Ran.paul's website - links to favourite websites

links to interesting websites

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On this page Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, explains in a simple way how it happened and what it is(and is not).

E.F. Schumacher Society
Orion Society - exploring an emerging alternative world view.
- Man in Nature: The Fiasco of Suburbia:
Ecological Systems Design - greywater systems, treatment & reuse
Holon Ecosystem consultant - ecological design
WWOOF - World-Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms
The Planet-Friendly Directory
Alternative Building Technology - How to build earth ships
Local currency- a complimentary alternative
The Electronic Frontier Foundation - to protect your digital rights.

John Pilge r Cutting Investigative journalism
Article: Unsustainability of a Dream- September 11th and the current world state
Article - by Arundhati Roy on the Iraq war
Weapons of mass destruction - a practical guide by Paolo Coelho
Myths about terrorism and Iraq- a compendium of Iraq War lies
Interview - Chomsky on the current us govt strategy
War against iraq- Noam Chomsky interview
ZNet- Community of people for social change
A Peoples history- us post WWII history by Howard Zinn.
Nobel peace prize lectureby 2003 winner Shirin Ebadi
Independent Democrats- Alternative SA political party
Dehumanization in prisons - Stanford Prison Experiment - Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
Globalizing Security: A Challenge For Your Generation

Zzzzen
U.G. Krishnamurti - 'I have no message for mankind'
Lao Tsu's toa te ching
Electronic I Ching
Dirk Gently's I-Ching Calculator ;)
Arthur Young's Reflexive universe
Ken Wilber's Integral universe
- Wikipedia entry
Willing to go naked?
Levels of Existence, Forms of Being - work of Clare Graves
Kriya yoga - royal path to self-realization
Byron Katie's the work - inquiry process involving 4 questions
- Katie Interview by Sunny Masad
Tensegrity - Carlos Castaneda
- Castenada Interview
Jiddu Krishnamurti - 'Meditation is a movement in and of the unknown'

More about Haikus
What is a Haiku
Rimbaud
Leonard cohen
Yusuf Islam (cat stevens)
Leonard cohen homesite
Pablo Neruda's beautiful nobel acceptance speech.
usa Poetry resources
I'm quite a novice as far as music is concerned, but you're missing something great if you haven't listened to Billy Holiday singing the blues/jazz. I recommend her later songs(1945-1959). The cd I have is Billie Holiday: Billie's Best.
An Arundhati Roy website- writer & activist
Paolo Coelho's Warriors of light - writer and activist
Arthur Koestler - writer