Margit’s Shelf

• The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing —Ann Weiser Cornell

• Becoming Divinely Human: A Threefold Path to Embodied Awakening — CC Leigh

• iConscious: Accelerating Human Potential — Ted Strauss & Carole Griggs

• Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse — Jem Bendell

• LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven — Christopher Bache

• Choosing Earth: Humanity’s Journey of Initiation Through Breakdown and Collapse to Mature Planetary Community — Duane Elgin

• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy — Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

• Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone — Leticia Nieto et. al.

• The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism — Andrew Harvey

• A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries — Terry Patten

• Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life — Sharon Blackie

• CREATE!: Accessing Depth Creativity, Divine Guidance, and Universal Wisdom at Will — Joanne Lee

• Calamity’s Compass: Poems For Finding Your Way — Kirstin Eventyr

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

• Becoming Divinely Human: A Threefold Path to Embodied Awakening — CC Leigh

• Embodied everyday Awakening: A guide to spiritual transformation in the midst of daily life — Geri Portnoy

• iConscious: Accelerating Human Potential — Ted Strauss & Carole Griggs

• The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening — Judith Blackstone

• The Embodiment Workbook for Women: Feel Centered, Grounded, and More Fully Alive — Judith Blackstone

• The Experience of No-Self — Bernadette Roberts

• When Spirit Leaps: Navigating the Process of Spiritual Awakening — Bonnie L. Greenwell

SPIRITUAL, General, Self-Help

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times — Pema Chödrön

• Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You — Deepak Chopra

• Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature and Create the Life You Want - Martha Beck

SACRED/ Divine FEMININE

• The Once and Future Goddess: A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Reemergence in the Cultural Mythology of Our Time, by Elinor Gadon 

• The Feminine Dimension of the Divine: A Study of Sophia and Feminine Images in Religion — Joan Englesman

• The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, by Sherry Ruth Anderson

• Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine — Jean Shinoda Bolen

• (Andrew Harvey’s book)

• Temple of Love: A Journey Into the Age of Sensual Fulfillment — Sabine Lichtenfels

• Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine — Sue Monk Kidd

MIDLIFE & AGING — Mythology

• The Queen's Cloak: A Myth for Mid-Life, by Joan Chamberlain Englesman,  https://chironpublications.com/shop/the-queens-cloak/[

• Doing Sixty and Seventy — Gloria Steinem (essay)

• Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom — Lois P. Frankel  (stories of women aged 70 - 100)

• Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes - SERIES: The Dangerous Old Woman: Myths & Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype

  • 1. The Dangerous Old Woman

  • 2. The Power of the Crone

  • 3. The Joyous Body

  • 4. The Late Bloomer

  • 5. How to Be an Elder

• Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives — Jean Shinoda-Bolen

• Goddesses in Older Woman: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty— Jean Shinoda-Bolen

• Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine — Jean Shinoda Bolen

• The Crone — Barbara Walker

• Once Upon a Midlife, by Allan B. Chinen 

• Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity — Marion Woodman

• Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul — Marion Woodman 

• Conscious Women, Conscious Lives (compilation w/ other authors) — Marion Woodman 

• Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness — Marion Woodman  

• WITCH: Unleashed, Untamed, Unapologetic — Lisa Lister

• Ripening: Why Women Need Fairy Tales Now — Sharon Blackie

• Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life — Sharon Blackie

• Wise Women: Myths and Stories For Midlife and Beyond — Sharon Blackie

• Diana Herself: An Allegory of Awakening — Martha Beck

• Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home — Toko-pa Turner

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MIDLIFE & AGING — Practical

• The Gifts of Aging: It’s Not All Downhill From Here — Ann Weiser Cornell

• The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul — Connie Zweig

• Women And The Liberating Journey Of Aging — Marilyn Loy Every 

• Alive Until You’re Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch — Susan Moon. (Here is one of my favorite books on aging)  https://www.shambhala.com/alive-until-you-re-dead-9633.html

• The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older, by Kathleen Dowling Singh  https://wisdomexperience.org/product/grace-aging/https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/27357/the-grace-in-aging

• If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging — Sharon Blackie

• Gift From the Sea — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World — Mary Pipher

• The Barn at the End of The World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd — Mary Rose O’Reilley

• A Country Year: Living the Questions — Sue Hubbell

• Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment — Katrina Kenison

• Creatrix Rising: Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women — by Stephanie Raffelock

• The Women’s Wheel of Life — Elizabeth David & Carol Leonard

DYING

• The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life - Katy Butler   http://www.katybutler.com/author/the-art-of-dying-well/

• The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation - Kathleen Dowling Singh

• Die Wise — Stephen Jenkinson

BIOLOGY

• Bitch: On the Female of the Species — Lucy Cooke ( reclaims the study of animal behavior from the patriarchal lens )

• Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution — Cat Bohannon  

FEMINIST THEORY, HISTORY, empowerment

• When the Drummers Were Women, by Lane Redmond

• The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future — Riane Eisler

• The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life — Riane Eisler

• The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe — Marija Gimbutus

• Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism — Mary Daly

• Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation — Mary Daly

• Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700 - 1100 — Max Dashu

• Women’s Power in Greek Patriarchy: Priestesses, Amazons, and Witches — Max Dashu

• Max Dashu online:  Suppressed Histories Archives - https://www.suppressedhistories.net 

• Max Dashu YouTube:  Creatrix Litany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2_xbY6vbI

• The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World — Adrienne Mayor

• The Eros of Everyday life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society — Susan Griffin

• The Female Eunuch — Germaine Greer

• Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead - Tara Mohr

• And They Knew Each Other: The End of Sexual Violence — Sabine Lichtenfels & Dieter Duhm

• Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space — Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin

• The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love — Sonya Renee Taylor

• Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment — Valerie Rein

• Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind — Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule

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SACRED ACTIVISM/ AWAKENED ACTIVISM

• The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism — Andrew Harvey

• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power (rev. ed.) — Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

• Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects — Joanna Macy and Molly Brown

• Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth — edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

• The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism — Andrew Harvey

• Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation — David Nicol

• A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries — Terry Patten

• Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World — Cynthia Jurs  https://www.bkwrks.com/event/cynthia-jurs-summoned-earth-0

• The Stone Circle: 96 Archetypes for Peace — Sabine Lichtenfels

• The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Revolutionaries, and Revolutionaries — Bill Plotkin

• Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche — Bill Plotkin

• Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World — Bill Plotkin

• Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm — Kazu Haga

NATURE/ ECOLOGY/ COLLAPSE

• The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? — Duane Elgin

• Choosing Earth: Humanity’s Journey of Initiation Through Breakdown and Collapse to Mature Planetary Community — Duane Elgin

• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible — Charles Eisenstein

• Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition (rev. ed.) — Charles Eisenstein

• The Coronation: Essays from the Covid Moment — Charles Eisenstein

• Climate: A New Story — Charles Eisenstein

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — Elizabeth Kolbert

• Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her — Susan Griffin

• The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics — Riane Eisler

• The Eros of Everyday life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society — Susan Griffin

• Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse — Jem Bendell

• LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven — Christopher Bache

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer

• We Survived the End of the World: Lessons From Native America on Apocalypse and Hope — Steven Charleston

• In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty — Francis Weller

• In the Spirit of Right and Respectful Relations: Conversations about Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being in Nature — As told to Kurt Russo

SOCIAL JUSTICE

• Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone — Leticia Nieto et. al.

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies — Resmaa Menakem

• The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning — Resmaa Menakem

• White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism — Robin DiAngelo

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — Isabel Wilkerson

• Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse — Kazu Haga

• Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out — Ruth King

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century — edited by Alice Wong

PRACTICES

• The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing — Ann Weiser Cornell

• The Radical Acceptance of Everything: Living a Focusing Life — Ann Weiser Cornell

• Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck — Ann Weiser Cornell

• Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity — David I. Rome

• The Way of Curiosity: Discovering Wisdom Through Listening to the Body — Peter Gill

• Embracing Shame: How to Stop Resisting Shame and Turn It into a Powerful Ally — Bret Lyon & Sheila Rubin

• CREATE!: Accessing Depth Creativity, Divine Guidance, and Universal Wisdom at Will — Joanne Lee

• At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability — Ira Proof

• The One Thing Holding You Back, by Raphael Cushnir  - for thoroughly processing emotion and working through blocks.

• Sources of Love and Peace: Morning Prayers — Sabine Lichtenfels

• I Know I'm in There Somewhere: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner Voice and Living a Life of Authenticity — Helene G Brenner

• Self-Therapy for Your Inner Critic: Transforming Self-Criticism to Self-Confidence — Jay Earley & Bonnie Weiss

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and at the sacred Work of Grief — Francis Weller

• The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power — Katherine Morgan Schafler

CREATIVITY

• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear — Elizabeth Gilbert

• Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art — Eric Maisel

• Coaching the Artist Within — Eric Maisel

• The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives: 50+ Inspiring Exercises From Creativity Coaches Worldwide — edited by Eric Maisel

• Unleashing the Artist Within: Breaking Through Bocks and Restoring Creative Purpose — Eric Maisel

• Deep Writing — Eric Maisel

• Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life — Carol Lloyd

PURPOSE

• Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live — Martha Beck

• Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Live You Want — Martha Beck

• The Way of Integritiy: Finding the Path to Your True Self — Martha Beck

• Rise Sister Rise: A Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within — Rebecca Campbell

• Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life — Gregg Levoy

LEADERSHIP

• Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World — Margaret J. Wheatley 

• Who Do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity — Margaret J. Wheatley

• Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future — Margaret J. Wheatly

• Presencing: 7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society, and Business — C. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer

• The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications — C. Otto Scharmer

• Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness — Frederic Laloux

FICTION

• Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival — Velma Wallis

• These Precious Days — Ann Patchett

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman

• The Collected Regrets of Clover — Mikki Bramer.  

POETRY

• Calamity’s Compass: Poems For Finding Your Way — Kirstin Eventyr

• Wounded Bud: Poems for Meditation — Fred LaMotte

• Savor Eternity One Moment at a Time — Fred LaMotte

• The Nectar of This Breath — Fred LaMotte

• The Prophetess: The Return of the Prophet from the Voice of the Divine Feminine — Chelan Harkin

• Wild Grace — Chelan Harkin

• Taste the Sky: Love Made Visible Through Art & Poetry - Chelan Harkin and Rashani Rea

• She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets — edited by Janine Canan