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‘"Change? What do you mean "change"?’
Changes in Our Lives and in the History of Christian Belief
presented by Stephenie Rose Cooper
Session 3, continued: Resources for an Expanding Consciousness/Expanding Spirituality
Resources for an Expanding Consciousness/Expanding Spirituality
Books - Fiction (Anything by this Author - book listed is especially good), Poets, and Artists
& Adams, Douglas, The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
& Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid's Tale
& Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
& Bantock, Nick, Griffin and Sabine
& Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz
& Bechard, Gorman, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told
& Blake, William (Art and Poetry)
& Bradbury, Ray, The Martian Chronicles
& Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
& Celtic Art
& Chopin, Kate, The Awakening
& Clarke, Arthur C., Childhood’s End
& Day, Marele, Lambs of God
& Giotto (Art)
& Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
& Hansen, Ron, Mariette in Ecstasy
& Heglund, Jean, Into the Forest
& Heinlein, Robert, Stranger in a Strange Land
& Herbert, Frank, Dune
& Hesse, Herman, Siddhartha
& Huxley, Aldous, Brave new World
& Kazantzakis, Nikos, The Last Temptation of Christ
& Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird
& LeGuin, Ursula, The Lathe of Heaven
& Lightman, Alan, Einstein’s Dreams
& Otto, Whitney, Now You See Her
& Martel, Yann, The Life of Pi
& Morrison, Toni, Beloved
& Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
& Saramago, Jose, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
& Schoemperlen, Diane, Our Lady of the Lost and Found(+)
& Sebold, Alice, The Lovely Bones
& Tolkien, J.R.R., Lord of the Rings
& Twain, Mark., The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
& Verne, Jules, Journey to the Center of the Earth
& Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five
& Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
& Wells, H.G., The Time Machine
& Wolfe, Virginia, Orlando
& Wülfing, Sulamith (Art)
Books - Non-Fiction (+ = Anything by this author)
& Alfeyeva, Valeria, Pilgrimage to Dzhvari
& Artress, Dr. Lauren, Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool
& Bateson, Mary Catherine, Composing a Life (+)
& Brother Lawrence, Practicing the Presence of God
& Bundesen, Lynne, So the Woman Went Her Way
& Campbell, Joseph, Myths to Live By (+)
& Catherine of Siena (St.), Dialog of Catherine of Siena
& D’Sousa, Dinesh, What’s So Great About America
& Davis, Stanley, Future Perfect
& Ferguson, Marilyn, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time
& Hofstadter, Douglas, Godel, Escher, Bach
& Irwin, William, editor, The Matrix and Philosophy
& Jessey, Cornelia, The Prayer of Cosa
& Julian of Norwich (St.), Revelations of Divine Love (+)
& Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
& Norris, Kathleen, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
& Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve and the Serpent
& Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels
& Spong, John Shelby, Why Christianity Must Change or Die
& Steiner, Claude, Scripts People Live
& Thurman, Howard, JEsus and the Disinherited
& Toffler, Alvin, Future SHock
& Tuchman, Barbara, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
& Von Oech, Roger, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How to Unlock Your Mind
Television programs or movies to watch out for:
C "Agnes of God"
C “Amelie”
C “Art of the Western World”
C "Becket"
C "Black Narcissus"
C “Blade Runner”
C "Brother Sun, Sister Moon"
C “The Burning Times”
C "The Color Purple"
C “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”
C “Dark City”
C “Einstein’s Universe”
C “Fly Away Home”
C “A Foreign Field”
C "Inherit the Wind"
C "Jesus Christ, Superstar"
C "Jesus of Montréal"
C "Jesus of Nazareth"
C "To Kill a Mockingbird"
C "The Last Temptation of Christ'
C “Legacy”
C "A Man for All Seasons"
C “The Matrix”
C "The Mission"
C “Northern Exposure”
C "Nova", especially "Children of Eve", "The Miracle of Life"'
C "The Nun's Story"
C "The Power of Myth", with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
C “Run Lola Run”
C “Schindler’s List”
C “Sliders”
C “Sliding Doors”
C "The Sound of Music"
C “Truly, Madly, Deeply”
C "Whistle Down the Wind"
C "Wings of Desire" (skip the "City of Angels" remake)
C "A World of Ideas", Bill Moyers, especially interviews with Elaine Pagels, Mary Catherine Bateson
C “The X-Files”
Other:
U Abbeys, Cathedrals and their ruins, especially Coventry, Glastonbury, Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Westminster, York
U Art Galleries and Museums
U Jerusalem and the Holy Land
U Monterey Bay Aquarium
U Museums
U Rosary beads
U Sacred artifacts and objects
U Taizé service, 1st Friday of each month, Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA
U Walks on the beach
U Waterfalls
U Yosemite National Park
Websites:
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Book of Common Prayer (online)
http://www.cruzio.com/~djj/bcp/top.html
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Cursillo: National Episcopal Cursillo
http://www.go4th.org/nec/
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Cursillo: Santa Clara Servant Community
http://www.stedwards.org/cursillo.html
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://ccel.wheaton.edu/
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Christian Literature on the Internet
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-books.html
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Christianity Today (Magazine) Online
http://www.christianity.net/
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Ecole Initiative - Early Church History
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/
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Education for Ministry (EFM)
http://www.sewanee.edu/EFM/EFMhome.html
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Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real
http://www.ecr.anglican.org/
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Episcopal Church Home Page
http://www.dfms.org/
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Episcopal Religious Communities
http://www.wthree.com/corl/
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Homepage of God (Website is in Germany!)
http://www.netstore.de/~god/
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Noncanonical Home Page
http://wesley.nnc.edu/noncanon.htm
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Random Church Humor
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/rainierumc/rumc_humor.htm
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Taizé Ecumenical
Community
http://www.almac.co.uk/taize/taize.html
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Whirlwind Bible Tour
http://www.pronetisp.net/~diana/wbt.htm
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Worldwide Study Bible
http://ccel.wheaton.edu/wwsb/
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