The Artist's Way (28 page)

Arrien, Angeles.
The
Four-Fold
Way.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. A big-hearted, lucid guide to creative spiritual practice.

Augros, Robert M., and Stanciu, George N.
The
Story
of
Sci
ence.
New York: Bantam Books, 1984.

Bachrach, Arthur.
Psychological
Research.
New York: Random House, 1962. A lively book on the creativity in science.

Beattie, Melody.
Beyond
Codependency.
San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989. Excellent for dealing with crazymakers.

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Codependent
No
More.
San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987. Excellent for breaking the virtue trap.

Becker, Ernst.
The
Denial
of
Death.
New York: Free Press, 1973. Great book about the roots of fear.

Bennett, Hal Zina, and Susan Sparrow.
Follow
Your
Bliss.
New York: Avon Books, 1990.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda.
The
Tao
of
Psychology.
San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979. An excellent jumping-off point for spiritual seekers.

Bolles, Richard Nelson.
What
Color
Is
Your
Parachute?
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1970. Whimsical and pragmatic guide to goal setting.

Bradley, Marion Zimmer.
The
Mists
of Avalon.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1985. A work of fiction which invites and encourages creative spirituality and spiritual creativity.

Bradshaw, John.
Healing
the
Shame
That
Binds
You.
Pompano Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1987. Superb book for explaining the role of shame in the addiction process.

Brande, Dorothea.
Becoming
a
Writer.
1934. Reprint. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1981. The best book on writing I've ever found.

Brown, Barbara.
Supermind:
The
Ultimate
Energy.
New York: Harper and Row, 1980.

Bryan, Mark, and Julia Cameron.
The
Money
Drunk.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. A hands-on toolkit for financial freedom. This book creates new language and a
new lens for money management. It grew out of
The
Art
ist's
Way
because money is the most often cited block.

Burnham, Sophy.
A
Book
of
Angels.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1991. An elegant, deeply felt exploration of the spiritual powers and forces at play in our lives.

Butterworth, Eric.
Spiritual
Economics:
The
Prosperity
Process.
Unity Village, MO: Unity School of Christianity, 1983. Explains abundance as a spiritual issue.

Came
to
Believe.
New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1973. Useful and touching book about embryonic faith.

Edwards, Betty.
Drawing
on
the
Right
Side
of
the
Brain.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1979. Seminal book on artist-brain creativity.

Fankhauser, Jerry.
The
Power
of
Affirmations.
Farmingdale, NY: Coleman Graphics, 1983.

Fassel, Diane.
Working
Ourselves
to
Death.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990.

Ferrucci, Piero.
Inevitable
Grace.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.

Fields, Rick; Taylor, Peggy; Weyler, Rex; and Rick Ingrasci.
Chop
Wood
Carry
Water.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1984. Inviting overview of synthesis of East/West spirituality.

Gawain, Shakti.
Creative
Visualization.
Mill Valley, CA: Whatever Publishing, 1986. Helpful in learning to create and hold a vision.

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Living
in
the
Light.
Mill Valley, CA: Whatever Publishing, 1986. Helpful in understanding recovery as process.

Goldberg, Natalie.
Writing
Down
the
Bones.
Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 1986. The best pen-to-paper writing book ever written.

Grof, Christina, and Stanislav Grof
The
Stormy
Search
for
the
Self
.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.

Grof, Stanislav, and Christina Grof, eds.
Spiritual
Emergency.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1989.

Harmon, Willis, and Howard Rheingold.
Higher
Creativity.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1984.

Hart, Mickey.
Drumming
at
the
Edge
of
Magic.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990. A great book on music as a spiritual experience.

James, William.
The
Varieties
of
Religious
Experience.
Boston: Mentor Books, 1902.

Jeffers, Susan.
Feel
the
Fear
and
Do
It
Anyway.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1987. An into-the-water book for getting past fear.

Keyes, Ken.
Handbook
for
Higher
Consciousness.
Coos Bay, OR: Living Love Publications, 1975.

Kornfield, Jack.
A
Path
With
Heart.
New York: Bantam, 1993. A compassionate, invaluable guide for anyone working to appreciate the worth of process as well as product.

Larsen, Earnie.
Stage
II
Recovery:
Life
beyond
Addiction.
New York: Harper and Row, 1985. How not to be or tolerate a crazymaker.

Leonard, Jim.
Your
Fondest
Dream.
Cincinnati: Vivation, 1989. An into-the-water book; many brainstorming techniques.

Lewis, C. S.
Miracles.
New York: Macmillan, 1947.

Miller, Alice.
The
Drama
of
the
Gifted
Child.
New York: Basic Books, 1981. Seminal book on how toxic family dynamics dampen creativity.

Nachmanovitch, Stephen.
Free
Play.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1991. A wonderful book on creative freedom.

Norwood, Robin.
Women
Who
Love
Too
Much.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1985. Seminal work on codependency.

Orsborn, Carol.
Enough
Is
Enough:
Exploding
the
Myth
of
Hav
ing
It
All.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. Excellent for helping dismantle the heroic workaholic personality.

Ostrander, Sheila, and Lynn Schroeder.
Superlearning.
New York: Delta Publishing, 1979.

Pagels, Elaine.
The
Gnostic
Gospels.
New York: Random House, 1979.

Peck, M. Scott.
The
Road
Less
Traveled.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. A book for early spiritual skeptics.

Rich, Adrienne, ed.
On
Lies,
Secrets,
and
Silence:
Selected
Prose.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1979. Title essay brilliantly explores the effect of secrets and shame on personal relationships.

Roethke, Theodore.
Collected
Poems.
New York: Doubleday, 1975. Poet as mystic.

Roman, Sanaya, and Duane Packer.
Creating
Money.
Tiburon, CA:H. J. Kramer, 1988.

Russ, Joanna.
How
to
Suppress
Women's
Writing.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Hilarious and brilliant book on why we get blocked.

Schaef, Anne Wilson.
Escape
from
Intimacy.
New York: Harper and Row.

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Meditations
for
Women
Who
Do
Too
Much.
New York: Harper and Row.

Sex
and
Love
Addicts
Anonymous.
Boston: The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Fellowship-Wide Services, 1986. One of the best books on addiction. The chapters on withdrawal and building partnerships should be required reading.

Shaughnessy, Susan.
Walking
on
Alligators.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. A companionable savvy guide for anyone working to appreciate the worth of process as well as product.

Sher, Barbara, with Annie Gottleib.
Wishcraft:
How
to
Get
What
You
Really
Want.
New York, Ballantine Books, 1979. A potent catalytic book for creative living, similar to my own work and my current thinking.

Starhawk.
The
Spiral
Dance.
New York: Harper and Row, 1979. Brilliant on creativity and god/goddess within.

Wegscheider-Cruse, Sharon.
Choicemaking:
For
Co-dependents,
Adult
Children
and
Spirituality
Seekers.
Pompano Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1985. Recommended for dismantling codependent workaholism.

Whitfield, Charles.
Healing
the
Child
Within.
Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1987.

Winn, Marie.
The
Plug-in
Drug:
Television,
Children,
and
the
Family.
New York: Viking-Penguin Books, 1977.

Woititz, Janet.
Home
Away
from
Home:
The
Art
of
Self-Sabotage.
Pompano Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1987. Important for arresting the mechanism of aborting success.

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Struggle
for
Intimacy.
Pompano Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1985.

• Abbott, James,
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• Abundance, spiritual, recovery of sense of,
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• Academia,
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  • creative spirit and,
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• Acceptance,
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• Addictions
  
  • to fame,
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  • process type of,
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  • to substances,
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• Affirmations,
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  • creative,
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  • defined,
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  • written,
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• Affirmative Reading,
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• Age, using as block to creativity,
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• Agents,
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• Al-Anon,
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• Alcohol, as block to creativity,
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• Altar, artist's,
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• Anger,
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  • listening to,
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  • over lost years,
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  • in midsection of course,
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  • as sign or health,
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  • as tool,
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• Anxiety,
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  • addiction to,
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  • using,
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• Appreciation, lack of,
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• Archeology (exercise),
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• Arias-Misson, Alain,
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• Armstrong, Louis,
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• Artist brain,
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  • mulling and,
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• Artist child within,
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  • and artistic losses,
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  • artist's altar and,
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  • faith in,
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  • listening to,
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  • nurturing,
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  • parenting,
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  • parents and,
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  • play and,
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  • possessiveness of,
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  • protecting,
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  • shame and,
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• Artist date,
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  • commitment to,
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  • contract with self for,
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  • defined,
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  • difficulty in keeping,
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  • extended,
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  • life as,
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  • resistance to,
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  • weekly,
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• Artist's block.
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• Artist's Prayer,
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• Artist's Way
  
  • basic principles,
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  • basic tools,
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• Attention,
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  • as act of connection,
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  • and capacity for delight,
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  • focused,
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  • healing through,
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  • to moment,
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• Attitude(s)
  
  • toward God,
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  • toward morning pages,
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  • positive,
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  • shifts in,
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  • of skepticism about creative recovery,
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• Audacity,
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• Auden, W. H.,
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• Austen, Jane,
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• Autonomy,
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  • recovering sense of,
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• Awful Truth, The (task),
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