Power of the Powerless bu Vaclav Havel (1978).
Havel was imprisoned multiple times by the Soviets for his political views and actions. Later, he became the first president of the Czech Republic. The essay dissects the nature of communist regimes of the time, life within such a regime, and how by their very nature, such regimes can create dissidents of ordinary citizens.
Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
The Original I Ching Oracle. Ritsema and Sabbadini. The Eranos I Ching.
Advanced I Ching students will want this book. Every ideogram of the core text is translated into its multiple meanings. The reader has the opportunity to discern the meaning that resonates the most. A critical antidote to the translations of earlier Western scholars.
The I Ching. Richard Wilhelm translation by Cary F. Baynes.
The standard introductory I Ching. Forward by C. G. Jung. Every I Ching student must have this translation. An amazing amount of effort went into this work. It is written from the Confucian hierarchic and patriarchal perspective. However, even with its flaws, it remains an important scholarly translation.
Job’s Body, A Handbook for Bodywork by Deane Juhan
An amazing information packed reference on the workings of the body and mind and speculations on the meaning of it all. Possibly the most famous and widely used resource in therapeutic bodywork. Juhan reconfigures knowledge of mind and body, from microgenesis to quantum consciousness.
Wh
at’s on Your Plate for Dinner.
The many ways that the global corporate meat regime harms the Earth and Life.
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Part One: The International Law of Colonialism
The Doctrines of Christian Discovery originate with 15th century Papal Bulls that were issued by the Vatican and implemented by Monarchies, sanctioning the brutal Conquest and Colonization of non-Christians who were deemed “enemies of Christ” in Africa and the Americas. The papal bulls gave the Vatican’s blessings to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit” Learn more…
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Part Two: Supreme Court Rulings
The Supreme Court has repeatedly used the Doctrine of Christian discovery to claim the right to take Indian peoples’ sovereignty and rights to land. Acknowledging these negative rulings does not mean that Native People accept them; it does mean that we must understand the status of United States Indian law and the arguments and assumptions of the Supreme Court and other federal courts’ rulings before we can move forward to successfully overcome White Christian Exceptionalism and defend Indigenous sovereignty and land rights. Learn more…
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (1973)
Colonial capitalism committed great crimes against nature in the founding of the United States: dispossession of land held by Indigneous People and their genocide, enslavement of Africans, and the wholesale liquidation of majestic Earth Interbeing. Western colonial capitalism continues to condition us to live as oppressors, willingly harming others for self-benefit. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed offers an analysis of the oppressive colonizer , the colonized, and the role of colonial violence.
Original Instructions: Indigenous teachings for a sustainable future.(2008), edited by Melissa Nelson.
Original Instructions are ancient sacred ways of people living with nature. Explores the convergence of Indigenous and the Western world and the re-indigenization of human culture. More than 30 essays by modern Indigenous leaders such as Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Winona LaDuke, and John Trudell. A wise and insightful book. 356 pages pages.
David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021), Dawn of Everything.
Describing the diversity of early human societies, the book critiques traditional narratives of history’s linear development from primitivism to civilization. Instead, The Dawn of Everything posits that humans lived in large, complex, but decentralized polities for millennia. The book suggests that social emancipation can be found in a more accurate understanding of human history, based on recent scientific evidence with the assistance of the fields of anthropology and archaeology. 526 pages.
