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Resources for the Journey

Books, research, traditions, and

voices for deeper inquiry

This collection is offered as a place of exploration

rather than a prescription for what to believe.

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The resources gathered here reflect

scientific, psychological, spiritual,

historical, and cultural perspectives.

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I invite you to approach them with

curiosity, discernment, and the

sovereignty of your own Soul.

Ecopsychology & this Living Earth

  • A Simpler Way — Margaret J. Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers

  • Active Hope — Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

  • Animal-Speak — Ted Andrews

  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • The Art of Gathering — Priya Parker

  • The Book of the Vision Quest — Steven Foster with Meredith Little

  • Buffalo Hearts — Sun Bear

  • Coming Back to Life — Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown

  • Dark Gold — Carolyn Baker

  • Dark Night, Early Dawn — Christopher M. Bache

  • Developing Ecological Consciousness — Christopher Uhl

  • The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul — Anne Baring

  • The Dream of the Earth — Thomas Berry

  • The Ecopsychology / Ecopsychology volume edited by Kahn & Hasbach — Peter H. Kahn Jr. & Patricia H. Hasbach

  • Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind — Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes & Allen D. Kanner, eds.

  • Ecoshamanism — James Endredy

  • Ecotherapy — Linda Buzzell & Craig Chalquist, eds.

  • Encyclopedia of Earth Myths — David Leeming & Jake Page

  • The Four-Fold Way — Angeles Arrien

  • Grandfather — Tom Brown Jr.

  • The Great Cosmic Mother — Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor

  • The Great Turning — David C. Korten

  • The Grief Recovery Handbook — John W. James & Russell Friedman

  • The Hope — Andrew Harvey

  • Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue — C. Michael Smith

  • Journey of the Universe — Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker

  • Last Child in the Woods — Richard Louv

  • Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse — Carolyn Baker

  • My Heart Soars — Chief Dan George

  • Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth — John Michael Greer

  • Narrative Medicine — Lewis Mehl-Madrona

  • Nature and the Human Soul — Bill Plotkin

  • Nature-Speak — Ted Andrews

  • The Nature Principle — Richard Louv

  • The New Universe and the Human Future — Nancy Ellen Abrams & Joel R. Primack

  • Personal Mythology — David Feinstein & Stanley Krippner

  • Rebirth of the Sacred — Robert Nadeau

  • Return of the Bird Tribes — Ken Carey

  • Ritual: Power, Healing and Community — Malidoma Patrice Somé

  • Ritual as Resource — Michael Picucci

  • The Sacred Balance — David Suzuki

  • Shamans, Mystics and Doctors — Sudhir Kakar

  • The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings — James Vukelich

  • The Smell of Rain on Dust — Martín Prechtel

  • The Soul of Shamanism — Daniel C. Noel

  • Soulcraft — Bill Plotkin

  • Spiritual Ecology — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  • The Spell of the Sensuous — David Abram

  • Thinking Like a Mountain — author/editor details to verify from your edition

  • This Sacred Earth — Roger S. Gottlieb

  • To Be Healed by the Earth — Warren Grossman

  • Touch the Earth — T. C. McLuhan

  • Turning to One Another — Margaret J. Wheatley

  • Unfinished Animal — Theodore Roszak

  • The Voice of the Earth — Theodore Roszak

  • The Voice of the Silence — H. P. Blavatsky

  • The Water of Life — Michael Meade

  • The Web of Life — Fritjof Capra

  • When Corporations Rule the World — David C. Korten

  • Where White Men Fear to Tread — Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf

  • Wild Mind — Bill Plotkin

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow — Francis Weller

  • Widening Circles — Joanna Macy

  • Working Together — edited by Angeles Arrien

  • World as Lover, World as Self — Joanna Macy

  • Your Brain on Nature — Eva M. Selhub & Alan C. Logan

Religious Trauma, Deconstruction
& Historical Reckoning

Books and resources for
questioning inherited beliefs,
understanding religious history, &
exploring paths beyond harmful systems

Religious Trauma, Fundamentalism & Leaving the Fold

• Coming Out of Fundamentalist Christianity — Carolyn Baker
• Confronting Christofascism: Healing the Evangelical Wound — Carolyn Baker
• Leaving the Fold — Marlene Winell, Ph.D.

• 560 Contradictions in the Bible — A.I. Maverick
• All That’s Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More — Jonah David Conner
• Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails — Edited by John W. Loftus
• Drunk with Blood: God’s Killings in the Bible — Steve Wells
• Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties — Gleason L. Archer
• Forged — Bart D. Ehrman
• God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction — Dan Barker
• The Jesus Cult: 2000 Years of the Last Days — Robert Conner
• Misquoting Jesus — Bart D. Ehrman
• The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible — Steve Wells
• When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition — Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince
• Why There Is No God — Armin Navabi

Biblical Inquiry & Deconstruction

Christianity, Slavery & Anti-Black Racism

• By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land — Rebecca Nagle
• Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism — Jack D. Forbes
• The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide — Chris Mato Nunpa, Ph.D.
• God Is Red: A Native View of Religion — Vine Deloria Jr.
• The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery — Sarah Augustine
• Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide — George E. Tinker
• Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery — Steven T. Newcomb
• Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas — Jeffrey Ostler
• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery — Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah

• The Dark Side of Christian History — Helen Ellerbe
• The Evangelicals — Frances FitzGerald
• The Triumph of Christianity — Bart D. Ehrman
• Cult of Trump — Steven Hassan, Ph.D..

Christianity, History, Power & Culture

Alternative Spiritual & Indigenous Perspectives

• Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief — John Lamb Lash
• Return of the Bird Tribes — Ken Carey
• Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World — Paul Levy

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