbourne|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1504305272/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21David Wilbourne's]]  | style="verticalCV looks like a career path for people who are hard-align: top; textof-align: left;"|===[[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago]]=== [[image:3humoured. Banker, teacher of Ancient Greek, vicar, bishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkle.5star Yet in David's case, we'd be totally wrong to assume. The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the hand to show us episodes from his life as vicar of the character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of sorrow are equally shared with tears of laughter.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]]}}{{Frontpage[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him isbn=Pigliucci_How|title=How to believe we're all on be a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were bornStoic|author=Massimo Pigliucci|rating=3. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children. [[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Buddhasummary=''Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the ensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9381182299/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore '' For many readers, living in an age of rules to make us happy and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4starthe inevitable failure to stick to them, this is an intensely reassuring sentence.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] I don'Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to, one which doesn't do religiondemand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, but still there was something that drew me beauty or riches in order to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educational. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]] <!-- Wilbourne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilbourne_Shepherd.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0283072709/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne's]] CV looks like a career path for people who are hard-of-humoured. Banker, teacher of Ancient Greek, vicar, bishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkle. Yet in David's case we'd be totally wrong to assume. The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the hand to show us episodes from his life as vicar of the character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of sorrow are equally shared with tears of laughter. [[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne|Full Review]] <!-- Pigliucci -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pigliucci_How.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/184604507X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the ensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers.'' For many readers, living in an age of rules to make us happy and the inevitable failure to stick to them, this is an intensely reassuring sentence. Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to, one which doesn't demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in order to truly succeed in life, and one which recognises life's messy difficulties. [[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci|Full Review]] <!-- Pearce -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pearce_Biblical.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524677280/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Music used in religions and worship itself goes back to the beginning of humankind. In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a Christian context as well as providing tips and suggestions for those involved in worship in the present day. [[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce|Full Review]] <!-- Iles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Iles_Thoughts.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524676691/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in her own words, a normal person who was educated at a normal comprehensive school. However, she's a normal person who hears dead people. Yes, Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed on. In the past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagine, then, her surprise when she felt she was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. Over a period of time she could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result. [[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles|Full Review]] <!-- Chaplin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Chaplin_Stone.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/190557083X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Stone Cradle by Patrice Chaplin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''The Stone Cradle'' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, the third in a series set in the Catalonian city of Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, the most famous student of Isaac the Blind, it has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the fifties. The series of books detail her journey and her encounters with the esoteric society that have protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and direction to the mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, the small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the mountain of Canigou. [[The Stone Cradle by Patrice Chaplin|Full Review]] <!-- Woodcock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woodcock_Becoming.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781400105/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Becoming Reverend: A diary by Matt Woodcock]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to a story one day. This takes him by surprise but the resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for him to remain in the pews. Errrrm… whoops! [[Becoming Reverend: A diary by Matt Woodcock|Full Review]] <!-- Vonnegut -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Vonnegut_Sun.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609807243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] In his own delightfully imaginative way, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of the birth of Christ in this unique and long out of print children's book. Told from the perspective of the new born infant in his first hours of birth, this charming little story feels different to other children's Christmas books whilst at the same time goes back to the basics in exploring the true nature of Christmas. [[Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|Full Review]] <!-- Midzi -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Midzi_Forbidden.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524661910/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? by Jabulani Midzi]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Engineer Jabulani Midzi applies his professional logic to the Bible, asking us to consider if and to what degree it's the word of God. He examines this via categories including the Creation, the Fall of Man, heaven and hell and punishment and forgiveness. [[The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? by Jabulani Midzi|Full Review]] <!-- Mathur -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mathur_Amma.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9881502888/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Amma, Tell Me About Diwali! by Bhakti Mathur]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Klaka had celebrated Diwali and it had been great fun - a wonderful, beautiful day and tonight the city is lit up by thousands and thousands of lights. Amma and daddy had given many gifts to their boy and Klaka and his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known as diyas. They didn't just eat and have a good time - they also offered their prayers for good fortune, prosperity and health to Ganesha, the God of new beginnings and to Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth. But Klaka was curious: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me about Diwali''. [[Amma, Tell Me About Diwali! by Bhakti Mathur|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)|title= Letters to Poseidon|rating= 4|genre= Travel|summary= A serviette, a glass of champagne taken outside a fish restaurant truly succeed in the open-air Viktualienmarkt in Munich, all taken to celebrate the first day of spring, prompt Cees Nooteboom into Proustian reverie. Upon the paper napkin is written in blue capitals the word POSEIDONlife, the Greek god who has preoccupied Nooteboomand one which recognises life's thoughts for several summers. The blue colour reminds him of the sea viewed from Mediterranean garden of his villa in Menorca. Taking this prompting as a moment of benign synchronicity, he later begins a correspondence with this sea-deity. He seeks to inquire how this somewhat unreliable ancient Greek Olympian sees aeons of time and sends him letters and legenda; meditations and stories to be read, both poetic and tragic, from the arts and the contemporary worldmessy difficulties. He is not expecting a reply.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison PickPearce_Biblical|title=Between GodsA Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship|author=Dr Mark Pearce

|genre=AutobiographySpirituality and Religion|summary= Alison Pick's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before the Holocaust by bribing the Nazis for visas Music used in religions and worship itself goes back to Canada; the rest beginning of the family died humankind. In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in Auschwitz. They spent their whole lives trying to pass a Christian context as well as Christians, providing tips and Pick's father, too, was reluctant to have anything to do with Judaism. Pick only learned he was Jewish through a conversation overheard when she was 11suggestions for those involved in worship in the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Iles_Thoughts|title=The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee|author=Christopher DellClair Iles|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in her own words, a normal person who was educated at a normal comprehensive school. However, she's a normal person who hears dead people. Yes, Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed on. In the past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagine, then, her surprise when she felt she was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. Over a period of time she could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woodcock_Becoming|title=MythologyBecoming Reverend: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsA diary|author=Matt Woodcock

|summary=What does [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a rainbow mean new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to you? a story one day. How would you explain This takes him by surprise but the creation resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for him to remain in the world if you had no science as suchpews. Errrrm… whoops!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Chaplin_Stone|title=The Stone Cradle|author=Patrice Chaplin|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=''The Stone Cradle'' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, or the changing of third in a series set in the seasons? What other kinds Catalonian city of natures – chaotic trickeryGirona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, evil personae or even the characteristics most famous student of goats – people your world? And why is Isaac the Blind, it that has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the oceans fifties. The series of books detail her journey and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at her encounters with the mythologies esoteric society that formed those answers, have protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and locks on direction to a multitude the mysteries of subjects – bloodRennes le Chateau, musicthe small French village, godly activity – made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to show us what has followedthe mountain of Canigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>