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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ <!--Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Hill -->{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Seager*[[image|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth:Hill_AtlasA Jewish Reading of the New Testament|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre= Spirituality and Religion|linksummary=https://www I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part.amazonCulturally 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.coOther 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.uk/gp/product/1783706961?ie|isbn=UTF8&tagB092BWWG9Y}}{{Frontpage|author=thebookbag-21&linkCodePeter Owen Jones|title=as2&campConversations with Nature|rating=1634&creative5|genre=6738&creativeASINSpirituality and Religion|summary=1783706961]]One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it's not very long. Having read the book twice over, I'm brought back inescapably to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broad. In this case I'm brought to the idea that the length of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. 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 [[''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hill_Atlas|title=The Atlas of Monsters by |author=Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence]]==|rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] summary=There are monsters and mysterious characters, 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}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1999731506<br>|title=Spiritual Atheist|author=Nick Seneca Jankel<!-- Micheal -->|rating=2*[[image:Micheal_Revelation.jpg|leftgenre=Lifestyle|linksummary=https://www''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline.amazonThis is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how to be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god.coTouching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life.uk/gp/product/1524666866?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524666866]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789015200|title=Be Your Higher Self|author=[[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal]]==Samesh Ramjattan|rating=4 [[image:1.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Edward K Michael has taken the brave step summary=There are a lot of laying out his spiritual journey for all to see. It is a deeply personal book and heself-help books about: it's honest enough - genuine enough - to wonder if he would have taken a different path if he had known then what he knows nowone of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but heit's generous enough too not always easy to hope that people will find comfort in the supernatural manifestations he has seen. Before book you begin reading you will need . Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to accept that make sense of our place in the book seems 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 have been written without editorial intervention: you are hearing the real man speak spirit world, the chakras, karma and what you will read is very close to stream reincarnation as well as information about the age of consciousnessAquarius and the ego. [[Revelation Ch:25 It's a slim book - just 128 pages - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal|Full Review]]so can it provide us with the answers we seek?<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Mahnke -->*[[image:Mahnke_Lore.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472251652?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472251652]]Mahnke_Lore ==|title=[[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by |author=Aaron Mahnke]]|rating=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|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]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Saxena -->*[[image:Saxena_Jaya.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1594749779?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1594749779]]Saxena_Jaya ==|title=[[Basic Witches by |author=J Saxena and J Zimmerman]]==|rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] summary=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]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wright_Universe|title=The Universe and Life but Not Everything

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1850788332|title=Rosie: Note to Self |author=Claire Connor and G P Taylor|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 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-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 the rest of the book is as much an exploration of grief as it is a romance novel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Santiago_Returning|title=Returning Home

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kieron Moore and Rajesh NagulakondaWilbourne_Shepherd|title=Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me 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 Shepherd 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182299</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAnother Flock

|genre=AutobiographySpirituality 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283072709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Massimo PigliucciPigliucci_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 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184604507X</amazonuk>

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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Iles_Thoughts|title=The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee

|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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676691</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrice ChaplinWoodcock_Becoming|title=The Stone Cradle |rating=5|genre=Autobiography |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 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190557083X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBecoming Reverend: A diary

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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan ChermayeffChaplin_Stone|title= Sun Moon Star|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609807243</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Stone Cradle|author=Jabulani Midzi|title=The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore?Patrice Chaplin|rating=3.5

|summary=This ''The Stone Cradle'' is indeed a good question that not even Christians can agree on. The spectrum goes remarkable book from the right wing Evangelical literalists who believe right down to the creation's 7 days being just thatauthor Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, all the way over to third in a series set in the left wing Anglo Catholic liberals, some Catalonian city of whom take issue with the virgin birth Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and the crucifixionspirituality. Staking my colours to the mastThe city has drawn artists, I'm writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, the middle, believing that most famous student of Isaac the Bible should be taken in historical contextBlind, that it does contain Old Testament myths has always been a home for mysticism and some accounts clearly written in a one-sided way but I firmly believe in Jesus, the miracles etcsecrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524661910</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bhakti Mathur|title=Amma, Tell Me About Diwali!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali The magnetism and it resonance of the city has had been great fun - a wonderful, beautiful day and tonight hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the city is lit up by thousands and thousands fifties. The series of lights. Amma books detail her journey and daddy had given many gifts to their boy and Klaka and his brother had lit her encounters with the earthen oil lamps known as diyasesoteric society that have protected its mysteries since ancient times. They didn't just eat and have The Stone Cradle' also gives a good time - they also offered their prayers for good fortune, prosperity new life and health direction to Ganeshathe mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, the small French village, made famous by the God of new beginnings Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to Lakshmi, the Goddess mountain of wealth. But Klaka was curious: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me about Diwali''Canigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)Vonnegut_Sun|title= Letters to Poseidon|rating= 4|genre= Travel|summary= A serviette, a glass of champagne taken outside a fish restaurant 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 POSEIDON, the Greek god who has preoccupied Nooteboom'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 world. He is not expecting a reply.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSun Moon Star|author=Alison Pick|title=Between Gods|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary= Alison Pick's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before the Holocaust by bribing the Nazis for visas to Canada; the rest of the family died in Auschwitz. They spent their whole lives trying to pass as Christians, Kurt Vonnegut 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 11.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christopher Dell|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsIvan Chermayeff

|summary=What does a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain the creation of the world if you had no science as suchIn his own delightfully imaginative way, or Kurt Vonnegut tells the changing story of the seasons? What other kinds birth of natures – chaotic trickery, evil personae or even the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answers, Christ in this unique and locks on to a multitude long out of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followedprint children's book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Femi Bolaji|title=God Tells Told from the Sun to Shine: An Amazing Story perspective of Love and Forgiveness|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=Jacob was the second new born infant in his first hours of twin boys and resented the privileges that would come to Esau who was, after all only a few minutes older than him, but would get twice the inheritance from their father, Isaacbirth, than that which would come this charming little story feels different to Jacob. Even in his teens Jacob plotted to usurp Esau’s position. What would happen if Esau died? But Esau was fit and a born hunter. Jacob thought about killing him, but other children's Christmas books whilst at the stories of what had happened same time goes back to Cain and Abel came to mind and he was determined that he would not make the mistakes which Cain had made, so he developed an alternative plan and took advantage of Esau’s well-known greed: he was always desperate for something to eat. Esau is basics in exploring the man who sold his birthright for a bowl true nature of lentil stewChristmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1482802120</amazonuk>