Contemplative Support - Recommended Reading

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• Selected Writings in Psychology, Consciousness, and Spirituality
  
  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 .
  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.
  Olendzki, Andrew. Buddhist Psychology, Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings. Edited by Seth Robert Segall. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. 2003. pp. 9-30.
  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.
  Segall, Seth RobertEncountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings
  Segal, Zindel V., J. Mark G. Williams, and John D. Teasdale. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse.
  Segall, Seth RobertEncountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings
  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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  Light, Alan. The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
  
  
  
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