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.
The resources gathered here reflect
scientific, psychological, spiritual,
historical, and cultural perspectives.
I invite you to approach them with
curiosity, discernment, and the
sovereignty of your own Soul.
Ecopsychology & this Living Earth
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A Simpler Way — Margaret J. Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers
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Active Hope — Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
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Animal-Speak — Ted Andrews
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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The Art of Gathering — Priya Parker
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The Book of the Vision Quest — Steven Foster with Meredith Little
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Buffalo Hearts — Sun Bear
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Coming Back to Life — Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown
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Dark Gold — Carolyn Baker
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Dark Night, Early Dawn — Christopher M. Bache
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Developing Ecological Consciousness — Christopher Uhl
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The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul — Anne Baring
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The Dream of the Earth — Thomas Berry
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The Ecopsychology / Ecopsychology volume edited by Kahn & Hasbach — Peter H. Kahn Jr. & Patricia H. Hasbach
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Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind — Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes & Allen D. Kanner, eds.
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Ecoshamanism — James Endredy
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Ecotherapy — Linda Buzzell & Craig Chalquist, eds.
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Encyclopedia of Earth Myths — David Leeming & Jake Page
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The Four-Fold Way — Angeles Arrien
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Grandfather — Tom Brown Jr.
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The Great Cosmic Mother — Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor
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The Great Turning — David C. Korten
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The Grief Recovery Handbook — John W. James & Russell Friedman
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The Hope — Andrew Harvey
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Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue — C. Michael Smith
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Journey of the Universe — Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker
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Last Child in the Woods — Richard Louv
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Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse — Carolyn Baker
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My Heart Soars — Chief Dan George
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Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth — John Michael Greer
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Narrative Medicine — Lewis Mehl-Madrona
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Nature and the Human Soul — Bill Plotkin
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Nature-Speak — Ted Andrews
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The Nature Principle — Richard Louv
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The New Universe and the Human Future — Nancy Ellen Abrams & Joel R. Primack
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Personal Mythology — David Feinstein & Stanley Krippner
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Rebirth of the Sacred — Robert Nadeau
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Return of the Bird Tribes — Ken Carey
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Ritual: Power, Healing and Community — Malidoma Patrice Somé
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Ritual as Resource — Michael Picucci
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The Sacred Balance — David Suzuki
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Shamans, Mystics and Doctors — Sudhir Kakar
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The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings — James Vukelich
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The Smell of Rain on Dust — Martín Prechtel
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The Soul of Shamanism — Daniel C. Noel
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Soulcraft — Bill Plotkin
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Spiritual Ecology — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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The Spell of the Sensuous — David Abram
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Thinking Like a Mountain — author/editor details to verify from your edition
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This Sacred Earth — Roger S. Gottlieb
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To Be Healed by the Earth — Warren Grossman
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Touch the Earth — T. C. McLuhan
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Turning to One Another — Margaret J. Wheatley
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Unfinished Animal — Theodore Roszak
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The Voice of the Earth — Theodore Roszak
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The Voice of the Silence — H. P. Blavatsky
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The Water of Life — Michael Meade
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The Web of Life — Fritjof Capra
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When Corporations Rule the World — David C. Korten
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Where White Men Fear to Tread — Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf
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Wild Mind — Bill Plotkin
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow — Francis Weller
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Widening Circles — Joanna Macy
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Working Together — edited by Angeles Arrien
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World as Lover, World as Self — Joanna Macy
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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