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WEBPAGE CONTENTS

• 1) MSI Newsletter Archives
• 2) Books
• 3) DVD's
• 4) Links
• 5) Events
• 6) Articles

MSI Newsletter Archives

2007
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2008
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Books*
This list* will be expanded and organized by subject.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Mann, Charles C.
Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda, Paramahansa
Awakening to Zero Point, Braden, Gregg
Chavin & The Origins of Andean Civilization, Burger, Richard
Complete Works, Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Perkins, John
Cosmic Serpent, Narby, Jeremy
Death and Letting Go, Tadd, Ellen
Exploring the Power of Solo, Silence, and Solitude Edited by C. Knapp & T Smith
French Through Pictures, Richards, I.A.
Leadership in the New Science, Wheatly, Meg
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised. The Fate of the World, Hartmann, Thom
Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar
Nature's Seven Doctors, Kirschner, H. E.
Power Down, Heinberg, Richard
Power of Now, Tolle, Eckhart
Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, & Actions, Gallagher, W.
Saved by the Light, Brinkley, Dannion
Spanish Through Pictures, Richards, I.A.
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, Krugman, Paul
The Money Trust (1913), Hon. Charles Linberg Sr.
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Heinberg, Richard
Outward Bound: Schools of the Possible, Godfrey, Robert
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Brown, Lester R.
Yoga The Iyengar Way, Silva Mehta, Mira Mehta, and Shyam Mehta

*Why is this list not linked to Amazon?
We encourage you to purchase books from your local independent bookseller.

DVD's

An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore's Educational Film on Global Climate Change
Crude Awakening
End of Suburbia - Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
From Freedom to Fascism: Aaron Russo's expose on the IRS and more
My Life
Ratatouille
Sicko - Michael Moore
Supressed Medical Discovery: Dr. David Beck
The Great Turning - From Empire to Earth Community by Yes Magazine
The Money Fix: Hood River's Community Currency, River Hours, Premiers June 21st, 2007
The Secret
What the Bleep Do We Know
Who Killed the Electric Car

Links

Education & Health

Appreciative Inquiry
Association for Experiential Ed
Awakening Program
Center for Global Leadership
From Freedom To Fascism
Gary Acevedo's Dreammakers
Holly Flanders/Juice Plus
Infinite Persistence Institute
Integrative Health Network
Kurt Hahn
Michael Moore
N'l Outdoor Leadership School
Omega Institute
Outward Bound
Poqen Kanchay Foundation
What the Bleep

Music for the Soul:

Chimu's Peruvian Musica Folklorica
Click Horning
FatHands- Kutylowski Bros.
Randy Richards
Leavenworth CoffeeHouse
Sunapee CoffeeHouse

News:

Alternet.org
Democracy Now: with Amy Goodman
Kearsarge Magazine
Faithful America
The Power Hour
We the People
Yes Magazine

Suppliers/Vendors:

Co-op America
Green Shopper.com

Sustainabilty:

Aspen's Canary Initiative
Fair Trade Federation
Friends of Mount Sunapee
James Howard Kunstler
Lake Sunapee Protective Assoc.
Mountain Insitute
Rocky Mountain Institute
NH Forests Society
World Watch Institute

Travel Responsibly

Lonely Planet
South American Explorer's Club
Sustainable Travel I'l

Events

Sunapee SunFest
Florida's Sunfest
Going Green Expos Worldwide
Vermont's SolarFest

Articles, Readings, Quotes

• 1) The Spiritual Values of Wilderness
• 2) Eckhart Tolle

1) The Spiritual Values of Wilderness
From Pacific Crest Outward Bound School Book of Readings

And so what is the final test of the efficacy of this wilderness experience we've just been through together? Because having been there, in the mountains, alone, in the midst of solitude, and this feeling, this mystical feeling if you will, of the ultimacy of joy and whatever there is. The question is, “Why not stay out there in the wilderness the rest of your days and just live in the lap of Satori or whatever you want to call it?” And the answer, my answer to that is, “Because that's not where people are.” And the final test for me of the legitimacy of the experience is, “How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?”

And now you see how this phases with the role of wilderness, It's a renewal exercise and as I visualize it, it leads to a process of alternation. You go to nature for your metaphysical fix – your reassurance that there's something behind it all and it's good. You come back to where people are, to where people are messing things up, because people tend to, and you come back with a new ability to relate to your fellow souls and to help your fellow souls relate to each other.

Willi Unsoeld, Former Director of Northwest Outward Bound
Founding Board Member of Evergreen State College
[Edited: Male references replaced with non-gender specific terms]

2) Eckhart Tolle

"When you perceive nature only through the mind, through thinking, you cannot sense its aliveness, its beingness. You see the form only and are unaware of the life within the form - The sacred mystery. Thought reduces nature to a commodity to be used in the pursuit of profit or knowledge or some other utilitarian purpose. The ancient forest becomes timber, the bird a research project, the mountain something to be mined or conquered.
When you perceive nature, let there be spaces of no thought, no mind. When you approach nature in this way, it will respond to you and participate in the evolution of human and planetary consciousness."

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