Women's global leadership. Women's rights issues, esp. atrocities against women in the Congo and obstetric fistula in rural Africa. Environmental and animal rights activism. Permaculture and Energy farming. Global water crisis. Sustainable living, energy and food sources, and technologies. Ayurvedic medicine. Homatherapy. Envisioning a more conscious and compassionate world.
Mountain climbing, hiking, and exploring nature. Meditation and tantra as ways of experiencing life. Dance and movement. Walking and meditating by the ocean. Learning new languages, especially Sanskrit, Swahili and Spanish.
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Tango, Flamenco, and spanish guitar; Classical music, especially Mozart; Baroque period, especially Vivaldi; Chopin; Carl Orff, CARMINA BURANA; World Beat, Trance, and Dance Techno; Indian and Punjabi Sacred Music, New Age and meditative music; African drums and world beat; Middle eastern dance; Reggae and Caribbean music generally.
The Color Purple; Atonement; Brokeback Mountain; GI Jane; The Scarlet Letter; The Pursuit Of Happiness; Ghandi; Jean de Florette; Manon of the Spring; The Great Debaters; Much Ado About Nothing; Shakespeare In Love; It's A Wonderful Life; Pride and Prejudice (with Kiera Knightley)
I don't watch it.
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Eckhart Tolle, THE POWER OF NOW and all other works; Byron Katie, LOVING WHAT IS; Maude Barlow, BLUE COVENANT; poetic works of William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling; A COURSE IN MIRACLES; Gopi Krishna, LIVING WITH KUNDALINI; B.K.S. Iyengar, LIGHT ON YOGA; THE DHAMMAPADA; Eve Ensler, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES; Salman Rushdie, SATANIC VERSES; short stories of Jorge Luis Borges; BHAGAVAD-GITA; Patanjali, YOGA SUTRAS; Ernest Holmes, THE SCIENCE OF MIND; Egyptological works of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, and John Anthony West; SIRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB (Sikh Scriptures); novels by Jane Austen; John Steinbeck, EAST OF EDEN; Dorothy West, THE WEDDING; W.E.B. duBois, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK; Marquis de Sade, PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOUDOIR; Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, VENUS IN FURS; Richard Wright, NATIVE SON; Og Mandino, THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD; Ayn Rand, THE FOUNTAINHEAD; Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, WOMEN WHO RUN WITH WOLVES; Omar Khayyam, THE RUBAIYAT; Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND; Paramahansa Yogananda, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI; Martin Bernal, BLACK ATHENA; Cicely Mary Baker, A DELUXE BOOK OF FLOWER FAERIES
Eckhart Tolle
Ida B. Wells
Marie Antoinette
J.K. Krishnamurti; Mary McLeod Bethune
Queen Nanny of the Maroons
Benazir Bhutto;
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Harriet Tubman; Golda Meir; Yogi Bhajan;
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oprah Winfrey; Frederick Douglass; Mahatma Ghandi; William Wilberforce;
B.K.S. Iyengar
Ammachi
H.P. Blavatsky