Reading Section

Memoir / (Auto) Biography

• Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda (Awakening)
• In Search of the Miraculous, P. D. Ouspensky (Awakening for the hyper rational)
• Grace and Grit, Ken Wilbur (Grief and Loss)
• Play of Consciousness, Swami Muktananda (Awakening)
• Cave in the Snow, Vicki Mackenzie (Heroine’s Journey)
• Journey’s Out of the Body, Robert Monroe
• When the Impossible Happens, Stan Groff
• In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park
• The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• The Night Trilogy, Elie Wiesel (Holocaust)
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung 
• In Love with the World, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (The death process)
• The Electric Kool Aid Acid Trip, Tom Wolfe
• The Life of Milarepa, Tsangnyon Heruka
• Being Selfish, Sarah Marshank (Heroine’s Journey)
• The American Prophet, Sydney Kirkpatrick
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• AutoBiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Malcolm X
• Hiking with Nietzsche, On becoming Who you Are, John Kaag
• Educated, Tara Westover (Heroine’s Journey)
• A Book of Life, Peter Kingsley

Fiction 

• Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach (On the perils of awakening)
• Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, P.D. Ouspensky (The original groundhog day)
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (Mystical)
• Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (LGBTQ)
• Initiation, Elizabeth Haich  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
• Circe, Madeline Miller (Heroine’s Journey)
• The Song of Achilles (LGBTQ)

Philosophical & Phenomenological

• Thus Spake Zarathustra, A Book for None and All, Friedrich Nietzsche
• Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Carl Jung
• The Prophet, Khalil Gilbran 
• Kosmic Consciousness, Ken Wilbur
• Integral Spirituality, Ken Wilbur
• The Finders, Jeffrey A. Martin
• Slavoj Žižek on “They Live” (The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology)

Guidance 

• The Treasure Within, Shannon Pernetti and Diane Steinbrecher
• Be Here Now, Ram Dass
• When Things Fall Apart, Prema Chodron  
• Start Where You Are, Prema Chodron
• Psychology of the Esoteric, Osho
• The Mustard Seed, Osho
• Big Magic, Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert (for the struggling writer) 
• The Middle Passage, From Misery to Meaning in Midlife, James Hollis (for those undergoing a mid-life crisis)
• 1980 Interview with John Lennon (for Artists)

Chronic Illness 

• Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness, Neil Nathan, MD
• Breath, the New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor

On Preparation for Death

• On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• In Love with the World, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Die Wise, Stephen Jenkinson
• Death of Ivan Illych, Leo Tolstoy (A masterful portrayal of a muggle dying a muggle death surrounded by muggles, and only dimply aware that they could have been another way.)

Scholarly Articles  

• All Disease Come From the Heart. The Pivotal Role of the Emotions in Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Freuhoff 
• Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism, Damian R. Murray ,Mark Schaller,Peter Suedfeld
• The Psychological and Socio-political Consequences of Infectious Diseases, Leor Zmigrod, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz, & Peter Jason Rentfrow. Affiliations: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK3Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
• The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach, Leor Zmigrod, Ian W. Eisenberg, Patrick G. Bissett, Trevor W. Robbins and Russell A. Poldrack, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Archetypal Film / Series 

• The Green Knight (Hero’s Journey)
• The Game (Rebirth)
• The Fountain (Reincarnation)
• Cloud Atlas (Reincarnation)
• Inception (Psychological)
• Snow Piercer (Revolution)
• Meetings with Remarkable Men (Initiation)
• The Holy Mountain (Initiation)
• The Mission (Redemption)
• Vikings (Hero & Heroine’s Journey)
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• The Act of Killing (Real time birth of a conscience)
• My Dinner with Andre

Archetypally Coherent Stories and Film for Children and Young Adults 

• Anything by Elsa Beskow
• Anything by Chris Van Allsburg
• Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
• The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien
• Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm
• Paranorman (Rescuing exiled parts / inner child work)
• Steven Universe The Movie (2019)