| B. Inspirations & Visions of Community |
 Order This Item | | STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961. (NOT the 1991 unedited release!) Germinal in the original CAW vision, this prophetic novel still has some important ideas for new members. (A)[NLS] |
 Order This Item | | RETURN TO CREATION: A SURVIVAL MANUAL FOR NATIVE & NATURAL PEOPLE, Manitonquat (Medicine Story), 1991. Wonderful telling of traditional Native American stories, laying the foundation for a new tribalism. (essays)(A) |
 Order This Item | | DAS ENERGI, Paul Williams. Poetic and visionary revelation of How It Is. (A) |
 Order This Item | | THE FIFTH SACRED THING, Starhawk, 1993. 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)(A)[WBP] |
| | | ENGINE SUMMER, John Crowley, 1979. 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)(A) |
| | | ECOTOPIA, Ernest Callenbach, 1975. Utopian vision of a new society created by the seccession of the Pacific Northwest from the US. (fiction: audiotape available)(B) |
| | | ALWAYS COMING HOME, Ursula Le Guin, 1985. An anthropological study of a fictional culture--one that corresponds to life as it could be and perhaps should be. (B) |
| | | PILGRIMAGE: THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE, Zenna Henderson (196l) |
| | | THE PEOPLE: NO DIFFERENT FLESH, Zenna Henderson (1967) 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) |
| | | WATCH THE NORTHWIND RISE, Robert Graves, 1949. A utopian fantasy about an experimental future community modeled on ancient Crete. (fiction)(B) |
 Order This Item | | ISLAND, Aldous Huxley, 1962. This antithesis to Brave New World is a Pagan paradise with which we can strongly identify. [NLS] |
 Order This Item | | WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME, Marge Piercy, 1976. Mind-link to a future utopian community in the year 2137. (fiction)(B) |
| | | THE THREE SIRENS, Irving Wallace, 1963. Sacred sexuality in a utopian island paradise. (fiction)(8) |
| | | GODBODY, Theodore Sturgeon, 1986. A messianic love story. (fiction)(C) |
 Order This Item | | THE KIN OF ATA ARE WAITING FOR YOU, Dorothy Bryant, 1971. A very infuential story of a society where The Dreaming is the prime reality. (fiction)(C) |
 Order This Item | | WALDEN TWO, B.F. Skinner, 1948. Fictionalized blueprint for a utopian community that formed the basis of the very successful Twin Oaks community. (fiction)(C) |