Category: Book Reviews

David Stubbs
Fear of Music
Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen
First published by O Books, 2009
144 pages/ $19.95 US
Review by Kate Russell

The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field
By Ervin Laszlo
Inner Traditions (February 12, 2009)
ISBN-10: 1594772983
288 pages
Review by Zareen Khan
This book is about an idea whose time comes again and again throughout human history. An attempt at a new interpretation of a concept literally as old as the very skies themselves, the concept of Akashic [...]

Unlocking the Power of Glyphs
Jean Logan, Ph.D.
Holy Ground Farm, Inc.
203 pp, $24.95
Review by Marianne Hooker
According to the author, Jean Logan, Webster’s Dictionary defines a glyph as a “symbol that conveys information nonverbally.”   This book is a compilation of glyphs that the author felt led to design to help heal the world.   Each glyph represents a [...]

MANDALA The Art of Creating Future
June-Elleni Laine
O Books, 2009
105 pp, $19.95
This book presents the art of mandala for use as a tool for creating the conscious future of your choice. The author defines the mandala as a container for essence, a prayer, a way to bring the unconscious to the light. She [...]

Medicine, Miracles, and Manifestations: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Worlds of Divine Intervention, Near-Death Experiences, and Universal Energy
By John L. Turner
Career Press
ISBN: 978-1601630605
256 pages
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear” - a clichéd but inescapable fact. And a truth to which “Medicine, Miracles, and Manifestations” also bears eloquent testimony.
With well over twenty fascinating [...]

What GOD Really Wants You to Know: God’s Universal Truths Shared by All World Religions
C. David Lundberg
Heavenlight Press, 2009
361 pp, $19.95
Religion and spirituality are frequent subjects of conversation and controversy. More people are killed in the name of God than anything else.  Many  are passionate about their beliefs, and avow that theirs is the only [...]

The Quantum Conspiracy   A Novel of Possibilities
Chuck and Karen Robison
O Books, 2008
230 pp, $24.95
This book is an unusual interweave of science fiction and truth, foretelling a leap in the consciousness of man driven by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The idea presented is that the ones that will lead us to our better, more evolved [...]

Soul Seeds: Revelations & Drawings
By Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
Foreword by Laura Archera Huxley
Cross-Cultural Communications, 2008
Softbound, illustrated, 92 pages, $11.95.
Nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Prize
I’ve been an avid admirer of Carolyn Mary Kleefeld’s writing and artwork ever since I found Lovers in Evolution in a bookstore twenty-five years ago.  I was amazed to discover such penetrating spiritual [...]

[We have now found two new reviewers. Thank you to all who expressed an interest. -Robert]
New Age Journal is looking for a reviewer.  Although it would primarily involve reading and reviewing books, there may also be DVDs, audio recordings, music, Tarot card decks… Well, the entire realm of published information of interest to our readers [...]

The Eastern Path to Heaven: A Guide to Happiness from the Teachings of Jesus in Tibet contains quotes by Jesus taken directly from the ancient Greek scriptures and brief historical summaries showing how the teachings of Jesus entered India with Thomas, traveling along the routes pioneered by Alexander the Great, and then reached Tibet. The [...]

Daughters of India: Art and Identity
Stephen P. Huyler
Abbeville Press Publishers, 2008
263 pp., $65.00
One in every six women in the world lives in India. It is a testament to the strength of their spirit that they rise against patriarchal institutions to express themselves so uniquely, as shown in Stephen P. Huyler’s Daughters of India: Art and [...]

As December 21, 2012 approaches, attention is riveted on the meaning of events like the end of the Mayan Calendar and the impact of a unique galactic alignment.  Prophecies and theories abound.   Some say the coming years will be marked by more frequent and extreme natural and human-caused disasters.  Others hope for a world transformed [...]