References

This page gives some of the sources that helped or influenced Foaum, the underlying theoritical framework on which the Medha Jananam workshops are based.

Videos
Synthesizing happiness
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
Sacred Geometry & Unified Fields - Nassim Haramein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y5bXdx5UrE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7r1dKPW2L0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_UvyD85Hw
Back from the timeless realm - near death experience of Anita Moorjani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhcJNJbRJ6U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLouLHH-_I
Life after life - Experiences of people who are resuscitated - Raymond Moody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AY-A16a-4I
Secrets of the Mind - Vilayanur Ramachandran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTSN9phMZzk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry8wwV50ylQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On7jttGB7pw
Robots that fly and cooperate
http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
Medicine, Business and Spirituality - Dr. B.M. Hegde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH1y3MYWkP8
Village / agricultural life - Juggy Vasudev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp0Xjsr70z4#t=2105s
The Great Pyramid of Egypt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTft_CX8LZs
What would chanting a mantra 10 billions times do ?
The swami who befriended fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gLlw8RmYSo
Natural Birth, outdoors in Nature by a creek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNhCWsDVQI
Advances in biology that will blow your mind away !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBCH5DjJmE
Physics, Fun, Titanic and Universe ! Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Stephen Colbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUVLBtxdj0
The process of conception - WebMd
http://www.webmd.com/baby/ss/slideshow-conception
My View of the World by Erwin Schrödinger (Fusion of phsyics and Vedanta) http://www.amazon.com/My-View-World-Erwin-Schrodinger/dp/0918024307
The stars died for us - Lawrence Krauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
Evolution of Technologies - Kevin Kelly
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evolves.html
Swami Vivekananda's speech at Chicago in his own voice.
(Note:There is a controversy that this video is not genuine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUzKoIt5aM

Articles

Falling Into Place: Entropy, Galileo's Frames of Reference, and the Desperate Ingenuity Of Life
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/11334
Two people, one body - Chimera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
Upanishads: Solace of life - Arthur Schopenhauer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
Culture and religion - William Dalrymple Articles
http://www.williamdalrymple.uk.com/pages/links
Cognitive Development - Bayesian Models
Turn the mathematics of probability theory into an engine of inference.
http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/cogdevtutorial.pdf
The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher - By John Taylor Gatto
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=11375
Edge, The Third Culutre
Rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/
The Power of Myth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth
Fractals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
Hologram: Every part is whole
http://www.rense.com/general69/holoff.htm
A Recycled Universe
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-recycled-universe
Big Bang to today
http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/lectures/eraplanck.htm
Top 100 images taken by Hubble Telescope
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/
The beautiful micro world
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/microscopy_small_world
Kundalini, Chakras, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodroffe
Holons, Holarchies
http://www.integralworld.net/edwards13.html
Gestalt Psychology
http://www.gestalttheory.com http://www.integralworld.net/edwards13.html

Web Sites

Overview of human body
http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html http://www.subtleanatomy.com

Storms, Tornadoes, Skies
http://www.stormandsky.com
New Economics Foundation - Economics as if people and planet mattered
http://www.neweconomics.org
Why things go wrong? - Second law of Thermodynamics
http://secondlaw.oxy.edu
Cosmic Cycles - The wheel of time
http://miguelgoitizolo.com/TheWheelofTime.htm
Indic System: The Philosophy and Spirituality, by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati
http://www.swamij.com
Fusion Energy: The ITER Project
http://www.iter.org
Principal Upanishads
http://www.www.upanishad.info
The Haber Process that sustains one-third of world's population
The process of turning Natural Gas into Ammonia to produce Fertilizers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
Mystical Dimension
http://www.integralworld.net/lane12.html
One of the best exponents of ancient Indian wisdom and sciences - Dr. Robert Svoboda
http://www.drsvoboda.com/articles.htm

Books

Gitanjali, by Tagore
http://www.schoolofwisdom.com/gitanjali.html
The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Design_(book)
Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra
An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Physics
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
A rogue sociologist's first hand account of gangs, drugs, poverty, welfare, public housing and cops.
http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/books/gang-leader-for-a-day
Evolution's Rainbow, by Joan Roughgarden
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6O9Wj8E_PZkC
Turning Point, by Fritjof Capra
Science, Society and the Rainsing Culture.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150999.The_Turning_Point
Panchatantra, by Arthur R. Ryder
A classic of India that captures administration and statecraft in the form of animal stories.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/panchatantra_ryder/index.html
The Republic, by Plato
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm
On Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2086680_2086683_2087680,00.html
Songs of Kabir
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/kabir10.txt
The Great Work - Our way into the future
http://www.thomasberry.org/Books http://www.amazon.com/Great-Work-Way-into-Future/dp/0609605259
Gita and Upanishad explanations in English
http://arshabodha.org/teachings.html
Yaksha Prashnas, from Mahabharatha
http://www.periplusbooks.com/india_texts/yaksha
Principal Upanishads
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/190585708X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Prophet, by Gibran
http://leb.net/mira/works/prophet/prophet.html
Zoobiquity, by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
http://zoobiquity.com/book
A Country is not a Company, by Paul Krugman.
http://zonecours.hec.ca/documents/H2008-1-1487872.Krugman_Acountryisnotacompany.pdf
Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy, by Karl H. Potter
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/encyc_philosophy.htm
Ashtavakra Gita
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2673274/AshTavakra-Geeta http://www.realization.org/page/doc0/doc0004.htm http://www.scribd.com/doc/189845/ASHTAVAKRA-GITA-v2
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness
http://www.veritaspub.com/
Bible, Ecclesiastes
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ec/intro.html
Best books in English on Vedanta
http://www.swamij.com/sadhana-chatushtaya-shatsampat.htm
Summary of 18 Puranas
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4819506

People

Sohini Chakraborty
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2013838,00.html
Jacob Barnett
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/medical/health/medical/conditions/story/2011/03/12-year-old-whiz-has-sights-set-on-stars/45083348/1
Roya Mahboob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roya_Mahboob
Vandana Shiva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
Srikumar Rao
http://www.areyoureadytosucceed.com/
Nassim Taleb
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2034492,00.html http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
Balpreet Kaur
http://shine.yahoo.com/women-who-shine/sikh-woman-balpreet-kaur-turns-cyber-bullying-incident-203500244.html
Bala Gopal, Yudhishtar in our midst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMfRxBtHf0&NR