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The Journey

The Feminine Face of God  - Patricia Hopkins and Sherry Ruth Anderson
Goddesses in Every Woman    – Jean Shinoda Bolen
Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty– Jean Shinoda Bolen
The Tao of Psychology : Synchronicity and Self - Jean Shinoda Bolen
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Mid-Life Pilgrimmage – Jean Shinoda Bolen
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
The Heroine's Journey – Maureen Murdock
The Moon and the Virgin - Nor Hall
Woman Earth and Spirit  - Helen Luke
Inanna  - Wolkstein and Kramer
Grist for the Mill – Ram Dass
Still Here – Ram Dass
When Things Fall Apart : Heart Advice for Difficult Times - Pema Chodron
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times - Pema Chodron
The Wisdom of No Escape : And the Path of Loving Kindness - Pema Chodron
Start Where You Are : A Guide to Compassionate Living - Pema Chodron
Comfortable with Uncertainty : 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion - Pema Chodron
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter : A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine - Sue Monk Kidd
Daughters of the Goddess : The Women Saints of India - Linda Johnsen
Women Who Run With the Wolves- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Tao Of Psychology – Jean Shinoda Bolen
The Pregnant Virgin;Addiction to Perfection;The Owl was the Baker's Daughter; Bone : Dying into Life;       Dancing in the Flames - Marion Woodman
Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore
The Barefoot Doctor's guide to the Tao – Stephen Russell
The Hunger for Ecstasy – Jalaja Bonheim
She – Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson - Ecstasy; Femininity Lost and Regained

Samyama

How to Know God: the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali Translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood,  Vedanta Press, 1981
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Translated by Sri Swami Satchidananda

Kundalini and Spiritual Emergence

The Kundalini Experience – Lee Sannella
Spiritual Emergency – Stan and Christina Grof
Stormy Search for the Self– Stan and Christina Grof
Energies of Transformation – Bonnie Greenwell
Sacred Power – Swami Kripananda
Kundalini and the Evolution of Consciousness – Solomae Sananda

Novels

The Firebrand; The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Wise Child- Monica Furlong (magical novel about a little girl living with an herbalist)

Shamanism

Shamanic Voices – Joan Halifax
The Healing Wisdom of Africa; Ritual: Power, Healing and the Community – Malidoma Some

The Masculine

The Wounded Woman – Linda Leonard 
On the Way to the Wedding - Linda Leonard 
Gods in Every Man – Jean Shinoda Bolen
Iron John – Robert Bly
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover – Robert Moore
Robert Johnson – He; Lying with the Heavenly Woman;The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden
Marion Woodman – The Ravaged Bridegroom; Animus Aeternus: Exploring the Inner Masculine; Leaving My Father's House;
Evangeline Kane – Recovering from Incest
David Deida – It's a Guy Thing: an Owner's Manual for Women

Healership

Healing and Wholeness – John Sanford
Shamanic Voices – Joan Halifax 
The Wounded Healer – Joan Halifax & Stan Grof 
How Can I Help? – Ram Dass

Awakening

Loving What Is – Byron Katie
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
Awakening to the Dream – Leo Hartong
You Are That! Satsang With Gangaji – Vol. 1 & 2 – Gangaji
The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World --Arjuna Ardagh
The Diamonnd in Your Pocket --Gangaji  

Shadow

A Little Book About the Human Shadow – Robert Bly
Embracing Ourselves – Hal and Sidra Stone
A Wizard of Earthsea from the Earthsea Trilogy - Ursula Le Guin
John Sanford - Owning Your Own Shadow; Evil:The Shadow Side of Reality

Relationships

Embracing the Beloved - Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Embracing Ourselves – Hal and Sidra Stone
Partnering – Hal and Sidra Stone
Invisible Partners - John Sanford
We– Robert Johnson

Dreams

Wisdom of the Heart: Working with Women's Dreams – Karen A. Signell
Where People Fly & Water Runs Uphill – Jeremy Taylor
Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams – Eugene Gendlin
Dream Animals – James Hillman
Animal Speak– Ted Andrews

Writing 

Natalie Goldberg-Writing Down the Bones;  Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life; Living Color; Thunder and Lightning; Long Quiet Highway – about her relationship with her spiritual teacher
Audio Tapes: Writing the Landscape of the Mind; Old Friend from Far Away;
Deena Metzger – Writing for Your Life
Annie Dillard – The Writing Life
Susan Shaughnessy – Walking on Alligators
Julia Cameron – The Right to Write
Mary Oliver – A Poetry Handbook
Brenda Ueland – If You Want to Write

Creative Process

Lenedra Carroll – The Architecture of All Abundance
Clint Brown - Artist to Artist: Inspiration & Advice from Artists Past & Present
Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way;  The Vein of Gold
Sally Warner – Making Room for Art
David Bayles & Ted Orland – Art & Fear
Alex Gray – The Mission of Art
Linda Leonard – The Call to Create; Witness to the Fire: Creativity & the Veil of Addiction
Shaun McNiff – Trust the Process
Eric Maisel – Fearless Creating
Frederick Franck – The Zen of Seeing  - it is about Samyama seeing
Aviva Gold -Painting from the Source
Mary Todd Beam – Celebrate Your Creative Self
Peter London – No More Second Hand Art
Tillie Olsen – Silences
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
Michelle Cassou - Point Zero: Creativity Without Limits
Leonard Koren - Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Marsha Sinetar – all of her books are good
Jerry Wennstrom – The Inspired Heart  - Jerry is a mystic artist – amazing art!
Kay Turner – Beautiful Necessity:The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars
To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring -- Marsha Sinetar (her other books also)

Painting, Drawing & Art Making

Roberta Weir – Leonardo's Ink Bottle, the Artist's Way of Seeing (drawing)
Anna Held Audette – The Blank Canvas
Betty Edwards – Drawing on the Artist Within; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (there is also a workbook)
Jean Carbonetti – The Zen of Creative Painting; The Tao of Watercolor; The Yoga of Drawing
Michell Cassou - Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
Judith Cornell – Mandala; Drawing the Light from Within
Frederick Franck – Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action(this is Samyama via drawing)
Shereen La Plantz – Cover To Cover: Creative Techniques For Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums
Victoria Hughes – Polymer the Chameleon Clay
Sherri Haab – The Art of Metal Clay

Poetry

The Illuminated Rumi  - JALAL AL-DIN RUMI -translated by Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Rainer Maria Rilke
Mary Oliver
David Whyte – Everything is Waiting for You;  The House of Belonging
Robert Bly
Anne Sexton
Haifiz
Galway Kinnel - A New Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell
Pablo Neruda
Antonio Machado
Emily Dickinson
Denise Levertov

Resources on Magdalen, Da Vinci Code, and Gnostism

Gnostic Gospels, Texts & Other Stuff

The Gnostic Society Library – 
http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/nhl.html 

Writings dealing primarily with the feminine deific and spiritual principle, particularly with the Divine Sophia: The Thunder, Perfect Mind; The Thought of Norea; The Sophia of Jesus Christ; The Exegesis on the Soul.  http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/nhl.html  

The Gnostic Society web lectures
http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/lectures.html

Thunder Perfect Mind - a powerful Gnostic text, a “voice” of the Feminine.  http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/thunder.html       

The Gnostic Gospels – Eaine Pagels

The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus : The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth - Marvin Meyer

Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah  - Tau Malachi

The Other Bible - Willis Barnstone

Gospel of Thomas:The Hidden Sayings of Jesus - Marvin Meyer

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle - Karen L. King

The Gospel of Judas - Bart D. Ehrman, Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst   

The Gospel of Judas - National Geographic has film, biblical scholars commenting  click here to read it

Jesus and the Lost Goddess: the Secret Teachings of the Original Christians – Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy - scholars say there is no evidence of a historical Jesus

The Jesus Mysteries – Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy

Son of Man: the Mystical Path to Christ – Andrew Harvey

The Underground Stream: Esoteric Tarot Revealed  - Christine Payne-Towler (emphasis on Gnostic, Holy Blood, Magdalene themes)
 
The Second Coming of Christ: the Resurrection of the Christ within You – Paramahansa Yogananda

The Coming of the Cosmic Christ – Matthew Fox

Did Jesus Exist?
Click here

The Dark Side of Christian History - Helen Ellerbe 

Eve: the History of an Idea – John Phillips

Mary Magdalen

“The Truth at the Heart of 'The Da Vinci Code’” – article by Elaine Pagels (npr.org has a number of articles/interviews on the DaVinci Code and relevant material)  Click here
  
“The Da Vinci Code" and the Jews” – article by Rabbi Benjamin Blech Click here

Mary Magdalene: Beyond the Myth - Esther De Boer

The Moon Under Her Feet – Clysta Kinstler (a novel)
 
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail - Margaret Starbird
 
Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln

The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown

The Expected One - Kathleen McGowan  (novel)

The Magdalen Manuscript - Tom Kenyon and Judi Sion

Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code : A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine - Bart D. Ehrman   

The Church of Mary Magdalene: The Sacred Feminine and the Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau - Jean Markale

St. Mary Magdalene - Tau Malachi  
 
The Gospels of Mary: the Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene the Companion of Jesus - Marvin Meyer and Esther De Boer
 
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene  - Jean-Yves LeLoup
 
The Secret Magdalene - Ki Longfellow (a novel)
 
I Remember Union: The Story of Mary Magdalene  - Flo Aeveia Magdalena
 
The Goddess in the Gospels  and  Magdalene's Lost Legacy  by Margaret Starbird