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However, what I knew some was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how to dress and act like a witch and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wright_Universe|title=The Universe and Life but Not Everything|author=Anthony Christian Wright|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=I often wonder - usually after a moment of shaking my fist at the terms news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it ends up usingdown. I have all sorts of thoughts about these things, but not othersfrom the metaphysics of who we are and where we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Santiago_Returning|title=Returning Home|author=Stephan Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as bhikshuto how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wilbourne_Shepherd|title=Shepherd of Another Flock|author=David Wilbourne|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[: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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pigliucci_How|title=How to be a Stoic|author=Massimo Pigliucci|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=''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 had never really come across the maninevitable 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 life storymessy difficulties. Yes}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pearce_Biblical|title=A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, I knew he found enlightenment and taught Worship|author=Dr Mark Pearce|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=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 very pacifist kind Christian context as well as providing tips and suggestions for those involved in worship in the present day.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Iles_Thoughts|title=The Thoughts and Inner Journey of faithDr. John Dee|author=Clair 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, but where did he come Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from? What failings did he 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 pathdictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woodcock_Becoming|title=Becoming Reverend: A diary|author=Matt Woodcock|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[: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 were 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!}}{{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, 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 ones esoteric society that joined him along 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Vonnegut_Sun|title=Sun Moon Star|author=Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Midzi_Forbidden|title=The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore?|author=Jabulani Midzi|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mathur_Amma|title=Amma, Tell Me About Diwali!|author=Bhakti Mathur|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=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''.
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===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. 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. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and 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? [[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke]]===
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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]]
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===[[Basic Witches by J Saxena and J Zimmerman]]===
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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 chapter. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how to dress and act like a witch and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge. [[Basic Witches by J Saxena and J Zimmerman|Full Review]]
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===[[The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright]]===
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I often wonder - usually after a moment of shaking my fist at the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it down. I have all sorts of thoughts about these things, from the metaphysics of who we are and where we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. 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|Full Review]]
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===[[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago]]===
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[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. 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 Santiago|Full Review]]
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===[[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne]]===
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[[: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]]
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===[[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci]]===
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''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]]
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===[[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce]]===
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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]]
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===[[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles]]===
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[[: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]]
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===[[The Stone Cradle by Patrice Chaplin]]===
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''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]]
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===[[Becoming Reverend: A diary by Matt Woodcock]]===
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[[: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]]
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===[[Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff]]===
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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]]
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===[[The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? by Jabulani Midzi]]===
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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]]
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===[[Amma, Tell Me About Diwali! by Bhakti Mathur]]===
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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]]
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