Some more ideas to toss out.
Blending with the land:
Permaculture, Bill Mollison & David Holmgren; some good videos out there on Google
Forest Garden, Robert Hart
Masanobu Fukuoka's No-Work Farming (for all you farm boys, out there!)
Earthship, Michael Reynolds
Earth Architecture, Nader Khalili, Calearth Institute
Biodynamic Agriculture, Rudolph Steiner
Perelandra Garden, Machelle Small Wright
Findhorn Garden & manifesting
Solviva, Anna Edey
Less is more:
Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
Stop Working, Start Living; Diane Nahirny
Thrift, Frugality (subjects; I don't remember the titles & authors without checking)
Medicine:
The Herb Book, John Lust
Ayurveda, David Frawley
Edgar Cayce readings; all-edgar cayce cd rom, books, castor oil
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Stephen Chang
New Technology:
Jeanne Manning, The Coming Energy Revolution, and Breakthrough Power
Viktor Schauberger, see Callum Coats books
Dr. Fred Bell, Pyradyne
Nikola Tesla, see my earlier blog
Panacea University, Australia: http://www.panaceauniversity.org/
Religion:
There's an inner tradition in every one of them, if you do the search and want to put out the effort.
HH