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Western Culture and Meditation

Selected Writings in Psychology, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Recovery
Art and Creativity


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Psychology, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Selected Writings

• Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
• Almaas, A. H. Diamond Heart Series and Diamond Mind Series.
• Almaas, A. H. The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being, an Object Relations Approach (Diamond Mind).
• Aronson, Harvey B. Buddhist Practice on Western Ground : Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology.
• Bennett-Goleman, Tara. Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart.
• Brach, Tara. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha.
• DeCharms, Christopher. Two Views of Mind: Abhidharma & Brain Science.
• Epstein, Mark. Going to Pieces without Falling Apart.
• Epstein, Mark. Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught.
• Epstein, Mark. “The Psychodynamics of Meditation: Pitfalls on the Spiritual Path.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.
• Epstein, Mark. Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
• Gendlin, Eugene T. Focusing, rev. ed.
• Goleman, Daniel. Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
• Hooks, Bell. All About Love: New Visions.
• Katie, Byron. Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life.
• Nelson, John E.Healing the Split: Integrating Spirit into Our Understanding of the Mentally Ill (S U N Y Series in the Philosophy of Psychology).
• Ouspensky, P. D. The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution.
• Podvoll, Edward M. Recovering Sanity: A Compassionate Approach to Understanding and Treating Pyschosis.
• Santorelli, Saki. Heal Thyself: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine.
• Segal, Zindel V., J. Mark G. Williams, and John D. Teasdale. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse.
• Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.
• Walsh, Roger. Staying Alive.
• Walsh, Roger, and Frances Vaughan. “The Art of Transcendence: An Introduction to Common Elements of Transpersonal Practices.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.
• Watts, Alan. The Wisdom of Insecurity.
• Welwood, John, ed. Awakening the Heart.
• Welwood, John. Journey of the Heart: Path of Conscious Love, The.
• Wilber, Ken, Jack Engler, and Daniel P. Brown. Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives on Development.
• Zajonc, Arthur, ed. The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama.

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Recovery

• Ash, Mel. The Zen of Recovery.
• Dodes, Lance. The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors.
• May, Gerald G. Addiction & Grace.
• May, Gerald G. The Awakened Heart: Opening Yourself to the Love You Need.
• Nemeck, Francis Kelly, OMI, and Marie Theresa Coombs, Hermit. O Blessed Night!: Recovering from Addiction, Codependency, and Attachment Based on the Insights of St. John of the Cross and Pierre Teilhard De Char.

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Art and Creativity

• Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking.
• Bayles, David, and Ted Orland. Art & Fear.
• Cameron, Julie, with Mark Bryan. Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.
• Franck, Frederick. Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action.
• Fritz, Robert. Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life.
• Fritz, Robert. Your Life As Art.

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