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"Salka", a Quechua word (the language of the Andes) for "undomesticated energy". Salka is like a wind that blows through consensus reality from beyond, bringing us into contact with the great mystery and beauty of existence.

References

The following are the books, chapters, and articles that I refer to in my articles and in my blog ("Nothing makes people think you know what you are talking about quite like having a long, impressive, reference section", any academician). Seriously, I hope this will be a resource for those of you who would like to read further.

Abram, D. (1995). The ecology of magic. In T. Roszak, M. E. Gomes & A. D. Kanner (Eds.), Ecopsychology (pp. 301-315). San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Allen, C. J. (1995). The hold life has. In O. Starn, C. I. Degregori & R. Kirk (Eds.), The Peru Reader (388-400). Durham: Duke University Press.

Allen, C. J. (2002). The hold life has: Coca and cultural identity in an Andean community (2nd ed.). Washington: Smithsonian Books.

Ashby, W. R. (1970). Analysis of the system to be modeled. In R. M. Stogdill (Ed.), The Process of Model-building in the Behavioral Sciences. (pp. 94-114). New York: W. W. Norton.

Atfield, R. (1983). The ethics of environmental concern: Man's domination and the Judaeo-Christian Heritage. New York: Columbia University Press.

Avendano, A. (2000). Medicina Popular Quechua: La Rebelion de los Mallkis (Segunda edicion). Lima.

Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Ballantine.

Bateson, G. (1979). Mind and nature: A necessary unity. New York: Bantam.

Bateson, G. (1991). A Sacred unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Donaldson, R. E. (Ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

Bateson, G., & Bateson, M. C. (1987). Angels fear: Toward an epistemology of the sacred. New York: Macmillan.

Benares, C. (1977). Zen Without Zen Masters. Berekely, California: And/Or Press.

Bolin, I. (1998). Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Campbell, J. (1950). The masks of God: Primitive mythology. New York: Viking.

Campbell, J. (1990). Transformations of myth through time. New York: Harper and Row.

Campbell, J. & Moyers, B. (1988). The power of myth. New York: Doubleday.

Capra, F. (1983). The turning point. New York: Bantam.

Capra, F. (1996). The web of life. New York: Doubleday.

Copi, I. M. (1972). Introduction to Logic (4th Ed.). New York: MacMillan.

Cowell, A. (1990). The decade of destruction. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Davis, E. (1998) Technosis: myth, magic & mysticism in the age of information. New York: Random House.

Davis, W. (1996). One river: Explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Gordon, O. E. A Therapeutic Relationship Between People and Their Geography in the Andes, 2001; Clio's Psyche, 7(4), 184-185.

Gordon, O. E. The Real Heart (Spring 2004); Sacred Hoop.

Hollister, C. W. (1990). Medieval Europe: A short history. (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Keeney, Bradford P. (1983). Aesthetics of change. New York: Guilford Press.

Kellert, S., & Wilson, E. O. (Eds.) (1993). The biophilia hypothesis. Washington D. C.: Island Press.

Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions. (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Naess, A. (1993). Indentification as a source of deep ecological attitudes. In List, P. C. (Ed.), Radical Environmentalism. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Plotkin, M. J. (1993). Tales of a shaman's apprentice. New York: Penguin.

Palomino, S. (1993). Three times, three spaces in cosmos Quechua. In Piacentini, P. (Ed.), Story Earth: Native Voices on the Environment. San Francisco, Mercury House.

Piacentini, P. (Ed.). (1993). Story Earth: Native Voices on the Environment. San Francisco, Mercury House.

Polia, Mario (2006). Andean Cosmology and Cosmography in the North-Peruvian Shamanic Mesa. In D. Sharon (Ed.), Mesas & Cosmologies in the Central Andes (pp. 31-48). San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.

Sharon, Douglas (2006). Shamanism, Mesas, and Cosmologies in the Central Andes. In D. Sharon (Ed.), Mesas & Cosmologies in the Central Andes (pp. 31-48). San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.

Sullivan, W. (1996). The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against Time. New York: Crown

Szent-Gyorgyi, A. (1970). The crazy ape. Philosophical Library.

Tolle, Eckhart (2005). A new earth: Awakening to your life's purpose. New York: Plume.

Union of Concerned Scientists (1992). World scientists' warning to humanity. Cambridge, MA. Retrieved July 14, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ucsusa.org/resources/warning.html

Union of Concerned Scientists (1997). World scientists' call for action. Cambridge, MA. Retrieved July 14, 2000 from the World Wide Web: www.ucsusa.org/warming/gw.worldsci.html

U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London (1992). Population growth, resource consumption, and a sustainable world. A statement issued by the International Conference on Population, Natural Resources, and Development; Stockholm, Sweden. A copy of the statement was retreived July 14, 2000, from the World Wide Web: www.spiritone.com/~orsierra/rogue/popco/warn/warn01.htm.

Watts, A. W. (1958). Nature, man, and woman. New York: Vintage Books.

White, L. (1970). The historical roots of our ecological crises. In The Environmental Handbook, New York: Ballantine.

Wilcox, J. P. (2004). Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.

Wilson, E. O. (1984). Biophilia: The human bond with other species. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Wilson, E. O. (1992). The diversity of life. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.