Welcome to the Resources page! The following resources either directly or indirectly inform the work we do within Spiral Pathways.
SPIRAL & INTEGRAL SPIRITUALITY
Beck, Don Edward, and Christopher Cowan. Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
Stewart, John. Evolution's Arrow: the Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity. New York: The Chapman Press, 2000.
Wilber, Ken. Integral Spirituality: a Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World. Reprinted. New York: Shambhala, 2007.
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
Bohm, David.
Teilhard, Pierre de Chardin.
Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. New York, NY: Plume, 2009.
Elgin, Duane. The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009.
Fölsing, Albrecht. Albert Einstein: A Biography. Translated by Ewald Osers. New York, N.Y.: Penguin, 1998.
McTaggart, Lynne. The Field: the Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe. Updateded. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
BIBLE AND CHRISTIANITY
Borg, Marcus J.
Cahill, Thomas. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History). Trenton: Anchor Books/Nan A Talese, 1999.
Ehrman, Bart D.
Friedman, Richard Elliott.
Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Grand Rapids Michigan: American Bible Society, 1997.
Laughlin, Paul Alan.
Mack, Burton L.
Smith, Paul. Integral Christianity: the Spirit's Call to Evolve. New York: Paragon House, 2012.
Spong, John Shelby
Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28). 2nd ed. Louisville, KY: Free Press, 1979.
Wink, Walter
SPIRITUAL LITERATURE
Bear, Ray A. Young. Black Eagle Child: the Facepaint Narratives. New York: Grove Press, 1997.
The Bhagavad Gita. 2nd ed. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 2007.
Coelho, Paulo. Veronika Decides to Die: a Novel of Redemption. 3rd ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Gyatso, Geshe Kelsang. Modern Buddhism: the Path of Compassion and Wisdom, Volume 1 Sutra. New York: Tharpa Publications, 2011.
Jung, Carl G. The Undiscovered Self. Reissue ed. New York: Signet, 2006.
Slingerland, Edward, trans. Confucius Analects: with Selection from Traditional Commentaries. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub Co, 2003.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Brumet, Robert. Finding Yourself in Transition: Using Life's Changes for Spiritual Awakening. Unity Village: Unity, 1995.
Narcotics Anonymous. 6 ed. Chatsworth, CA: World Service Office, 2008.
Vivekananda, Swami. Rāja-yoga. rev. pbk. ed. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1982.
UNITY BOOKS
Butterworth, Eric. Spiritual Economics: the Principles and Process of True Prosperity. 3 ed. Unity Village, MO: Unity Books, 2001.
Cady, Harriet Emilie. Lessons in Truth. New York: Trinity Press, 2013.
Fillmore, Charles.
Hasselbeck, Paul. Heart-Centered Metaphysics. Unity Village: Unity House, 2010.
Shepherd, Thomas W. Glimpses of Truth: Systematic Theology from a Metaphysical Christian Perspective. Universal Foundation for Better Living, 2000.
MYTHOLOGY
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17). 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.
POETRY
Donne, John. John Donne - the Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons (Oxford World's Classics). Rev. ed. OOxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Collected Poems and Translations. New York: Library of America, 1994.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Plays. Edited by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. London: Penguin Classics, 2004.
PEACE STUDIES
Abdullah, Sharif. Creating a World That Works for All. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.
AXIAL AGE
Armstrong, K. The Great Transformation, New York: Random House, 2006.
THEORY & MISCELLANEOUS
Foucault, Michel.
Habermas, Jurgen. Jürgen Habermas On Society and Politics: a Reader. Edited By Steven Seidman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
Hammarskjöld, Dag. Markings. New York: Vintage, 2006.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Updated ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Troyes, Chrétien de. Arthurian Romances. London, England.: Penguin Classics, 2004.
SPIRAL & INTEGRAL SPIRITUALITY
Beck, Don Edward, and Christopher Cowan. Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
Stewart, John. Evolution's Arrow: the Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity. New York: The Chapman Press, 2000.
Wilber, Ken. Integral Spirituality: a Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World. Reprinted. New York: Shambhala, 2007.
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
Bohm, David.
- Wholeness and the Implicate Order. New York: Routledge, 2002.
- and Basil J. Hiley. The Undivided Universe: an Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory. Reprinted. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Teilhard, Pierre de Chardin.
- The Future of Man. New York: Image, 2004.
- Christianity and Evolution. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. New York, NY: Plume, 2009.
Elgin, Duane. The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009.
Fölsing, Albrecht. Albert Einstein: A Biography. Translated by Ewald Osers. New York, N.Y.: Penguin, 1998.
McTaggart, Lynne. The Field: the Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe. Updateded. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
BIBLE AND CHRISTIANITY
Borg, Marcus J.
- Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2002.
- Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, New York: Harper One, 1994.
- Evolution of the Word, New York, Harper One, 2012
Cahill, Thomas. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History). Trenton: Anchor Books/Nan A Talese, 1999.
Ehrman, Bart D.
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2005.
- Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). New York: HarperOne, 2010.
- The New Testament, A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Friedman, Richard Elliott.
- Who Wrote The Bible? New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.
- The Bible With Sources Revealed. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2003.
- Restored, translated, and introduced by Richard Elliott Friedman. The Hidden Book in the Bible. New York: HarperOne, 1998. [Note: The subtitle of The Hidden Book is the Bible is The World's First Literary Masterpiece. Friedman examines all of the Old Testament writings attributed to the "J" writer, and we can identify to consciousness at the time of the writing as predominantly Red consciousness. Almost all of the violent stories in the Old Testament were written by "J"- such as various excerpts from Genesis (Chapter 2-3 the Expulsion from Garden, Cain and Abel, etc), Exodus, Numbers, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, first two chapters of 2nd Kings, etc. Bathsheba & David, Joshua going into Canaan, etc.]
Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Grand Rapids Michigan: American Bible Society, 1997.
Laughlin, Paul Alan.
- Remedial Christianity: What Every Believer Should Know about the Faith but Probably Doesn't. Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 2000.
- Getting Oriented: What Every Christian Should Know About Eastern Religions, but Probably Doesn't. Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 2005.
Mack, Burton L.
- The Lost Gospel, the Book of Q. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
- Who Wrote the New Testament. San Francisco: Harper, 1995.
Smith, Paul. Integral Christianity: the Spirit's Call to Evolve. New York: Paragon House, 2012.
Spong, John Shelby
- A New Christianity For a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying and How a New Faith is Being Born. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
- Jesus for the Non Religious. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
- Why Christianity Must Change or Die: a Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile: a New Reformation of the Church's Faith and Practice. New York: HarperOne, 1999.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28). 2nd ed. Louisville, KY: Free Press, 1979.
Wink, Walter
- Transforming Bible Study. Nashville TN: Abingdon Press, 2003.
- The Bible in Human Transformation. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1989.
SPIRITUAL LITERATURE
Bear, Ray A. Young. Black Eagle Child: the Facepaint Narratives. New York: Grove Press, 1997.
The Bhagavad Gita. 2nd ed. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 2007.
Coelho, Paulo. Veronika Decides to Die: a Novel of Redemption. 3rd ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Gyatso, Geshe Kelsang. Modern Buddhism: the Path of Compassion and Wisdom, Volume 1 Sutra. New York: Tharpa Publications, 2011.
Jung, Carl G. The Undiscovered Self. Reissue ed. New York: Signet, 2006.
Slingerland, Edward, trans. Confucius Analects: with Selection from Traditional Commentaries. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub Co, 2003.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Brumet, Robert. Finding Yourself in Transition: Using Life's Changes for Spiritual Awakening. Unity Village: Unity, 1995.
Narcotics Anonymous. 6 ed. Chatsworth, CA: World Service Office, 2008.
Vivekananda, Swami. Rāja-yoga. rev. pbk. ed. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1982.
UNITY BOOKS
Butterworth, Eric. Spiritual Economics: the Principles and Process of True Prosperity. 3 ed. Unity Village, MO: Unity Books, 2001.
Cady, Harriet Emilie. Lessons in Truth. New York: Trinity Press, 2013.
Fillmore, Charles.
- Prosperity. Eastford, CT: Martino Fine Books, 2011.
- Christian Healing (Unity Classic Library). Unity Village: Unity, 2005.
Hasselbeck, Paul. Heart-Centered Metaphysics. Unity Village: Unity House, 2010.
Shepherd, Thomas W. Glimpses of Truth: Systematic Theology from a Metaphysical Christian Perspective. Universal Foundation for Better Living, 2000.
MYTHOLOGY
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17). 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.
POETRY
Donne, John. John Donne - the Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons (Oxford World's Classics). Rev. ed. OOxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Collected Poems and Translations. New York: Library of America, 1994.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Plays. Edited by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. London: Penguin Classics, 2004.
PEACE STUDIES
Abdullah, Sharif. Creating a World That Works for All. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.
AXIAL AGE
Armstrong, K. The Great Transformation, New York: Random House, 2006.
THEORY & MISCELLANEOUS
Foucault, Michel.
Habermas, Jurgen. Jürgen Habermas On Society and Politics: a Reader. Edited By Steven Seidman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
Hammarskjöld, Dag. Markings. New York: Vintage, 2006.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Updated ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Troyes, Chrétien de. Arthurian Romances. London, England.: Penguin Classics, 2004.