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Recommended Reading & Watching

Books, voices and talks that have shaped our path — an invitation to explore further

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Transpersonal psychology is a wide landscape — part psychology, part philosophy, part contemplative practice. Below is a starting library of the books and thinkers we return to again and again, grouped by theme, together with a few talks worth your time. It is a living selection, refreshed as our own reading does.

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Recommended reading

A themed library for the transpersonal path.

Foundations of Transpersonal Psychology

Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision

Roger Walsh & Frances Vaughan (eds.)

A broad, accessible map of the whole field — a good first book.

The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

Abraham Maslow

Where humanistic psychology opens into the transpersonal.

Psychosynthesis

Roberto Assagioli

Holotropic States & Breathwork

The Holotropic Mind

Stanislav Grof

Psychology of the Future

Stanislav Grof

Grof’s overview of his life’s work and the cartography of the psyche.

Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy

Stanislav & Christina Grof

Depth & Archetypal Psychology

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

C. G. Jung

Re-Visioning Psychology

James Hillman

Myth & the Hero’s Journey

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

The classic account of the monomyth behind our own “Hero’s Journey” work.

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers

Consciousness & Integral Theory

The Spectrum of Consciousness

Ken Wilber

Integral Psychology

Ken Wilber

Shamanism & Non-Ordinary States

The Way of the Shaman

Michael Harner

LSD Psychotherapy

Stanislav Grof

Spiritual Emergency & Emergence

Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis

Stanislav & Christina Grof (eds.)

Essential on distinguishing awakening from crisis.

The Stormy Search for the Self

Christina & Stanislav Grof

Body, Process & Somatics

Dreambody: The Body’s Role in Revealing the Self

Arnold Mindell

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Peter A. Levine

Meditation & the Contemplative Path

A Path with Heart

Jack Kornfield

Be Here Now

Ram Dass

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Talks & documentaries

Voices from the field, in their own words.

Stanislav Grof — Holotropic States of Consciousness

Omega Institute

Grof on non-ordinary (holotropic) states and their healing, transformative potential.

Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers — The Power of Myth (Ep. 1: The Hero’s Adventure)

Documentary series · PBS, 1988

The Hero’s Journey and the mythic dimension of ordinary life — the source behind our own Hero’s Journey work.

Arnold Mindell — Process Psychology & the Dream Body

New Thinking Allowed (Jeffrey Mishlove)

The founder of Process Work on following the “dreaming” that moves through body, relationship and the world.

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This list grows with our community. If there is a book or talk that changed the way you see the psyche, we would love to hear about it — and you might also enjoy our blog.

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