This journey of life often seems like a road unlit. Feeling lost or confused, we eventually reach out for help and guidance from those who've walked the path before us. What follows is a list of those souls whose words and ideas helped me find my way or affirmed what I already felt to be true. I will continually add to this list with the hope you will find someone or something here that serves as a lamp to light your way.
Enjoy the quest!
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
Betty Edwards
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Drawing on the Artist Within
An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers
Betty Edwards
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Drawing the Light from Within
Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power
Judith Cornell, PhD
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Mandala
Luminous Symbols for Healing
Judith Cornell, PhD
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Art is the Highest Form of Hope
& Other Quotes by Artists
PHAIDON
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Circle of Stones
Woman's Journey to Herself
Judith Duerk
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Care of the Soul
A Guide for Cultivating Depth & Sacredness in Everyday Life
Thomas Moore
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Immortal Diamond
The Search for our True Self
Richard Rohr
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Inner Work
Using Dreams & Active Imagination for Personal Growth
Robert A. Johnson
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DMT-The Spirit Molecule
A Doctor's Revolutionary Research Into the Biology of
Near-Death and Mystical Experience
Rick Strassman, MD
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The Creative Life
True Tales of Inspiration - Finding Your True North
Julia Cameron
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Personal Mythology
The Psychology of Your Evolving Self
Using Ritual, Dreams, and Imagination
to Discover Your Inner Story
David Feinstein, PhD and Stanley Krippner, PhD
Foreword by June Singer, PhD
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The Shaman's Doorway
Opening Imagination to Power and Myth
Stephen Larson
Foreword by Joan Halifax
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Owning Your Own Shadow
Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
Robert A. Johnson
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The Visionary Human
Mystical Consciousness & Paranormal Perspectives
Nevill Drury
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Four Archetypes
C.G. Jung
Foreward by Sonu Shamdasani
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Alchemy
An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology
Marie-Louise von Franz
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The Book of Symbols
Reflections on Archetypal Images
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
TASCHEN
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Symbols of Transformation
Vol. 5 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Bollingen Series XX
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
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The Creative Fire
Myths and Stories on the Cycles of Creativity
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
3 CD set published by Sounds True
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​Red, Hot and Holy
A Heretic's Love Story ~ An Autobiography
Sera Beaks
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Life, Paint and Passion
Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
Michelle Cassou and Stewart Cubley
Foreward by Natalie Goldberg
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​​​The Soul of an Octopus
A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery
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Reviving Ophelia
Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Mary Pipher, PhD
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A Blue Fire
Selected Writings by James Hillman
author of The Soul's Code
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Eye to Eye
The Quest for the New Paradigm
and A Mandalic Map of Consciousness
Ken Wilber
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Deathbed Visions
How the Dead Talk to the Dying
Sir William Barrett
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When Things Fall Apart
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
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The Heart of the Mind
How to Experience God Without Belief
Jane Katra, PhD & Russell Targ
Foreward by Marianne Williamson
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Nonviolent Communication
A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD
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​​How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us
About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression
and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
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What Do We Know
Poems & Prose Poems
Mary Oliver
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The Red Book-Liber Novus
A Reader's Edition
C.G.Jung
edited and with an introduction by
Sonu Shamdasani
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