New books, films, Web sites, and organizations that address these topics are being created all the time. Below are some resources that I feel have stood the test of time and offer the most unique information on the topics.
Amazon.com is a great place to review the content of my recommendations.
Books
Perspectives on Culture
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain
American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, David Jay Brown
The Cultural Creatives, Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
The Eye of Spirit, Ken Wilber *
The Hidden Dimension, Edward Hall *
The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert
Luminous Ground, Christopher Alexander
The Magical Child, Joseph Chilton Pearce *
The Mission of Art, Alex Grey (very strange but also valuable)
Mothers of Invention, Drew Gilpin Faust (exquisite portrait of cultural trauma)
My Name Is Chellis and I Am in Recovery from Western Civilization, Chellis Glendinning
Please Understand Me, David Keirsey (a guide to understanding your differences from the culture)
Support for the Creative Spirit
The Artist Inside, Tom Crockett
Beauty, John O'Donohue
Better Together, Robert Putnam
Callings, Gregg Levoy
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore*
Consciousness in Action, Andrew Beath
Homo Aestheticus, Ellen Dissanayake
How to Know God, Deepak Chopra*
Hymns to an Unknown God, Sam Keen
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukov
The Soul's Code, Thomas Moore
The Witch of Portobello, Paula Coelho
Alternative Perspectives
Artists' Communities, Alliance of Artists' Communities
The Global Brain Awakens, Peter Russell
The Hidden Messages in Water, Masaru Emoto
The Image of the Future, Frederik Polak
Leadership and the New Science, Margaret Wheatley
The Support Economy, Shoshana Zuboff & James Maxmin
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Benjamin Friedman
Modernity and Self-Identity, Anthony Giddens
Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku
The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar*
A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright
Traveling Between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans, Hillary S. Webb
Other Authors of Note:
On Spirit — Evelyn Underhill, Aldous Huxley
On reenchantment of the built world — Christopher Alexander (The Nature of Order series)
On creating — Emily Carr, Agnes Martin
On the power of symbolic representation — Edward Tufte
On expanded states of awareness — Stanislav Grof,
Carlos Castenda
www.talentdevelop.com — many tidbits about the creative
*Authors with numerous valuable publications
Magazines
Christian Science Monitor
Hope
The Humanist
Mother Jones
Ode
Orion
Utne Reader
Yes
Organizations
Esalen Institute
Hollyhock
The Institute of Noetic Sciences
Naropa University
New York Open Center
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
The John Templeton Foundation
TED - Ideas Worth Spreading
Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
Artists Online
The Artists Foundation
Manhattan Arts International
Alliance of Artists Communities
Artist Trust
