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- KEY ISSUES |
Joanna Macy |
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The
Great Turning set in historical context - very concise |
Richard Heinberg |
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Peak Oil and the coming crunch - Part
1 and Part
2 |
Rob Hopkins |
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Transition Towns - the positive response to Peak Oil
and Climate Change - building resilience and re-localizing
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1 - Part
2 - Part
3 |
Bob Carter |
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Australian professor gives a short
overview on the difficulties of assessing the true
state of the climate and developing a true and unpolitical
Climate Science |
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Booklist of Awakening
This is a personal list of books that were eye-openers
in "planetary awakening";
to us and to many others, facing the crisis positively
also means deepening and changing one's understanding
of Reality, Life, Healing, and Hope, and learning to
"Be The Change"
Titles (left hand side)
Authors -and Comments
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KEY
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TRANSITION WORK and understanding
TRUE CLIMATE SCIENCE |
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Rob Hopkins' essential handbook for Transition |
Peak Everything |
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Richard Heinberg's latest book explains how so much
more than oil is peaking now - including uranium! so it's
essential to take all together. |
Permaculture: |
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principles
and pathways beyond sustainability - David Holmgren
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Boost Your Inner Strengths, Break Through Blocks and
Achieve Inspired Action - Chris Johnstone. People
say when they find this book they need no other. |
| Primer
on CO2 and climate |
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Prof Hayden: the simple basic science so you can
see for yourself |
| The
Deniers |
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Lawrence Solomon: top scientists speak out against
anthropogenic global warming |
| Curious
About Climate Science |
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A personal but well-recommended primer in climate science
and story of U-turn |
RESOURCES |
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FOR PLANETARY HEALING |
What Can I Do |
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Ram Dass' second-to-none collection of true stories |
Wisdom Circles |
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Charles Garfield, Cindy Spring, Sedonia Cahill -
how to set-up and run small local groups with wisdom
and power |
Coming Back
to Life |
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Joanna Macy's uptodate handbook on "Despair
& Empowerment" work |
The
10-minute Life Coach |
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Fiona Harrold Make your passion for the planet work
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I want to see this book rewritten for "Rainbow Warriors"! |
Rising Out
of Chaos |
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Simon Peter Fuller - "the new Heaven &
the new Earth" |
The Seventh
Enemy |
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Ronald Higgins Analysis by retired diplomat of our
planetary apocalyptic challenge - written in the 70's
but still relevant. The seventh Enemy is Apathy |
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- BEYOND CREATIONISM and
EVOLUTIONISM |
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How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform
Your Life and Our World, by Michael Dowd. Tremendous,
vital work, praised by scientists from a far wider provenance
than those of Intelligent Design. We have long disliked
the faction-forming that has emerged in both creationism
and evolutionism - we believe there are truths and serious
limitations on both sides. This book finally does a
much-needed repair job in building common ground to
reach deeper truths. |
Evolution, Creationism,
and other modern Myths |
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Prof. Vine Deloria - an exposition of the fallibilities
in both camps - still without apparent knowledge of the
books below. He shows how scientists routinely bury anti-evolutionary
evidence, and encourages his students to think for themselves...
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We believe this process needs to be taken even
further. The remaining books listed here are books of
quality. We do not need to agree with every word to recognize
they have important challenging hypotheses that can make
us think again and can enlarge our understanding. |
Descent of Woman |
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Elaine Morgan - groundbreaking theory & evidence
for evolution of human form |
Man and
Animal |
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Hermann Poppelbaum - clear but subtle physical evidence
for a fundamental difference between the human kingdom
and the animal kingdom. This is also a very readable entry
into the holistic way of thinking of Rudolf Steiner. |
Phenomenon
of Man |
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Teilhard de Chardin - a lyrical account of evolution,
rooted in both Science and Christianity, that has both
a spiritual source and a spiritual purpose and destiny |
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Christian O'Brien - serious evidence suggesting
that at least some humans are the result of genetic engineering
by spiritual beings in the "Garden of Eden" |
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Michael Cremo - evidence overthrowing current limits
of orthodox evolution theory - and challenging the integrity
of the Science that investigates it |
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BEYOND NAIVE SCIENTIFIC SKEPTICISM |
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People don't think of skepticism as being naive.
And true skepticism is essential to Science. But such
bodies as CSICOP can be called at best naive and at worst
inquisitorial. For there is plenty of evidence, culled
scientifically as well as anecdotally, that miracles do
happen, that near-death-experiences (NDE) testify to true
out-of-body perceptions, and that the supernatural is
not only real but can intervene in the natural order of
things at significant moments - especially if this is
asked for - prayed for. |
The Structure of Scientific
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Thomas Kuhn - "anomalies" lead to discoveries
- "heresies" to the older generation, they require
a "paradigm shift" in consciousness. |
Explaining the Unexplained |
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Hans Eysenck & Carl Sargent - a classic overview,
meticulously demonstrates "psi" under rigorous
laboratory conditions, discusses why "psi" is
notoriously difficult to "come to heel" using
"normal" scientific methodology, and looks at
the skeptics' own biassed, unscientific dismissals of
what they call "pseudoscience", in particular
the history of CSICOP. |
The Second Coming of
Science |
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Brian O'Leary - an excellent successor to Eysenck |
The Field |
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Lynne McTaggart - a classic bestseller and successor
to Eysenck and O'Leary - although neither of these important
books are even mentioned in the book. Why? Is
this because "pseudoscience" still gets routinely
inquisitor'd and buried? |
Carl Sagan & Immanuel
Velikovsky |
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Charles Ginenthal - shows that "Sagan was indeed
a poor and even dishonest debunker". This is our
opinion too, about Sagan's extremely popular book "The
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
- many other books in this booklist alone show there is
plenty of top-quality evidence that Sagan ignores for
the stuff he dismisses. Ah, people don't like to be challenged. |
ENLARGING
THE PICTURE |
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DEEPENING PARAMETERS OF SCIENCE
- RUDOLF STEINER & BEYOND |
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People don't think of Science as able to handle
inner realities except by using the external, physical
tools appropriate to external, physical phenomena. But
this is a limitation that we create in our own thinking.
How, says Steiner, can Science be limited by such thinking?
To give Thinking such a right, we have to consider the
objective nature of Thinking itself. And in so doing,
we open the path to a deeper understanding of what is
truly objective. Thus what we experience inwardly can
also come under the scientific discipines of meticulous
examination of evidence (=experiments) and looking for
patterns (=theories, hypotheses, laws). And this works
well and fruitfully with traditional scientific examination,
in looking at Nature. |
Philosophy of Freedom |
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Rudolf Steiner sets out his proof of the objectivity
of thinking - this lays the foundation for the whole subsequent
development of "Spiritual Science" as a rational
inquiry that anyone can pursue, where Steiner shows the
way but we need to develop the work further by our own
observations. |
Man and Animal |
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Herman Poppelbaum - shows how the traditional scientific
division into "animal vegetable and mineral"
is scientifically enlarged to include Man as a separate
division (which we all know intuitively) by paying attention
to subtle differences. |
Metamorphosis of Plants |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Goethean
Science is a whole new science that is increasingly
being recognized. It shows the observation of pattern
and beauty in plants to have scientific significance and
to lead towards perceiving, at the level of Life itself,
the non-physical phenomenon we call "life" |
Projective Geometry |
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Olive Whicher - a geometry that grasps two kinds
of space, "physical" and "etheric"
- this helps one understand the forms in the plant world |
Earth and Man |
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Karl Koenig - a classic that shows with clarity
the best of Steiner's thinking - unfortunately, many of
Steiner's transcribed lectures are too abstruse to evaluate
easily (a mystique that led to Steiner-worship,
the last thing Steiner wanted!) |
Biodynamic Agriculture |
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Alex Podolinsky - brought this to Australia where
it's been developed more than anywhere else - BD farms
stay green where conventional farm land turns brown |
Secrets of the Soil |
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Tompkins and Bird - the most wonderful collection
of unorthodox scientific work including work inspired
by biodynamic methods and by the Findhorn community's
links with the nature spirits and devas. |
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SOME OF THE BEST BOOKS THE CHURCH
WILL TELL YOU |
The Cross and the Switchblade |
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Wilkerson Classic - Miracles happen to a disaffected
New York youth |
The Torn Veil |
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Esther Gulshan Jesus appears to a Muslim cripple
- and heals her |
Happiest People on Earth |
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Demos Shakarian Miracles - Full Gospel Business
Mens Fellowship International |
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SOME OF THE BEST BOOKS THE CHURCH WON'T
TELL YOU |
Secrets
of the Beloved Disciple |
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James Twyman - magical encounter with Church
of John & Mary |
Jesus and the Essenes |
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Dolores Cannon - first-hand "far memory"
account with substantial time spent in discussing how
she did her work, and the integrity of her methods |
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Tom Kenyon & Judi Sion - vital "channelled"
account from Mary Magdalene |
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Margaret Starbird - precious research about Mary
Magdalene |
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ON THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY |
Disappearance
of the Universe |
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Gary Renard - St Thomas and St Thaddaeus "drop
in" one day... VERY special - this is a MUST READ
rollercoaster of a book! |
The Magic of Findhorn |
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Paul Hawken - the original classic story, warts
and all, but the transcendent beauty and critical importance
of this story shine through. |
Embraced by the Light |
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Betty J Eadie - the best Near-Death-Experience account
you will find anywhere |
| Mutant Message Down
Under |
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Marlo Morgan - unparalleled moving story of White-Aborigine
encounter - but also representative of many unparalleled
stories coming out today |
Celestine
Prophecy |
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James Redfield - classic "novel" of spiritual
awakening & challenge today |
Magic Casements |
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classic collection of sacred poetry - favourite
collection of Sir George Trevelyan |
Tao Te Ching |
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Lao Tzu - unsurpassed "simple" spiritual
classic |
Secrets
of the Talking Jaguar |
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Martin Prechtel classic shamanic initiatory journey
- a biography |
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BRIEFINGS * MATHEMATICAL EVIDENCE
* TOWARDS A HOLISTIC SCIENCE |
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Read A Little Book of Coincidences
for its sheer beauty. It draws on no belief, but demonstrates
the extravaganza of mathematical beauty in the solar system.
It's an argument from Nature for an intelligence behind
the physical appearances, if ever there was one. The
Star Mirror likewise. These can open your eyes to
the intimate, enraptured stargazing that ancient people
knew, before the time of electricity, out of which "star
wisdom" arose naturally. |
A Little Book of Coincidences |
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John Martineau - unparalleled cosmic mathematical
beauty - Sun Moon & planets |
| Mutant Message Down
Under |
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Marlo Morgan - unparalleled moving story of White-Aborigine
encounter - talks about their perception of coming from
the stars, seen in their artwork |
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Paul LaViolette - unique scientific evidence for
ancient cosmic cataclysm |
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Geoff Stray - an extraordinary array of evidence,
not just the Mayan calendar |
Movement & Rhythm
of the Stars |
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Joachim Schultz - makes visible the geometrical
patterns of beauty that the Sun, Moon and planets weave
around us - draws on Rudolf Steiner |
The Only Planet of Choice |
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Phyllis Schlemmer - Essential Briefings from Deep
Space - "a provocative mind-opening experience"
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The Star Mirror |
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Mark Vidler - amazing - beauty and relevance to
NOW |
Hamlet's
Mill |
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G. di Santillana & H. von Dechend - was this
the last great academic inspiration? |
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CLASSIC
HEALERS - AUTHORS |
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AND PERSONAL HEALING EXTRAORDINARY |
Edgar Cayce |
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Seer and healer extraordinary - I recommend Harmon
Bro's biography |
Louise Hay |
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Recognize the "messages" of your symptoms
- healed herself of cancer |
Brandon Bays |
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"The Journey" through healing cancer -
and resultant workshop |
Bernie Siegel |
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Love, Medicine & Miracles - by a doctor
who knows doctors' sticking-points! |
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