Resources

I consider these great practitioners of soul connection, shadow work, “the language older than words” and healing the body my elders and soul lineage. I would not be here today without the ideas, inspiration, and practices they’ve shared. Anything of value I offer to this world is inseparable from what they have healed and planted in me.

Embodied Practice

Robert Augustus Masters: Knowing Your Shadow: Becoming Intimate with All That You Are Sounds True audio program.
Judith Blackstone: The Realization Process with Sounds True
Michael Brown: The Presence Process
Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger
Thomas Hubl: Healing Collective Trauma with Sounds True.
Lissa Rankin, MD: Internal Family Systems (IFS) Is A Game-Changer for Medicine, Psychiatry, & The Spiritual Path
Alex Howard: Reset Program
Cathleen King: Primal Trust
Asher Lyman

Nature Connection

Chellis Glendinning: My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization
Derrick Jensen: A Language Older Than Words
Craig Foster: My Octopus Teacher and Belonging to the Wild with Sounds True.
Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry: The Universe Story
Joanna Macy: Active Hope and To Collapse Well with Michael Dowd
Bayo Akomolafe: Climate Crisis, Fragmentation and Collective Trauma
Alixa Garcia: On Extinction & Enchantment with SAND (Science and Non-Duality)
Micah Mortali: Rewilding with Sounds True
Teach Me To Be Wild from Wildlife Associates on the power of connecting injured, rehabilitated animals with at-risk youth.
The Secret Language of Trees
How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization lecture by Toby Hemenway
The Economics of Happiness by International Society of Ecology and Culture
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of An Empire
Andrea Gibson: Homesick – A Plea for Our Planet
Mary Oliver

Soul Work

Bill Plotkin & Geneen Haugen: Soulcraft, Wild Mind, Nature & The Human Soul, Spirit vs Soul and Soul as an Ecological Niche
Francis Weller: The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Loneliness as the Absence Where Fullness Should Have Been
Stephen Jenkinson: Grief Walker
Michael Meade: Living Myth podcast episodes Unlocking Destiny, Crux of the Matter, and Awakening the Soul,What Happens When You Get Lost, Logos, Mythos, and Imagination, The World is Made of Stories, The Pearl Within the Soul.
The Soul in Depression – On Being
Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Women Who Run With the Wolves
Kathleen Noble: The Sound of a Silver Horn
Dawna Markova: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
David Whyte: various poems

Spirituality & Shamanism

Michael Harner: The Way of the Shaman
Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk and Changing the World Through Indigenous Knowledge
Zahra Indigo Ronlov: The Gifts of Ma’at
Peter Kingsley: In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery & Magic, and Catafalque
Adyashanti
Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser:The Mystery We Are with On Being
Sandra Maitri: The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram
Jim Hollis: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You with Sounds True
Chris Bache: LSD & the Mind of the Universe with Sounds True.
Rumi: various poems

Life Wisdom

12-Step recovery programs and fellowship
Charles Eisenstein: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
The Wisdom of Trauma film from Science and Non-Duality (SAND) featuring Gabor Mate.
Ada Calhoun: The New Midlife Crisis – Why (and How) it’s Hitting Gen X Women
Mark Manson: How to Let Go, Screw Finding Your Passion, Life Purpose