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The Primal Library

Seeking information provides us with new ways of seeing and understanding ourselves and our world. It can stoke our desire to explore new paths of knowing and experiencing life. The wisdom and experience of others can provide the motivation for us continue when things get tough. I enjoy the process of learning and integrating new knowledge into my life and I invite you to some resources that have been helpful for me.

Books

Traditions of Wisdom

  • The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra - By Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior - By Chogyam Trungpa

  • Of Water and The Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation into the Life of an African Shaman - By Malidoma Patrice Some

  • The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation - By Thomas Keating

  • Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge - Edited By Jeremy Narrby and Francis Huxley

  • Radical Acceptance - By Tara Branch

  • Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux - By John G. Neihardt

  • Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth - By Francoise Bourzat with Kristina Hunter

Traditions of Mind

  • Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey - By David E. Presti

  • The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures - By Antonio Damasio

  • How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain - By Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Sapiens - By Yuval Noah Harari

  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - By Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - By Robert M. Sapolsky

Traditions of Healing

  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections - By C.G. Jung

  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - By Resmaa Menakem

  • The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of LIfe in Our Professional Healing Relationships - Kylea Taylor

  • The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit - By Donald Kalsched

  • The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection, and Courage - By Brene Brown

  • Confrontation with the Unconscious: Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychedelic Experience - By Scott J. Hill

  • Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction - By Linda Schierse Leonard

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self - By Alice Miller

  • Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth - By Robert A. Johnson

  • Holding the Tension of the Opposites - By Marion Woodman

  • The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Culling - By James Hillman

  • Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work For a Vital, Authentic Life by Connie Zweig and Steven Wolf

Traditions of Relationship

  • Undefended Love - By Jett Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons

  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love - By Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller

  • Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - By Sebastian Junger

  • Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - By Robert D. Putnam

  • Intimate Communication - By David Deida

Traditions of Nature

  • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World - By Bill Plotkin

  • American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains - By Dan Flores

  • The California Field Atlas - By Obi Kaufmann

  • Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche - By Bill Plotkin

  • One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest - By Wade Davis

Traditions of Literature and Myth

  • Gods of Jade and Shadow - By Siliva Moreno-Garcia

  • Circe - By Madeline Miller

  • The Round House - By Louise Erdrich

  • Blood Meridian - By Cormac McCarthy

  • Upstream - By Mary Oliver

  • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  • Aztec Thought and Culture - By Miguel Leon-Portilla (Translation by Jack Emory Davis)

  • Iliad - By Homer (Translation by Stanley Lombardo)

Podcasts

Links

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