SELECTED READINGS

Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.

Allison, John. A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination and Poetry. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2003.

Bahnson, Fred. “The Ecology of Prayer.” Orion Magazine (December 12, 2017).

Barnes, Henry. “Participatory Science as a Basis for a Healing Culture.” In Rudolf Steiner, Nature’s Open Secret. Great Barrington, MA: Anthroposophic Press, 2000, 219-301.

Berry, Thomas. The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988.

__________. The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future. New York: Bell Tower, 1999.

__________. Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006.

__________. The Sacred Universe. Earth, Spirit, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

__________. “Our Children: Their Future.” Chrysalis (Volume 16, Spring 2019), 4-9.

Berry, Wendell.  Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition.  Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2000.

Bisdee, Sandy. “Toward a Communion of Subjects: A Summer Journal.” Chrysalis (Volume 10, Fall 2013), 13-25.

Bockemühl, Jochen. Awakening to Landscape. Dornach, Switzerland: Allgemeine Anthroposophische Gesellschaft, 1992.

Bortoft, Henri. The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way Toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature. Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Books, 1996.

Bourgeault, Cynthia. The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Buber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1958.

Christie, Douglas E. The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cobb, Edith. The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Cornell, Joseph. Listening to Nature. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 1987.

Finley, James. The Contemplative Heart. Notre Dame: Sorin Books, 2000.

Hart, Tobin. The Secret Spiritual World of Children. Makawao, Maui, HI: Inner Ocean, 2003.

________. The Four Virtues: Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation. New York: Atria Books, 2014.

________. The Integrative Mind: Transformative Education for a World on Fire. New York: Atria Books, 2014.

Helminski, Kabir Edmund. Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self. New York: Penquin Putnam Inc., 1992.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall.  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, And the Teachings of Plants.  Milkweed Editions: Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

Lewis, Richard. Living by Wonder: The Imaginative Life of Childhood. New York: Parabola, 1998.

__________. “Our First Conversation.” Chrysalis (Volume 1, Spring 2004), 4-5.

Lusseyran, Jacques. Against the Pollution of the I. New York: Parabola Books, 1999.

McDuffie, Eric. “Foundations in Contemplative Ecology, Part 1 and Part 2.” Chrysalis (Volume 14, Spring 2017), 4-27.

Merton, Thomas. When the Trees Say Nothing, ed. Kathleen Diegnan. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2003.

__________. When the Trees Say Nothing, edited by Kathleen Diegnan.  Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2003.

__________. New Seeds of Contemplation. Introduction by Sue Monk Kidd.  New York,New Directions Books, 2007, copyright 1961 by the Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc.

__________.  Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours, edited by Kathleen Diegnan.  Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2007.

Mueller, Martin. Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Press, 2017.

Palmer, Parker. To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey. San Francisco: Harper, 1993.

Rothstein, Joanne. “In Grandmother’s Presence.” Chrysalis (Volume 9, Fall 2012), 22-26.

Rohr, Richard. Everything Belongs. New York: Crossroad, 2003.

Sardello, Robert. Facing the World with Soul: The Reimagination of Modern Life. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne, 2004.

___________. Silence. Benson, NC: Goldenstone Press, 2006.

___________. Heartfulness. Gainesville, TX: Goldenstone Press, 2015.

Shackelton, John. “Languages Closer Than Words.” Chrysalis (Volume 9, Fall 2012), 4-13.

Swimme, Brian Thomas.  Hidden Heart of the Universe: Humanity and the New Story.  Revised edition.  Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis Books, 2019.

Toben, Carolyn. Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry. Whitsett, NC: Timberlake Earth Sanctuary Press, 2012.

Vaughan-Lee, Llewellyn, ed. Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. Point Reyes, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 2013.

Weber, Andreas. The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2016.

___________. Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Press, 2017.

Whalen-Levitt, Peggy, ed. Only the Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century. Greensboro, NC: The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, 2011.

___________. “When Knowing and Being are One.” Chrysalis (Volume 10, Fall 2013), 4-12.

___________. “If We See the Aurora, the Children, Hopefully, Will See the Dawn.” Chrysalis (Volume 12, Fall 2015), 4-9.

___________. “Thomas Berry’s ‘Communion of Subjects’: Awakening the ‘Heart of the Universe.’” Chrysalis (Volume 15, Spring 2018), 4-15.

Zajonc, Arthur. Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2009.

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