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Resources

Updated: 12.23.2009

Many people ask me for suggestions for music, reading materials, movies and internet resources to support them on their journey and to integrate their experiences. I draw from a wide range of materials according to their specific needs. The following are my personal favorites, rich in images, the meaning of life and the ways of love.

Books
The foundation of this work is discovery of the ways in which we create our selves and our lives. So stories, both our own and others, are an important part of our studies.

The most instructive genre of books for me is fantasy and science fiction. Imagination feeds the soul and teaches us how to imagine ourselves and how to create our lives anew. Magic and alternative realities open us to the possibilities that lie hidden within our creative potential. I have seen many examples of fantastic ideas that millions of people have read in fantasy books over time, which now exist in this material world.

I know there is a place for self help books but I am not a big fan of the genre. I prefer the literature and stories of the mystic masters and those who have walked the paths of love and transformation.

My all time favorite story is "The Finovar Tapestry" by Guy Gavriel Kay which incorporates many familiar mythologies with new endings. My current favorite author is Anne Bishop, the Ephemera Series and the Black Jewels Series, which play with the shamanic realms of dreams and creation.

Music
Music plays a strong part in creating an energetically and emotionally supportive experience in this work. I am happy to share information about the music I play in sessions - much of it is obscure and from other countries.

I simply ask that you purchase the music yourself rather than asking me to allow you to copy it. I feel it is important that we as a culture honor those incredible people who so enrich our lives with their music by paying them fully for their creativity.

My current favorite internet radio music is on from pandora.com and live365.com and the Emusic store.

Contact me if you wish to know more about my music sources.

Movies
Films present a powerful medium for education, healing and the study of our evolution in consciousness. I use movies to illustrate  many aspects of the ways we can understand ourselves and each other, to open to memories and specific feeling states and to create images to allow us to re-create ourselves and our relationships. These are some of the films I frequently recommend, in no particular order:

  • For Pure Inspiration:
    Quidam, Being There, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Patch Adams, Michael

  • Best Ever Love Stories:
    Hero, Stardust, Legends Of The Fall, Venus, Yes, Chocolat, The Promise, Spanglish, Shall We Dance? (the Japanese version), Casablanca, Harold and Maude

  • Favorite Tantric Films:
    Kama Sutra:A Tale of Love, Dangerous Beauty, Don Juan De Marco, The Lovers, Like Water for Chocolate

  • Moving Historical Dramas:
    Mongol, Rob Roy, Immortal Beloved, The Red Violin, Kundun, The Last of the Mohicans, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, The Illusionist, The Queen, Amazing Grace, The Piano, Out of Africa, Australia, The African Queen

  • Death and Dying:
    Departures, Tuesdays With Morrie, Dead Like Me series, Discworld series, What Dreams May Come, Meet Joe Black, Dying Young, Iris, Wit, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Fearless

  • Shamanic Stories:
    Ink, Avatar, Rough Magic, The Emerald Forest, Constantine, The Fountain, Rivers and Tides, The Fifth Element, Powder, Dune, The Sixth Sense

  • Epic Fantasy and Mythical Science Fiction:
    Farscape series, Dr Who (the new series), The 10th Kingdom, Aeon Flux, Harry Potter series, V for Vendetta, The Matrix series, The Golden Compass, Ghost Rider, K-Pax, Dr Strange, Inkheart, Labyrinth, Transformers, The Forbidden Kingdom, Lord Of The Rings

  • 'Real' Fairy Tales, Modern Myths and Legends:
    Hoodwinked, The Tin Man, Hogfather, Phoebe in Wonderland, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real story, Wolf,  Ladyhawke, Ever After:A Cinderella Story, The Lion King, The Seventh Stream, Willow, Finding Neverland, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, Beauty and The Beast, Twilight, Heroes series

  • Remembering The Hurt Child:
    August Rush, Pay It Forward, Salaam Bombay, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Coraline, The Never Ending Story I & II, Whale Rider, Shine, My Flesh and Blood

  • Women's Stories of Awakening:
    MirrorMask, I've Loved You So Long, Vagina Monologues, Antonia's Line, Real Women Have Curves, Phantom of the Opera, Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants, Avenue Montaigne, Water, Holy Smoke,  Under The Tuscan Sun, Frida

  • Men's Stories of Awakening:
    Shadows In The Sun, Neverwas, Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, Legend of 1900, Music Within, Martian Child, The Green Mile, Monsieur Ibrahim, Lars and the Real Girl, Hildalgo, A Beautiful Mind, Henry Poole Is Here, The Pursuit of Happyness

  • Life As It Is Now on Planet Earth:
    National Geographic: Human Footprint, Strange Days on Planet Earth (watch a preview), Blue Gold:World Water Wars, The Future of Food and Food Inc, Sicko, Tesla: Master of Lightning, A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, I.O.U.S.A.

  • Beautiful Nature Films:
    The Best of Nature:25 Years, Winged Migration, Nature:Bears, Sacred Planet, Wolves:A Legend Returns to Yellowstone, Wild South America, National Geographic: Tigers of the Snow, National Geographic:Eye of the Leopard, Life in Cold Blood, Vajra Sky Over Tibet, Inside the Living Body, Life in the Undergrowth

  • Favorite Anime Films:
    Origin:Spirits of the Past, Kaena:The Prophecy, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

  • For a Laugh With Meaning and Feel Good Flix:
    Secondhand Lions, The Princess Bride, Mr Deeds, Juno, Saving Grace, The Bucket List, Waking Ned Devine, The Man Who Sued God, Calendar Girls, Little Miss Sunshine, Last Holiday, Shrek, Away We Go

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A Few Web Sites

350.org: The emergency response to immediate global warming, organizing global action to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to below 350 parts per million.

Tree hugger: Vast ecological solutions, news and resources.

Green people: The best eco-friendly shopping and advice.

Biomimicry: studies nature's best ideas and imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.

TED: Technology, Entertainment and Design from the world's top thinkers, creators and entrepreneurs. Here are some of the most inspiring answers to our world's challenges.

Green America: Green businesses, community investing, shareholder activism, social & environmental reporting of corporations, guide to ending sweatshops, climate action, Green Festivals and guides to greening your home and business.

Common dreams: The news the corporations do not want us to see.

Earth times: News from the rest of the world.

Reality sandwich: Stories of evolving consciousness and right action.

Future primitive: Oral tradition, emergent communities.

Coping: Tools for coping with all kinds of life's stresses.

Spirit of maat: Online metaphysical community and web magazine.

Pantheon: An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and religion.

Surlalune fairytales: The histories, cultures, modern interpretations and illustrations of fairy tales and folk tales.

Imagenetion: A vast collection of virtual art galleries.

Endicott-studio: Literary, visual and performing arts of myths.

Faery oracle: My favorite of all the oracle cards. They are so direct!

Sacred Heritage: Spiritual travel, Indigenous cultural heritage, shamanism, traditional healing and sacred sites.

Star of the magi: Mystic science of the cards before the tarot.

Bruce Orion: Hypnotherapy and astrology extraordianaire.

Terry Johnson: Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology and energy readings.

Ron Elgas: Psychic - clearly sees past & future patterns and the potential within.

Tantra Heaven: With my dear friend Mare Simone.

My Best Birth: Community about pregnancy, natural birth and holistic parenting.

 

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