30 April 2003 | Draft
Resources on Renaissance Zones
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Part 5 of Renaissance Zones: experimenting with the intentional significance of the Damanhur community
References
Walter Truett Anderson. The Truth about Truth: de-confusing and re-constructing the postmodern world. Jeremy Tarcher, 1995
Jacques Attali. Noise: the political economy of music. 1977 (English translation, University of Minnesota, 1985) [review]
Christopher Bamford (Ed). Homage to Pythagoras: rediscovering sacred science. Lindisfarne Books, 1999 [review]
Stafford Beer. Beyond Dispute: the invention of team syntegrity. JoseyBass, 1994
Luigi Berzano. Damanhur: Popolo e comunità. Elle Di Ci, Leumann (TO) 1998 (2nd ed. 1999) [review]
Bhikku Bodhi (Tr). The Discourse on the All-Embracing Net of Views; the Brahmajala Sutta and its commentarial exegesis. Kandy, Buddhist Publications, 1978.
Martin Brennan. The Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials, and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland, 1994
Barry Brumitt and Steven Shafer. Topological World Modeling Using Semantic Spaces. Microsoft Corporation, 2001 [text]
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Seana Coulson. Semantic Leaps: frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction. Cambridge University Press, 2001
Jack Courtis. Hermetic Philosophy. Commentaries on the Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians (Rosicrucian Archive) [text]
Keith Critchlow. Time Stands Still: new light on megalithic sciences. New York, St Martin's Press, 1982
Antonio T. De Nicolas. Religious Experience and Religious Languages [text]
Gyorgy Doczi. The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture. 1981
Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler. Laws of the Game: how the principles of nature govern chance. Harper, 1981
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Arthur L. Caplan (Eds). Scientific Controversies: Case Studies in the Resolution and Closure of Disputes in Science and Technology. Cambridge University Press, 1987
Glenda Eoyang and Doris Jane Conway. Conditions That Support Self-Organization in A Complex Adaptive System Management. 1999
S I Fabrikant. Formalizing Semantic Spaces for Information Access. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91, 2, 2001, pp. 263-280.
Sara I Fabrikant. The Geography of Semantic Information Spaces. 2000 [text]
Gilles Fauconnier and Eve Sweetser (Eds). Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar. University of Chicago Press, 1996 (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series) [summary]
Gilles Fauconnier. Conceptual Integration. Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition (EDEC2001) [text]
Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. The Way We Think: conceptual blending and the mind's hidden complexities. Basic Books, 2002
Paul K. Feyerabend. Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being. University of Chicago Press, 1999 (edited by Bert Terpstra)
Paul K. Feyerabend. Against Method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge. Humanities Press, 1975 [review]
M. A. Foster:
- The Gameplayers of Zan. Daw Books, 1977
- Les Joueurs de Zan, Paris : Nouvelles éditions Opta, 1982
- Os Jogadores de Zan. Europa-America - Colecção Livros de Bolso, Série Ficção Científica, 2 vols, nos. 77 e 78, 1984
- Die Zan Spieler, Moewig, 1981 [download]
Margaret Freeman. Grounded spaces: Deictic-self anaphors in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Language and Literature, 1997, 6:1, 7-28.
Andreas Fuglesang. About Understanding: Ideas and Observations on Cross-cultural Communication. The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1982.
Andreas Fuglesang. "The Myth of People's Ignorance". Development Dialogue 1/2:42-62. The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1984.
Andreas Fuglesang and Dale Chandler. Search for Process. Reports from a project on Methods and Media in Community Participation. Vol. I - a report; Vol. II - a collection of case studies; Vol. III - a selected bibliography. Uppsala: The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1985.
Stanley G. Gatchel and Murat M. Tanik. Process Science and Philosophy: for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. Journal for Integrated Design and Process Science (Society for Design and Process Science), 2001, December, 5, 4 [text]
Matila Ghyka. The Geometry of Art and Life (1946)
Nelson Goodman. Ways of Worldmaking. Hackett Publishing Company, 1978
Susantha Goonatilake. Toward a Global Science: mining civilizational knowledge. Indiana University Press, 1999
Patrick A. Heelan. The Logic of Changing Classificatory Frameworks, In: Wojciechowski, J. A. (Ed.): Conceptual basis of the classification of knowledge. K. G. Saur 1974. p. 260-274
Patrick A. Heelan. Complementarity, context-dependence and quantum logic. In: Foundations of Physics ,1, 1970, p p. 95 -100
Patrick A. Heelan. Classical logic and quantum logic; their respective roles. In: Synthèse, 21, 1970, pp. 2 -33
Massimo Introvigne. Damanhur: A Magical Community in Italy. In: Bryan Wilson, Jamie Cresswell (Eds.), New Religious Movements - Challenge and Response, Routledge, 1999, pp.183-194.
Jon Jenkins and Maureen Jenkins. The Social Process Triangles. 2001 (A comprehensive pull-together of work done by the ICA to develop models of societal dynamics -- the Social Process Triangles, the Social Process Dynamics, and the Social Imbalances) [summary]
Jon Jenkins and Maureen Jenkins. The Other World ... in the midst of our world. 2001 (An outgrowth of the ICA's early work on "spirit methods," this contains descriptions of 64 "states of being" as maps to guide the exploration of the sacred in the midst of the mundanity of life. Includes a complete set of charts of the Other World, guidelines on how to use the book, and how to lead a "visit" to the Other World.) [summary]
Harish Johari. Leela: the game of self-knowledge. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
Mark Johnson. The Body in the Mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. University of Chicago Press, 1987 [review]
Lindsay Jones. The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison. Harvard University Press (Center for the Study of World Religions), 2003 [review]
Anthony Judge:
- Authentic Grokking: Emergence of Homo conjugens. 2003 [text]
- Constraints of "Think-tank" Conceptualization on Global Governance: unexplored implications of the "tank" metaphor, 2003 [text]
- Entering Alternative Realities -- Astronautics vs Noonautics: isomorphism between launching aerospace vehicles and launching vehicles of awareness. 2002 [text]
- Groupthink: the Search for Archaeoraptor as a Metaphoric Tale. 2002 [text]
- My Reflecting Mirror World: making Joburg worthwhile. 2002 [text]
- Navigating Alternative Conceptual Realities: clues to the dynamics of enacting new paradigms through movement. 2002 [text]
- Patterning Archetypal Templates of Emergent Order: implications of diamond faceting for enlightening dialogue. 2002 [text]
- Psychology of Sustainability: Embodying cyclic environmental processes. 2002 [text]
- Towards Conscientific Research and Development. 2002 [text]
- The "Dark Riders" of Social Change: a challenge for any Fellowship of the Ring. 2002 [text]
- Coherent Patterns of Schism Formation, Bifurcation and Disagreement. 2001 [text]
- Composing the Present Moment: celebrating the insights of Marsilio Ficino. 2001 [text]
- Embodying the Sphere of Change. 2001 [text]
- Missiles, Missives, Missions and Memetic Warfare: Navigation of strategic interfaces in multidimensional knowledge space. 2001 [text]
- Presenting the Future. 2001 [text]
- Simulating a Global Brain: using networks of international organizations, world problems, strategies, and values. 2001 [text]
- Structuring Mnemonic Encoding of Development Plans and Ethical Charters using Musical Leitmotivs. 2001 [text]
- Communicating with Aliens: the Psychological Dimension of Dialogue. 2000 [text]
- Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors. 2000 [text]
- Evaluating Synthesis Initiatives and their Sustaining Dialogues. 2000 [text]
- Metaphoric entrapment in time. 2000 [text]
- Aesthetics and Informatics: Art of Information for Policy-making and Community-building. 1999 [text]
- Being the Universe : a Metaphoric Frontier. 1999 [text]
- Paradigm-shifting through Transposition of Key. 1999 [text]
- Being Other Wise: dynamics of a meaningfully sustainable lifestyle. 1998 [text]
- Discovering richer patterns of comprehension to reframe polarization. 1998 [text]
- From Statics to Dynamics in Sustainable Community. 1998 [text]
- Sustainable Occupation beyond the Economic Rationale: Reframing employment, non-profit-making and voluntary. 1998 [text]
- Sustaining a pattern of alternative community initiatives: based on their differences from the conventional economic rationale. 1998 [text]
- Aesthetic Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue as Exemplified by Meditation. 1997 [text]
- Dancing through Interfaces and Paradoxes: group alchemy. 1997 [text]
- Distorted Understandings of Synthesis: Reconfiguring the challenge of wholeness. 1997 [text]
- Future Generation through Global Conversation: in quest of collective well-being through conversation in the present moment. 1997 [text]
- Paradigm Leaps: Intrinsic Determination of Conceptual Patterning. 1997 [text]
- Sacralization of Hyperlink Geometry. 1997 [text]
- Social Experiments and Sects Beyond category manipulation by advocates and opponents. 1997 [text]
- Being Employed by the Future: reframing the immediate challenge of sustainable community. 1996 [text]
- Beyond Harassment of Reality and Grasping Future Possibilities: learnings from sexual harassment as a metaphor. 1996 [text]
- Misleading Insights into Sustainable Community.1996 [text]
- People as Stargates: an alternative perspective on human relations in space-time. 1996 [text]
- Songlines of the Noosphere: global configuration of hypertext pathways. 1996 [text]
- Understanding Sustainable Dialogue: the secret within Bucky's Ball. 1996 [text]
- Aesthetic paradox of unitary comprehension. 1995 [text]
- Challenges to Learning from the Swadhyaya Movement, 1995 [text]
- Designing the 21st Century: Integration of Arts and Sciences. 1995 [text]
- Envisaging the Art of Navigating Conceptual Complexity: in search of software combining artistic and conceptual insights. 1995 [text]
- Gardening Sustainable Psycommunities. 1995 [text]
- Design Considerations for Spatial Metaphors: reflections on the evolution of viewpoint transportation systems. 1994 [text]
- In Quest of Radical Coherence: a group design initiative. 1994 [text]
- Spherical Configuration of Categories to Reflect Systemic Patterns of Environmental Checks and Balances. 1994 [text]
- Valori Umani. Bologna, Cisalpino (Istituto Editoriale Universitario - Monduzzi Editore), 1994 (with Gianni Tibaldi)
- Human Values as Strange Attractors: Coevolution of classes of governance principles. 1993 [text]
- Towards an Ecology of Spiritual Traditions as Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors. 1993 [text]
- Sustaining Higher Orders of Policy Consensus through Metaphor: towards a new language of governance. 1992 [text]
- Metaphors as Transdisciplinary Vehicles of the Future. 1991 [text]
- Review of Frameworks for the Representation of alternative Conceptual Orderings as Determined by Linguistic and Cultural Contexts. 1986 [text]
- Monopolarization. (Part 1 of Development through Alternation) 1983 [text]
- Beyond Method engaging opposition in psycho-social organization. 1981 [text]
- Societal Learning and the Erosion of Collective Memory: a critique of the Club of Rome Report. 1980 [text]
- University of Earth: Meta-organization for post-crisis action. 1980 [text]
- Groupware Configurations of Challenge and Harmony: an alternative approach to alternative organization. 1979 [text]
- Representation, Comprehension and Communication of Sets: the Role of Number. 1978 [text]
- Transnational network of research and service communities: organizational hybrid. 1974 [text]
M. Klemme, R. Kuhnert, H. Selke. Semantic Spaces. In: K. Höök, A. Munro, D. Benyon (Eds.): Workshop on Personalised and Social Navigation in Information Space, SICS Technical Report T98:02, Kista, Sweden, March 1998, pp. 109-118. [text]
Panos Kouros. Overcoming Techno-Logic. Paper in the International Symposium Pendulum, Medi@terra '99 (Athens, 1999) [text]
Panos Kouros. Pasiphili - Pandektiki Avli - Epochesthe + 2 memory theatres (a mnemonic architecture project) 1998 [text]
Panos Kouros. Announcement for the poetic habitation of the world: the theoretical architecture of ruin architectures. Avgi, 16.4.1995
Lawrence M. Krauss. The Physics of Star Trek. Basic Books, 1995 [links]
Donald Kunze and Wesley Wei. The Vanity of Architecture: topical thinking and the practice of discontinuity, Via 8, 1986
Ervin Laszlo. Planetary Consciousness: our next evolutionary step., Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 4, no. 4, 1997 [text]
Robert Lawlor. Sacred Geometry: theory and practice. Thames and Hudson/Crossroad, 1983
Sic Lonegren. Labyrinths: Ancient Myths and Modern Uses (1991/1996)
Josette Luvmour and Ba Luvmour. Win-Win Games for All Ages: cooperative activities for building social skills. 2002 [more]
Leandro Madrazo. The Concept of Type in Architecture: An Inquiry into the Nature of Architectural Form. 1995 [text; references]
Jeff Merrifield. Damanhur: the community they tried to brand a cult. HarperCollins, 1998
Thomas Moore. The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996
Thomas Moore. The Planets Within: the astrological psychology of Marsilio Ficino. Lindisfarne Press, 1990 (revised version of 1982 edition)
Kent D. Palmer. On the Social Construction of Emergent Worlds: the foundations of reflexive autopoietic systems theory. 1996 [text]
Randy Peyser. Europe's Best Kept Secret (on Damanhur) [text]
Darrell A. Posey (Editor). Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity: a complementary contribution to Global Biodiversity Assessment, Intermediate Technology, 1999 (for the United Nations Environment Programme)
Darryl Reanney. The Death of Forever: a new future for human consciousness. Longman, 1991
Martin Schonberger. I Ching and the Genetic Code. Aurora Press, 1992
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man (1949)
Kevin Sharpe. Bibliography for Christian Theology and the Physics, Metaphysics, and Mathematics of David Bohm. 2000 [text]
David Spangler and William Irwin Thompson. Reimagination of the World: a critique of the New Age, science and popular culture. Santa Fe, Bear, 1991
Dennis J. Sumara. Private Readings in Public: Schooling the Literary Imagination. Peter Lang, 1996 [review]
William Irwin Thompson. Imaginary Landscapes: making worlds of myth and science. St. Martin's Press, 1989
Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Roach. The Embodied Mind: cognitive science and human expression. MIT Press, 1991
Francisco J. Varela. Laying down a path in walking. In: W. Thompson (Ed.), Gaia: A way of knowing. (pp. 48-64). Lindisfarne Press, 1987
D. P. Walker. Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella. 1958 [natural magic]
Ian Watson. The Embedding. Gollancz, 1973 [introduction]
Richard Wilhelm (Tr.). The I Ching or Book of Changes. Princeton Univesity Press, 1950
R. Bruce Williams. More Than 50 Ways To Build Team Consensus. 2001 (A gold mine of hundreds of tips on creating consensus culled from 20 years' work with the ICA and other organizations, each containing a description, comments, hints, and an example of its use.)
Frances Yates. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. University of Chicago Press, 1964
Frances Yates. The Art of Memory. University of Chicago Press, 1966
Frances Yates. Theatre of the World. University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Damanhur e il Viaggio nel Tempo: la tecnologia per il viaggio temporale [text]
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