Wandering Resources
Here is a first attempt at compiling some resources for those who would seek to explore beyond the confines of “that’s just the way it is.” Much of this is what I have found myself helpful over the years. Perhaps eventually it will blossom a bit more collectively and holistically. For now...
1) “Selfless” Service 
Would love to know a better name for this, but that’s as pithy as I can state it. Tagore expressed it beautifully: “I slept and dreamt that live was service. I awoke and found that life was joy. I acted, and behold! service was joy.” MLK might have called it “kindness-in-action.” It’s what Kenneth Boulding referred to as “integrative power” (his other faces of power being “threat power” and “exchange power”). Many ways to engage: do something kind for another, anonymously even; volunteer with a paradigm-shifting organization; grow your own organic food and share the bounty, just to name a few.
Check out servicespace.org for more…
2) Soulcraft 
I discovered the work of Bill Plotkin a couple years into my wandering journey. For me, seeing the term ”wandering” used so meaningfully, as Bill does, was like finding out that my long-thought imaginary friend was in fact real. The book Soulcraft could be considered a wanderer’s bible of sorts. The fuller opus, Nature and the Human Soul deepens and broadens the perspective beyond just a wandering phrase, mapping out a whole “eco & soul-centric” (vs. egocentric) wheel of human development.
Check out animas.org for more…
3) Meditation bootcamp 
If you cannot be with yourself, in utter silence and stillness, through whatever comes up, how can you hope to be with the world that we find ourselves in today? (whether that be the most terrifying truth or the most elated joy) A “10-day” is not your run-of-the-mill meditation course. Dogma-free (even Krishnamurti, who said “truth is a pathless land” saw the value of the approach taken by these courses), commercial-free, authority-minimized, utterly-held-space for personal empowerment and discovery. It may not be — actually certainly isn’t — for everyone. If chosen consciously, can be forever perspective-changing.
Check out dhamma.org for more…
4) Nonviolence / “Soul Force”
Did Jesus mean “love your enemy” literally? What sense does that make and how can that possibly “work”? What was the power of Gandhi’s approach? If he considered the “constructive programme” piece of nonviolence to be 90% of the everyday work and “obstructive program” (protests, civil disobedience, etc) a carefully-chosen 10% why don’t more people know about this? A vast world, with subtle, important paradigm/thinking shifts like: moving away from us vs. them framing…
Many possible resources here, check out video below and mettacenter.org to start…
5) Poetry, the “language of the Soul”
…this section still emerging…
http://inscendence.tumblr.com/ …
6) Psyche-work
Psychology and psychotherapy can be great, and like any other discipline it can also become “stuck” within a larger context or paradigm. Thus Krishnamurti’s insight: “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” …this section still emerging…
7) Embodiment & Holistic Health
Do you know how to breathe fully? Do you breathe as if you know that? Do you know what’s in the food you eat and where it comes from? …this section still emerging…
