Gary Zukav, whose book The Dancing Wu Li Masters brought him notoriety in 1979, has written a new best seller — The Seat of the Soul. In it he suggests that humanity is now evolving from a “five­sensory” species that pursues external power (i.e., domination over the environment and other people) into a “multisensory” species [...]

What do pro­ducer George Lucas, actress Shirley MacLaine, ac­tor Sylvester Stallone, singer Loretta Lynn, industrialist Henry Ford, philosopher John Hick, and “prophet” Edgar Cayce have in com­mon? They — along with about 25 percent of all Americans — believe in some form of incarnation. According to Norman Geisler and J. Yutaka Amano, there are ten [...]

In the early years of this century, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) became the second-in-command in Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic movement. In 1913 Jung broke with Freud and established his own movement, called analytic psychology. Although Freud’s importance in the history of psychology has been much greater than Jung’s, in recent decades the former’s influence [...]

When it comes to the fields of philosophy and classical literature, Mortimer J. Adler is considered nearly an institution. During his illustrious academic career Adler has written some 46 books (many of them best sellers) and was the associate editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World. Adler’s writings are well known [...]

Dr. M. Scott Peck was catapulted to notoriety through the runaway sales of The Road Less Traveled (1978, Simon and Schuster, which has published all his works). It has remained on best-seller lists most of the time and been joined there by his People of the Lie (1983). His third publication, What Return Can I [...]

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 1 (1993). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “Lord, I need a miracle!” How often have you heard those words? More to the point, how often have you uttered those words? Sooner or later as [...]

Just a few miles from Pastor Benny Hinn’s Orlando Christian Center (now called World Outreach Center) in Florida, at Universal Studios, one can see what, at first glance and from a distance, looks like a New York street. A closer look reveals cleverly built facades with nothing behind them. Hinn’s latest literary offering, Welcome, Holy [...]

ONENESS PENTACOSTALS AND THE TRINITY- IntroductionIn his book Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity (hereafter OPT), Gregory Boyd, assistant professor of theology at Bethel College, clearly explains and effectively refutes a modern-day version of an ancient heresy: modalism, or what Boyd refers to as the Oneness heresy. Modalism made its first appearance in the third century [...]

Some people love to heap accolades on Ken Wilber. Indeed, Jean Houston has called him “the Einstein of consciousness.” Meanwhile, author Michael Murphy says this book is “a work of unparalleled scope and integrative vision.” Since Wilber published The Spectrum of Consciousness in 1977, he has been hailed as a brilliant pioneer in the quest [...]

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 4 (2003). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Genesis 15 describes one of the earliest sacred contracts, a familiar story to both Christians and Jews: Abram asked for a sign that God would lead him [...]