Recommended Books, Movies & TV

Books:

• Taming Your Gremlin: Rick Carson- Accessible and powerful, fantastic book for challenging your inner voices that get you down, for transforming the default setting in us all. link 
• Eastern Body, Western Mind: Anodea Judith- The best starter book for energy self-healing. link
• The Wisdom of No Escape:Pema Chodron- Good intro explanation of  important Buddhist concepts. link
• Emotional Alchemy: Tara Bennett Goleman- Explains Buddhism related to self-healing of psychology. link
• The Alchemist: Paulo Cuelho- Beautiful fiction evokes energy of intuition. link
• Romancing the Shadow: Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf- Great exploration of the shadow in all of us. link
• The Four Agreements: Don Miguel Ruiz- Great self-healing book. link
• The Goddess Within: Jennifer & Roger Woolger- Illuminating female archetypes in women's lives. link
• Hands of Light: Barbara Brennan- A very challenging and informative textbook for energy healing.  link
• Meditation for Dummies: Stephen Bodian- A nice overview of the types of meditation. link

Movies: 

• Healing the Luminous Body: The Way of the Shaman- Dr. Villoldo explains the healing aspects of shamanism in a way that is accessible for us in a non-shamanic culture (available through Rogers Video Direct)
• Good Will Hunting- shows good therapy (and all healing) is about immediacy and emotional risk for both the client and the therapist instead of hiding behind pretence of transference; oscars, good soundtrack link
• City of Angels- very good description of how we know what we feel is real link
• Truly, Madly, Deeply- great depiction of ghosts; makes the afterlife friendly  link
• I Heart Huckabees- great explanation of the holistic paradigm and energy flow in the universe; funny link
• What the Bleep Do We Know?- covers tons of the material covered in class; thought provoking
• Powder, and Phenomenon- both interesting portrayals of human potential and the effects of accessing more energy within us and the challenges that evokes  powder phenomenon
• The Green Mile- even though fictionalized, shows what old shamanic spirit healing with the sucking method looks like more accurately than a documentary could; plus a real tearjerker. link
• The Matrix- the first one of the trilogy- don't even get me started! perfect test for one's intuition, sense of reality,  the  true inviolate core of all of us etc. See what all the fuss was about when this first came out  link
• Turning Your Mind into an Ally- a great lecture on meditation by one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters in a really down-to-earth way, book and movie  link
• Stranger than Fiction link and The Brothers Bloom link both emphasize the importance of becoming conscious storytellers of our own lives
• Surfer, Dude tells the story of a pro surfer who resists selling out by focusing on love and flow which is good advice in general link

Television:

• Medium- based on a real woman, great depiction of being psychic (intuitive), how to interpret, how to serve the divine, how to cope with the gift in real life, and that you're still a normal person if you have heightened intuition; learn while you watch.
• Rescue Mediums- the real ghostbusters; reality show follows two genuine-article mediums who clear buildings of ghosts in an accurate and compassionate way, on WTN

Websites and online movie clips:

• Great film short explanation of the Joseph Campbell idea of The Hero's Journey, inspiring. link

Comments

[Clark Lord]

Just wanted to recommend a book called the Joy of Living Dangerously by Osho.It focuses on the joys contained in the exploring the unknown and how the majority of fears are illogical and do not need to be bound by or dictated to by them.It covers other and I have found it to be quite profound though he is a controversial figure.

[Clark]

Just finishing the Osho post.That was the breifest possible synopsis.It covers lots of other territory and draws from many traditions and speaks of the concept of "Zorba the Buddha".Anyway,works for me.