Religion, Language, Narrative and the Search for MeaningReligion, Language, Narrative and the Search for Meaning (book)

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This is a book about religion from a secular standpoint which nevertheless takes its subject seriously. Anthony Campbell is a medical doctor who has long been interested in religion and spirituality and has written several books about it in the last 30-odd years, including the first detailed examination of the philosophical ideas underlying Transcendental Meditation (Seven States of Consciousness, published in 1973). He has also made a study of the Persian heretical Islamic sect known in the West as the Assassins (The Assassins of Alamut, available from Lulu). In 2008 he published a personal account, in Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination, also available from Lulu, of his own gradual abandonment of the search for religioua truth. The present book looks at a number of attempts to explain the existence of religious belief and concludes that religion will probably always appear naturally in human consciousness because of the way in which our minds have evolved.

Totality Beliefs and the Religious ImaginationTotality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination (book)

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There seems to be a widespread notion that belief is, in itself, a good thing, but in this book Anthony Campbell argues that, for at least some people, freeing oneself from all belief systems brings a huge sense of relief. He illustrates this by describing his own experience of Roman Catholicism and Transcendental Meditation. He also looks at the evidence for miraculous cures for cancer and at ideas about the soul, with particular reference to survival. And he has a discussion of how religions are transmitted, which he thinks depends on story-telling and language as much as on formal belief. This is a wide-ranging book with a lot of ideas.

The Assassins of AlamutThe Assassins of Alamut (book)

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The Assassins were a heretical Muslim sect.We think of them mostly in connection with political murder (their founder, Hasan-i-Sabbah, has been compared to Osama bin Laden), but there is much more to them than this. They had a remarkable esoteric philosophical system and their ideas were influential in Islam and even outside it. In this book I tell their story, from their foundation at the end of the eleventh century to their downfall 150 years later at the hands of the Mongols. Even that was not the end of them, for the Aga Khan is a lineal descendant of the Assassin Grand Masters.

Homeopathy in PerspectiveHomeopathy in Perspective (book)

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This is a book about homeopathy: what it is, how it developed, where it stands today. It is a critical book but not a hatchet job. It is written for people with questioning minds. Anyone who has already adopted a fixed opinion about homeopathy, either for or against, may receive the odd shock. No prior knowledge is assumed but this does not mean that the book is only for beginners. Even if you have read a good deal about homeopathy you will probably find that you view it differently after you have finished. Anthony Campbell is a former consultant physician at The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, which is the largest of the five NHS homeopathic hospitals in Britain. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy and a former Editor of the British Homeopathic Journal.

Medical Acupuncture: A Practical GuideMedical Acupuncture: A Practical Guide (book)

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This book is an illustrated companion to my textbook of acupuncture, Acupuncture in Practice, which I use on the courses in modern medical acupuncture which I teach for health professional. The book will be useful for health professionals who practise modern western acupuncture.