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If you have WAY too much time on your hands, you're welcome to peruse my dissertation. I completed a PhD in Clinical Psychology, February 2007 .

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Bioneers

Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. "It's All Alive, It's All Intelligent, It's All Connected."
Meditation and Future Pharmaceuticals: A Short Science Fiction This appears in the Global Spiral, an e-publication of Metanexus Institute. Through articles, essays, book reviews, and news, the Global Spiral  explores humanity's most profound questions and challenges.
Metahistory.org Metahistory is a path toward the future beyond history, a world free from enslavement to unexamined beliefs.
the Esalen Institute The Esalen Institute was founded in 1962 as an alternative educational center devoted to the exploration of what Aldous Huxley called the "human potential," the world of unrealized human capacities that lies beyond the imagination. Esalen soon became known for its blend of East/West philosophies, its experiential/didactic workshops, the steady influx of philosophers, psychologists, artists, and religious thinkers, and its breathtaking grounds blessed with natural hot springs.
The Ecostery Foundation The Ecostery Foundation helps people develop their own personal or group ecosteries. Ecosteries are loved places where ecological values, knowledge and wisdom are learned, practiced and shared. They are sacred, respected and honored dwelling places. This website provides resources for those who want to create their own ecostery.

Laughter Yoga

(no flexing required!)

Laughter Yoga combines laughter exercises and yoga breathing to give you the health benefits of hearty laughter. Laughter exercises almost always lead to real laughter, especially when practiced in a group.
Fractal Food:Self-Similarity on the Supermarket Shelf "Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I'd never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland I came across a chou Romanesco [Romanesco cauliflower] like the one above..."
Culture Change Culture Change is a regular series of reports and essays mostly by Jan Lundberg, a former oil-industry insider. He formed the Sustainable Energy Institute in 1988 whose main projects included The Alliance for a Paving Moratorium, Auto-Free Times magazine, and Pedal Power Produce.
Slow Food USA Slow Food USA envisions a future food system that is based on the principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice – in essence, a food system that is good, clean and fair.