Mixed martial arts, sitting meditation, and reading. Art and poetry. Philosophy, science, and religion. Video games, movies, and music.
People who's spirits contain a superabundance of transformative power.
Eyedea, Pharoahe Monch, Sage Francis, Gift of Gab, Grayskul, Jedi Mind Tricks, Isis, NIN, Plaid, Future Sound of London, Ill Bill, Goretex, Jus Allah, Nas, Aphex Twin, Mastadon, Tool, Immortal Technique, Canibus, Apathy, Killah Priest, Holocaust, Louis Logic, Cannibal Ox, Ras Kass, Chino XL, and Crooked I.
MARTIAL ARTS: Iron Monkey, Tai Chi Master, Drunken Tai Chi, Ong Bak, Magnificent Butcher, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Buddhist Fist, Once Upon a Time in China 1 and 2, Fists of Legend, and anything directed by Yuen Woo Ping.SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY: Matrix Trilogy, Event Horizon, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek TNG, The Fifth Element, Contact, Pitch Black, The Arrival, The Lawnmower Man, Alien, Aliens, Alien Ressurection, Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within, Donnie Darko, and others.OTHER: Waking Life, I Heart Huckabees, Identity, Ichi the Killer, Audition, Jacobs Ladder, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Ring, Jason vs. Freddy, The Frighteners, Fight Club, Constantine, Sin City, Hellboy, City of God, and others.
Newsradio, Scrubs, Rome, The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, DS9, Buffy!, Malcom in the Middle, ect.
EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. BUDDHISM: Daito, Dogen, Lin-Chi, Bankei, and Hakuin. Good introductory books are The Three Pillars of Zen and Zen Mind, Beginner's mind. SCIENCE FICTION: Greg Bear, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, Richard Morgan, Neal Stephenson, Greg Egan, Kim Stanley Robinson, and William Gibson are all excellent authors. FANTASY: Neil Gaiman and old Clive Barker. WUXIA: I love the work of Louis Cha the greatest chinese martial arts author of all time. Check out The Book and the Sword and The Deer and the Cauldron trilogy. ASSORTED NON FICTION TOPICS: Socialism, current events, science and nature, sociology, religion, ect. POETRY: Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, and some of the above mentioned zen masters. COMICS: Anything written by Grant Morrison who is the buddha of our aeon, creating madly against the coming crisis who's mindless splinters are already streaming backwards in time to consume all hope.
Bassui, Rumi, Grant Morrison, Bruce Lee, Charles Stross, Gandhi, Nietszche, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Shiva, Batman, Wong Fei Hung, Sartre, Yoda, Noam Chomsky, Dogen, Lin-Chi, Jesus, My family, Stephen Baxter, Buffy, Daito, Bodhidharma, Marx, Richard Morgan, Eyedea, Sage Francis, Fedor Emelianenko, George St. Pierre, Wanderlei Silva, and anyone out there trying to protect biodiversity, save our species, and all sentient beings in general.