WEB SIGHTS
SUSTAINABILITY WEB RESOURCES ON AHPWEB
— Bruce Wochholz

. . . The crucial question we have just begun to debate . . . whether we ought to strive for
increasing production and consumption, i.e. for wealth and luxury, or whether we should
restrict production and consumption to human proportions, i.e. to a level where it does not
contribute to man’s laziness and alienation but furthers his capacity to use his faculties
productively. Briefly, whether progress lies in having more or in being more.
— Erich Fromm On Being Human “On Having and Being”
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BRUCE WOCHHOLZ

December/January 2003-2004

WEB RESOURCES

Sustainability can be defined to include the integration of ecology and systems theory. The Sustainability Institute’s site offers a wealth of links, with useful mission and philosophy sections. Intentional Communities provides a different perspective on these issues, which includes an extensive directory. Laws, hypotheses, observations, and predictions relating to sustainability can be found at Die Off.

The SD Gateway, based in Canada, has an international perspective that includes definitions, a timetable, an excellent bibliography, and databases. The Japan for Sustainability site continues the international perspective, sharing information on developments and activities originating in Japan that lead toward sustainability, with the aim of building momentum toward a sustainable path for the world. A sustainability webring includes a wealth of international links.

The Sustainability Neighborhood part of the earthvision site, is an excellent news source. Sustainability in Business: principles for profit is a part of the Friends of the Earth site, complemented by sustainAbility www.sustainability.com/services/tools.asp, also containing a business emphasis. Redefining progress expands this point of view, to include information on economics and the economy.

The Ecological Philosophy section of the philosophy research database site includes pages on sustainable development within an extensive collection of links, including distance education opportunities. The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development includes information on sustainable communities and is part of the Smart Communities Network, of the U.S. Department of Energy site , which houses the Sustainable Development Resources database, containing information on local, national, and international organizations and government agencies currently active in the development of sustainable technologies and methods.

Sustainability Institute “Philosophy”: We believe that unsustainability does not arise out of ignorance, irrationality, or greed. It is largely the collective consequence of rational, well-intended decisions made by people caught up in systems—ranging from families and communities to corporations, governments, and economies—that make it difficult or impossible to act in ways that are fully responsible to all those affected in the present and to future generations.

LINK EXCHANGES

Individuals, members, and organizations are encouraged to request reciprocal links. The following sites have requested links from ahpweb, and they have already linked their sites to ahpweb.org. A unique site is Deep Quest, from Belgium www.deepquest.net, containing a “consciousness quest engine,” to provide a wide variety of links in a nonlinear, nonhierarchical method of navigation. The Complementary Medicines site aims to provide a detailed description of all complementary, alternative, and holistic therapies to enable everyone to read and learn more about Complementary Medicine, also providing a search engine for a therapist by area, therapy, or ailment. The Global Village News & Resources is published twice a month, is free of charge, and brings news from the frontiers of holistic and innovative human achievement. The AHP Perspective letters department often has items from this web publication .

At World of Hypnosis Hypnotist Grant Boddington is an entertaining master stage hypnotist, an experienced clinical hypnotherapist, and a mind motivator, using hypnotic trance techniques and the power of suggestion. The Gopi Krishna site includes information on Kundalini, higher consciousness, and the need for research into mystical experience and the evolution of the brain. The Divine Way of Spiritual Heart site offers contemporary knowledge about God, evolution, the meaning of life, and a methodology of spiritual self-perfection.

MEMBERLINKS

www.focusing.org/partnership/partner_info/ partnership_index.htm — Mary Hendricks-Gendlin’s Focusing Institute Partnership Program enables the learning of “focusing” with a partner with whom one takes turns, providing maximal learning and minimal intrusion, making a space into which new understanding can emerge, articulating an intuitive (bodily) “felt sense.” The site also addresses focusing as a force for world peace.

www.foundationforunity.com/ — Mary Bell’s Foundation for Unity Consciousness is dedicated to building the foundation that supports integrating what is Real into the mass consciousness through education and publication. Returning now to consciously being One, integrating and connecting with all that we are on all planes of reality, to heal on all levels simultaneously.

www.innersearch.net/pages/1/index.htm — Christine McKey’s approach seeks to enhance development and growth through self-determination and creativity, helping one to grow toward their potential with authenticity, integrity, compassion, wonder, and creativity.

www.susan hendricks.com/ — Susan Hendrick’s site encourages one to set off on their own “Royal Road to the Unconscious.” Dreams speak a universal language of metaphor using symbols, “interpretation” is not the main goal, one doesn’t have to understand the meaning to benefit.

www.thespiritualheart.com/ — Bruno Cortis asks: How is spiritual well-being linked to physical health? The spiritual power of healing is as real and important as medication and surgery. The heart seeks connectedness, self expression, and fulfillment of our deepest needs. Within one’s spiritual heart lies the core of our being, use it to gain control of your life.

www.innerbound.com/ — Danna Quinn’s site was established to promote and develop inner-awareness— the conscious recognition of our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, imaginings, and dreams, which underscores the foundation of our experience. Programs include development of fundamental skills of inner-awareness, providing an individual the resources and stimulus to attain personal and professional potential, as well as a solid sense of self.

www.maud-nordwald-pollock.com/ — Maud Nordwald Pollock’s method of “Feeling Dissolve,” also called reprogramming the emotional hard drive, was described in a recent Perspective. The method of “laying on of hands” is used in an interactive procedure, where one person is the active Healinghelper and the other is the healee, bringing into balance and harmony the subtle energy system.

www.flourishingearth.org/ — Richard Trowbridge’s emphasis is individual self-cultivation, as one part of a larger project of creating a flourishing Earth. Flourishing only recently has become possible because of the modern standard of living, extended lifespan, and recognition of the fundamental equality of all people of all genders, races, ethnicities, classes, and ages.

All the sites listed above can be reached at ahpweb.org in the WEB RESOURCES section. AHP Members are encouraged to submit their web addresses to WebSights columnist Bruce Wochholz at bwochholz@mac.com for review. Sites should be primarily educational or informational, and relate to AHP’s interests, but member sites may emphasize services, books, workshops, tapes, or other