Sacred Resources

Resources we Love

Mostly books, some videos, a few items, this is a sacred collection of the resources we have conjured for our own learning and for the deepening of Earth Studies with our allies & students. Enjoy!

THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY

Women who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
SoulCraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, by Bill Plotkin
Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power Paperback – by Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer & Alexandra Pope
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman Paperback, by Danielle Dulsky
WITCH: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic. by Lisa Lister
All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing, by Diane Stein
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Invitation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The Gene Keys - Richard Rudd
Loyalty to Your Soul, Ron & Mary Hulnick
Justin Time, J. Jaye Gold
The Inside Out Revolution, Michael Neill
And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Grandmothers Counsel the World, Carol Schaefer

HERSTORY

(The human story from female perspectives)

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
The Creation of Patriarchy: by Gerda Lerner
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
La Catedral Del Mar (The Cathedral of the Sea), on Netflix. Watch just the first episode, first 1/2 hour to get a sense of the world for women and peasants, of Europe, 300ce/ad - 1800’s.

Ancient World

Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska
The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Africa

African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gwendolyn Mikell
In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens by Simone Schwarz-Bart, et al.

Aboriginal

Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of Ancestral Powersby K. Langloh Parker
Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Women in Barbados by Hilary McD. Beckles

Asia

Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam
The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman’s Inspiring Story of Survival by Ama Adhe
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Eternal First Lady by Laura Tyson Li

Eastern Europe

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Night Witches: The Amazing Story of Russia’s Women Pilots in WWII by Bruce Myles
Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II by Maria Savchyn Pyskir

Latin America

Dreaming With the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Jocelyn H. Olcott
Isabel Orleans-Bragança: The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves by James McMurtry Longo
The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina by Rita Arditti
Eva Peron: A Biography by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende
Women & Guerrilla Movements by Karen Kampwirth
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America by Dana Franks
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu

Middle East

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank by Suha Sabbagh
Golda by Elinor Burkett
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

South Asia

Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia by Azza Basarudin
The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend by Phoolan Devi
It’s Always Possible: One Woman’s Transformation of India’s Prison System by Kiran Bedi
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India by Sarah Lamb
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India by Ritu Menon
Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma by Zoya Phan
Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia by Eric Jones

South Pacific

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines by Vina A. Lanzona
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask

US/Canada

Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman
Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast Who Forever Changed America’s Views About Women, Academics, and Sports by Marie Krohn
In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers–Medicine Women of the Plains by Mark St. Pierre
Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women by Carolyn Niethammer
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height

Western Europe

Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina De Erauso
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
The Winter Queen: Elizabeth of Bohemia by Carola Oman
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach & Jud Newborn
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor

PLANT MEDICINE

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature, April 30, 2019 by Sajah Popham
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, by Jeremy Narby
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, by Terence McKenna
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World, by Greystone Books
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan
Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism, February 24, 2006 by Stephen Harrod Buhner
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature, by Stephen Harrod Buhner

SACRED ACTIVISM

Ten Ways to Fight Hate
Learn how to be a Guardian, Guardian Alliance
How to be an Ally

PHYSICAL HEALTH

My Favorite Juicer - Omega 3
Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, ADD, Dyslexia, ADHD, Depression, Schizophrenia, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Medical Medium, Anthony William
Life-Changing Foods, Anthony William

Breakups, Death & Dying

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
On Death & Dying by Kubler Ross
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journe, by Robert Monroe
"No Death, No Fear" by Thich Nhat Hanh
You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death by Louise L. Hay, David Kessler
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Andrew Harvey
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava, Karma-glin-pa, Gyurme Dorje
A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Near-Death Experience and Journey Into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander
We Don't Die: A Skeptic's Discovery of Life After Death by Sandra Champlain
The Afterlife of Billy Fingers by Annie Kagan
The Light between Us by Laura Lynn Jackson
The Survival of the Soul by Lisa Williams
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson
Life on the Other Side by Sylvia Browne
The Art of Death Midwifery and Holding Space by Amy Wright Glenn
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
Home with God by Neale Donald Walsch
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day by Ogden Goelet (Translator), Raymond Faulkner (Translator), Carol Andrews (Preface), J. Daniel Gunther (Introduction), James Wasserman (Foreword)
Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani
What If This Is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth by Anita Moorjani