Web Sites we recommend
Education & Research Organizations
Association for Humansitic Psychology
Created in 1962 as a vehicle to develop a bold new force in psychology that empahasized the conscious mind and human ability to create healthy lives and communities, AHP today champions a whole-person focus in therapy, health care, the arts, business, education, community activism, and wherever AHP members work.
The Association for Moral Education
The AME provides an interdisciplinary forum for professionals interested in the moral dimensions of educational theory and practice. The Association is dedicated to fostering communication, cooperation, training, curriculum development, and research that links moral theory with educational practice. It supports self-reflective educational practices that value the worth and dignity of each individual as a moral agent in a pluralistic society.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
GLEF is a nonprofit operating foundation that gathers and disseminates the most innovative models of K-12 teaching and learning in the Digital Age. It's web-based articles, video clips and other resources are organized in three categories: innovative classrooms, skillful educators, and involved communities.
Institute of Noetic Sciences
For 25 years, the Institute of Noetic Sciences has been at the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential. The Institute educates the public about the latest findings through their publications, conferences and website; they also support community building by providing ways for members and colleagues to share their experiences and ideas with one another through a variety of discussion and networking opportunities.
Online Humanities
This innovative, high quality education in the Humanities meets high academic standards while having a very practical, inspirational and experiential approach to the study of Liberal Arts. The program is designed for the mature individual who is interested in self-development and/or in earning further academic credits (either at the undergraduate or post-graduate level).
The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
The Mission of the Gandhi Institute is to promote and apply the principles of nonviolence locally, nationally, and globally, to prevent violence and resolve personal and public conflicts through research, education, and programming.
Windstar
This non-profit environmental education organization promotes a holistic approach to addressing environmental concerns. Windstar upholds that each of us is part of, and responsible for, the quality of life on planet Earth; and that which affects any one of us, affects us all.
School and Child Education
CHARACTER COUNTS!SM
A nonpartisan, nonsectarian coalition of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations working to advance character education by teaching The Six Pillars of CharacterSM: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. CHARACTER COUNTS! and The Six Pillars of Character are service marks of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition, a project of the Josephson Institute of Ethics.
Character Education Partnership
National umbrella and clearinghouse of information for all character education organizations. The site features resource lists and a bulletin board.
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
CASEL was founded in 1994 to establish social and emotional learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school.
Good Character
Free charcter education resources for teachers of all grade levels. A wonderful resource for teachers who want to bring character education into the classroom. This site provides educational ideas, materials, and an index of organizations and agencies who can assist.
Learning for Life
Learning for Life provides programs that are designed to support schools and other youth-serving organizations in their efforts toward preparing youth to successfully handle the complexities of today's society and to enhance their self-confidence, motivation, and self-worth.
Moral Intelligence
A resource for parents and teachers for teaching virtues, character, and values.
Motivating The Teen Spirit
MTS is committed to producing life-changing, interactive empowerment skills programs, workshops and products that utilize new, cutting-edge techniques that provide clear, practical, result-oriented approaches for teenagers to discover and apply their true powers for success and happiness. This program is developed to motivate and empower teen audiences to break through societal, financial and personal boundaries in order to develop their full potential, first through exhibiting a deep understanding of this audience, then through lighting the path leading to their empowerment
The Center for the 4th and 5th Rs
The Center disseminates articles on character education, sponsors an annual summer institute in character education, publishes a Fourth and Fifth Rs newsletter, and is building a network of "Fourth and Fifth Rs Schools" committed to teaching respect, responsibility and other core ethical values as the basis of good character.
The Virtues Project
This innovative educational organization is engaged in supporting the moral and spiritual development of people of all cultures, by providing empowering strategies that inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life through programs of excellence and simplicity which support people of all ages to cultivate their virtues.
4 2 eXplore
A highly creative site, primarily a teaching resource for parents and educators on over 100 topics, searchable by subject.
Ethics Organizations
Codes of Ethics Online
From the site: "In June 1996, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions received a grant from the National Science Foundation to put their collection of over 850 codes of ethics on the world-wide web. Included are codes of ethics of professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions. Earlier versions of codes of ethics of some organizations represented are available sothat the development of codes can be studied. A literature review, an introduction to the codes, and a User Guide are included. This site is continually updated."
Ethics Resource Center
This Washington-based organization works to foster ethical practices in individuals and institutions through a broad variety of services, including consulting, training, research, and educational programs.
The Institute for Global Ethics
This global research and educational organization seeks to promote ethical behavior in individuals, institutions, and nations through research, public discourse, and practical action. The Institute divides its efforts into three primary areas of concern: Corporate Services, Education Programs, and Public Policy Programs.
The International Business Ethics Institute
Dedicated to fostering global business practices which encourage equitable economic development, resource sustainability and just forms of government, the IBEI promotes corporate responsibility through two key program areas. First, it works to increase public awareness and dialogue about international business ethics issues through educational resources and activities. Second, the Institute works closely with companies to assist them in establishing effective international ethics programs.
The Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics
This public-benefit, nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization founded by Michael Josephson is dedicated to improving the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decision making. Since 1987, the Institute has conducted programs and workshops for over 100,000 influential leaders including legislators and mayors, high-ranking public executives, congressional staff, editors and reporters, senior corporate and nonprofit executives, judges and lawyers, and military and police officers. The Character Counts! youth-education initiative is a project of the Institute.
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Spirituality in the Workplace
The Association for Spirit at Work
This non-profit association of people and organizations is interested in the study and practice of spirituality in the workplace. Their mission is to provide community, information, and education, for those who are integrating their work and their spirituality and for those who are called to support societal transformation through organizational development and change.
Crossroads Center
The Crossroads Center for Faith and Work serves women and men of all faiths (and all works), by surfacing the connections and blurring the lines between our faith, spirituality, and deepest values and our day-to-day work as professionals, volunteers, homemakers and family members. The Center is a clearinghouse for ideas, a meeting place for learners, a haven for reflection and a catalyst for action.
Life at Work
The primary goal of this Christian organization is to explore and promote the integration of faith and work by providing practical information and real-life examples on life at work from a biblical perspective.
Spirit Employed
Spirit Employed is a consulting and training company that provides executives, managers, and employees with principles and techniques that give them the ability to be more authentic in their work environments. It is dedicated to the premise that one's worklife is a key element of personal development, and that success at work depends on the ability to manage one's whole life, including the mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional aspects.
INSPIRATION
Angels
Angel Cloud Gifts
"Angel Cloud Gifts, a woman owned company, is dedicated to bringing you beautiful, quality, Angel theme products at an affordable price. We offer Angel statues, musical Angels, framed art, vases, spun glass angels, decorative plates, candles, candleholders and much more."
Angel Haven
For the lover of angels, this site is a haven that touches the heart, warms the soul, and enlightens the spirit. "Come inside and share your angelic experiences, visit our angel chatrooms, send an Angel Gram, ask questions about angels, read weekly columns from inspired authors, shop for angels."
Angel Inspirations
This site seeks to provide thought provoking and reflective information inspired by spiritual teachers both in “spirit” and on the earth. Angel Inspirations offers messages, writings, quotes and resources believed to be divinely inspired by God, spiritual guides, angels and teachers.
Angelink
Offering daily inspirations, a cathedral of angels, a meditation room, Christian teachings of hope and goodness, and many links to angelic websites, Angelink is "dedicated to One God and One Truth—Love."
The Inner Voice Magazine
"We help those needing messages of love, hope and healing from
the angels. We help you communicate with the 'nner voice' of guidance, then
we share with others the miracles that happen as a result. Web host Nancy
Freier, is the author of 'Heaven Help Me! A Celestial Guide To Healing' and
'You Can Talk To Your Angels' manual and workshops."
Upliftment
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Changing the world one story at a time.
Hope and Spirit
Sub-titled "Finding hope in a world of uncertainty," this site features over 400 articles on such topics as acceptance, faith, honesty, hope, love, patience, relationships and power.
Higoodsites
The home page of this site features inspiring thoughts on a diverse and virtuous list of topics, including Trust, Willingness, Grace, Responsibility, Awareness, Conscious Speaking, Service, and Love. Highly recommended.
Inspiration Peak
One of the internet's most beautiful collections of inspirational quotes, poetry and short stories. Updated with an inspirational message every week.
Inspiration Station
"This site is dedicated to all religions and beliefs that are for the higher good. It is my greatest honor to promote the desire to be active in your faith and spirituality. My hopes are that you will find something here to comfort you, and promote you to continue in your spiritual journey."
Inspirational Christian Stories, Poems and Thoughts
A huge archive of the above, categorized under dozens of topics.
Positive Projections
A marvelous site: "Positive Projections is a vision of hope, and assists with learning to recognize the positive and limitless aspectsof our self, our reality, and every living entity with whom we share this earthly experience!"
Sacred Transformations
Personal stories of spiritual emergence, extraordinary experiences, awakenings, and their effects on people’s lives.
Spirit Restoration Ministry
An ecumenical, contemporary Christian website that offers vast resources in biblical studies, Christian news, book reviews, theological articles, etc. It also presents articles on worship, the church, for pastors, health, family, faith and money, education, youth, etc. A very lively message board is also available for its visitors.
Spiritual Sisters of the Internet Cafe
A place of spiritual rest and spiritual renewal of spiritual healing and spiritual celebration in a very real world in a very real way and created to enlighten, encourage, educate and empower women in transitional life situations.
The Wisdom Page
The Wisdom Page is a compilation of wisdom-related resources — various on-line texts concerning wisdom, references to books about wisdom, information about organizations that promote wisdom, wise activities, and listserv groups concerned with aspects of wisdom.
The Zoo Fence
The Zoo Fence is a non-denominational, non-sectarian, independent commentary on issues of interest and importance to seekers in search of the Truth about themselves—their Nature, their Reality, their Universe, their God. Here, you will find articles, guest columns, prayers & meditations, letters, stories, artwork, cartoons, and more.
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INTEGRAL CULTURE & CULTURAL CREATIVES
Celestine Vision
The website of James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy.
Cultural Creatives
A website created by the authors of The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World. Here you will find general information about Cultural Creatives, a schedule of related speaking events, website links, and an opportunity to converse and connect with other Cultural Creatives.
The Emerging Integral Culture
A clearinghouse of information and website links pertaining to all aspects of integral culture, including nonviolence, public service, multi-cultural diversity, community-building, ecological sustainability, and self-actualization.
Enlightenment.com
An internet portal and community serving the spiritual and economic needs of individuals and organizations by building a living community of transformation and interaction.
Gary Zukav
The web site of the author of Seat of the Soul is dedicated to spiritual growth and social transformation. It currently features an archive of Gary's essays and guest essays, answers to spiritual questions, a listing of gathering and conferences, and a newsletter. In the furute, online interactions will be hosted here.
Humankind Advancing
An online journal dedicated to facilitating and inspiring farsighted and responsible attitudes.
iKosmos
Described by Ken Wilber as "the pioneering content website for a new culture. . . , carefully crafted to appeal to adherents of the vastly influential cultural creatives and the rising integral culture."
Inner Explorations
Where Christian mysticism, theology and metaphysics meet Eastern religions, Jungian psychology and a new sense of the earth.
Ken Wilber Online
Credited with developing a unified field theory of consciousness--a synthesis and interpretation of the world's great psychological, philosophical, and spiritual traditions--Ken Wilber is the most cogent and penetrating voice in the recent emergence of a uniquely American wisdom.
Think Deeply
Mystics and philosophers explore the deep mysteries of the universe, focusing on life, death, God, and the cosmos. Join discussion boards and read essays on spirituality, religion and new discoveries.
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INTERFAITH COMMUNITIES
Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
The mission of the Council is to foster interreligious dialogue and cooperation in the world. Some of their activities include: bringing local people into locally rooted yet globally connected dialogue, contributing peaceful and constructive solutions to difficult situations, training young people for community based interfaith work and social action, and evolving a Global Engagement Network of guiding institutions to address global critical issues.
Interfaith Voices For Peace And Justice
A communications network for faith-based activist groups. Our network provides a variety of ways that representatives from these groups can interact with one another in the search for a common peace and justice agenda.
Interfaith.org
A not-for-profit cooperative venture among religious and spiritual organizations on the internet, providing a great number of links to web sites of the world's faiths.
Movement for Beloved Community
This group aims to create a global network of individuals, villages, neighborhoods, and communities who share a vision of a beloved community and want to realize it.
Temple of Understanding
The purpose of the Temple of Understanding is the worldwide promotion of interfaith dialogue and education, to achieve understanding and harmony among the people of the world's spiritual community. The Temple of Understanding maintains a strong commitment to the integrity of each religion, faith tradition or spiritual practice and believes that each can better remain true to itself by honoring the truths inherent in all traditions.
United Communities of Spirit
A global interfaith network, linking people of diverse faiths and beliefs who want to work with others to build a better world.
United Religions Initiative
A global initiative to bring diverse religions to a common table so they might work together for the good of all life and the healing of the world.
World Congress of Faiths
A pioneering fellowship dedicated to bringing people of different faiths together. Sponsors lectures, conferences, retreats and the like. Works with other interfaith organizations. A personal membership educational charity established 1936.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Life Purpose
Aspire Now
This site features dozens of articles on discovering and living life purpose, as well as interactive online tools, books, and website links.
Calllings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
The web site of author Gregg Levoy, who passionately explores the search for authenticity, whether at work or at home, in relationship or in service. In his book Calllings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, Levoy breathes contemporary life into the ancient subject of callings, presenting an illuminating and practical inquiry into how we listen and respond to our calls, and translate them into action.
Working from the Heart
This non-profit organization has been helping people create meaningful work and integrated lives for over 20 years. The organization offers programs and services designed to help individuals explore life and work direction.
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Personal Growth
Awarewill.com
World peace and inner peace, is there a connection? Awarewill.com is dedicated to creating world peace through personal happiness. Become the creative source of your life and you become the creative source of your world. Free self development email course, books resources, Avatar Courses.
Becoming
Becoming is a resource for the individual on a journey of self-discovery. Drawing upon the best in the fields of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and religion, Becoming affirms the dignity of the individual and cultivates a positive atmosphere for growth, understanding, and social responsibility.
Blue Ridge Spirit
In the tradition of Science of Mind, this site offers self help in the areas of conscious living, relationship, and spiritual growth.
Building Self Esteem
Building self esteem and self confidence leads to happiness—great advice, tips, books and free courses.
Body, Mind & SoulHealer
Rediscover Your Wholeness. Dr. Rita Louise, ND is an expert at looking at and working with energy and the imbalances of energy that affect us. Dr. Louise is a naturopath, medical intuitive, professional clairvoyant, mind-body healer and herbal practitioner.
Carolyn Myss
Dr. Myss' official site, featuring interactive courses, an online salon, calendar of events and resources for keeping your biography and biology healthy.
Center for Soul Evolution
This religious nonprofit corporation located in Mt. Shasta, California, is dedicated to the awareness of Divine Presence and the spiritual/soul evolution of individuals, all of humanity, and the planet.
The Dreamtime Spiritual Pathways
A wonderful resource for anyone seeking quality web sites on spirituality. You can search or browse in dozens of categories.
EmpoweringVision
Marianne Weidlein's Transformational Facilitation is a rapid, advanced system for change with emphasis on self-mastery, peak performance, and the transformation of negative consciousness and behavior into positive consciousness and behavior.
Growth Online
In 1996 individuals from a number of organizations came together to determine what were the fundamental factors that cause individuals to grow and evolve. After a number of fascinating discussions the participants decided that it was worth publishing their findings on a public web site. Their goal and mission is to bring these unconventional and dramatic ideas to the general public; ideas which range from the practical to the metaphysical. Growth Online believes that if these ideas are applied to one's life and work, they can dramatically accelerate accomplishment and achievement in any field of endeavor.
The Happiness Program
Master yourself, be happier, and live better. Happiness is a choice you can make - start your own Happiness Program today! Free 101-Day Self-Awareness Course, articles, techniques and more.
Imanna
Innovative ppersonal and Spiritual Growth, Addictions and Recovery, Prayer & Meditation programs. Audio taped and live lectures, reflective workbooks, experiential meditations, and intuitive consultations offered. Our ultimate purpose is to teach this method to others, who will continue to pass the torch of awareness and healing and make the world a better place.
Life Challenges
This site describes itself as a "CyberCenter for Living Creatively with Life's Challenges." They are a non-profit resource center originated to offer people some support and hope while they face challenges, crises, change, unexpected events, and turning points in their lives.
Marshall House
Marshall House offers personal empowerment consulting for a positive mental attitude. This web site offers free articles on empowerment, online audio meditations, and the WebAffirm Transformational process with an affirmation and exercises for each day.
The Option Institute
This is the International Learning and Training Center for The Option Process, which offers personal growth programs to help people maximize their happiness. The latest addition to their site includes: downloadable video, a free audio file (MP3) lecture by Barry Neil Kaufman, postcards and a message board.
Point of Life
"a journey to enlighten your mind, body, soul, wealth, and happiness."
Self Knowledge Symposium
Here at SelfKnowledge.org, a group of students have banded together to ask the questions: What is the most important thing I can do with my life? How can I find spiritual answers that really make sense to me? And how can I start now?
Soulful Living
This new online magazine offers excellent articles, discussions, book and web site recommendations, and monthly columns relating to personal and spiritual growth. Each month a new theme of personal development is emphasized.
The Universal Society of the Integral Way
The USIW serves the modern world through sharing the natural wisdom of the tradition of Lao Tzu and the ancient Taoist sages, as transmitted by Hua-Ching Ni. They cultivate balance, health, harmony and virtue within our lives and all society.
Tools for Transformation
"To open up our minds to new ideas, new challenges and new solutions - to think differently and be creative - well, we could all do with some help in this direction. Tools for Transformation is dedicated to introducing the best available personal development resources to free us of the shackles of the past by re-awakening awareness of our true identity in the present."
Who Am I?
The essays on this website are based on personal experiences and intensive research of ancient Egyptian and Greek religions and mystery schools, as well as modern mystical and esoteric traditions such as the Rosicrucian and Templar Traditions. These articles are intended to encourage readers interested in spiritual and mystical philosophy together with transpersonal psychology to differentiate between our Real Nature, which is rooted in pure consciousness, and the vehicle serving it, which is the ego and the five senses.
World Beyond
Dedicated to individuals seeking spiritual growth and personal enlightenment. Leading to a world beyond organized religion, beyond fear, beyond hatred, beyond prejudice, beyond violence, beyond war.
Mount Shasta Magazine
Mount Shasta Magazine covers self-empowerment and alternative health topics through interviews with well known teachers and authors as well as excellent articles in print and online, and features an online catalog offering essences, Young Living essential oils, crystals, books, yoga clothing, Tachyon products and more.
Reiki With Trust LLC – Distance Healing
Reiki distance healing is remote energy healing. Access the trusted and powerful energy of Reiki from the comfort of your home. Reiki energy can be directed to help special events, test anxiety, stress, depression, health issues and so much more. Single event, 14 day and 30 day remote energy healing sessions available.
RESOURCE SITES
Academic Info: World Religion Gateway
This catalogued index of religion and spirituality web sites is updated regularly and features a wonderfully broad spectrum of categories.
The Dreamtime Spiritual Pathways
A wonderful resource for anyone seeking quality web sites on spirituality. You can search or browse in dozens of categories.
Pilgrims UK Mind Body Spirit Store
Mind Body Spirit books, audios, incense, crystal healing, tarot decks, with secure on-line ordering. Plus free message board and New Age Link Directory.
Religious and Sacred Texts
A large and comprehensive list of texts from the world's religions.
Spirit Site
A spirituality library and resource site offering book and audio excerpts, columnists, a spiritual retreat center directory, and more.
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SOCIAL ACTION & GOOD WORKS
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, gaining fair trials for political prisoners, ending torture, political killings and "disappearances," and abolishing the death penalty throughout the world.
befearless
This innovative web site in Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen.com collective encourages women to be informed, be involved, and be heard. Features news and perspectives on current issues and connects the visitor with organizations doing good works.
Campaign for Forgiveness Research
Co-chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and endorsed by Jimmy Carter, the Campaign for Forgiveness supports a growing effort to promote forgiveness around the world. On this site, visitors can share their personal stories of forgiveness received, offered or simply observed.
Charity Focus
Volunteers of this organization build websites free of charge for nonprofits.
Common Bond Institute
This US based organization operates concrete projects and actively provides networking and coordination support to assist newly developing human service organizations in developing countries and the post-communist world. It organizes and sponsors professional training programs and conferences internationally, as well as exchanges in the US and Former Soviet Union. It also provides assistance in the form of generating donations of professional materials, equipment, and supplies for these essential human services.
Eagle Hope
Help young people reach their full potential.
The Foundation for Global Community
This project-based nonprofit educational organization is dedicated to reconnecting people, the planet, and prosperity. Recognizing that natural, social, and economic systems are all parts of a single interconnected whole, the Foundation has been promoting cultural change, facilitating personal development, and strengthening community connections for over 50 years.
Future Generations
Future Generations offers an inexpensive and systematic process for community-based change to realize the dual objectives of insuring sustainability on our planet and reducing the equity gap between rich and poor.
Global Values Network
The Global Values Network has extensive global hands-on experience of successful implementation of this unique technology in both the developed and developing worlds to benefit individuals, corporations, countries and economic regions.
Global Visions
This site provides a search engine directory of spiritual and humanitarian people, projects and events.
Habitat for Humanity
Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 95,000 houses in more than 60 countries, including some 30,000 houses across the United States. Habitat for Humanity’s work is organized at the local level by more than 1,900 affiliates worldwide. Affiliates coordinate house building and select partner families. Homeowner families are chosen according to their need; their ability to repay the no-profit, no-interest mortgage; and their willingness to work in partnership with Habitat.
Macrocosm USA
This non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizes environmental, justice, peace, health issues and solutions for progressives. The site features interactive forums for sharing ideas, a large directory of web sites and free handbooks and other services.
Network for Good
This new philanthropy portal was created by the AOL Time Warner Foundation, the Cisco Foundation, and Yahoo.com, who have formed a partnership with over 20 nonprofit foundations and associations who share the desire to foster the informed use of the internet for civic participation and philanthropy.
Volunteers of America
This national, non-profit, spiritually-based organization provides local human service programs and the opportunity for individual and community involvement.
The World Conference on Religion and Peace
Founded in 1970, this is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world's great religions who are dedicated to achieving peace. Respecting cultural differences while celebrating our common humanity, WCRP is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled places on earth, creating multi-religious partnerships that mobilize the moral and social resources of religious people to address their shared problems.
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