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books I really want you to read
- A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
- The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
- The Truthtellers edited by Brad Blanton
- The Gift, I Heard God Laughing, and/or The Subject Tonight Is Love by Hafiz, as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky
books for relating
- Practicing Radical Honesty, Radical Honesty and Radical Parenting by Brad Blanton
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher
- Getting Real by Susan Campbell
books for thinking
- Job's Body by Deane Juhan
- A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
- Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood edited by Claude
Whitmyer
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
books for transcending
- Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Winnie the Pooh and other Pooh books by A.A. Milne
- Mostly True and other Storypeople books by Brian Andreas
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings / selected with an introduction by John Dear
- Living Enlightenment and Embracing Heaving and Earth by Andrew Cohen
- The Way of Passion by Andrew Harvey
- other translations and renderings of Rumi by Coleman Barks
- When Things Fall Apart and most anything by Pëma Chodron
- Zen Speaks by Tsai Chih Chung
books for transcending culture
- The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- When Corporations Rule The World by David Korten
- The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
- Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
- Learning to be White by Thandeka
- In The Absence Of The Sacred by Jerry Mander
- Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence Boldt
- No Logo by Naomi Klein
books for fantasy
- Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
- The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- the Samaria novels by Sharon Shinn
- Moonheart and most anything by Charles de Lint
books for presence
- We're All Doing Time and It's a Meaningful Life - It Just Takes Practice by Bo Lozoff
- Soul Retrieval by Sandra Ingerman
- Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
authors without specific book recommendations
- Osho (aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
- I've read some of his collected talks and I regularly get scared, inspired, outraged, and have my mind and heart blown open. Good stuff.
- Robert Fisk
- My favorite journalist, he writes for the Independent newspaper in the UK.
- Noam Chomsky
- Agree or disagree with his theses, he's got interesting analyses.
books on my to read list
- Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez
- Looking for Spinoza and Emotions Revealed by Antonio Damasio
- The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky