Page 16 RAIN November 1976 (GOOD THINGS) Creati~e Meditation and Multi-Dimensional Consciousness, Lama Anagarika Govind~, 1976, $4.95 from: Quest Books Theosophical Publishing House P.O. Box 270 Wheaton, IL 60187 Govinda's earlier book, The Way of the White Clouds, had more impact on me than all of the other writing on spiritual or consciousness developments I've seen. His clear, perceptive experiences seemed to echo in my bones and mesh with my own experiences. I haven't been in a quiet enough space to absorb much of his new book yet, but anumber of the essays on time and space in it were published in Maincurrents a couple of years ago. They contained his usual ability to lift us out of the conventions of how our society thinks and perceives into broader and probably more us~ful ways of sensing, describing, and acting. The sections I have read contain a lot of wisdom for those who would give up the world in their search for spirituality and higher consciousness. "To a God the finite should be as much a necessity as to man the infinite. Toregard differentiation and individuality as mere accidents of nature or as aberrations of the orjginal purity is [to ignore] the only real.ity we can speak of ... because orily what "acts" is real in the sense that it affects us and can be experienced." (TB) The Sweater Book, by Judith Glassman, 1976, $4.95 from: Quick Fox 33 West 60th New York, NY 10023 At last a book of 35 sweater patterns for men, wom.en and children that is real: "If you want a subtle mohair · sweater (if there is such a thing), don't choose this color which looks like cotton candy gone berserk.... It's also hard to rip out, so if yoti make any mistakes, you'd probably best learn to live with them." The people in the pictures look like they really own the sweaters. (LdeM) "How Redlining Affects Seattle," in the Public White Paper-Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. ·3, edited by Nicholas Licata, $5 per year (sample copy free with self-addressed, stamped envelope) from: Seattle Information Project P.O. Box 12002 Seattle, WA 98112 I{this S.I.P. paper is as effective as their previous ones on nuclear p~wer ~s. energy conservation, redhnmg will end very soon in Seattle. "Does Seattle Need Nuclear Power?" (Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2) was a major reaso'n why the Seattle City Council recently voted "no" to 10% ·participation by Seattle City Light, the municipal utility, in two nuclear power plants..S.I.P. is a model o_f how ~o turn knowledge into information wh1ch activates and empowers citizen participation in local gove~nment. Future issues will deal with other problems which affect the financial ability of all families to enjoy decent housing and neighbor- ' hood__:;. (LJ) Moon, Moon, by Anne Kent Rush, 1976, 400 pp., $7.95, from: Random House 201 East 50th New York, NY 10022 or Moon Books P.O. Box 9223 Berkeley, CA 97409 In the couple of days this book has been .around, each of us has picked it up, leafed through it and settled down into a particular section. Lee even read aloud Astronaut Jim Erwin's account of his mystical experience going to the moon. It is a beautiful book-full of poems, cosmologies, calendars, histories and images about the moon from every culture. You will want to move slowly - and go back often to this loving collection of our long-neglected feminine, intuitive, mothering side. As Mao said, "Women hold up half the sky."·(LdeM) tl~e goddess Nut holclitrg 11p the .sky Northwest Habitat Conference, Dec. 10, 11, 12, Spokane, Washington Whither Habitat and the issues discussed at the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, last June? One follow-through is a conference being sponsored by the Northwest Regional Foundation (NRF), funded by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education under the Environmental Education Act. People from Washington, Idaho, Western Montana and Western Canada_ will be getting together for three days to teach and learn about community. It is an opportunity for people in the region to get to know each other an~ share concerns. NRF is suggesting that groups of 5-6 people from individual communities come as a "learning team." Mini-grants are ava~lable to teams to defray the costs of participating in the conference. Keynote facilitators are David Morris of the Institute for Local SelfRelian~e; Dr. Shirley Jones, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York/Stonybrook; and Robert Theobald, futurist and consultant to NRF.- Resource materia}s being prepared under the same grant are a film, "A Community Called Earth," and print packets, "The Challenge of Habitat." For information on the conference, registration, mini-grants to teams, and resource materials, contact: ' Northwest Habitat Conference Northwest Regional Foundation Box 5296 Spokane, W A 99205 509/455-9255 Donald Hornbeck, Coordinator (RE)
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