Recommended Reading.....

The best resource you can rely upon when it comes to true learning is your own personal experience. Life is a gift to be explored, learned from and enjoyed. Immerse yourself in it, in all its ups and downs its challanges and beauty. Throw yourself into your life experience like there is no tomorrow, smell the wind, feel the air, taste the one hundred thousand things, but do so with non-attachment an attitude of immersion yet watching as all things pass by like autumn leaves in  the wind, transient, fragile yet intensely estatic. Books of course are useful and reading or listening to anothers experience along the path to awakening is important. But remember these are not your experiences, yours are unique to you, although anothers may and will inspire you.

Meditation/mindfulness practices are a great forum for self exploration and learning. Yoga with the assistance of a good teacher, one who understands and practices the relationship between mind and body,a true gift. There is nothing quite like being in the presence of one who embodies truth ! It has a certain aroma,a quality of energy, a resting place, that can be gently explored and learned from while sitting and absorbing thee qualities. 

We are sentient beings and I truly believe this quality of absorbtion is one of our more important methods of true learning.

But by all means read on and be inspired by the list of books below which I will keep adding to as I am an ardent reader, but attune kindly to your own experiences and do not undermine or deny them.

 

In light and blessings,

Mary Sky

 

Barbara Anne Brennan

• Hands of Light
• Light Emerging

 

Alberto Villoldo

• Shaman Healer Sage
• The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers 

 

Tenzin Wangyl Rinpoche (Tibetan Bon Tradition)

• Healing with Form, Energy and Light in Shamanism, Tantra and Dzogchen.
• Wonders of the Natural Mind
• The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

 

Sogyal Rinpoche (Ningma, Tibetan Buddist Tradition)

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

 

Mantak Chia

• Taoist Secrets of Love
• Cultivating Male Sexual Energy 

 

Mantak and Maneewan Chia

• Healing Love Through the Tao
• Cultivating Female Sexual Energy 

 

Miranda Shaw

• Passionate Enlightenment

 

Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson

• Dancing in the Flames
• The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness 

 

Tulku Thondup

• The Healing Power of Mind 

 

Dr. Yeshe Dhonden

• Healing from the Source
• The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine
• The Ambrosia Heart Tantra 

 

Morag Campbel

• A Promise Kept 

 

A.H. Almass

• Essence with the Elixer of Enlightenment 

 

Namkhai Norbu

• Dream Yoga and the Practice of the Natural Light 

 

Khempo Palden Sherab Rinpoche

• Ceaseless Echos of the Great Silence
• A Commentary on the Heart Sutra 

 

Thinley Norbu

• Magic Dance
• The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis 

 

The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddism

• Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart by Radmila Moacanin

 

Masters of the Living Energy

• The Mystical World of the Qero by Joan Parisi Wilcox

 

Embracing the Beloved

• Relationship as a Path to Awakening by Stephen and Ondrea Levine

 

Luminous Emptiness

• Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Francesca Fremantle