books for understanding Honey
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bearsir a while back asking what books you would suggest someone read in order to understand you.
I've been thinking about that, and thought I would make a list.
This is in order of importance, as perceived by me.
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk crystallized a lot of my thinking about community, and is still a pretty good reflection of my experience of my spiritual path, although I'm not a pacifist.
The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis is a book I have been working with for a number of years, which has shaped my understanding of the way my past affects my present.
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk is the pagan book I come back to again and again.
Edna St Vincent Millay: Selected Poems is probably my all-time favorite book of poetry. (There are multiple books with this title - this is the one with ISBN 0-06-092288-5.)
Dreams of Light and Dark by Tanith Lee explains a lot of my obsession with fairy tale retellings, simply by being as wonderful as it is.
Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino helped me realize I like women, and also has some thoughts about being a witch in the modern world that I liked.
Illusions by Richard Bach shaped a lot of my thinking about the extent to which we shape our own lives.
Does anyone else have titles that have shaped them, or would help someone understand them, that they would like to share?
bearsir a while back asking what books you would suggest someone read in order to understand you.I've been thinking about that, and thought I would make a list.
This is in order of importance, as perceived by me.
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk crystallized a lot of my thinking about community, and is still a pretty good reflection of my experience of my spiritual path, although I'm not a pacifist.
The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis is a book I have been working with for a number of years, which has shaped my understanding of the way my past affects my present.
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk is the pagan book I come back to again and again.
Edna St Vincent Millay: Selected Poems is probably my all-time favorite book of poetry. (There are multiple books with this title - this is the one with ISBN 0-06-092288-5.)
Dreams of Light and Dark by Tanith Lee explains a lot of my obsession with fairy tale retellings, simply by being as wonderful as it is.
Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino helped me realize I like women, and also has some thoughts about being a witch in the modern world that I liked.
Illusions by Richard Bach shaped a lot of my thinking about the extent to which we shape our own lives.
Does anyone else have titles that have shaped them, or would help someone understand them, that they would like to share?
