Sebastião Salgado
Amazônia
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
Sebastião Salgado
Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
Freddy Mamani
Totems of Andean Futurism
His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.
The Root Atlas
Unearthed Intelligence
The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.
Planetary Healers Manual
Survival into the 21st Century
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
Levon Biss
The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits
Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.
Julia Turk
Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
Adrian Fisk
Until The Last Oak Falls
A book of unseen photographs documenting the early days of the British direct action environmental movement from 1995—1999.
Hamzeh Carr
The Light of Asia
The Light of Asia is a famous narrative poem that tells the life and time of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who after attaining enlightenment, became the Buddha.
William Blake
The Book of Job as an Encounter with the Self
A numinous, archetypal event that can lead to enhanced consciousness and is therefore crucial to the psyche of modern man.
Dying to Know
The Mystical World
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
Philip Kirkland
Energy Ecstasy and your Seven Vital Chakras
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
Stanley Keleman
Emotional Anatomy
This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.
Walter Russell
In the Wave lies the Secret of Creation
Russell was a visionary — painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and author. But he had no background in science. His cosmogony is based on a revelatory event he experienced at the age of fifty.
Hamid Sardar
Shamans & Hunters of Mongolia
“We exist in relation to three things: The forest, wild animals, and our ancestor spirits. Once we lose the connection to these things, we invite demons to take hold of our destiny.”
Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
Tintin
Coming of Age
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
Seeds
Time Capsules of Life
Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.
Moebius
The World of Edena
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
The Psychedelic Experience
A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an instruction manual intended for use…
Ashtanga Yoga
Mysore Style
The term Mysore Style means you practice a memorized yoga sequence without being led by a teacher. The role of the teacher is to guide as well as provide adjustments or assists in postures.
Osho on Yoga
The Alpha and the Omega
Osho’s discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, given in Pune from 1973-76.
Emilie Conrad
Continuum Movement
Continuum Movement is a dynamic inquiry into what it is to be a human being, providing a method to consciously explore ourself as an unfolding biological and planetary process.
Charles Fréger
Europe’s Wild Men
A primal heart still beats in Europe. Rural people all over the continent kept the connection to nature’s rhythm and celebrate the seasonal cycle. They invoke death but bestow fertile life.
John C. Lilly
Of Mountains and Molehills
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
Aldous Huxley
Island
This book isn’t a novel but rather a manifesto. The final work of Huxley is a sociological blueprint, a manual for living, loving and dying.
On Yoga
The Architecture of Peace
Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the essence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples.
Alone
in the Wilderness
Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera, this documentary is the modern-day Walden.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
Michael Ackerman
End Time City
End Time City is Michael Ackerman’s radical portrayal of the Indian city of Benares, the holy City of Light on the shore of the Ganges.
Erich Fromm
The Art Of Loving
The presentation of love as as a skill that can be taught and developed is all the more important for modern humans alienated from each other and from nature.
