Many people ask me about what books they should be reading for a variety of topics. I have been taught with oral traditions, but have noticed that over the past few years there have been some books on various topics surrounding Shamanism that are of note. I am also including some titles of books that are Shamanism adjacent. So you will find titles of books on everything from Shamanism to Witchcraft to Chakras and Self-Help and so on. I will be adding to this library of suggestions as I go, so do check in from time to time as there may be new recommended reading!
Shamanic Wisdom Keepers
By Timothy Freke
A Godsfield Book
With their magical powers, spiritual wisdom, and finely tuned perceptions, shamans hold profound answers to many of life’s most important questions. They maintain the ancient traditions, with their emphasis on community and respect for the environment. Here are the words of some of the most remarkable human beings you’ll ever encounter. They come from around the world, from many different cultures, and each one has a unique point of view on spirituality.
ISBN 0-8069-9913-6
The Medicine Way: How to live the Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel
By Kenneth Meadows
Earth Quest
This book explores a missing dimension in our understanding of life. Kenneth Meadows introduces us to the practical workings of an extraordinary means of personal development.
ISBN 1-86204-022-2
Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small
By Ted Andrews
Llewellyn Worldwide
Now, for perhaps the first time ever, myth and fact are combined in a manner that will teach you how to speak and understand the language of the animals in your life. Animal-Speak helps you meet and work with animals as totems and spirits – by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world. It provides techniques for reading signs and omens in nature so you can open to higher perceptions and even prophecy. It reveals the hidden, mythical, and realistic roles of 45 animals, 60 birds, 8 incescts and 6 reptiles.
ISBN 0-87542-028-1
Wheel Of The Year: Myth and magic through the seasons
By Teresa Moorey and Jane Brideson
Hodder & Stoughton
Read this book to find out why we kiss under mistletoe, why hawthorn is considered unlucky or why Hallowe’en is such an eerie time. If you would like to rediscover the magic of the earth or free the wild wpirit within, there is much here to inspire you.
ISBN 0-340-68386-4
Celebrating The Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children
By Cait Johnson and Maura D. Shaw
Destiny Books
Teaching Earth-based Spirituality to children is finally possible with this handbook written by parents for parents and children. These practical, easy-to-follow activities will help you reclaim the spiritual roots of today’s modern holidays and create rituals that bring children into seasonal celebrations. With surprisingly little effort and expense, Goddess-honoring creativity can be nourished while you and your children share activities that are life affirming and fun.
ISBN 0-89281-550-7
Kundalini and the Chakras
By Genevieve Lewis Paulson
Llewellyn Publications
We all possess the powerful life force of kundalini that can open us to genius states, psychic powers, and cosmic consciousness. For over ten years, this trusted guide has been teaching people how to safely and effectively use this potent natural energy for spiritual development. This updated edition of Kundalini and the Chakras features all new artwork and an added index.
ISBN 0-87542-592-5
Druid Magic: The Practice of Celtic Wisdom
By Maya Magee Sutton, PH.D. and Nicholas R. Mann
Llewellyn Worldwide
Druid Magic shows you how to incorporate the magical symbols and tools of Celtic mythology into your daily life. Let this wisdom inspire you to create positive changes as you become a Druid!
ISBN 1-56718-481-2
Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation
By Silver Raven Wolf
Llewellyn Publications
Solitary Witch is like a grimoire from days gone by. Laden with bits and pieces of information throughout, it’s up to you to decide how you will use this book. If you’ve already mastered the basics and want to know more about advanced magickal techniques like poppet magick or how to create an effective sigil, skip straight to the sections that interest you most. This book will serve as a encyclopedia of magickal information for any witch as long as your mind is open, your heart is true, and your will is strong.
ISBN 0-7387-0319-2
Grimoire For The Green Witch: A Complete Book of Shadows
By Ann Moura
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd
“Let this book [then] be a guide for you as you walk along your own path with the Goddess and the God. May your Craft flourish in joy, may the Divine inspire you, and, “Blessed Be They Feet That Bring Thee On Thy Path.” ” -Ann Moura
ISBN 0-7387-0287-0
The Book of Stones: Who they are and What they teach
Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian with contributions by Hazel Raven
Heaven and Earth Publishing LLC
The Book of Stones is the most in-depth, definitive guide to the world of crystals, minerals, gemstones, and their metaphysical energies that has yet been written. Encompassing well over three hundred separate entries, each with essays by both authors and vivid color photographs, this book takes you deep into the world of stones and their uses for spiritual awakening and self-healing.
ISBN 978-1-55643-662-0
The Crystal Bible: A Definitive Guide to Crystals
By Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press
Beautifully illustrated, The Crystal Bible is a comprehensive guide to crystals, their shapes, colors, and applications. The directory format enables you to find a known crystal instantly or to identify an unknown crystal and covers the practical and esoteric properties of each crystal including spiritual, mental and psychological, emotional and physical effects, plus its use in crystal healing. It’s an indispensable reference for crystal lovers everywhere!
ISBN 978-1-58297-240-4
Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals
By Melody
Earth-Love Publishing House
The most comprehensive volume addressing the metaphysical properties of the mineral kingdom. One of my main go-to’s when it comes to research of the mineral kingdom.
ISBN 0-9628190-3-4
Sea Magic: Connecting with the Ocean’s Energy
by Sandra Kynes
Llewellyn Publications
Purifying, mesmerizing, and transformative – the sea has long been celebrated for its beauty and mysterious power. By connecting to the ocean’s energies, you can deepen your experience of the natural world and enrich your life. Whether you live near or far from the coast, Sea Magic takes you on a unique voyage of spiritual rejuvenation. Dive into your inner world of emotions, imagination, and creativity – and let the sea’s timeless wisdom guide you on your life path.
ISBN 978-0-7387-1353-3
Mudras: Yoga in your Hands
By Gertrud Hirschi
Weiser Books
Mudras – also playfully called “finger power points” – are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking, at any time and place! Schooled in the traditional knowledge of this Eastern art of healing, Gertrud Hirschi, the well-known Swiss yoga teacher and author of Basic Yoga for Everybody, shows you how these easy techniques can recharge your personal energy reserves and improve your quality of living. Use these mysterious healing gestures to calm the stress, aggravations ,and frustrations of everyday life. Also included are several full-body mudras and exercises to enhance your meditation and yoga practice.
ISBN 978-1-57863-139-1
The Hidden Messages in Water
By Masaru Emoto
Beyond Words Publishing
This book has the potential to profoundly transform your world view. Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directes toward them. He found that water from clear springs and water that has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns. In contrast, polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. The implications of this research create a new awareness of how we can positively impact the earth and our personal health.
ISBN 1-58270-114-8
The Children of Now
By Meg Blackburn Losey, MSC.D., PH.D.
New Page Books
The Children of Now is a groundbreaking work which shows that a large number of kids come into the world bearing inherent gifts that are beyond strange – they are telepathic, understand subtle energies, and have amazing psychic abilitites. Fascinating to anyone with an open mind,The Children of Now tells the life-illuminating stories of these incredible kids.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56414-948-0
Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
By Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications
In ancient times plants were gods and goddesses; spirits and magicians lived within gnarled oaks and whispered from flowers. Our ancestors discovered the forces present in plants and harnessed them to improve their lives. Today the weeds and wildflowers that grace our cities and wildernesses, the ornamental and food plants in our gardens, even common house plants still possess incredible powers. Magical herbalism is the use of these powers.
ISBN 0-87542-122-9
The Subtle Body: An encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
By Cyndi Dale
Sounds True
Whether you are looking for the right complementary medicine to enhance your own healing practice, seeking perennial wisdom about your body’s energetic nature from world traditions, or exploring the quantum edge of intention-based care, The Subtle Body is an indespensible companion for exploring virtually any facet of holistic healing.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59179-671-8
Flower Essence Repertory: A Comprehensive Guide to North American and English Flower Essences for Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being
By Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz
The Flower Essence Society
ISBN 0-9631306-1-7
Mystical Dragon Magick: Teachings of the Five Inner Rings
By D.J.Conway
Llewellyn Publications
Take your dragon magick to the highest level. From Apprentice to Enchanter, Shaman to Warrior, and finally culminating as Mystic, the five levels of initiation to high dragon magick are decoded in this companion to the celebrated auther D.J.Conway’s bestselling Dancing with Dragons. On your journey through each of the Inner Rings, you will be guided along a higher path of spiritual consciousness while your spellwork is strengthened and enhanced.
ISBN 978-0-7387-1099-0
Blood Type O: Food, Beverage and Supplement Lists
By Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo with Catherine Whitney
Berkley Books New York
Different blood types mean different body chemistries. If your blood type is O, enjoy your best health on a high protein, low carbohydrate diet, and make sure you get pleny of animal protein. Carry this guide with you to the grocery store, restaurants, even on vacation to avoid putting on those extra pounds or getting sick from eating the wrong thing.
*I found this book and the Eat Right 4 Your Type, books to have saved my life. I was trying Vegetarianism and Veganism for a few years and landed in the hospital with dangerously low iron levels. As it turns out, I am unable to assimilate vegetable proteins in the same was as animal proteins. Once getting back on track with my diet, my health vastly improved.*
ISBN 0-425-18309-2
Gypsy Sorcery: A classic study of the lore of the gypsies: witchcraft, shamanism, and fortune-telling
By C.G.Leland
Tower Publications Inc.
Nomadic gypsies brought jade and spices from India and the Far East to Europe and England. They also brought the secrets of sorcery and magic – charms to ward off evil, spells to cure disease, conjurations and exorcisms against the Devil. Gypsy occult powers are explored and explained by C.G.Leland, a nineteenth-century scholar who made the definitive study of these phenomena.
Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic
By Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications
Here is magic that anyone can work with surprising results. It is the magic of nature – positive magic for positive solutions. When we look to the Earth, we discover answers that have been there all along. Within these pages you will find your own magician’s handbook. Your tools cost nothing and they are easy to obtain: the earth, fire, water, air…stones, trees, rain and fog. Some of the tools, like mirrors, ropes and candles, are linked with and tap into the powers of nature by their symbolism. Each spell and divination is outlined in detail.
ISBN 0-87542-121-0
Subtle Aromatherapy
By Patricia Davis
Safron Walden The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd
Although the use of essential oils to help physical, mental and emotional problems have been thoroughly investigated and described over the past few decades, this is the first book devoted solely to their use on a subtle or spiritual level. Written by the author of the best-selling aromatherapy book of all time, Aromatherapy, An A-Z, it examines the applications of aromatherapy in personal and spiritual growth, meditation and healing.
ISBN 0-85207-227-9
The Mammoth Book of Skulls
By Ilya
Running Press
Skulls have always captured the human imagination. This extraordinary collection, of the most engaging and intriguing images of the skull from pop culture around the world, presents a visual feast of the ultimate doom-laden icon. Here you will find the skull in graphic novels, manga, graphic design, art, costumre, make-up, vintage advertising, and popular culture, along with the just plain weird. Pape after page of stunning photographs reveal and incredible diversity of interpretations on the skull.
ISBN 978-0-7624-5463-1
Myths gods, heroes, and saviors
by Leonard J. Biallas
Twenty-Third Publications
This book is about myth and holistic living. It promotes an appreciation of myth that spans cultures (Chinese, Native American, classical European, etc.) and religions (Buddhist, Christian, Tao, etc.). Biallas synthesizes and comments upon mythic themes and stories which express our fears and sufferings, our hopes and joys that reverberate within the collective spirit of humankind’s religious traditions.
ISBN 0-89622-290-X
The Medicine Wheel Earth Astrology
By Sun Bear and Wabun
Published by Simon and Schuster
“This book came about as the result of a vision that I had long ago…” So writes Chippewa medicine man, seer, and Indian leader Sun Bear. In The Medicine Wheel he and his medicine helper, Wabun, share his vision, setting forth a whole new system of earth astrology to help guide people not only in their daily living but in ther life path as well. A beautiful and inspiring new approach to astrology, The Medicine Wheel will help people of all earth signs “walk in balance on our Earth Mother.”
ISBN 0-671-76420-9
A Witch’s Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural
By Gerina Dunwich
New Page Books
Gerina Dunwich has seen and communicated with her fair share of ghosts. She has also lived in a number of haunted houses, including a 300-year old Colonial in Massachusetts and a Victorian mansion in upstate New York, which, according to local legend, was once owned by a Witch. A spiritualist-medium and a pristess of the Old Religion, Gerina Dunwich developed an intense interest in ghosts and the supernatural early in childhood and found that ghosts seem to be naturally attracted to her.
ISBN 1-56414-616-2
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
By Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications
“This is a book that is destined to have notable social impact. Cunningham has presented a complete system for the solitary practitioner. It integrates both the magical arts and the religious aspects of Wicca into a harmonious whole. The book is user-friendly, with an easy writing style and rituals that are usable and practical…” -Ed Fitch and Janine Renee, Magical Rites from the Crystal Well
ISBN 0-87542-118-0
The Complete Guide to Psychic Development: 100 Ways to Tap into Your Psychic Potential
By Cassandra Eason
The Crossing Press
Have you ever known who was calling before answering the phone? [Before Caller I.D.] Have you dreamed about an old acquaintance and then bumped into them the next day? If so, you’ve already experienced two of the most common psychic occurrences. In their simplest forms, psychic powers are the natural, powerful intuitions we all possess. By learning to tap into these instincts, you can develop a richer, more insightful relationship with yourself and the world around you.
ISBN 1-58091-150-1
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
By Jean-Yves Leloup
Inner Traditions
Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the subject of more controversy and debate than Mary Magdalene. As the first witness to the Resurrection, Mary was considered by the apostle John to be the founder of Christianity. In most theological studies she has been depicted as a reformed prostitute, the redemmed sinner who exemplifies Christ’s mercy. Today’s reader can ponder her role through references in the four canonical gospels and in the Gnostic gospels of Philip, Thomas, Peter, and Bartholomew rejected by the early Christian church. Mary’s own gospel is among these Gnostic texts but until now has remained unknown to the public at large.
Orthodox theologian Jean-Yves Leloup’s translation of the Gospel of Mary from the Coptic and his profound commentary on this text are presented here for the first time in English. What emerges from this important source text and commentary is a renewal of the sacred feminine in the Western spiritual tradition and a new vision for Christian thought and faith throughout the world.
ISBN 0-8928-1911-1
The Way of the Fertile Soul: Ten Ancient Chinese Secrets to Tap into a Woman’s Creative Potential
By Randine Lewis, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Beyond Words Publishing
Being fertile and fruitful can mean giving birth to a child – but to have a fertile soul means to give birth to the true self a woman wants to be: to live a life filled with passion, strength, joy, and adventure. In The Way of the Fertile Soul, Dr. Randine Lewis outlines ten ancient Chinese medical and Taoist “secrets” that hold the little-known key to successfully conceiving babies, new dreams, and a fulfilling life for women at any phase in their lives.
The Way of the Fertile Soul encourages women to strive toward health, abundance, and a fruitful, joyous approach to life. By using diagnostic questionnaires, qi gong exercises, and guided meditations to help the reader understand how the elements of nature express themselves in her body, mind, and spirit, The Way of the Fertile Soul provides the tools to greatly increase a woman’s chance of conceiving, identify umbalances, reduce stress, increase energy, and uncover her intrinsic creativity and express it fully.
ISBN-13 978-1-58270-180-6
Serpent of Light Beyond 2012: The Movement of the Earth’s Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949-2013
By Drunvalo Melchizedek
Weiser Books
“This book is the truth – the truth of how, through an improbable series of events, fine tuning adjustments to the Unity Consciouness Grid have been made. The Earth’s Kundalini has been able to complete its journey to its new home. This means everything is now in place for the “shift of the ages,” the great transformation in human consciousness. This book is a gift from the Universe. Let it serve as a trigger to reawaken the memories that are deep within so you can remember who you are and why you are here. Let the adventure begin!” – Bob Frissell, Flower of Life facilitator and author of Nothing in This Book is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are.
ISBN 978-1-57863-401-9
The 21 Lessons of Merlyn: A Study in Druid Magic and Lore
By Douglas Monroe
Llewellyn Publications
The 21 Lessons of Merlyn is a complete introductory course in Celtic Druidism, packaged within the framework of 21 suthentic and expanded story-lessons. These stories depict the training and initiation of the historic “King” Arthur by the authentic Merlyn-the-Druid, one of the last great champions of Paganism whose intercession within the dawning age of Christianity helped shape the mystically powerful and unique form of the Christian Church on the British Isles.
Each story is followed by a detailed ritual application of the key concept behind Merlyn’s lesson. As you follow Arthur’s apprenticeship from his first encounter with Merlyn in the woods at Tintagel, through his battles and vision quests, to his anointing as Priest-King of Britain at Stonehenge, you will be studying your own program of Druid teachings based on the actual, never-before-published 16th-century manuscript entitled The Book of Pheryllt.
ISBN 0-87542-496-1
Prayer to the Great Mystery
By Edward S. Curtis
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Prayer to the Great Mystery is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs – along with 150 others – taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and sympathetic, these images embody Curtis’s attempt to preserve the character of Native American cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis’s ethnographic writings. Prayer to the Great Mystery is a stunning account of a vanished era, and a seminal book for understanding our rich Native American legacy.
ISBN 0-312-16969-8
Braiding Sweetgrass
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Milkweed Editions
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth and learning to give our own gifts in return.
ISBN 978-1-57131-356-0
The Everyday Hero Manifesto
By Robin Sharma
Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.
For over twenty-five years, legendary leadership and elite performance virtuoso Robin Sharma has quietly taught business titans, professional sports superstars and entertainment royalty a revolutionary system that has helped these luminaries translate their highest ambitions into daily results.
Now, in The Everyday Hero Manifesto – his masterwork – this pathblazer has distilled the best principles, protocols and tactics from his mentoring method into a gloriously valuable work that is part playbook for explosive productivity, part instruction manual for leading a world-class life and part universal guide to becoming a spiritual heavyweight that lifts the world.
ISBN 978-1-4434-5664-7
Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System – Revised and Expanded Edition
By Anodea Judith, PH.D.
Llewellyn Publications
As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, chakras represent the sacred architecture of your body and psyche. This classic introduction to the chakras, which has sold over 100,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. In addition to revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, it includes a new section on raising children with healthy chakras.
Wheels of Life takes you on a wondrous journey through the progressively transcendent levels of consciousness. View this ancient metaphysical system by the light of new metaphors such as body work and quantum physics. Learn how to explore your own chakras using poetic meditations, physical expression, and visionary art.
ISBN 0-87542-320-5
Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal Revised Edition
By Richard Gordon
North Atlantic Books
Quantum-Touch represents a major breakthrough in the art of hands-on healing. Whether you are a complete novice, a professional chiropractor, physical therapist, body worker, healer, or other health professional, Quantum-Touch allows you a dimension of power in your work that heretofore has not seemed possible.
ISBN 1-55643-393-X
Call of the Dolphins
By Lana Miller
Rainbow Bridge Publishing
Warning: Reading this book may free the dolphin spirit in you!
ISBN 0-9623970-0-8
FLORASCOPE: The Secret Astrology of Flowers
Test by Helen Brown Gentry
Photographs by Saly Tagg
Warwick Publishing
Florascope is a unique blend of flowers and astrology. Discover your flower sign, and those of family and friends in this beautifully illustrated and insightful book. Linked to the straditional star signs, Florascope offers new insights into the personality, career, relationships and spirit of the twelve flower signs. Find out what drives your Florascope child, what other flowers your are most compatible with, and the famous people who share your flower sign.
ISBN 1-894622-67-7
Positive Magic: Occult Self-Help
By Marion Weinstein
Earth Magic Productions, Inc.
As you read the pages of this book, you will create your own foundation of knowledge and understanding, which will provide you with clear guidelines to separate what is helpful from what is harmful in the growing New Age marketplace.
ISBN 0-9604128-7-5
AROMATHERAPY: And A-Z
By Patricia Davis
Saffron Walden The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd
What is Aromatherapy? Has it really been in use for over 4000 years? How are essential oils obtained from plants? Can I combine Aromatherapy with other therapies or even conventional medicine? Which oil could help my skin? Can Aromatherapy treat serious illnesses?
In this book, Patricia Davis, MIFA, LCSP (Phys) brings together the answers to many of the questions asked. Patricia is a practising Aromatherapist, Principal of the London School of Aromatherapy and one of the founders of the International Federation of Aromatherapists.
ISBN 0-85207-185-X
The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews
By Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications
Scott Cunningham’s book is well researched, interesting, and presents a natural, Earth-oriented approach to magic that should make readers more aware of their connection to the Earth Mother and all of her children. – Sun Bear, Founder of Bear Tribe Path of Power
ISBN 0-87542-128-8
Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing
By Gurudas
Revised and Expanded
Cassandra Press
“Within the pages of this exciting book will be found much new material to stimulate the interest and thinking of many open minded people and members in the healing arts…The author has presented material not often considered in the treatment of people even within the framework of current holistic therapy.” – Melvin Henninsgsen, D.D.S.
ISBN 0-945946-04-X
The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children
By Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
Hay House, Inc.
Indigo Children are bright, intuitive, strong-willed, and sometimes self-destructive individuals. They are often labeled (and misdiagnosed) as having ADD or ADHD because they won’t comply with established rules and patterns, and they may exhibit behavioral problems at home and at school.
In The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children, Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., explores the psyche of these special kids and offers alternative solutions to Ritalin based on her extensive research and interviews with child-care experts, teachers, parents, and the Indigo Children themselves. Read the accounts of these remarkable young people as they explain why they act out, are aggressive or withdrawn, and what they want from the adults in their lives. You’ll also be fascinated by the psychic experiences that these kids have had in their lives so far.
ISBN 1-56170-846-1
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overshelms You
By Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
Three Rivers Press
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you “too shy” or “too sensitive” according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the highly sensitive person, it’s a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist, workshop leader, and highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.
ISBN 978-0-553-06218-2
The Indigo Children
By Lee Carroll and Jan Tober
Hay House, Inc.
The Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has singularly unique factors that call for parents and teachers to change their treatment and upbringing of these kids to assist them in achieving balance and harmony in their lives, and to help them avoid frustration.
ISBN 1-56170-608-6
The Shaman’s Body: A New Shamanism for Transforming Health, Relationships, and the Community
By Arnold Mindell
Harper SanFrancisco
Drawing on his shamanic experiences in Africa, Japan and India, Mindell leads us on a “death walk” through our worst fears and deepest emotional crises to wake our inner shaman – our dreamingbody. Methods for tapping the wisdom hidden in crises free our own internal sorcery for use in our daily lives. These methods enable us to become whole from within and to avoid the phantoms of unrealistic hopes and desires that limit our lives.
ISBN 0-06-250655-2
Inner Traditions of Magic
By William Gray
Samuel Weiser, Inc.
This is a complete book about magic: what it is, and how we can use it to become spiritually conscious and more self-responsible. Drawing upon ancient traditions of magic, William Gray presents a lucid and complete exposition for the modern reader, with rituals that are newly formulated and devoid of archaic phrases. Gray warns us that magic is not something to be dabbled in, it is not “for the masses.” Magic is for people who need to evolve away from and beyond the “mass mind” level, who aim to become their true Selves. This takes personal courage. As Gray tells us, “Every soul is its own star. That is magic. Not some cold indifferent isolation of selfish seclusion, but a full realization of the responsibilities placed in every evolving entity to become what we will within us.” Gray has a rare gift for clarifying difficult concepts for the student on the path.
ISBN 0-87728-447-4
The Power of NOW: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
By Eckhart Tolle
New World Library
To Make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of this extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breate a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question-and-answer format to guide us.
ISBN-10 1-57731-480-8
The Way of the Wizard
By Deepak Chopra
Harmony Books
The Way of the Wizard contains twenty spiritual lessons that help the reader create a new and better life – a life that we all want but have trouble charting a course toward. The Way of the Wizard provides the key to achieving love, personal fulfillment, and spiritual connectedness. Read this book and be prepared to see all of your previous conceptions about success and happiness transformed. Move from a life dominated by the ego and all of our struggles to a freer life that encompasses and makes room for the miraculous.
ISBN 0-517-70434-X
The Uncommon Touch: An Investigation of Spiritual Healing
By Tom Harpur
M&S
In China they call it Qigong. Nurses across North America call it Therapeutic Touch. Clerics call it the laying-on of hands. Scientists call it energy medicine. They are all describing the healing power of the spirit. In The Uncommon Touch, Tom Harpur investigates the astounding phenomenon of spiritual healing and provides us with startling evidence of how it actually works.
ISBN 0-7710-3944-1
Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics
By Jonathan Goldman
Element
The concept of healing with music is very ancient indeed. The Mystery Schools of Egypt, Greece and Rome understood that vibration is the fundamental active force in the universe and developed specific chants and tones for healing and achieving altered states of consciousness.
Healing Sounds examines the capacity of sound to affect us on all levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. There is no sound as pure as that of harmonics, and Healing Sounds is the first book to explain how to benefit from their profound healing and transformative powers, from both the scientific and spiritual viewpoints.
ISBN 1-85230-848-6
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water
By F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
Global Health Solutions, Inc.
Learn to understand when your body is calling for water. This book explains a new discovery that lack of water in the body – chronic dehydration – is the root cause of many painful degenerative diseases, asthma, allergies, hypertension, excess body weight, and some emotional problems including depression. The book explains the damaging effects of dehydration in the fourth dimension of time.
ISBN 0-9629942-3-5
Sexual Energy Ecstasy: A PRactical Guide to Lovemaking Secrets of the East and West
By David and Ellen Ramsdale
Illustrated by Allan Parker
Peak Skill Publishing
This extraordinary book is a complete and practical guide to the sexual secrets of the East and West. Exceptionally honest, friendly and easy to use, this exquisitely illustrated tour-de-force by an innovative sex therapist and massage therapist couple is the unique result of a twenty year, international quest for the ultimate sexual experience.
Sexual Energy Ecstasy is the first book to fully and clearly explain the intimate secrets of sexual loving from around the world. Hundreds of proven methods, including the Tantric and Taoist techniques of sacred sexuality, are skillfully presented for Western lovers. Reviewed for accuracy by well-known physicians, psychotherapists and educators, its avant-garde advice is reliable and sound.
ISBN 0-917879-03-1
Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
By Barbara Ann Brennan
Illustrated by Jos. A. Smith
Bantam Books
With the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted healter with fifteen years of professional experience observing 5,000 clients and students, Barbara Ann Brennan presents the first in-depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential.
Our physical bodies exist within a larger “body,” a human energy field or aura, which is the vehicle through which we create our experience of reality, including health and illness. It is through this energy field that we have the power to heal ourselves.
This energy body – only recently verified by scientists, but long known to healers and mystics – is the starting point of all illness. Here, our most powerful and profound human interactions take place, the percursor and healer of all physiological and emotional disturbances.
ISBN 0-553-05302-7
From Here to Eternity:Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By Caitlin Doughty, author of Smoke Gets in your Eyes.
W.W. Norton & Company
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity.
ISBN 978-0-393-35628-1
Santa Muerte: The History, Rituals, and Magic of Our Lady of the Holy Death
By Tracey Rollin
Weiser Books
Santa Muerte (Holy Death or Saint Death) is the female personification of death. This powerful and mysterious folk saint provides blessings including safe passage to the afterlife. Santa Muerte is the patron saint of those who live on the fringes of society, as well as those who face violence and death. She is hailed as a potent and powerful guardian and protector. Death is the great equalizer, and Santa Muerte potentially grants miracles to anyone and everyone.
ISBN 9781578636211
Honoring your ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
By Mallorie Vaudoise
Discover the Spiritual Nourishment and Magical Power of Ancestor Veneration.
Learn how to connect to your ancestors and receive the benefits that come from veneration – deeper spirituality, more love in your life, better outcomes in creative pursuits, powerful magic and spellwork, and an improved sense of wellness. Filled with hands-on techniques and tips, Honoring Your Ancestors shows you how to creat an ancestor altar so you can work with ancestors of all kinds. Author Mallorie Vaudoise also chares fascinating ideas for incorporating rituals, spells, family recipes, and even practices like music and dancing to help you open this wonderful new dimension of your spiritual journey.
Ancestor veneration is one of the most widespread spiritual practices in the world. This book shares the important distinctions between working with blood ancestors, lineage ancestors, and affinity ancestors whil helping you recognize the signs that your ancestors are responding to your petitions and offerings. You will also explore important topics like mediumship and ancestral trauma so you can be sure to develop a veration practice that’s uplifing and affirming for you.
ISBN 978-0-7387-6100-8
The Age of Deer
Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
by Erika Howsare
Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They’re one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence. In the twenty-first century, our relationship is full of contradictions: we hunt and protect them, we cull them from suburbs while making them an icon of wilderness, we see them both as vistims and as pests.
Delving into the historical roots of these tangled attitudes and how they play out in the present, Erika Howsare observes scientists capturing and collaring fawns, hunters showing off their trophies, a museum interpreter teaching U.S. history while tanning a deer hide, an animal-control officer collecting the carcasses of deer killed by sharp-shooters, and a woman bottle raising orphaned fawns in her backyard. As Howsare reports these stories, her eye is always on the bigger picture: Why do we look at deer in the ways we do, and what do these animals reveal about human involvement in the natural world? “Vivid and personal (The Washington Post) and “a splendid document of intellectual and emotional growth” (Los Angeles Times), The Age of Deer offers a unique and intimate perspective on a very human relationship.
ISBN 978-1-64622-250-6