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
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The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra - By Thich Nhat Hanh
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Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior - By Chogyam Trungpa
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Of Water and The Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation into the Life of an African Shaman - By Malidoma Patrice Some
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The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation - By Thomas Keating
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge - Edited By Jeremy Narrby and Francis Huxley
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Radical Acceptance - By Tara Branch
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux - By John G. Neihardt
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Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth - By Francoise Bourzat with Kristina Hunter
Traditions of Mind
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Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey - By David E. Presti
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures - By Antonio Damasio
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain - By Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Sapiens - By Yuval Noah Harari
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - By Bessel Van Der Kolk
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - By Robert M. Sapolsky
Traditions of Healing
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections - By C.G. Jung
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - By Resmaa Menakem
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The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of LIfe in Our Professional Healing Relationships - Kylea Taylor
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The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit - By Donald Kalsched
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The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection, and Courage - By Brene Brown
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Confrontation with the Unconscious: Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychedelic Experience - By Scott J. Hill
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Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction - By Linda Schierse Leonard
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self - By Alice Miller
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Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth - By Robert A. Johnson
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Holding the Tension of the Opposites - By Marion Woodman
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The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Culling - By James Hillman
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Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work For a Vital, Authentic Life by Connie Zweig and Steven Wolf
Traditions of Relationship
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Undefended Love - By Jett Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons
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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
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - By Sebastian Junger
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - By Robert D. Putnam
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Intimate Communication - By David Deida
Traditions of Nature
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Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World - By Bill Plotkin
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American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains - By Dan Flores
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The California Field Atlas - By Obi Kaufmann
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Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche - By Bill Plotkin
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest - By Wade Davis
Traditions of Literature and Myth
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Gods of Jade and Shadow - By Siliva Moreno-Garcia
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Circe - By Madeline Miller
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The Round House - By Louise Erdrich
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Blood Meridian - By Cormac McCarthy
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Upstream - By Mary Oliver
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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Aztec Thought and Culture - By Miguel Leon-Portilla (Translation by Jack Emory Davis)
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Iliad - By Homer (Translation by Stanley Lombardo)
Podcasts
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Weaving Worlds: Indigenous Traditions and Western Psychotherapy - Weaving the holistic view with scientific knowledge
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Face to Face - Carl Gustav Jung - An introspective interview with Carl Jung
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Huberman Lab Podcast - A scientific perspective on personal change
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Bayo Akomolafe: The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down - A talk about togetherness and separateness
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On Being with Krista Tippett - Discussions around what it means to be human in the world
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The Tim Ferriss Show - Conversations in search of ways to change and grow
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Lex Fridman Podcast - Discourse merging science and philosophy in viewing the mind, learning and being
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For the Wild - Ayana Young has conversation on ecology & rewilding
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Finding Mastery - Michael Gervais dialogs on learning and personal growth in performance
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Living Myth - Michael Meade on myth, storytelling and their wisdom and teachings
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This Jungian Life - Three analyst discuss life, dreams and the possibilities of growth
Links
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Animas Valley Institute - Using the natural world to explore our nature
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School of Lost Borders - Combining nature and ritual to become more rooted in our lives
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Hakomi Experiential Therapy - Being mindfully in our beings for healing and personal growth
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Center for Consciousness Medicine - Working in expanded states
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Mindful Diversity - Minding our relationships with difference