This page contains various resources (website links, books, movies, and thoughts) involving a "changing of the guard," a changing of the consciousness from the idea of separation to connection. I hope that the information on this page and on the various websites will challenge you to go beyond your usual thinking and that you will critically contextualize that which is present on this page and on the various websites as well. How does one know that one is a "human" being?
I have not read all of the books or watched all of the movies below, just so you know. If you would like to discuss any of the information below with me, then please e-mail me at iruckaE@juno.com. Thank-you. Take care. Peace be unto you. Until then.
This page was last updated on 06 July 2005.
MOVIES TO CHECK OUT:
Long Night’s Journey Into Day: South Africa’s Search for Truth and Reconcilation
All Power to the People!
The Matrix
The Lorax
American History X
Public Enemy
Light it Up
Runaway Train
Circle of Iron
Affluenza
Color Adjustment
Lumumba: la mort du prophète (Lumumba: Death of a Prophet)
In French with English subtitles
Powaqqatsi
The Land
Isle of Flowers
Earth and the American Dream
Princess Mononoke
The Insider
Erin Brokovich
Bulworth
Patch Adams
Holy Man
BOOKS CHECK OUT:
Living for Change: An Autobiography
Grace Lee Boggs
Last Standing Woman
Winona LaDuke
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Winona LaDuke
Give Us Credit
Alex Counts
Taking Charge
Michael Beschloss
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
1984
George Orwell, Erich Fromm (Afterword)
Island
Aldous Huxley
Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley
O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian
John F. Moffitt, Santiago Sebastian
Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare?: Turning the Tide on the Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business
Mae-Wan Ho
The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms
Mae-Wan Ho
Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Embrace Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself
Andrew, M.D. Weil
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee
Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth, and Humans
Michael W. Fox
Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment
Luke Anderson (Introduction)
Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet
Martin Teitel and Kimberly A. Wilson
The Lorax
Dr. Seuss
Place and Politics in an Age of Globalization
Arif Dirlik
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
Leonard Peltier
Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization
Arif Dirlik and Roxann Prazniak (editors)
Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
Gustavo Esteva & Madhu Suri Prakash
Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order
Richard J.Barnet & John Cavanagh
Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope
Henry Giroux
Community based Resistance: Response to Globalism
Sharon Howell
The Ends of the Earth
Robert Kaplan
The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local
Jerry Mander & Edward Goldsmith
Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Future of Awareness
Ashis Nandy
Listening to Africa: Developing Africa from the Grassroots
Pierre Pradervand
Going Local
Michael Shuman
Leadership and Modern Science
Margaret Wheatley
Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered
E. F. Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later...With Commentaries
E. F. Schumacher, James Robertson (Preface), Paul Hawken (Introduction)
Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty First Century
Immanuel Wallerstein
Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of 19th Century Paradigms
Immanuel Wallerstein
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Searching For Everardo
Jennifer Harbury
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women’s Rights
Nadine Strossen
Black Noise: Rap Music and the Black Culture in Contemporary America
Tricia Rose
A Bad Cat (If someone knows the author of this book, please let me know. Thanks.)
The Assassination of the Black Male Image
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Philip Agee
On the Run
Philip Agee
Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium
Bruce Braun and Noel Castree (editors)
Third World Political Ecology
Raymond L. Bryant
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, development and social movements
Richard Peet and Michael Watts (editors)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Louise Erdrich
Green Essentials: What You Need to Know About the Environment
Geoffrey C. Saign
Behold A Pale Horse
Milton William Cooper
The Greening of Marxism
Ted Benton (Editor)
What Are People For?
Essays By Wendell Berry
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
Thomas Berry
Growing Up Green: Education for Ecological Renewal
David Hutchison, Thomas Berry
The Dream of the Earth
Thomas Berry
In The Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
Jerry Mander
The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit & Politics
Tom Hayden
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Vandana Shiva
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Vandana Shiva
Brothers & Keepers
John Edgar Wideman
Democracy and Development in Africa
Claude Ake
A New World Order: Grassroots Movements for Global Change
Paul Ekins
The Greening of Africa
Paul Harrison
The Third World Tomorrow: A Report from the Battlefield in the War Against Poverty
Paul Harrison
Creating A World That Works For All
Sharif Abdullah
The Power of One
Sharif Abdullah
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
Kirkpatrick Sale
Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man
George Vithoulkas
The Science of Homeopathy
George Vithoulkas
Discovering Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century
Dana Ullman, M.P.H., Dr. Ronald W. Davey (Foreword)
The Complete Book of Homeopathy
Michael Weiner, Ph.D. and Karen Goss
Homeopathy: Beyond Flat Earth Medicine
Dr. Timothy Dooley
Demystifying Homeopathy
Dr. Jacob Mirman
Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy
James Tyler Kent, M.D.
Chronic Diseases (2 volumes)
Samuel Hahneman
Organon of Medicine, 6th Edition
Samuel Hahneman
So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events
Rene J. Dubos
Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress & Biological Change
Rene J. Dubos
Gifted Hands
Benjamin Carson, M.D., Cecil Murphey (Contributor)
Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
Patch Adams, Maureen Mylander (Contributor)
House Calls: How We Can All Heal the World One Visit at a Time
Patch Adams, Jerry Van Amerongen (Illustrator), Robin Williams
The Wind Done Gone: A Novel
Alice Randall
My Name Is Chellis & I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
Chellis Glendinning
Off the Map: (An Expedition Deep into Imperialism, the Global Economy, and Other
Earthlywhereabouts)
Chellis Glendinning
Waking Up in the Nuclear Age: The Book of Nuclear Therapy
Chellis Glendinning
When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress
Chellis Glendinning
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk, John Gneisenau Neihardt, Vine, Jr. Deloria
Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World
Ed McGaa, Marie N. Buchfink (Illustrator)
Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road
Ed McGaa, Eagle Man
Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way
Ed McGaa, Rudolph Chasing Hawk (Illustrator), Mary McGaa (Illustrator)
Lakota Belief and Ritual
James R. Walker, Raymond J. Demallie, Elaine A. Jahner (Editor)
Lakota Myth
James R. Walker, Elaine A. Jahner (Editor)
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 36)
Joseph E. Brown (Editor)
The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Includes the Soul of an Indian and Other Writings by Ohiyesa, and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Kent Nerburn (Editor)
I Send a Voice
Evelyn Eaton, Narca Shorr (Illustrator)
Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power
Thomas E. Mails
Fools Crow
Fools Crow, Thomas E. Mails, D. Chief Eagle
The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to Contemporary Times
Thomas E. Mails
Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota
Wallace H. Black Elk, William S. Lyon, Wallace Black Elk, Elk Wallace Black
Secret Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace
Thomas E. Mails, Edmund Waterbridge
Green Psychology: Cultivating a Spiritual Connection with the Natural World
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.
Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth
Howard Clinebell, Ph.D. and Howard John Clinebell
Ecological Psychology: Healing the Split Between Planet and Self
Deborah Du Nann Winter
The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking
Theodore Roszak
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
Theodore Roszak
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind
Theodore Roszak (Editor), et. al.
America the Wise: The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations
Theodore Roszak
Under the Sea-Wind
Rachel L. Carson
The Sea Around Us
Rachel L. Carson
The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
The Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carson, photographs by Charles Pratt
Beyond Civilization
Daniel Quinn
My Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
The Story of B
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
Providence
Daniel Quinn
Western Civilization
Daniel Quinn
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
Hasta no verte Jesus mio
Elena Poniatowska
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Ben Belitt - Bilingual edition
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected speeches and statements
Edited by George Breitman
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the U.S., Britain, and Africa
Edited by Steve Clark
February 1965: The Final Speeches
Edited by Steve Clark
The Trumpet of Conscience
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by James Melvin Washington
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Zimbabwe Prose and Poetry in English: with original Zezuru (Zimbabwen) texts of the verse
Solomon M. Mutswairo
Shona Praise Poetry
Compiled by A.C. Hodza
Foreign Service Institute Basic Course: Shona
Department of State