Recommendations
Our mind likes to have some understanding before we can let go and emotional feel safe enough to surrender to our inner world and expanded consciousness. Preparing your mind by reading about the topic of self-awareness, consciousness and altered states of mind can help you to let go and surrender more easily to the experiences, so you can get the maximum out of your inner journeys.
A list with reading, watching tips is provided in this list of recommendations.
BOOKS
Psychedelics
• Michael Pollan– How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
• The Psychedelics Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
• The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition,
Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values
• Maria Papaspyrou, Chiara Baldini & David Luke – Psychedelic mysteries of the feminine
Trauma, neurodivergent & emotional development
• Gabor mate – The Myth of normal / scattered minds / in the realm of hungry ghosts / close encounters with addiction
• Paul Conti – Trauma
• Bessel Van Der Kolk – The body keeps the score
• Alexander Lowen – Bioenergetics/ Narcissism: Denial of the True Self
• Peter Levine – waking the tiger : healing trauma / In an unspoken voice
• Alice Miller – The drama of the gifted child: the search for the true self
• Brené Brown – The gifts of imperfection – Braving the wilderness
• Fleur van Groningen – Voelen zonder filter
• Connie Zweig – Meeting the shadow
• Vera Helleman – Encyclopedia of emotions
Freedom & mindfulness
• Eckhart Tolle – Power of now / stillness speaks
• Sam Harris – waking up
• Osho – love, freedom, aloness
• Ram Dass – be here now
• Steven Hayes – a liberated mind
• Russ Harris – the happiness trap
• James Nestor – Breath
• Hawkins David – Letting go
Liberated Relationships, attachment & intergenerational patterns
• Franz Ruppert – symbiosis and autonomy
• David Richo – How to be and adult in relationships
• Hannah Cuppen – Love phobia: how to overcome your fear of commitment and abandonment
• Margot Anand – tantra
• Northrup Christiane – Dodging energy vampires
• Mark Manson – The subtle art of not giving a fuck
• Els Van Steijn – The fountain, make wise choices
Existential wellbeing
• Victor frankl – man’s search for meaning / yes to life
• Yalom – becoming myself / existential psychotherapy / staring at the sun: overcoming the terror of death / a matter of death and life
• Fromm Erich – escape from freedom / the art of loving / the anatomy of human destructiveness / the sane society
• Hari Johann – lost connections
• Leijsen Mia – leven vanuit liefde
Women empowerment
• Clarissa Pinkola Estés – women who run with the wolves
• Susan Smit – De wijsheid van de heks
• Masie hill – period power
• Jean Shiboda – The goddesses in every women
PODCASTS
• Roland Griffiths, Ph.D. on Psilocybin, Psychedelic Therapies & Mystical Experiences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkBq33KWFmY
• Gabor Maté - Manifesting the Mind - Inside the Psychedelic Experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdO-Nyk4-jU
• Paul Conti on Trauma (with Andrew Huberman) [https://youtu.be/IOl28gj_RXw]
• Gabor Mate on Trauma (with Tim Ferris): [https://youtu.be/H9B5mYfBPlY]
• Brene Brown: Self-Acceptance vs Striving [https://youtu.be/Wh5SUF0gPWQ]
MOVIES/ DOCU’s
• The peaceful warrior
• The way of the psychonaut: Stanislav grof’s journey of consciousness
• How to change your mind - Michael Pollan
• Fantastic Funghi
• Descending the Mountain
• The Work (2017): body emotion and trauma focused group therapy
