The authors listed below are brilliant lights and their writings are beautiful expressions of their brilliance. I highly recommend all of them and their writings as very, very nutritious food for thought. I am not suggesting that these authors or their writings, ideas, opinions, etc., be blindly accepted as the "ultimate authority" or "final word" or "the gospel", or anything of the sort. It's simply nourishment to help expand one's worldview in every direction and arrive at Your Personal Truth, with no concern for whether Your Personal Truth coincides with theirs or not. Yes, that's what I would say about that. Thanks, Sao
RECOMMENDED READING
(in alphabetical order by authors' last names)
Venus On Top: Women Who Are Born to Lead and The Men Who Love Them
by Barbara Wright Abernathy
2150 A.D.
by Thea Alexander
Animal Speak
by Ted Andrews
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The Heart of A Woman
by Maya Angelou
Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now
by Maya Angelou
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World
by Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Goddesses In Everywoman
by Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Gods In Everyman
by Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Goddesses In Older Women: Archetypes In Women Over Fifty
by Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
PRONOIA Is the Antidote to Paranoia
by Rob Brezsny
Archetypes of the Zodiac
by Kathleen Burt
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coehlo
Feelings Matter: Keys to the Unexplored Self
by Ceanna DeRohan
Right Use of Will
(a series of eight books)
received by Ceanna DeRohan
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
Finding Our Way Through The Dark
by Demetra George
The Shamanic Astrology Handbook
by Daniel Giamario with Cayelin Castell
Lakota Star Knowledge: Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology
by Ronald Goodman
The Future Is Yours
by Raymon Grace
The Return of the Mother
by Andrew Harvey
The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons, Volumes 1 and 2
by Napoleon Hill
The Soul's Code
by James Hillman
A Terrible Love of War
by James Hillman
The Wisdom of Carl Jung
edited by Edward Hoffman, Ph.D.
Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
(Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts)
by James Hollis
The Red Book
by Carl Jung
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten
Listening to the Sun
by Tobias Lars
Paradise (in Oprah’s Book Club)
by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
What Moves at the Margin (Selected non-fiction)
by Toni Morrison
Soul-Sick Nation
by Jessica Murray
Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women
by Sylvia Brinton Perera
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes
The Game of Wizards: Roots of Consciousness & the Esoteric Arts
by Charles Ponce
Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
by The Hunger Project
Prophecy of the Rose: The Feminine Face of God In Christianity & The Earth As A Sacred Realm
by Rosalind de Rolon
Astrology: Planet Personalities & Signs Speak Through Robert Shapiro
by Robert Shapiro (and the planets and signs)
The Explorer Race
(a series of about a dozen books)
by Zoosh through Robert Shapiro
The Great Cosmic Mother
by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor
The Essene Gospel of Peace
by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations Of A New World View
by Richard Tarnas
Mind Programming
by Eldon Taylor
Tao Te Ching
by author unknown
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In A Time Of Darkness
by Alice Walker
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
By Alice Walker and Rudolph P. Byrd
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (A Palm of Her Hand Project)
by Alice Walker
Illuminata: A Return to Prayer
by Marianne Williamson
The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life
by Marianna Williamson
A Woman’s Worth
by Marianne Williamson
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Creating A World Without Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing, by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
-- after Soul Sick Nation on the list --Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul, by Clarisssa Pinkola-Estes PhD (author of Women Who Run with the Wolves)
-- beneath Women Who Run with the Wolves --The Essene Book of Creation: Our Spiritual Heritage for the Space Age, by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
-- beneath The Essene Gospel of Peace, by same author --The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, by James Hollis
-- beneath Under Saturn's Shadow, by same author --
All writings by:
Maya Angelou
Elizabeth Debold
Thomas Stearns Eliot
James Hillman
Carl Jung
W.S. Merwin
Toni Morrison
Norm Shealy
Alice Walker
Marianne Williamson
Zoosh (and friends)