In this book, P.M.H. Atwater explores the possibility of the soul, God, other worlds, heaven and hell, the afterlife, religion, and the purpose of life. It investigates and reports on the power of changed lives, the expansion of normal faculties, and the importance of spirituality. With drawings, cartoons, and sidebars from experts, The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences is also simple and accessible, designed for the busy reader who wants quick little nuggets of wisdom.
Cry the Beloved Mind is, indeed, a compassionate, respectful, self-help book which allows patients, their families, and the general reader to understand what their doctors are doing when using powerful mind-modifying medications such as Prozac, BuSpar and Tegretol. As for Dr. Neppe’s consultations in the book, he has taken a fresh approach, writing in a style that he describes as being “a play within prose.” It is fundamentally a dialogue between the generic “Doctor” and his patients or medical students using the entirely new literary genre of “sciction”-medical science expressed through fictitious composite case histories.
All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal “quartet” of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear. Cheetham’s books have helped spark a renewed interest in the work of this important, creative religious thinker.
