THE BOOK SHELF
I admit I am a book lover! Anything that can expand my mind and invite a different perspective excites me. Some books I agree with, some I do not, some I only take bits and pieces from. I keep an open mind and take what resonates, and leave what doesn't.
Below is a list of books that in some way started me contemplating insights in my own way of being. Even if I did not agree with what was being said, the process of thinking through certain concepts solidified what I DO believe.
I offer these as a resource. In no way am I suggesting, promoting or recommending a particular book. The description of the book comes from the book itself. I will remain neutral on my opinion of each, allowing you to make your own determination of what resonates (or not) with who YOU are.
Here's to your next book!
THE BOOK LIST
(No particular order)
CREATING ON PURPOSE
Anodea Judith and Lion Goodman
You may have seen the movies and read the books about manifestation, but your power to create your dreams still seems to be missing the mark. Don't throw in the towel yet – there's a radically new approach that may reveal the missing piece of the puzzle. With Creating on Purpose, innovative teachers Anodea Judith and Lion Goodman present a comprehensive, systematic method for realizing your highest aspirations.
Shared with thousands in their popular nationwide workshops, this unique, step-by-step approach guides us through a rich study of the inner self, the outer world, and how to connect the two to make your dreams come true.
At the heart of this work are the energy centers known as the chakras, which offer us a profound formula for wholeness, a template for transformation, ad a sacred map for manifestation. Learn how to make use of the top-down flow of energy through the chakras to align your dreams with your highest purpose and bring them down to reality.
TOUCH THE EARTH, KISS THE SKY
Diotima Mantineia
Touch the Earth, Kiss the Sky is a fascinating blend of spiritual practice and cutting edge science. Follow the eight stations of the sun through an astronomical year with "Touch the Earth" exercises designed to help ground your experience in nature as well as "Kiss the Sky" exercises that will help you get in contact with the Divine and your own inner sense of the sacred.
Within these pages, you will explore a scientific account of consciousness and its relationship to magical practice, spiritual energy, and the subtle realms. Profound meditations and exercises lead you to a deeper sense of personal meaning and show you how to make magical changes in your life and the larger reality around you.
HUMAN BY DESIGN
Gregg Braden
Who are we? A growing body of evidence suggests that we are the product of something more than random mutations and lucky biology. But the evidence can only go so far. Fossils, DNA, ancient cave art, and human burial sites can only show us the remnants of what happened in the past. They cannot tell us why those things happened. Unless we find a way to travel backward in time, the truth is that we may never know the complete why of what has made our existence possible.
But maybe we don't need to know.... The undeniable fact is that modern humans appeared on earth 200,000 years ago, and that something happened to make our existence possible. And whatever that something was, it left us with the extraordinary abilities of intuition, compassion, empathy, love, self-healing, and more. We owe it to ourselves to embrace the body of evidence, the story it tells, and the healing it can bring to our lives.
For the first time in the 300-year-long history of science, we're writing a new human story that gives us a new answer to the timeless question of who we are.
SOUL THERAPY
Thomas Moore
In his classic New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore taught us how to nurture and grow our own souls. Now, as the culmination of his career, Moore offers guidance for how to care for the souls of others. Written for all those who do therapy – which originally meant anyone offering soul care to others – this includes not only psychologists, social workers, counselors and psychiatrists but also ministers, spiritual directors, managers and even friends and family members. Anyone with a heart for others will benefit from incorporating a spiritual dimension into their relationships.
A training manual infused with a lifetime's worth of wisdom, Soul Therapy covers what "soul care" is and how it works; what is required of the helper in order to do this work; how to explore questions of meaning and purpose with others; how to apply this work to areas such as work, marriage, and other relationships; how to develop a therapeutic style, deal with one's shadow, and maintain self-care; and much more. Profound yet practical, Soul Therapy will become a definitive resource for caregivers and practitioners for years to come.
SPIRIT HACKING
Shaman Durek
In Spirit Hacking Shaman Durek, a sixth-generation shaman, shares life-altering shamanic keys that allow you to tap into your personal power. This newfound knowledge will empower you to banish fear and darkness from your life in favor of light, positivity and strength.
Shaman Durek's bold and sometimes controversial wisdom shakes loose our assumptions about ourselves and the very world around us. He ultimately teaches us how to step fearlessly out of this Blackout – the age of darkness we are currently experiencing – and access a place of fierce empowerment by using tools and techniques of timeless Shamanic tradition. This transformation is both personal and collective; as individuals step out of darkness and begin to experience the light, we bring our loved ones and communities out of the shadows as well.
Shaman Durek inherited a rich legacy of ancient wisdom and now shares this knowledge for a modern context. Spirit Hacking shatters readers' complacency and gives them tools to navigate the tumultuous times in which we find ourselves. We will emerge from this period happier, lighter, and more vibrant than ever.
BREATH
James Nester
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
THE WISDOM OF YOUR CELLS
Bruce Lipon
The Wisdom of Your Cells is a new biology that will profoundly change civilization and the world we live in. This new biology takes us from the belief that we are victims of our genes, that we are biochemical machines, that life is out of our control, into another reality, a reality where our thoughts, beliefs and mind control our genes, our behavior and the life we experience. This biology is based on current, modern science with some new perceptions added.
The new science takes us from victim to creator; we are very powerful in creating and unfolding the lives that we lead. This is actually knowledge of self and if we understand the old axiom, “Knowledge is power,” then what we are really beginning to understand is the knowledge of self-power. This is what I think we will get from understanding the new biology.
EGO, ALERTNESS, CONSCIOUSNESS
Frank M. Wanderer
Through the cate of the Alertness / leave behind yourself, the Ego / and return to your spiritual home / to consciousness.
The truth is that we are the incarnation of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. We identify with our beliefs and we forget who we really are: shining, pure Consciousness.
THE NOBLE ART
Tiffany Lazic
The Noble Art provides spiritual, psychological, and energetic tools for reclaiming your essence through the stages and seasons of life. Each spoke of the Wheel of the Year represents and opportunity for transformation. Tiffany Lazic provides meditations, inner workings, and rituals that invite you to drop into the landscape of your unconscious and restore your light. Explore how Hermetic principles can be utilized to reflect your highest potential. Engage in powerful rituals for planting seeds of intention and overcoming shame and emotional blocks. This book also offers recommendations for stones, chakras, and affirmations that deepen your healing work and further support the transmutation fo shadow into light.
The Noble Art provides a hands-on approach to build your foundation in Hynni Energy Healing, which Lazic introduced in her previous book, The Great Work. Hynni actively weaves Earth cycles into relationship with higher vibrational energies, providing an effective tool for healing blocked energy and pain as you make your soul whole again.
THE HOLY MOTHER MARY IS GOD
Kevin Peter Kelly with Marina Nikole Kelly
From the kingdom of heaven Mary speaks to us about her life.
This book is charged with high vibrational energy. You might start experiencing what we call light frequencies passing through your body. This is the energy of Light coming from this book to help you not only to read this book and absorb its words and sentences bt also absorb the Great Light of the Divine that this book is charged with. – Yeshua, Jesus
In the beauty of life, the Holy Spirit is the essence of Allness that created the force and form of all existence. I am the vibration of Wholeness, Oneness, Light: I am the Spirit of you. – Mother Mary
Dear Ones, as you are reading this book, feel the energies of each word that you are reading, absorb what is being told to you in this book. This book is quite unique and carries the higher intention of the authors to bring Peace and Love on Earth. – Saint Germain
BODY AS SANCTUARY FOR SOUL
Roberta Pughe
Body as Sanctuary for Soul reminds us about "that primordial seed of memory" planted within, that once retrieved and nurtured, becomes the inner intelligence of the soul, the Tree of Life. Roberta Pughe teaches an embodied methodology to move this process along more quickly; to help call the soul home to live integrated within the container of the body. There is a specific skill-set required to understand conceptually exactly what is going on and to learn how to nurture this in daily life. Pughe draws fro Gestalt theory/therapy, Shamanism, Platonic philosophy and Elemental Breath Work in a practical and easily accessible manner.
THE UNTETHERED SOUL
Michael A. Singer
What would it be like to be fee from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you've devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you to uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.
SEASONS OF MOON AND FLAME
Danielle Dulsky
The yearning to slow down and simplify, return to the earth, and maybe even "rewild" what has been tamed in ourselves persist even though that dream may seem ever more remote in contemporary life. Danielle Dulsky shows that even in our high-tech and high-pressure lives, it is possible to manifest your own "year of the wild" and to tap into often forgotten holy wisdom. Season of Moon and Flame guides you to live cyclically while working with the archetype of the Sacred Hag, or wild grandmother, who appears in various guises. Wonderfully inclusive, with adaptations for families, spiritual groups, and other traditions, this book is a potentially life-changing guide to living mystically, magically, and in empowering harmony with the worlds of spirit and nature.
THE HEART OF THE GREAT MOTHER
Christine R. Page, MD
The year 2012 marked the birth of a new cycle of time that will last for the next 26,000 years. In charge of such birth is the Great Mother, the eternal source of all creation. She is calling on the feminine within us all to create a world worthy of the next seven generations and begin an era of peace, abundance, and spiritual evolution...
Dr. Page explains how important it is to acknowledge and integrate our shadow selves – the unloved parts of us – so we can radiate our light from the fullness of who we are without shame or judgment. Drawing on alchemy and mythology, the author details the journey of the soul through the twelve signs of the zodiac until our inner light shines.
THE SECRET OF THE SHADOW
Debbie Ford
Imagine that you knew at birth that you were a master, that you were powerful beyond measure, that you possessed enormous gifts, and that all it would take to deliver your gifts to the world was your desire. Imagine that you came into this world with your heart filled with the healing power of love and that your only desire was to bestow that love onto all those around you. Imagine that you had the innate ability to create and have all that you want and all that you need. Is it possible that at some point in your life you knew that there was no one else in the world like you? And that in every fiber of your being you knew that you not only possessed the light of the world, but that you were the light of the world? Is it possible that at one timer you knew who you were at the deepest level and you rejoiced in your gifts? Take a moment now, and see if you can remember that time when you knew the truth of who you really are.
A RELIGION OF ONE'S OWN
Thomas Moore
Whether we are agnostics, atheists, seekers, or devotees of a specific religious tradition, it's possible to fill the gaps in our lives between the spiritual and the secular. Moore reveals how by paying attention to our inner guidance, seeking out mystical experiences in nature and art, and doing the service we feel called to do, we can find a sense of purpose that satisfies us spiritually, intellectually and emotionally.
Drawing on his twelve years as a monk; the best that the major religious traditions have to offer; and the wisdom and experiences of writers, thinkers, and artists as varied as Thoreau and Emerson, Thomas Merton, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keefe, James Hillman, Carl Jung, Simone Weil, Glenn Gould, and René Magritte – among others – he shows how we can create lives that feed our soul. Intelligent and thought-provoking, inspiring and beautifully written, A Religion of One's Own is the key to an amplified inner life and a world of greater purpose meaning and reflection.