Poets, Philosophers, Shamans & Sages

Malidoma Patrice Somé
📘 Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
📘 Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Sobonfu Somé
📘 The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationship

Janine Benyus
📘 Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature


Martin Prechtel
📘 The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
📘 Long Life, Honey in the Heart
📘 Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village
💿 Grief and Praise Lecture

Stephen Jenkinson
📘 Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
📘 Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

Francis Weller
📘 The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Clarissa Pinkola Estés
📘 Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
📘 Mother Night: Myths, Stories and Teachings for Learning to See in the Dark

John O’Donohue
📘 To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
📘 Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
🎧 The Inner Landscape of Beauty - On Being podcast

Carl Sagan
📘 Pale Blue Dot
📘 Cosmos

Michael Meade
📘 Awakening the Soul

David Whyte
🎧 Seeking Language Large Enough - On Being podcast
📘 Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

Robin Wall Kimmerer
📘 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Tyson Yunkaporta
📘 Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Gregory Orr
🎧 Shaping Grief With Language - On Being podcast
📘 Poetry as Survival (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft)

Dacher Keltner
📘 Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Toko-pa Turner
📘 Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner

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