Resources - A Reading List:

As I poured over, digested & lived these books, they witnessed me back.
Books are also great mediums of communication, recognition and holding powers. Books we resonate with, deeply alter our consciousness, support healing and Homecoming of Soul.

MUTUAL CARE, COMMUNITY, & DIS ABILITY, NEURODIVERGENCE:
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” & “The Future is Disabled”


SUPPORT FOR YOUR BIPOC QUEER CENTRALISING SPIRIT:
“Opening To Darkness” & “The Way Of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender” & “The Shamanic Bones of Zen: Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mystical Heart of a Sacred Tradition“ - Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
(Zazen Buddhism, through a Queer Black Feminist Gaze, crossroads of Buddhism and indigenous earth-based practice.)


SPECIFICALLY; BIWOC & TINQ* BUDDHISM:
“Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation“ - Rima Vesely-Flad


POETICS & LIBERATION SUPPORT:
“Dub: Finding Ceremony“ - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
(A meditative exploration towards abolition of other humanness through a Black feminist lens from cellular perspective.)
“The Prophet” - Khalil Gibran
“Essence of Rumi” - J.Baldock (ed)


CIRCLE CULTURE & RESOURCES ON THE EMBODIED PSYCHIC:
“On Water and Spirit” and all books by Malidome Patrice Somé, Dagara Initiate teacher & writer.
“Falling Out Of Grace”, “The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationships” and all books by Sobunfu Somé, Burkinabe teacher & writer.
 “Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals ”, Luisah Teich, priestess of Oshun in the Yoruba Lucumi tradition.
“Circlework and the Transformation of Human Consciousness” - Jalaja Bonheim CD playlist
“The Four Fold Way: Walking The Paths of the Warrior” -  Teacher, Healer and Visionary.
Hyper Empathy Resources - Luisa Kolkner Teachable
‘The SubtleBody Practice Manual’, ‘Energetic Boundaries’- Cydi Dale 


BIWOC WRITTEN, TRAUMA SUPPORTIVE:
“The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People Of Colour” - 
Natalie Y. Gutiérrez  ( Book for Self Work, understanding how ‘Weaponised’ Certain Emotions are (like Anger & Rage) in the Healing Industry & accessing our own healing )
‘Decolonizing Therapy : Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice’ - Dr. Jennifer Mullan


DEEPER RESOURCES , FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY:
“Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation” - Janina Fischer ( https://janinafisher.com/tmodel/ )“Trauma and The Soul” Donald Kalsched (Psychoanalytic Case Studies, this is for Practitioners & Analysts)
“Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma” - Peter .A. Levine (Somatic Experiencing)
“Theatres Of the Body, A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness” - Joyce Mc Dougal
‘Courage To Create’ - Rollo May 
‘Running On Empty: How to Overcome your Childhood Neglect’ - Jonice Webb


UNDERSTANDING DECOLONIALISM, INTERSECTIONALITY, & DIVESTMENT:
'Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone’ - Minna Salami'
‘The Wretched Of The Earth’ - Franz Fanon (still a Patriachial Lense)
‘A Decolonial Feminism’ - Françoise Vergès
“Black Fatigue: How Racism Errodes The Mind Body & Spirit” - Mary Frances Winters
“My Grandmothers Hands: Racialised Trauma & The Pathway to Mending our Hearts & Bodies” - Resmaa Arkenam


THE BASICS OF THE CORE SHAMANIC RESOURCES: 
“The Way of The Shaman” Micheal Harner
“Cave and Cosmos” Micheal Harner
“Emma’s Journey’s” Sandra Harner (Describes the process of Core-Shamanic Counselling)


TECHNIAL, PRACTICE BASED SHAMANIC BOOKS:
‘Shamanic Alchemy and The Great Work of Transformation’ - James Endredy
“Ancestral Medicine” - Daniel Floor

RESEARCH PROCESSES:
‘Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods’ - Shawn Wilson
‘Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. ’ - Linda Tuhiwai Smith


REFERENCE BOOK FOR DREAM SYMBOLS & ARCHETYPES:
“The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images” - ARAS
‘Animal Presences’, James Hillman
‘The Tibetan Book Of Ther Dead’ - John Baldock (ed)


ASTROLOGY
“Dynamics of the Unconscious: Seminars in Psychological Astrology” - Liz Greene (All Liz Greene’s books)


UNDERSTANDING SHADOW ( JUNGIAN ):
“Owning Your Own Shadow” Robert Johnson
“A Little book about the Human Shadow” Robert Bly
‘Courting the Wild Twin’ - Martin Shaw
‘The Double’ - Otto Rank
“Existential Kink” - Carolyn Elliot


EXISTENTIAL SEACH FOR MEANING ( NON DUAL / JUNGIAN ):
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rupert Spira
Becoming Whole: Jungs Equation For Realising God - Leslie Stein 
“Why the World Doesn't End” - Micheal Meade (All Micheal Meade’s Books)
“The Souls Code” James Hillman (All James Hillman Books)
“Man’s Search for Meaning” Victor Frankl (This has later been critisiced as Spiritual Bypass, but is neverthless a resource for understanding the power of Hope).
‘On Suicide and The Soul’ - James Hillman
‘Symbollic and The Real’ - Ira Progof
‘The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness’ - Perma Chödrön
‘When things Fall Apart: Heartt Advice for Difficult Times’ - Perma Chödrön

CARING FOR THE SOUL ( JUNGIAN ): 
“Care of the Soul” Thomas Moore
“The Dark Night of the Soul” St John of the Cross
“The Living Psyche” - Edward Erdinger
Marie Lousise Von Franz


LENSE ON SOCIETY:
“We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse “- James Hillman, Michael Ventura
(This Book is perhaps a Prequell to the De-colonialist Healing Books.)


DIVINE FEMININITY HEALING (JUNGIAN ):
“Women who Run with the Wolves“ Chistina Pinkola Estés
“Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul” Marion Woodman
(All books by Marion Woodman (on Perfectionism etc.)
‘The Absent Father Effect on Daughters’ - Sylvia Schwartz


DIVINE MASCULINITY HEALING (JUNGIAN / ECOLOGICAL LENSE ):
“King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Nature Masculine” Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette
“The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine“ Sophie Strand

CASE STUDIES FOR LIFE OUTSIDE OF DEATH:
“Journey Of Souls” Micheal Newton (Hypnotherapist & Past Life Regression, QHHT)


ON GRIEF & SORROW:
‘Greiving While Black: An Anti-Racist Take on Greif and Sorrow’ - Breeshia Wade
  “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” - Francis Weller
“Death And Dying” - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions.
It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force . . . . It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul."
~ Francis Weller / The Wild Edge of Sorrow.

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