My bookshelf

This is my living library—a mix of what I’ve finished, what I’m currently exploring, and the books that changed the way I think.

  • Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History
    Rosemary Radford Ruether

    Paleolithic Politics
    Barry Cooper

    Dancing Goddess
    Heidi Gottner-Abendroth

    Book of the Hopi
    Frank Waters

    The Treasures of Darkness
    Thorkild Jacobsen

    The Creation of Feminist Conciousness
    Gerda Lerner

    Isis: The Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome
    Lesley Jackson

    Daughters of Isis
    Joyce Tyldesley

    The Darkening Age
    Catherine Nixey

    Matriarchal Societies
    Heidi Gottner-Abendroth

    Visual Culture
    Alexis L. Boylan

    The Creation of Patriarchy
    Gerda Lerner

    Hypatia of Alexandria
    Maria Dzielska

    The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe
    Sharon Paice MacLeon

    The Mystery of Skara Brae
    Laird Scranton

    The Cultural Creatives
    Paul H. Ray, Ph.D. and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.

    The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice
    David Morgan

    Hopi Survival Kit
    Thomas E. Mails

    The Boy’s Club: The Many Worlds of Male Power
    Martine Delvaux

    The Hero and the Outlaw
    Margaret Mark and Carol S. Pearson

    Radical Candor
    Kim Scott

  • Mysticism
    Simon Critchley

    The Myth of Sisyphus
    Albert Camus

    Hyper Objects
    Timothy Morton

    The Art of Living
    Epictitus

    Wabi Sabi
    Nobuo Suzuki

    Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
    Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles

    In Search of Soul
    John Cottingham

    The Yamas and Niyamas
    Deborah Adele

    States of Consciousness
    Charles T. Tart

    The Hidden Life of Trees
    Peter Wohlleben

    Galileo’s Error
    Philip Goff

  • Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
    Betty De Shong Meador

    Sonnets from the Portuguese
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Envelop Poems
    Emily Dickinson

    Consolations
    David Whyte

  • The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary
    Jean-Yves Leloup

    The Lost Gospel Q: The Book of Christian Origins
    Burton L. Mack

    The Jesus Mysteries
    Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

    Jesus and the Lost Goddess
    Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

    The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene
    Claire Nahmad and Margaret Bailey

    The Tibetan Book of the Dead
    Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa

    The Magdalene Manuscript
    Tom Kenyon and Judy Sion

    Pistis Sophia
    G.R.S. Mead

    A Life of Jesus
    Shusaku Endo

    The Essence of Shinto
    Motohisa Yamakage

    When God Was a Woman
    Merlin Stone

    The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
    John M. Allegro

    Pagans
    James O’Donnell

    Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
    Chogyam Trungpa

    The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
    Marvin W. Meyer

    Mary Magdalene Revealed
    Meggan Watterson

    Destiny of Souls
    Michael Newton

    The Disappearance of the Universe
    Gary R. Renard

    The Great Cosmic Mother
    Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

    The Cross
    Robin M. Jensen

    The Interior Castle
    St. Teresa of Avila

  • Skill in Action
    Michelle Cassandra Johnson

    A Return to Love
    Marianne Williamson

    The Courage to Be Disliked
    Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

    See No Stranger
    Valerie Kaur

    Art of Loving
    Erich Fromm

    The Five Love Languages
    Gary Chapman

    Women Who Run With the Wolves
    Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

    Untie the Strong Woman
    Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.