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Transpersonal Psychology

Definition of Transpersonal Psychology
Association for Transpersonal Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Stanislav Grof (Transpersonal)
Ken Wilber (Transpersonal)
Arnold Mindell (Process Oriented)
Carl Rogers (Person-Centered)

Books:
"Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy"
"Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy"
"The Quantum Mind and Healing: How to Listen and Respond to Your Body's Symptoms" by Arnold Mindell
"Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy" by Brant Cortright
Dreambody: The Body's Role In Revealing the Self by Arnold Mindell

Love & Sexuality

David Deida (Sacred Sexuality)
Marina Romero (Holistic Sexuality)
Margot Anand (Neo-Tantra)
Devotional poetry (Hafiz, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai)

Books:
"Love Poems from God" ed. Daniel Ladinsky
"The Gift" by Hafiz
"Rumi: The Book of Love" by Coleman Barks
"Enlightened Sex Manual" by David Deida

"Finding God Through Sex" by David Deida
"Grace and Grit" by Ken Wilber
"Love and Awakening" by John Welwood
"Succulent Wild Woman" by SARK

Birth

The Business of Being Born (site and film by Ricky Lake)
Birth Into Being and Birth As We Know It
(sites and movies by Elena Tonetti)
Orgasmic Birth
Pre- and perinatal psychology


Books:
"Birth Without Violence" by Frederick Leboyer (online version)
"Your Best Birth" by Ricki Lake
"Gentle Birth Choices" by Barbara Harper
"The Secret Life of the Unborn Child" by Thomas Verny
"Birthing from Within" by England & Horowitz

Expressive Arts Therapy

International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
National Expressive Therapy Association
International Association for Drama Therapy
American Dance Therapy Association
American Art Therapy Association
American Music Therapy Association
National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies
California Institute of Integral Studies
Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute
Tamalpa Institute
Lesley University Expressive Therapies Program
ISIS EXA program in Canada
Therapeutic Arts Institute - Guided Imagery & Music
Center for Touch Drawing
Authentic Movement Institute
Arts in Therapy Network
Arts and Healing Network
Art as a Healing Force Web
Italian Expressive Arts Therapy
Russian Arts Therapy website
European Graduate School

Books:
"Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy" by Paolo J. Knill
"Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspective" edited by S. &E. Levine
"Principles And Practice Of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward A Therapeutic Aesthetics" by P. Knill, E & S. Levine
"Art as Medicine" by Shaun Mcniff
"Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul" by Shaun Mcniff
"Creative Connection" by Natalie Rogers
"The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning" by Daria Halprin
"Transfigurations" by Alex Grey
"Messenger of Beauty: The Life and Visionary Art of Nicholas Roerich" by Jacqueline Decter
"Frida Kahlo: The Paintings" by Hayden Herrera
"A Collaboration with Nature" by Andy Goldsworthy
"Sweat Your Prayers" by Gabrielle Roth
"The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov"
"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

Spirituality

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (Zen Buddhism)
Zen Master Seung Sahn (Zen Buddhism)
Ramana Maharshi (Advaita Vedanta)
Osho(Zen Buddhism)
Thich Nhat Hanh (Zen Buddhism)
Daniel Odier (Tantric Shivaism)
Adyashanti (Non-dual)
Mooji (Non-dual)
Gangaji (Non-dual)
Sri Swami Satchidananda (Integral Yoga)
Sri Aurobindo & The Mother (Integral Yoga)
The Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhism)
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu (Tibetan Buddhism) Pema Chodron (Tibetan Buddhism)
Life of the Buddha (Buddhism)
The Work of Byron Katie
Eckhart Tolle

Books:"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Suzuki Roshi
"Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love" by Daniel Odier
"Before I Am" by Mooji
"The End of Your World" by Adyashanti
"Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
"The Power of Now" and "New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle
"Be Here Now" by Ram Dass
"Only Don't Know" by Seung Sahn
"The Crystal and the Way of Light" by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
"To Know Your Self" by Swami Satchidananda
"Peace Is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hanh
"The Art of Happiness" by The Dalai Lama
"Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita" by Dennis Waite
"The Cosmic Game" by Stanislav Grof
"The Thirst for Wholeness" by Christina Grof
"It's Here Now (Are You?)" by Bhagavan Das
"Collision With the Infinite" by Suzanne Segal
"Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
"The Yellow Arrow" by Victor Pelevin

Death & Dying

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation
Raymond Moody
Near Death Experience Research Foundation
The International Association for Near-Death Studies
Near-Death Experiences and Afterlife

Books:
"On Death and Dying", "On Life after Death" and "Is There Life after Death?" by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD
"Life After Life", "Reflections On Life After Life" & "The Light Beyond" by Raymond Moody
"Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-death Experience" by Kenneth Ring
"The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences" by Janice Miner Holden
"Closer to the Light" by Melvin Morse, Paul Perry
"Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences" by Jeffrey Long MD, Paul Perry
"Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist" by Janis Amatuzio
"Light and Death" by Michael B. Sabom
"Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian Weiss
"The Tibetan Book of the Dead" by Padma Sambhava, Robert Thurman, Karma Lingpa
"Luminous Emptiness: A Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead" by Francesca Fremantle
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

Films:

"What Dreams May Come" by Vincent Ward
"I Love Huckabees" by David O. Russell
"The Fountain" by Darren Aronofsky
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" by Michael Gondry
"Holy Smoke" by Jane Campion
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.. and Sprin" and "3 Iron" by Kim Ki-duk
"Awakenings" by Penny Marshall
"Dead Man Walking" by Tim Robbins
"Himalaya" by Eric Valli
"8 ½" by Federico Fellini
"Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides"
"Ram Dass: Fierce Grace"
"Ashes and Snow" by Gregory Colbert
"Stalker" and "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky
"What The Bleep Do we Know?"
"Princess Mononoke" by Hayao Miyazaki