Calm in the Chaos: Tell Me More

By Staff Utne Magazine
Published on January 1, 2006

Web Sites

World Dharma
Internet home of Alan Clements, former Buddhist monk and human
rights activist, this site is ‘an evolving global culture of
conscience, serving freedom, happiness, and human dignity.’
www.worlddharma.com

The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri
Press

Offers the Eight Point Program of passage meditation and allied
living skills developed by spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran.
www.easwaran.org

Stone Circles
Organization working to sustain activists and spiritual leaders
through training, retreats, and workshops.
www.stonecircles.org

Common Society Movement
Orientation to Sharif Abdullah’s movement to create a global human
society based on inclusiveness and peace.
www.common-society.org

New Dharma Community
The online presence of a center devoted to the meditation-awareness
journeys of people of color, located in Oakland, California.
www.newdharma.com

Meet with Cindy
Resource site for antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan and activists
working with her.
www.meetwithcindy.org

Watts Records
Co-founded by Aqeela Sherrills, this independent record label
produced Peace Warriors — a collaboration featuring artists in Los
Angeles’ Watts neighborhood that creates a new vision of peace.
www.wattsrecords.com

Books

Gandhi: The Man, by Eknath Easwaran (Nilgiri
Press, 2nd ed., 1978)

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual
Enlightenment
, by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library,
1999)

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (HarperCollins,
2005) and The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your
Dream
(HarperSanFrancisco, 1993), by Paulo Coelho

The Disappearance of Childhood, by Neil Postman
(Delacorte Press, 1982)

How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of
Initiation
, by Rudolf Steiner (Anthroposophic Press,
1994)

Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People,
Organizations and Society
, by Peter Senge et al.
(Doubleday, 2005)

Soul Return: Integrating Body, Psyche &
Spirit
, by Aminah Raheem (Aslan Publishing, 2nd ed.,
1991)

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