Book Recommendations

Here is a list of books I have found informational, influential and useful.

Philosophy & Psychedelics

  • LSD My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann
  • The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You by Alan Watts
  • The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
  • Doorway to the Numinous by Stanislav Grof
  • True Hallucinations by Terrance McKenna
  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  • The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku
  • Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins & Helene Shulman
  • Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing by Maria Papaspyrou, Chiara Baldini, David Luke
  • Anam Cara by John O Donohue

Shamanism & Nature

  • Divine Beauty by John O Donohue
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Soul Retrieval by Sandra Ingerman
  • The Ultimate Journey by Stanislav Grof
  • Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Bodywork & Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

Birth & Women

  • Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskins
  • Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by Rachel Reed
  • The Positive Birth Book by Millie Hill
  • Shamanic Wisdom for Pregnancy & Parenthood by Anna Cariad-Barrett
  • The First Forty Days by Amely Greeven, Heng Ou, and Marisa Belger
  • If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
  • The Heroines Journey by Maureen Murdock
  • Matrescence : On the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth & motherhood by Lucy Jones