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Love & Sexuality

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

Books:
"Enlightened Sex Manual" by David Deida
"Finding God Through Sex" by David Deida
"Love and Awakening" by John Welwood
"Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love" by Daniel Odier
"Grace and Grit" by Ken Wilber
"Succulent Wild Woman" by SARK
"Love Poems from God" ed. Daniel Ladinsky
"The Gift" by Hafiz
"Rumi: The Book of Love" by Coleman Barks

Birth

Childbirth Connection
Giving Birth Naturally
BirthWorks International
Ina May Gaskin
Birthing from Within
Birth Into Being
Citizens for Midwifery
Waterbirth International
The Bradley Method
Lamaze International
Hypnobirthing
Birth Psychology
Pre- and perinatal psychology
Sargunas Aqua Center (Russian)

Books:
"Ina May's Guide to Childbirth"
"Birthing from Within" by England & Horowitz
"Childbirth without Fear" by G. Dick-Read
"Birth Reborn" by Michel Odent
"Your Best Birth" by Ricki Lake
"Gentle Birth Choices" by Barbara Harper
"Birth Without Violence" by Frederick Leboyer (online version)
"Homebirth in the Hospital" by Stacey Kerr

Movies:
"The Business of Being Born" (Ricky Lake)
"Orgasmic Birth" (Debra Pascali-Bonaro)
"Birth As We Know It" (Elena Tonetti)
"Birth into Being" (Eng version of Russian film "Novy Svet" by Sargunas & Harper, trailer)
"Birth Without Violence" (Leboyer, trailer)
"Le Premier Cry" (French, trailer)
"Novy Svet - Voda i Rozhdenie" (Aleksei & Tatiana Sargunas, Russian)

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


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

Film (in order of release)

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

Spirituality

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

Books:
"Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
"The Power of Now" and "New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle
"The Teachings of Don Juan" and other books by Carlos Castaneda
"Meetings with Remarkable Men", "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" and "Life Is Real Only Then, When I Am" by G.I. Gurdjiev
"The Art of Happiness" by The Dalai Lama
"Peace Is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hanh
"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Suzuki Roshi
"Before I Am" by Mooji
"The End of Your World" by Adyashanti
"Only Don't Know" by Seung Sahn
"To Know Your Self" by Swami Satchidananda
"The Crystal and the Way of Light" by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
"The Cosmic Game" by Stanislav Grof
"The Thirst for Wholeness" by Christina Grof
"Be Here Now" by Ram Dass
"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
"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

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 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