Links & other external resources
Notes :
- links below are not updated regularly, and the web is becoming increasingly unpredictable and ephemeral.
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- I have tended to exclude most (though not all) material that focuses on "what is wrong/broken" and (in line with the ethos of this book) have instead focussed much more on material that points towards positive, resourced ways of seeing the world, and that increase resilience.
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General Books, Audio-video resources, websites and people expressing similar (or different but interesting) ideas!
- Natureza Gabriel Kram (a new version of Autonomics that includes healthy adaptive states) - also see https://restorativepractices.com/ and the Restorative Practices Alliance: a set of over 200 practices for grounding and finding our personal resources - in a framework designed to help you easily home in to the ones that most suit your needs. These practices are primarily based on indigenous American traditions and wisdom, but also on modern neurology and collective experiences of many thousands of people. The site is a mix of free resources and paywall material.
- Veronique Mead Chronic Illness Trauma Studies. Linking PTSD (and other trauma) to chrinic illnesses via the Cell Defence Response.
- Ruth Lanius - particularly her new book Sensory pathways to healing from trauma :
Ruth A. Lanius, Sherain Harricharan, Breanne E. Kearney & Benjamin Pandev-Girard (2025) Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma: Harnessing the Brain’s Capacity for Change. Foreword by Daniel J. Siegel ISBN 9781462556915
- Harvard Center on the Developing Child Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It : a set of resources for parents and practitioners
- Louis Weinstock
- author of : How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It: A field guide to raising empowered children and growing a more beautiful world (2022) ISBN-13: 978-1785043796
- Beacon House resources
- The potency of the Dorsal state (Holly Bridges)
- ACT with compassion
- Vegetative Training - Inge Jarl Clausen
- Please come home - Jane Hooper
- Viktor Frankl: Mans search for meaning (exerpts in Brain Pickings) and as a free PDF download
- Great article on Stanley Keleman (and also Alexander Technique) - Anthony Kingsley
- The body connection : The guide to better body and better health by Michel Lingard
- Better Breathing Means Better Health by Michel Lingard
- Formative Embodiment - With James Feil (The embodiment channel, YouTube)
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John Arden talks about neural networks and feedback loops. The mind and emotions, senses, physical body, physiology, immune system, and genetic (cellular) expression are all connected in a series of feedback loops.
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Masaru Enmoto : The Rice experiment. You are what you think.
- Inge Jarl Clausen,
Holly Bridges,
Stephen Buehler,
Louis Weinstock, and others in my Acknowledgements.
Ecology, Evolution, Biology, Embryology, Neurology, Animal Behaviour & Life
(also see #General category above for neurology/ANS links)
Semiotics, Biosemiotics, Ecosemiotics & Cybernetics
Movement, slowing down, Being outdoors - forests, herbs, etc
- Hiie Saumaa Somatics - a channel about the wisdom of the moving, sensual body.
- Hedgerow Medicine.
- Zhixing Wang and Qigong SouthWest
- Shaolin Temple Europe, Yi Jin Jing (muscle tendon classic Qigong)
- One hours canal journey, Slow TV narrowboat trip on the Caldon canal
- AMSR (Autonomous sensory meridian response : a calming, pleasurable feeling often accompanied by a tingling sensation. This tingle is said to originate in a person's head and spread to the spine (and sometimes the limbs) in response to stimulation. The stimuli that trigger ASMR vary from person to person.) One way that AMSR arises is by watching expert craftsmen working in a natural rhythm.Ieuan Rees stone carver.
Society, Permaculture, Philosophy & Economics
- Joe Brewer - the Bioregional Ecosystems Regeneration Project at
Design School for Regenerating Earth, the
Fundacion Barichara Regenerativa, and also his
LinkedIn page
- The Evolved Nest. (Darcia Narvaez, PhD) - a clearly described process of parenting/child-rearing for returning our culture to one that is in harmony with the world (instead of colonising it). "Species-Typical Behaviour"
- First There Must Be An End by Dougald Hine
- Climate, Psychology and Change: a set of essays around re-identifying who we are as climate issues continue to escalate and the planet we live on enters a period of chaos before finding its new balance.
- Anything by David Graeber - see the v for a full set of free books/articles/interviews, and in particular see Debt - the First 5000 Years (note : it's not particularly obvious, the first page has a set of chapter links to the full book).
Also see David Graeber & David Wengrow (2022) The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0141991061
- David Bohm Consciousness Seminars (Part1). (Youtube)
- Lectures by Henri Bortoft. (Youtube)
- Lecture by Dr. Renatus Derbidge: Overcoming the Dogma of Separation: An Introduction to Goethes Holistic Approach in Natural Science (Youtube)
- Paul Kingsnorth (2025) Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity. Particular Books ISBN-13: 978-0241788400 -
also see his substack page - The Abbey of Misrule
Spirituality
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I have seen some absolutely irreplacable sites disappear over the past couple of years ... to name just two, James de Korne's remarkable exposition of the iChing was taken down after his death, and the Cell Intelligence site (with all its videos of cells behaving badly) of
Guenter Albrecht Buehler seems to have been one of the victims of Trump's re-allocation of every spare dime to the nearest needy billionaire. I have made sure that the website you are currently reading has (so far as guarantees about the internet are worth anything) guaranteed hosting for the next 10 years.
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In my opinion, our culture is too medicalised for its own good, resulting in a literally obsessive need to find out what has gone wrong and what could go wrong. This information might be juicy for the intellect, but it adds more burden on the body and is therefore (past a certain surprisingly small threshold) counterproductive. f you really wish to feel more embodied and resilient and get there in the shortest possible time, it is important to focus on where you are going much, much more than where you and other people might have been.
