A Few of My Favorite Things

Over many years and through the generosity of many friends I have curated a short list of works by writers, film makers, artists of all kinds that see something I see and articulate it through their own lens. I offer my short list here or you to enjoy:

Books

1. Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life by John Tarrant

2. Love and Will by Rollo May

3. A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon

4. When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

5. On Freedom by Maggie Nelson

6. The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

7. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

8. What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner

9. Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp

10. Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

11. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

12. The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman

13. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

14. On Becoming an Alchemist: A Guide for the Modern Magician by Catherine MacCoun

15. Moon Magic by Dion Fortune

16. The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune

17. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

18. Catafalque by Peter Kingsley

19. The Red Book by Carl Jung

20. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

21. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

22. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield

23. The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel

24. The Book of Shadows by Octavio Paz

 

Movies

1. Dangerous Beauty

2. Pele

3. Wings of Desire

4. Crazy Wisdom

5. Dogville

6. Love Me If You Dare

7. Taming of the Shrew

8. Life of Pi

9. Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones

10. Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth

11. Poor Things

12. The Singularity is Near

TV Shows

1. The Defiant Ones

2. Undone

3. After Life

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings

• Lama Lena (Lama Lena Teachings)

• Lama Glenn Mullin (On YouTube)

• Geshe Michael (Geshe Michael)

Videos

• Audre Lorde Reading the Erotic (Watch on YouTube)

• Wayseers Manifesto (Watch on YouTube)

• Relationships Have Nothing to Do With Love (Watch on YouTube)

Articles

1. There’s Something Happening Here (Read on NYT)

2. The Great Disruption (Read on NYT)

3. The Big Shift by John Hagel (Read here)

4. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (Read on EFF)

5. How to Land Your Kid in Therapy (Read on The Atlantic)

6. Masculinity Isn’t a Sickness (Read on WSJ)

7. Michael Pollan on Chanterelle Mushrooms (Read on Mushroom Forager)

8. Fear of Yoga (Read on Utne Reader)