Resources

Inner Alchemy and Some Tools for Inner Work

Ann Wieser Cornell, Ph.D.

‘The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing’

Alexander Roob, Tachen

‘Alchemy and Mysticism’

Carl Jung, translated by Gerhard Adler

‘Psychology and Alchemy’

Chang Po-Tuan, Commentary by Liu I-Ming, Translated by Thomas Cleary

‘The Inner Teachings of Taoism’

‘The Secret of the Golden Flower’ translated by Thomas Cleary

Claude Anshin Thomas

‘Bringing Meditation to Life: 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen Practice’

‘At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace’

Francis Weller

‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief’

Judith Cornell

‘Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing’

Lorie Eve Dechar

‘Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing’

‘Kigo: Exploring the Spiritual Essence of Acupuncture Points Through the

Changing Seasons’

Lorie Eve Dechar and Benjamin Fox

‘The Alchemy of Inner Work: A Guide for Turning Illness and Suffering into true

Health and Well-Being’

* To explore more deeply ways to work with alchemical healing you can visit Lorie

and Benjamin’s website, A New Possibility, for articles, workshop

offerings, discussions and more.

Marie-Louise von Franz
‘Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology’

Robert Johnson

‘Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth’

Taoist Philosophy and Experiential Writings

Alan Watts with the collaboration of Al Chung-liang Huang

‘Tao: The Watercourse Way’

David Hinton

‘Awakened Cosmos’

‘China Root’

‘Hunger Mountain’

‘Existence: A Story’

John Daido Loori
‘Riding the Ox Home’

Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Banes

‘The I Ching or Book of Changes’

Thomas Cleary

‘The Taoist I Ching’

Ursula K. Le Guin

‘Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way’ Lao Tzu

Deep Ecology

Bill Plotkin

‘Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche’

‘Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World’

‘Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche’

‘The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries’

Craig Chalquist and Linda Buzzell

‘Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind’

Chellis Glendinning

‘My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization’

David Abram

‘Becoming Animal’

‘Spell of the Sensuous’

David Kopacz and Joseph Rael

‘Becoming Medicine’

Joanna Macy

‘World As Lover World As Self’

‘Coming Back to Life’

‘Active Hope’

‘Widening Circles’

Micah Mortali
‘Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature’

Robin Wall Kimmerer

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’

‘Gathering Moss’

Ted Andrews

‘Animal Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small’

Terry Tempest Williams

‘Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert’

‘Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place’

Theodore Roszak

‘Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology’

Toko-pa Turner

‘Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home’

Indigenous Wisdom

Carol Schaefer

‘Grandmothers Counsel the World’

David Kopacz and Joseph Rael

‘Walking The Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD’

‘Becoming Medicine’

Jamie Sams

‘The 13 Original Clan Mothers’

‘Sacred Path Cards’

John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow)
‘Black Elk Speaks’

Lewis Mehl-Madrona

‘Coyote Medicine’

‘Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine’

‘Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing’

Resmaa Menakem

‘My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies’

Robin Wall Kimmerer

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’

‘Gathering Moss’

Tyson Yunkaporta
‘Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World’

Myth, Archetype and the Transformational Experience

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘Women Who Run With The Wolves’

‘The Joyous Body’

‘The Late Bloomer’

‘The Power of the Crone’

‘How to Be and Elder’

‘The Creative Fire’

Gabrielle Roth

‘Sweat Your Prayers: The Five Rhythms of the Soul’

‘Maps to Ecstasy’

Janet Adler

‘Arching Backward: The Mystical Initiation of a Contemporary Woman’

‘Offering from the Conscious Body: The Discipline of Authentic Movement’

Jean Shinoda Bolen

‘Goddesses in Everywoman’

‘Gods in Everyman’

‘Goddesses in Older Women’

‘Crossing to Avalon: A Woman’s Midlife Quest For The Sacred Feminine’

Marion Woodman

‘The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation’

‘The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women’

‘Addiction to Perfection: the Still Unravished Bride’

‘Bone: Dying into Life’

‘Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness’

Martin Shaw
‘Courting the Wild Twin’
‘Smokehole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass’
‘Wolf Milk: Chthonic Memory in the Deep Wild’
‘Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia’

Mary Jane Markell

‘Sand, Water, Silence: Explorations in Matter and Psyche’

Robert Bly

‘Iron John: A Book About Men’

Robert A. Johnson

‘Balancing Heaven and Earth’

‘Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche’

‘She’

‘He’

‘We’

‘Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth’

Poetry

Too many wonderful books to mention here, so I offer a list of my favorite poets (in

no particular order) who so gracefully hold the heart, awaken the senses, open us

to awe and wonder, and nourish the very depths of soul.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Lyla June Johnston

Mary Oliver

John O’Donohue

David Whyte

T.S Eliot

Jalal al-Din Rumi

Hafiz

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Mark Nepo

Rabindranath Tagore

Matsuo Basho

Sarah La Rosa

Chelan Harkin

Monique Gaboury L.Ac., Dipl.Ac.

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