This is a bibliography I have used for a number of years. It remains a good but incomplete list of books that I frequently recommend. 01/29/01
African
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Marjorie Shostak
The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings, Yaya Diallo and Mitchell Hall
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman, Malidoma P Some'
Tibetan
Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: The Diamond Healing, Terry Clifford
Tantra
Introduction to Consciousness: A Vision of Totality, Lama Yeshe
Meditation: Advice to Beginners, Bokar Rinpoche
The Practice of Kalachakra, Glenn H. Mullin
Empowerment and the Path of Liberation, Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
Tantric Yoga: and the Wisdom Goddessess, Dr. David Frawley
Gently Whispered, Oral Teachings by the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche
Tantric Grounds and Paths, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Shambhala
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa
Journey Without Goal: The Tantric Wisdom of the Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Chogyam Trungpa
Dzogchen
The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen, The Teachings of Namkhai Norbu, complied and edited by John Shane
Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State, Namkhai Norbu ... Edited by Adriano Clemente ... Translated from the Italian by John Shane
Buddhism
Cloudless Sky: The Mahamudra Path of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu School, the Third Jamgon Kongtrul
Wisdom of Wisdom, Tsulltrim Allione
Hindu Teachings
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda
Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, Satprem
Muslim Teachings
The Koran, revised translation by N. J. Dawood
Physics and Science
Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm
Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists, edited by Ken Wilber
The Atman Project, Ken Wilber
The Spectrum of Consciousness, Ken Wilber
No boundary, Ken Wilber
The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science, Ken Wilber
In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, John Gribbin
The Evolution of Physics, Albert Einstein ... Leopold Infeld - From early concepts to relativity and quanta
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture, Fritjof Capra ... also Tao of Physics
Shamanism
Dreamtime and Inner Space: the World of the Shaman, Holger Kalweit
The Dancing Healers: A Doctor’s Journey of Healing With Native Americans, C.A Hammersschlag, M.D.
The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner
Physiology
The Kundalini Experience, Lee Sannella, M.D.
Beyond the Brain: Birth, death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, Stanislav Grof, M.D.
The Stormy Search for the Self, Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof, M.D.
The Origin of Intelligence in the Child, Jean Piaget
Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine, Jeanne Achterberg
Brain and Behavior
The Sphinx and the Rainbow, David Loye
Use both Sides of your Brain, Tony Buzan
Two Sides of the Brain: Brain Lateralization Explored, Sid J Segalowiitz
Make the Most of your Mind, Tony Buzan
Psychology - Psychotherapy
Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis, edited by Stanislav Grof, M.D. and Christina Grof
The Varieties of Religious Experiences,William James
Man and His Symbols, Carl G. Jung
The Undiscovered Self, Carl G Jung
Man’s Search for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism, Viktor E. Frankl ... also ...The Unheard Cry for Meaning
The Act of Will, Roberto Assigioli, M.D.
A Gradual Awakening, Stephen Levine
Japanese Teachings
Shinto: The Kami Way, by Sokyo Ono
Chinese Teachings
Confucius: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean, by James Legge
The I Ching: The Book of Changes, Translated by James Legge
Native American
Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak About the Earth, Steven McFadden
Navajo and Tibetan Sacred Wsdom: The Circle of the Spirit, Peter Gold
Native American Prophecies: Examing the History, Wisdom and Startling Predictions of Visionary Native Americans, Scott Peterson
Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota, Wallace Black Elk and William S. Lyon
Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women, Carolyn Niethammer
Fools Crow, Thomas E Mails (Teton Sioux)
Fools Crow: Path of Power, Thomas E. Mails
Yuwipi: Vision & Experience in Oglala Ritual, William K. Powers
The Olmecs: The Oldest Civilization in Mexico, Jacques Soustelle
Zen Teachings
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu ... A New Translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
Zen and the Ways, Trevor Leggett"Thinking"
Freedom from the Known, J. Krishnamurti
The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980’s, Marilyn Ferguson
Gurdjieff: Making a New World, J. G. Bennett
Insight - Intuition
Higher Creativity: Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights, W Harmon & H Rheingold
The Intuitive Edge, Philip Goldberg
Philosophy
The Divine Milieu, Teilhard de Chardin
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Walter Kaufman
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Physics as a Metaphor, Riger S. Jones
The World’s Religions, Houston Smith - The Dead Sea Scrolls
Expanded Awareness - Hypnosis - Imagery
Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, edited by Jeffery K. Zeig, Ph.D.
Beyond the Relaxation Response, Herbert Benson, M.D.
Self Hypnotism: The Technique and its Use in Daily Living, Leslie M. LeCron, Clinical Psychologist ... also ... Techniques of Hypnotherapy
In the Mind’s Eye, The Power of Imagery Therapy to Give You Control Over Your Life, Arnold Lazarus
Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space, Robert Masters and Jean Houston
The Roots of Consciousness, Jeffery Mishlove
Celtic Teachings
Celtic Myth and Legend, Charles Squire
Fire in the Head: Shamanism and The Celtic Spirit, Tom Cowan
Woman’s Wisdom
Lost Goddessess of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Mythology, Charlene Spretnak
Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World, Merlin Stone ... also ... When God Was a Woman
The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess ... Rituals Invocations, Exercises, Magic, by Starhawk
Drawing Down the Moon, Margot Adler
Men’s Teachings
Finding our Fathers: How a Man’s Life is Shaped by His Relationship with His Father, Samuel Osherson
Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man, Sam Keen
Australian Teachings
The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
In Patagonia, by Bruce Chatwin
Jewish Kabbalah
The Mystical Kabbalah: An Ancient Way of Inner Knowing, Rabbi David A. Cooper
Sefer Yetzirah: the Book of Creation, In Theory and Practice, Aryeh Kaplan
Dreaming
The Art of Dreaming, Carlos Castaneda
Lucid Dreams in 30 Day: The Creative Sleep Program, Keith Harary, Ph.D. and Pamela Weintraub
Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in your Dreams, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., Stanford University Sleep Research Center
Sound, Color, Light, Movement
Nada Brahma: The World is Sound, Music and the Landscape of Consciousness, Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Somatic Reality,: Bodily Experience and Emotional Truth, Stanley Keleman
Principles of Light & Color: The Healing Power of Color, Edwin S. Babbitt
Principles of Color ... A review of Past Traditions and Modern Theories of Color, Faber Birren
Introduction to the Musical Brain, Don Campbell
Sacred Mirrors; The Visionary Art of Alex Gray
Other Good Books
What You Think of Me is None of my Business, Terry Cole-Whitaker
How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art, Kathleen Meyer
How to Have Intercourse Without Getting Screwed, Jennifer Wear and King Holmes
The Three Minute Meditator, David Harp ... Dr. N. Feldman, Ph.D. --- Foreward by BEN & JERRY