BIBLIOGRAPHY

In the academic world, the bibliography goes at the end of your work. You cite your sources after you’ve said all you came to say. I’m going to flip that. The list below is an ever-growing compendium of resources that have influenced and informed my way of thinking and seeing the world over the last three decades - but most specifically over the last 3-5 years. They have impacted all aspects of my work - both “career” and metaphysical work.

It’s half reading list, half role call of minds I admire, and 100% the result of a beginners mind. I hope that it is useful to you as it has been to me.

Books are linked to purchase via my affiliate link on IndieBound.org (if you cannot find them used or at a local bookshop near you).

Read

• Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd

• Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

• Be Here Now - Ram Dass

• You Are Here - Thich Nhat Hahn

• Eastern Body Western Mind - Anodea Judith

• How to Think More About Sex - Alain de Botton

• The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron

• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

• Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard

• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The Rock Warrior’s Way - Arno Ilgner

• Zen and the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel

• Exclusion and Embrace - Miroslav Volf

• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad (“I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy”)

• Rachel Cargle (“When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels” and Dear White Women)

• Upstream (essays) and A Thousand Mornings (poetry) of Mary Oliver

• Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver

• Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert

• Pleasure Activism - Adrienne Maree Brown

• The Last Child in the Woods - Richard Louv

• A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold

• The Abundance - Annie Dillard

• Travels with Charley in Search of America - John Steinbeck

• America - Jean Baudrillard

• Tao Te Ching as translated by Ursula K Leguin

• Reviving Ophelia - Mary Pipher

• How the Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill

• Rise to Globalism - Stephen E. Ambrose

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman

• The Rich and the Rest of Us - Tavis Smiley and Cornell West

• Poor Economics - Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo 

Follow (and read)

• Marlee Grace

• Chani Nicholas

• Katie Boué

• Jamila Reddy

• Oates

• Allen Salway

• How Not to Travel Like A Basic Bitch (Dr. Kiona)

• Jessie Susannah/The Money Witch

• Len Necefer

• Karen Ramos

• Jordan Marie

• Bunny Michael

• Rachel Howe/Small Spells

LISTEN

• Crooked Media podcasts (specifically Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, This Land, Dissecting America)

• The Daily from the NYTimes

• 99% Invisible podcast (design)

• Reply All podcast (“A podcast about The Internet”)

• Dirtbag Diaries podcast

• She Explores podcast and their sub-pod Women on the Road

AND MANY MORE THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO ADD AS I THINK OF THEM!