Documentary Resources

• University of Earth: Questing for a more comprehensive dream (1999)
• University of Earth: meta-organization for post-crisis action (1980)
• Towards a University of Earth? (2010)
• Cognitive Implications of Lifestyle Diseases of Rich and Poor (2010)
• Patterns Essential to Individual and Global Health? (2010)
• Existential Embodiment of Externalities: radical cognitive engagement (2009)
• Resources on Renaissance Zones (2003)
• Challenges of Renaissance: suggestive pattern of concerns in the light of the birth metaphor (2003)
• En-minding the Extended Body: enactive engagement in conceptual shapeshifting and deep ecology (2003)
• Psychology of Sustainability: embodying cyclic environmental processes (2002)
• My Reflecting Mirror World: making my World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002) worthwhile (2002)
• Personal Globalization (2001)
• Embodying the Sphere of Change (2001)
• Knowledge Gardening through Music: patterns of coherence for future African management as an alternative to Project Logic (2000)
• Being the Universe : a Metaphoric Frontier Co-existent Immanence of Evolutionary Phases (1999)
• Paradigm-shifting through Transposition of Key: a metaphoric illustration of unexplored possibilities for the future (1999)
• The Third Twist: self-reference and territorializing the map (1997)
• Gardening Sustainable Psycommunities: recognizing the psycho-social integrities of the future (1995)
• Through Metaphor to a Sustainable Ecology of Development Policies (1989)
• The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (1979)

Collections of documents on laetus in praesens website

• Documents relating to Human development and self-reflection
• Documents relating to Existential engagement and embodiment
• Documents relating to Community, lifestyle, occupation
• Documents relating to Paradigm change, social transformation
• Documents relating to Learning, education
• Documents relating to Sustainable development
• Documents relating to Quests, questions and answers

Other documentary resources

• David Abram. The Spell of the Sensuous: perception and language in a more-than-human world. New York, Random House, 1997
• Gregory Bateson:
  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind San Francisco, Chandler, 1972
  • Mind and Nature: a necessary unity. Dutton, 1979
• Seana Coulson. Semantic Leaps: frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction. Cambridge University Press, 2001
• James Cowan:
  • Mysteries of the dreaming : the spiritual life of Australian Aborigines. Rose Bay, N.S.W. : Brandl & Schlesinger, 2001, 191 p.
  • Mysteries of the Dream-Time: the spiritual life of the Australian Aborigines. Woollahra, Prism - Unity, 1989. (Chapter on Totems also published in: Resurgence, 1989, 138, pp 30-34 )
• Brian Davey. Development from Within: the ethical and psychological dimensions of ecological development [text]
• Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela and Pierre Vermersch. On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of Experiencing. (Advances in Consciousness Research, 43), John Benjamins, 2003
• Christian de Quincey. Radical Nature: rediscovering the soul of nature. Montpellier VT, Invisible cities Press, 2002
• Sara I Fabrikant. The Geography of Semantic Information Spaces. 2000 [text]
• Gilles Fauconnier. Conceptual Integration. Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition (EDEC2001) [text]
• Paul Feyarabend. Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999 (edited by Bert Terpstra)
• Hans Rudi Fischer. Abductive Reasoning as a Way of Worldmaking. [text]
• Andy Fisher and David Abram. Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life. New York, State Univ of New York Press, 2002 (Suny Series in Radical Social and Political Theory)
• Diego Frigoli. The Psychosomatic Code of the Living: Analogy and symbols as integrative aspects of the relationship between man, nature and reality [text]
• Robert Ginsberg. Philosophy as Worldmaking. In: Worldmaking, ed. William Pencak (New York: Peter Lang, 1996), pp 5-21
• Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, 1978 [text]
• Amit Goswami. Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates The Material World. Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. 1995
• Paul Hernadi Why Is Literature: A Coevolutionary Perspective on Imaginative Worldmaking Poetics Today 23:1 (Spring 2002), pp. 21-42.. [abstract]
• Rudolf B. Husar. Ecosystem and the Biosphere: metaphors for human-induced material flows, 1994 [text]
• Mark Johnson. The Body in the Mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. University of Chicago Press, 1987 (review)
• Alice Jones. The Psychology of Sustainability: what planners can learn from attitude research. Journal of Planning Education and Research 16(1), 1996, pp 56-65 [text]
• R J Jorna and W van Wezel. Worldmaking with objects: a case in semiotic engineering. University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management), Research Report #95A12, 1995
• Anthony Judge:
  • Towards conscientific research and development. 2002 [text]
  • Embodying the Sphere of Change: reframing metaphors of the I Ching as a codification of the patterns of change. 2001 [text]
  • Authentic Grokking: Emergence of Homo conjugens. 2003 [text]
  • Being Other Wise: clues to the dynamics of a meaningfully sustainable lifestyle. 1998 [text]
  • Comprehension of appropriateness: project on Economic Aspects of Human Development (EAHD) of the Regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University: paper submitted informally to Rome workshop, 10-13 September 1986. Brussels: UIA, 1986, s.p. [text]
• Panos Kouros. Announcement for the poetic habitation of the world: the theoretical architecture of ruin architectures. Avgi, 16.4.1995
• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Philosophy In The Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought, Basic Books, 1999 .
• Ervin Laszlo. Planetary Consciousness: our next evolutionary step., Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 4, no. 4, 1997 [text]
• Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela , Robert Paolucci. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala, 1992
• Alastair McIntosh. Psychological effects of biodiversity loss in Celtic culture and its contemporary geopoetic restoration. 1999 [text]
• Thomas Moore:
  • The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996
  • Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino. Lindisfarne Press, Stockridge Mass., 1982.
• Kent D Palmer. On the Social Construction of Emergent Worlds: the foundations of reflexive autopoietic systems theory. 1996 [text]
• John M. Perkins:
  • Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation. Inner Traditions, 1997
  • The Shape of Things To Come: Shapeshifting (Interviewed by Carol Bedrosian) [text]
• John M Perkins with Diane Cooper. Shapeshifting the Environment into a World of Peace [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)
• Peter Reason. Political, Epistemological, Ecological and Spiritual Dimensions of Participation. Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 4, 1998, pp 147-167. [text]
• P. Schmuck and W. Schultz (Eds.). The Psychology of Sustainability Development. Kluwer Academic Publishers. In press
• Laura Sewall and David Abram. Sight and Sensibility: the ecopsychology of perception. J. P. Tarcher, 1999
• Henryk Skolimowski. The Participatory Mind: a new theory of knowledge and of the universe. Arkana 1995 [review]
• David Skrbina. Participation, Organization, and Mind: toward a participatory worldview. Center for Action Research In Professional Practice (University of Bath), 2001 [text]
• David Spangler anbd William Irwin Thompson. Reimagination of the World: a critique of the New Age, science and popular culture. Santa Fe, Bear, 1991
• Charlene Spretnak. The Resurgence of the Real: Body: nature and place in a hypermodern world Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1997
• Evan Thompson. Planetary thinking / Planetary building: an essay on Martin Heidegger and Nishitani Keiji. Philsophy East and West, 1986, 36, p. 235-252
• William Irwin Thompson. Imaginary Landscapes: making worlds of myth and science. St. Martin's Press, 1989
• William I Thompson, et al. Gaia, a Way of Knowing; political implications of the new biology. Lindisfarne Press, 1988
• Franciso J. Varela and Jonathan Shear. The View from Within.
• Francesco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Roach. The Embodied Mind: cognitive science and human expression. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1991
• Francesco Varela. Laying down a path in walking. In: W. Thompson (Ed.), Gaia: A way of knowing. (pp. 48-64). Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1987
• Ian Watson. The Embedding. London, Gollancz, 1973 [introduction]