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[Jana]

Here is my visionary list so far, and I will include just a few links to the new energies.

VISIONARY BOOKS AND LINKS
Speaking of freedom! One years US defense budget is enough moola to set up the infrastructure and supply the entire world with biofuels, according to David Blume. Now THAT is freedom! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jew3ah24Zj4

Alcohol Can Be A Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century by David Blume and Michael Winks
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming  by Paul Hawken
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution  by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Avoiding Social and Ecological Disaster – the Politics of Transformation, Rudolf Bahro —His main point is that, to save our world, there must be a complete psycho-spiritual turn-around, as well as a political one, brought about by switching from a destructive to a constructive logic.
Tesla: Man Out of Time  by Margaret Cheney
Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer  by Daniel Stewart
Occult Ether Physics: Tesla's Hidden Space Propulsion System and the Conspiracy to Conceal It by William Lyne
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman, an account of the great changes taking place in our time. www.thomaslfriedman.com/
"The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler
Jana’s Award for Best Peak Oil Audio:
http://globalpublicmedia.com/james_howard_kunstler_speaks_with_julian_darley

VISIONEERING
The Seer's Handbook: A Guide to Higher Perception by Dennis Klocek
Seeking Spirit Vision, Dennis Klocek  http://lemandragore.com/ (Dennis Klocek is
Consciousness Studies Program Director At Rudolf Steiner College Fair Oaks CA)
Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len
Imagineering for Health: Self-Healing Through the Use of the Mind by Serge King
Visualization, Directing the Movies of your Mind, Adelaide Bry
Creative Imagery, How to Visualize in all Five Senses, William Fezler
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind by Joe Dispenza
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain
Creative Imagination: The Power to Recreate Your World, Christopher Hills
Creative Visualization Meditations (CD) by Shakti Gawain (Narrator)
Creative Visualization: Using Imagery and Imagination for Self-Transformation by Ronald Shone
Imagineering for Health: Self-Healing Through the Use of the Mind by Serge King
Visualization, Directing the Movies of your Mind, Adelaide Bry
Creative Imagery, How to Visualize in all Five Senses, William Fezler
Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture by David Spangler (Findhorn) & William Irwin Thompson.

WORLD VISIONARIES
William McDonough, Queen Rania, Van Jones, Geoff Lawton,

http://www.shiftinaction.com/luminary_links —Outstanding Luminaries List
http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=aa-translucent  —Luminaries listed in  Arjuna Ardagh’s book The Translucent Revolution 

COMMUNITY
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning by Riane Eisler and David Love —workbook for groups
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie
Introducing Npl: Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Joseph O'Connor
Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say by Douglas Rushkoff
Spiritual Warfare, Jed McKenna, (The state of human maturity)
Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson, (The triune brain’s various programs)
http://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org/  —Stephen Post
www.nonzero.org —Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny  by Robert Wright
www.dreamchange.org/ —John Perkins, Dream Change founder, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire.
www.thomhartmann.com/ —Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Progressive radio
www.communitysolution.org/  —Community solutions to peak oil and climate change

GREEN INVESTMENT/ECONOMY
www.naturalcapital.org/ —Partners with Paul Hawken www.paulhawken.com/
www.vpvp.com/ —William McDonough is partners with VantagePoint Venture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm5lh4ZUJRw —Inspiration from Queen Rania of Jordan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3zpzDeeIE —Rania, why extremism in Muslims.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22FquY2ujMw  —Van Jones, the green economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm2LDrhm5Q  —Mosaic, Iran Sanctions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yrpu8-JBaY  —Charlie Rose, Future of Tech
www.apolloalliance.org/  —Three million new jobs~freedom from oil. The Green Jobs Act of 2007--training low income American workers for high-skilled jobs in the new clean energy economy.
http://greenforall.org/ —help build a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty…working to bring “green collar” jobs to urban areas.
www.stepitup2007.org/  —Hub for climate change action and legislation action: calling for 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, and a Green Jobs Now mobilizing our society to help fix homes and businesses so those targets can be met.
http://www.worldchanging.com/  —networks
http://www.wiserearth.org/  —directory and networking forum
http://www.globalexchange.org/ —people to people ties
www.sustainableliving.org/  —Sustainable Living Network

Do You Own Green Tech:
http://www.discoversolarenergy.com/index.htm
http://greenoptions.com/
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/content/projects/energy/wind/  —Make your own Windmill
http://web.instructables.com/id/How-to-MAKE-PV-Solar-Panels/
from (you can post your project)
http://web.instructables.com/ —materials
http://www.materialconnexion.com/pa1.asp
http://www.materialexplorer.com/ —another MIT effort, Open Collaborative Design
http://www.thinkcycle.org/ — collaboration towards design
www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1381331.htm  —Science Oz/Clay water filter
www.worldchanging.com/ —We pay special attention to tools, ideas and models that may have been overlooked in the mass media.
www.worldchanging.com/archives/007452.html  —New Zealand aims to be the first carbon neutral nation
www.postcarbon.org/  —Post Carbon Institute
www.solarliving.org/  —Solar Living Institute
http://extension.missouri.edu/edninfo/sustain.htm  —Links for Sustainable Building
http://www.solarliving.org/display.asp?catid=17  —SolFest of green living.
www.survivalcenter.com/scallion.html  —Post Peak maps of USA and world.

PERMACULTURE
The Survival of Civilization, John Hamaker (Remineralization and climate change)
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture 2nd Edition by Rosemary Marrow
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community  by Heather C. Flores
Getting Started In Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens  by Ross Mars and Jenny Mar
Culture and Horticulture by Rudolf Steiner  www.biodynamics.com/
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines by Richard Heinberg; Party's Over  by Richard Heinberg;  The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism And Economic Collapse; The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism And Economic Collapse by Richard Heinberg
www.drought.unl.edu/  —National Drought Mitigation Center
Algoculture: Spirulina, Hope for a Hungry World; and Spirulina, Production and Potential —Denise Fox
www.permacultureinternational.org/ —Bill Mollison, Permaculture
www.permaculture.org.au/index.php —Geoff Lawton
www.holmgren.com.au/ —David Holmgren Permaculture Founder
www.Schauberger-Ecotechnology.com  —Callum Coats
www.Scahuberger-books.org.uk  —Alick Bartholomew
www.chelseagreen.com —Sustainable Living Publisher
www.acresusa.com  —Eco Agriculture
www.pfaf.org/index.html  —Plants For A Future
www.tradewindsfruit.com/  —Seeds of exotic plants to grow
www.eco-logicbooks.com/index.cfm?fa=home  —Books for sustainability
www.rain-tree.com/  —Database for rainforest plants
www.wwoof.co.nz/ —Weekend Work On Organic Farms
http://gaianstudies.org  —Stephen Harrod Buhner
www.howtosavetheworld.co.nz/  —Biodynamic revolution in India

The Natural Step guide companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. www.naturalstep.org/
www.naturalstep.org/com/TNS_offices/ —International Gateway for Natural Step
The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution by Karl-Henrik Robert


SUSTAINABLE ECODESIGN
Jana's Best Google Video Award! Goes to William McDonough at Bioneers 2000 45 min  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7987612343225687713
TED Talks Architect and designer William McDonough  leader in sustainable design and development. www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104
Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability www.mcdonough.com/writings.htm

Extravagant Gesture: Nature, Design, and the Renewal of Human Industry in Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century,  William McDonough and Michael Braungart
“Indeed, human industry and habitations can be designed to celebrate interdependence with other living systems, transforming the making and consumption of things into a regenerative force. Design can perform and preserve the extravagant gesture-in the marketplace, in the human community, and in the natural world.”
http://simondale.net/house/index.htm  —Low Impact Housing

PEAK OIL/GLOBAL WARMING
PEAK MOMENT TV http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=peakmoment&p=r  —80 TV programs on community responses to peak oil.
www.davidkorten.org/  —David Korten, The Great Turning www.thegreatturning.org
www.cityrepair.org Mark Lakeman, co-founder of Portland, Oregon's City Repair Project
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YvLBMXC_D0Q —The Future of Food
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnV1umiJpo&NR=1  —Open Sourcing Free Energy Systems, Sterling Allan, pureenergysystems.com  newenergynews.com
 http://whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/09/mutant-message-rising —What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire.
www.billmckibben.com/  —Fight Global Warming Now, The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community

NEW CIVILIZATION
www.integralvisioning.org/ —Visionary Integral
http://via-visioninaction.org/—Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
http://bioneers.org/ —Visionary, practical earth restoration
http://gen.ecovillage.org/ — Global Eco Village Network
www.newciv.org/ — The New Civilization Network
http://bfi.org/ —Buckminster Fuller Institute
www.rmi.org/  —Rocky Mountain Institute
www.globalresonance.net/  —The Global Resonance Network
www.philosophy.org/  —Walter Russell’s correspondence course
www.partnershipway.org/  —Riane Eisler, Partnership Way
www.yesmagazine.com —Journal of Positive Futures
http://meaningoflife.tv/  —David White interviews with dignitaries
www.peterussell.com/  —The crisis facing humanity today is, at its root, a crisis of consciousness.

METANEWS AND NEW MEDIA
www.realitysandwich.com/
www.freepress.org   
www.fora.tv/
www.linktv.org/  www.linktv.org/mosaic  —Middle East News
http://globalpublicmedia.com/topics/lifeboat_show —Lifeboat Radio: Audio programs on Post Carbon Institute, Local Energy Farms, Oil Depletion Protocol,     Relocalization Network, Post Carbon Cities 
http://globalpublicmedia.com/people  —List of people on Post Carbon

BOULDER GOING GREEN
www.bouldercountrygoinglocal.com —Michael Brownlee
http://boulderrelocalization.org/  —Boulder Valley Localization
www.postcarbon.org/news/newsletters/aug2007  —Boulder event
www.postcarboncities.net/guidebook
www.conservationcenter.org —Boulder Center for ReSource conservation
www.ecocycle.org


 

[Jana]

REDUNDANT SYSTEMS
By Richard A. Slaughter, Foundation Professor of Foresight, Swinburne University, Melbourne

Current human systems are quintessentially ‘industrial era’ organizations. They are rigid hierarchies, mandated and controlled by central government, with top-down power structures. One of their key features, therefore, is inflexibility. Typically there is an administrator at the top; supervisors and workers are at the bottom - rather like a 19th Century army. The ‘meat in the sandwich’ is a layer of bureaucracy and middlemen in-between. Supervisors and workers are the marginalized, disempowered ‘foot soldiers’. The system imperatives are neither about people, society nor, indeed, the future. They are largely abstract in nature and can be summarized as: power, control, economy and efficiency.

These organizations are widely thought to be serving some sort of human or social needs. But the fact is that they are not guided by any real notion of social and human needs at all - though these are powerfully and repeatedly expressed in rhetoric and public announcements. There are two key sets of forces, two worlds of reference that set the major ‘rules’ for such systems: politics and economics. The difficulty in both cases is that by the end of the 20th century each had become defensive, defective and incoherent…cognitive dissonance rules! Politics is notorious for its short-term thinking and the ideological (not to say egoistic) conceit of many of its practitioners. Economics lost sight of human needs and aspirations many years ago and remains a very long way from reforming itself. As they presently stand, neither politics nor economics are capable of expressing, or responding to, widely understood human needs. According to John Saul, both are permeated by a powerful, but regressive, corporatist ideology that powerfully affects the way human systems operate.  As a result, the latter tend to have the following characteristics.

1. They are inward looking. Unlike comparable businesses, they have few systemic connections with the wider world; hence they are naively unaware of, and insulated from, shifts within the global system.

2. They are past-, and present-driven; hence they have minimal capacity to create, or engage with, a forward view. This is a major structural defect that requires major attention.

3. They are governed by fiat (an authoritative decree, sanction, or order) and powerfully resist any attempts that are made to revise existing system imperatives; hence they seek to marginalize educational leadership and attempts at system-wide innovation. This undermines their social legitimatization (as agents of society) and cuts them off from sources of human and professional vitality that should be welcomed and used.

(This is paraphrased from an article on education; I changed the wording to expand the idea to ALL existing societal systems.)
www.tukkk.fi/tutu/vanhat/futures%20studio/FSSlaughter.htm
 http://www.futures.austbus.com 
Richard A. Slaughter Books: Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View  (Prospect, Sydney, 1999). Futures Tools and Techniques, FSC, Melbourne, 1996 and Futures Concepts and Powerful Ideas, FSC, Melbourne, 1996.

[Jana]

 
INCREASING VISION, REVELATION AND PSI
Windows for visionary chemistry and psi occur in association with the cosmic (sun-moon) and weather cycles. The visionary, revelatory chemistry cycle is a subcycle of kundalini, occurring at particularly potent, high-energy periods of transpersonal cognition. There are certain things you can do to increase visionary consciousness including: a raw-remineralized diet, fasting, exercise in nature, travel, new visual stimulation, allowing the beauty of nature to flood your being, intense bodywork and yoga, hanging, regular periods of continuous breathing, toning, adventure like sailing or mountain climbing, music and heart opening new romance. In fact the same purification and enlivening practices one would use for raising kundalini and embracing Reality, will simultaneously increase the potential for visionary chemistry.

Also the door to Visioneering is opened by increasing one’s felt-sense into the emotional body via Focusing, Rosen, Presence Process, Holotropic breathing etc... Along with this is the inevitable delving into your numbness and blockages; that is your fears and unconscious triggers of your archetypal matrix and shadow. Prolonged deep breathing in a float tank or bath, while clearing the mind and focusing all your energy and attention into the solar plexus (enteric brain), is a method of raising significant revelatory chemistry and for metabolizing, integrating and substantiating the chemistry and the “visions,” so they can be bought into manifestation. These higher transpersonal, transrational layers of consciousness remain impotent as long as we lack the strength of will, rational tenacity and heart to bring them into existence. Only we can green light our own spiritual-creative genius. And only in doing so can we raise the operative ego and body towards the Divine.

[henry]

 

[Jana]

Becoming a visionary is just a matter of "showing up" and using latent capacities that we all have. It entails becoming responsive (response-able) rather than reactionary, because one needs absolute patience while living in a non-visionary community, to keep moving toward the vision and to not back down from the Live-edge. The visionary needs both vast compassion, detachment and forgiveness, as well as the disciplined determination to maintain a visionary lifestyle. The visionary needs greater social and communication skills than those around them, and also the ability to stand back and not push forward when there is no "give" in people; when others are just not ready for the next step.


http://worldonenetwork.info/micas/ —Community Advancement and sustainability
http://globalcommunity.org —Foundation for Global Community
http://worldonenetwork.info/  —Links to a sustainable world
http://global-mindshift.org —Toward Global Community