Since it took me years of searching, wandering, following leads, chance meetings and general good fortune to come across the people and works that have had an impact on me and my thinking, I thought it might be a nice idea to share them.

This list is in no order. Just because I got some important ideas from some of them doesn’t mean I necessarily dig them or what they are about. I don’t endorse any of them – if you see the Buddha on the road, kill him! If they are here it means I got something important from them at some point in my life. Maybe I still consider them to be a genius. Maybe not.

Make of it what you will!

I shall add to this list as things occur to me, as I remember old influences or discover new ones. Please feel free to comment and add your own. I’m always up for a thing of beauty, a genius, a master, or a pearl of wisdom.

Enjoy!

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Small is Beautiful
Naropa
Who killed the electric car?
Walden
Gary Snyder
Ken Kesey
Awareness of the implications of peak oil
An Inconvenient Truth
Tao Te Ching
Benjamin Zephaniah
Bob Marley
Pali Canon (particularly the Metta Sutta and the Satipatthana Sutta but there is loads of good stuff here)
The Smiths
Byron Katie
Martha Beck
Inter Ference
Banksy
The Geography of Hope
Complete Book of Self Sufficiency
Yurts
People who make their own shelter
On the Road
Wavy Gravy
Jean Paul Sartre
Bob Dylan
Mark Rothko
Sahaja Budzilla
Nick Drake
John Lennon
Elliott Smith
Eckhart Tolle
Thich Nhat Hanh
Hermann Hesse
Joanna Newsom
Carl Jung
BKS Iyengar
Dead Kennedys
Reiki
The Sundays
Vegetarian shoes
Withnail and I
Easyrider
Albert Camus
Karl Marx
Glastonbury festival
Psychedelia
King Missile
Existentialism
Mindfulness
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Julie Doiron
Reclaim the Streets
Taylor’s Textbook of Anatomy and Physiology
Qi Gong
Notes from the Universe
Cohousing
John B Sebastian
Zeitgeist
Farenheit 9/11
The Corporation
Network
Taking Liberties
Buddhism
Gong
Melanie Safka
Buffy Sainte-Marie