Reading List For 19 Ways
Several of these books, read together, begin to transmit the mind we are trying to attain. They create the foundation for the work we are doing. Please begin with Columbus and Other Cannibals and Deena’s books, A Rain of Night Birds, Entering the Ghost River and The Story That Must Not Be Told. Then proceed as inclined paying particular attention to those books which are *. Many novels and some literary non-fiction books have been added to this list on behalf of the writers studying with Deena. But they also inform 19 Ways participants in the way that the * books inform the writers. The point is it is really important to be reading serious literature in a time of the most shallow social media.
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Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden
*Arkan Lushwala Deer and Thunder
Barry Lopez Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
Barry Lopez Horizon
Barry Lopez Resistance
Barry Lopez Winter Count
Calvin Luther Martin The Way of the Human Being
Colum McCann Apeirogon
Colum McCann Zoli
Doris Lessing Shikasta
Derrick Jensen A Language Older Than Words
Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert Bright Green Lies
F. David Peat and John Briggs Seven Lessons of Chaos
*F. David Peat Blackfoot Physics
Françoise Malty-Anthony An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage and Survival
Gay Bradshaw Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are
*Gay Bradshaw Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity
*Gregory Cajete Native Science
Hisham Matar The Return
**Jack Forbes Columbus & Other Cannibals
**James Bridle New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Katy Payne Silent Thunder
Kent Nerburn Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Kent Nerburn The Wolf at Twilight
Kent Nerburn The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo (Preferably read Nerburn in order above)
**Kim Stanley Robinson The Ministry For the Future
Lee Irwin The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko Almanac of the Dead
Lewis Mehl-Madrona Coyote Medicine: Lessons From Native American Healing
Lewis Mehl-Madrona Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, Brenda Peterson, Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
*Martin Prechtel Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
Merlin Sheldrake Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Morris West Clowns of God
Percival Everett James
Peter Nabokov Where Lightning Strikes
Richard Katz Indigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples
Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways
Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass
Rosita Arvigo Sastun
Rupa Marya & Raj Patel Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
*Rupert Ross Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths
Rupert Ross Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice
*Stan Rushworth Going to Water
Stan Rushworth Sam Woods: American Healing
Stan Rushworth and Dahr Jamail We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
Stephen Harrod Buhner Plant Intelligence & the Imaginable Realm: Into the Dreaming of Earth
Stephen Jenkinson Die Wise
**Stephen Karcher Total I Ching: Myths for Change
Suzanne Simard Finding The Mother Tree
Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive
Vine Deloria Jr. God Is Red
William Powers Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
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The AI Safety Newsletter https://newsletter.safe.ai
PODCAST: Larry Merculieff, Aleut Elder (Click this link or paste into browser:) https://soundcloud.com/michaelstoneconversations/larry-merculieff-wisdom-of-the-elders
Lewis Mehl-Madrona on healthcare – Kodiak, Alaska 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0cyw3cBok
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A Rain of Night Birds, a novel
Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing
From Grief into Vision: A Council
Feral, a novel
La Negra y Blanca, a novel
La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, a novel
Tree: Essays and Pieces
The Other Hand, a novel
The Story That Must Not Be Told, a novella
What Dinah Thought, a novel