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Inspirational Sources

Note - titles prefaced by ** are novels.

Miscellaneous

  • **Full Cycle: The Human Love Story - Ripley Webb
  • **Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach
  • **Meetings With Remarkable Men - G.I. Gurdjieff
  • **Mystic Paths - Susan Howatch
  • **The Carlos Castaneda Series (The Teachings of Don Juan Mateus) - Carlos Castaneda
  • **The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
  • **The Education of Oversoul Seven - Jane Roberts
  • **The Peaceful Warrior / **Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior / **No Ordinary Moments / **The Life You Were Born to Live - Dan Millman
  • A Passion for Excellence - Tom Peters
  • All Men Are Brothers - Mahatma Ghandi
  • Autobiography of a Yogi / Where There is Light: Inspirations and Insights for Meeting Life's Challenges - Yogananda
  • Bringers of the Dawn - Barbara Marciniak
  • Creative Visualization - Shakti Gawain
  • The Other Side and Back - Sylvia Browne
  • Don't Push The River - Barry Stevens
  • Evidence of Life After Death - Martin Ebon
  • Gods In Everyman Finding Your Answers Within - Dick Sutphen
  • Homecoming / Healing the Shame That Binds You / The Family / Creating Love - John Bradshaw
  • Human Aggression - Anthony Storr
  • Isis Unveiled - Helena Blavatsky
  • Kingdom of the Gods / The Human Aura - C.W. Leadbeater
  • Life Between Life - Joe Fisher and Joel Whitton
  • Life Quest - A Journey Into Self - Ojela Frank
  • Living in the Light/Creative Visualization -Shakti Gawain
  • Many Mansions; The World Within - Gina Cerminara
  • Memories, Dreams and Reflections / Modern Man in Search of a Soul / Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
  • Mysticism -Evelyn Underhill
  • On Becoming a Leader - Martin Bennis
  • Revolution from Within - Gloria Steinem
  • Seat of the Soul - Gary Zukav
  • Talking to Heaven - James van Praagh
  • The Act of Will - Roberto Assagioli
  • The Aquarian Conspiracy - Marilyn Ferguson
  • The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
  • The Birth Order Book -- Lippincott
  • The Dream Game (Remember, Understand and Profit From Your Dreams) - Ann Faraday, Ph.D.
  • The Eagle and the Rose / Proud Spirit - Rosemary Altea
  • The Farther Reaches of Human Nature / Toward a Psychology of Being - Abraham Maslow
  • The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
  • The Nature of Love - Kahlil Gibran
  • The Nature of Personal Reality - Jane Roberts
  • The Secret Life of Plants - Peter Tomkins
  • The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly Palmer Hall
  • The Sufi Message - Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • The Theory of Conscious Harmony - Rodney Collin
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rimpoche
  • The Way of Transformation - Karlfried Durcheim
  • The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Nolini Kanta Gupta
  • Transformers: Artists of Self-Creation / Awakening in Time - Jacquelin Small
  • Wisdom of the Ancients - Annie Besant

Especially for Women

  • **The Woman of Wyrrd / **Medicine Woman - Lynne Andrews
  • **Being-In-Dreaming - Florinda Donner
  • **The Sorcerers' Apprentice - Taisha Abelar
  • All Women Are Healers - Diane Stein
  • Family Secrets - Barry Stevens
  • Goddesses In Everywoman;- Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • Jealousy / My Mother, My Self / Motherless Daughters - Nancy Friday
  • A Woman in Your Own Right - Ann Dixon
  • Marriage: Unconscious Reasons for Committing or Staying Single - Samuel Osherson
  • The Goddess Within: A Guide to Internal Myths that Shape Womens' Lives - Jennifer and Roger Woolger
  • The Way of All Women - M. Esther Harding
  • Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women - Maggie Scarf
  • Weavers of Wisdom: Woman Mystics of the 20th Century - Ann Bancroft
  • Widow - Lynne Caine
  • Women Who Run with Wolves - Clarissa Estes

Relationships, Intimate and Other

  • Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love & Marriage - Maggie Scarf
  • Love, Guilt & Relationships / Envy & Gratitude - Melanie Klein
  • Finding Each Other - Mary & Don Kelly
  • A Conscious Person's Guide to Relationships - Ken Keyes
  • Some Thoughts on the Individuation of Women - Toni Wolff
  • Styles of Loving - Lasswell & Lobsenz
  • The New Male-Female Relationship - Herb Goldberg
  • The Road Less Travelled / Further Along the Road Less Travelled / People of the Lie - Scott Peck
  • The Sky's the Limit / Real Magic / Your Sacred Self / You'll See It When You Believe It /Your Erroneous Zones / Pulling Your Own Strings -Wayne Dyer
  • The Understanding of Romantic Love; He/She -Robert Johnson

On Illness, Death, Grief

  • Anatomy of an Illness - Norman Cousins
  • A Grief Observed - C. S. Lewis
  • Death and the Family - Lily Pinkus
  • Necessary Losses - Judith Viorst
  • No One is to Blame: (Getting a Loving Divorce from Mom and Dad) - Claudia Black
  • On Death and Dying - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Perfect Health: The Complete Mind-Body Guide / Ageless Body, Timeless Mind - Deepak Chopra M.D.
  • Someone You Love is Dying - Martin Shepherd MD
  • Up From Grief: Patterns of Recovery - Bernardine Kreis and Alice Pattie

Regrouping, Self-Healing

  • Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison - Doris Donnelly
  • Embracing Ourselves - Winkelman and Stone
  • Forgiveness: How to Make Peace With Your Past & Get on with Your Life -Dr. Sidney Simon/Susan Simon
  • Getting Unstuck - R. and J. Handy
  • Getting Well Again - Simonton and Craighton
  • Learning to Forgive - Harold Kushner
  • Living Through a Personal Crisis - Anne Kaiser Stearns
  • Love, Medicine and Miracles -Bernie Siegel M.D.
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • Other Lives; The Pathwork of Self-Transformation - Eva ierakos
  • Passages; Overcoming Adult Crises - Gail Sheehy
  • Person to Person - Carl Rogers & B. Stevens
  • Addiction to Perfection - Marion Woodman
  • Reinventing Your Life: Getting Free of Negative Life Patterns - Jeffrey E. Young
  • The Meaning of Anxiety - Rollo May
  • The Positive Force: Overcoming Your Resistance to Success - Gary Emery
  • What We May Be - Piero Ferrucci

Alice A. Bailey

  • Initiation, Human and Solar
  • Esoteric Astrology
  • Esoteric Psychology
  • Esoteric Healing
  • Rays and Initiations
  • The Consciousness of the Atom
  • The Soul & its Mechanism
  • A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
  • The Light of the Soul
  • From Intellect to Intuition
  • A Treatise on White Magic
  • From Bethlehem to Calvary
  • Discipleship in the New Age
  • Problems of Humanity
  • The Reappearance of the Christ
  • The Destiny of Nations
  • Glamour: A World Problem
  • Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle
  • The Unfinished Autobiography
  • Education in the New Age
  • Externalization of the Hierarchy