| These three books were and are a beacon call for me. Expressing in written form thoughts, instincts and truths that have been reverberating within myself for many years.My gratitude to these authors is huge. |
- The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
(click here to listen to David Abram on CBC's Ideas)
- Rogue Primate-an Exploration of Human Domestication & The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation by John A. Livingston (listen to "John Livingston Remembered" on CBC's Ideas episode 1, episode 2)
- Endgame Vols 1 & 2 by Derrick Jensen
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| The following bibliography is related to Skuld Project research into deepening connections with the natural world/shifting away from humanistic type perspectives etc. Although I have given special attention to the three above, the books in this list are also extremely powerful and highly reccommended reading for those interested in the things I'm exploring in the Skuld Project. In no particular order. |
- The Natural Alien by Neil Evernden
- The Sacred Balance & Inventing the Future by David Suzuki
- A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
- The Weather Makers By Tim Flannery
- Heat by George Monbiot
- Dancing at the Dead Sea by Alanna Mitchell
- The Horsemen by Joseph Kessel
- The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World by Hugh Brody
- Straw Dogs, Thoughts on Humans & Other Animals by John Gray
- Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Puck of the Droms by Artelia Court
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture by John C Ewers
- The Arrogance of Humanism by David Ehrenfeld
- The Road by Cormac MacCarthy
- Intelegence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
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| movies are a big part of my inner story telling history as they are with many. The films here resonate at many levels with my project. |
- Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) dir. Hayao Miyazaki. All time fav on the C. Thompson movie hit list!
- Walkabout dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon dir. Ang Lee
- Brokeback Mountain dir. Ang Lee
- Grave of the Fireflies dir. Isao Takahata
- My Neighbour Totoro dir . Hayao Miyazaki
- The Seven Samurai dir.Akira Kirosawa
- The Lord of the Rings dir. Peter Jackson
- The Outlaw Josey Wales dir. & starring Clint Eastwood
- The Snow Walker ~ dir. Charles Martin Smith
- Being Caribou ~ Leanne Allison and Karsten Heuer
- Atanajurat ~ The Fast Runner
- Beowulf & Grendel
- Xena ... naturally, anything with girls and swords
- Dances With Wolves
- The Last Samurai
- Kill Bill 1 & 2 ...see xena
- The Matrix – Prophetic observation of the human race as having become a kind of virus. We all knew who to root for, but I wonder if we got it right.
- Waking Life
- Ghost Dog dir. Jim Jarmusch
- Into the West
- Wings of Desire
- The Horsemen with Omar Sharif and Jack Palance and the 'Royal Buzkashi' and 'What a one-horned ram can do, a one-legged chapandaz can do better!' dir. John Frankenheimer.
- The Weeping Camel & The Cave of the Yellow Dog dir. Bayambasuren Davaa
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