| Here
you'll find a collection of influences & ideas, exchanges,
recommendations and re-reads worth writing about! It's by
no means an exhaustive list - just some 'current' stuff that's
cool to know ...!
Book
Stuff: Joseph Chiltern Pierce
"The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" &
"The Biology of Transcendence"; Michael
Talbot "The Holographic Universe";
Jared Diamond "Collapse"; Carl
Sagan "Cosmos"; Arawind Adiga "The
White Tiger"; Graham Hancock "Fingerprints
of the Gods"; ; Shunryu Suzuki "Zen
Mind, Beginner's Mind"; Noam Chomsky "The
Common Good"; Toby Hemenway "Gaia's
Garden"; Elizebeth Gilbert "Eat
Pray Love"; William P Young "The
Shack"; Jean-Dominique Bauby "Le
Scaphandre et le Papillon" (The Diving Bell & the
Butterfly); Lorna Byrne "Angels
in my Hair"
"We
must Become the Change we want to See in the World" Mohandas
Gandhi
Music
Stuff: Adel Salameh "Hafla"
(Algerian Trance); Shantall "Shantall"
(Balkan Electronic); Ry Cooder "A Meeting
By the River" (Classical); Lounge Classics "Classic
Chillout" (Bargrooves); Putamayo Presents (Hip
Hop Rap); Sounds Of Dissent "The Politics
of Music" (Alternative); Gustavo Santaolla "The
Motorcycle Diaries" (Soundtrack); Gorillaz "Demon
Days" (Hip Hop Rap); Little Axe "Champagne
& Grits" (Blues); Gabriel Yared "Betty
Blue" (Soundtrack); Ali Farka & Toumani Diabete
"In The Heart of the Moon" (World);
Ravi Shanker & Philip Glass "Passages"
(World); Sidharta IV "Spirit of Buddha
Bar" (Bargrooves)
Other
Stuff: The
Venus Project, beyond
politics, poverty and war ~ www.thevenusproject.com;
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly
moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures
creativity ~ www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html;
The Zeitgeist Movement looks at a new future ~ www.thezeitgeistmovement.com;
Meadowsweet Miracle Oil for
joints and muscles (this stuff IS fantastic!) ~ www.thedancingdolphin.co.uk;
New Internationalist,
the stuff they don't tell you in the daily's ~ www.newint.org;
Pioneering Digital Story Telling in
the Health & Education disciplines ~ www.patientvoices.org.uk |
