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Aspirations & Inspirations

ALWAYS COMING HOME, 1985, Ursula Le Guin. An anthropological study of a fictional culture--one that corresponds to life as it could be and perhaps should be.

DAS ENERGI, 1982, Paul Williams. Poetic and visionary revelation of How It Is.

ECOTOPIA, 1975, Ernest Callenbach. Utopian vision of a new society created by the seccession of the Pacific Northwest from the US. (fiction)

ENGINE SUMMER, 1979, John Crowley. 1,000 years in the future a tribal youth comes of age by trying to understand relies of the technological past. Much food for thought re: community standards of awareness, and very gracefully written. (fiction)

THE FIFTH SACRED THING, 1993, Starhawk. What if witches and Pagans became the majority and began running a major city? How might our values and practices alter business as usual? (fiction)

GODBODY, 1986, Theodore Sturgeon. A messianic love story. (fiction)

GLORY ROAD, 1963, Robert A. Heinlein. A Vietnam vet is recruited by a Goddess for adventures involving magick and interdimensional travel. Good humor and fun. (fiction)

THE HOBBIT, 1937, J.R.R. Tolkein, Classic tale intended for his children, which sets the stage for LOTR (fiction)

ISLAND, 1962, Aldous Huxley. This antithesis to Brave New World is a Pagan paradise with which we can strongly identify.

THE KIN OF ATA ARE WAITING FOR YOU, 1971, Dorothy Bryant. A very infuential story of a society where The Dreaming is the prime reality. (fiction)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (LOTR): THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, 1954, J.R.R. Tolkein (fiction)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (LOTR): THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, 2001, Peter Jackson. Do I really need to discribe this one? Beautiful cinematic retelling of Tolkein's classic -- an inspiration to Pagans for all time. (DVD)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (LOTR): THE TWO TOWERS, J.R.R. Tolkein, 1954 (fiction)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, 2002, Peter Jackson. Do I really need to discribe this one? Beautiful cinematic retelling of Tolkein's classic -- an inspiration to Pagans for all time. (DVD)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (LOTR): THE RETURN OF THE KING, J.R.R. Tolkein, 1955 (fiction)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, 2003, Peter Jackson. Do I really need to discribe this one? Beautiful cinematic retelling of Tolkein's classic -- an inspiration to Pagans for all time. (DVD)

THE PEOPLE: NO DIFFERENT FLESH, 1967, Zenna Henderson.*

PILGRIMAGE: THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE,196l, Zenna Henderson*. Exiles of a beloved,demolished homeworld are scattered across the Earth, must hide their eldrich abilities, and find each other, generations later. (THE PEOPLE was produced as a TV movie. with William Shatner. Also, Disney made a movie based on these stories, called ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN)

RETURN TO CREATION: A SURVIVAL MANUAL FOR NATIVE & NATURAL PEOPLE, 1991. Manitonquat (Medicine Story). Wonderful telling of traditional Native American stories, laying the foundation for a new tribalism.

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, 1961, Robert A. Heinlein. The inspiration behind Order of the Mithril Star, Church of All Worlds, Kerista, and a handful of other lessor known neo-Pagan experiments. (fiction)

THE THREE SIRENS, 1963, Irving Wallace. Sacred sexuality in a utopian island paradise. (fiction)

WALDEN TWO, 1948, B.F. Skinner. Fictionalized blueprint for a utopian community that formed the basis of the very successful Twin Oaks community. (fiction)

WALKING TO MERCURY, 1998, Starhawk. "Pre-quil" to The Fifth Sacred Thing. (fiction)

WATCH THE NORTHWIND RISE, 1949, Robert Graves. A utopian fantasy about an experimental future community modeled on ancient Crete. (fiction)

WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME, 1976, Marge Piercy. Mind-link to a future utopian community in the year 2137. (fiction)

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