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My Name is Chellis and
I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
by Chellis Glendinning
Recommended by Tamarack Song

      What is the relationship between addiction and the ecological crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address the collective drive to heal our society and our environment? Chellis Glendinning goes to the heart of Western civilization in search of the root of our present crises. Paperback. 240 pages.

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The Continuum Concept
In Search of Happiness Lost
by Jean Liedloff
Recommended by Tamarack Song

      A must read for every parent, parent-to-be, and for each of us for the starved child within. Jean Liedloff, an American writer spend two and a half years deep in the Amazon living with Old Way Yequana Indians. The experience demolished her Western perconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves. Paperback. 172 pages

      "If the world could be saved by a book, this just might be the book." - John Holt

      "Basic things about human nature that we forget or ignore at our peril." - Professor Robert Aldrich M.D.

      "Deserves to be read by Western parents, child psychologists, and other social engineers concerned with restoring self-reliance and well-being. There are remarkable insights here." - The New York Times Book Review

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Radical Honesty
How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
by Brad Blanton
Recommended by Tamarack Song

      At once shocking, entertaining and profound - Radical Honesty is a revolutionary book that takes a fresh look at how we live, love, and attempt to heal ourselves in modern society.

      The first edition of Radical Honesty became a nationwide bestseller in 1995 because it was not a kinder, gentler self-help book.It was a shocker. In it Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management, explodes the myths, superstitions, an lies by which we all live. This newly revised edition is even worse! He shows us how stress comes not from the environment, but from the self-built jail of the min. What keeps us in our self-buil jails is lying. "We all lie like hell," Dr. Blanton says. "It wears us out... it is the major source of all human stress. It kills us." Not telling our friends, lovers, spouses, or bosses about what we do, feel, or think keeps us locked in that mind jail. The way out is to get good at telling the truth, and Dr. Blanton provides the tools we can use to escape the jail of the mind. This book is the cake with the file in it.

      In Radical Honesty, Dr. Blanton coaches us on how to have lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to Emerson, the truth shall set you free. Paperback, 286 pages.

      "Dr. Blanton advocates a take-no-prisoners approach to honesty that would send Miss Manners shrieking from the room." - Elizabeth Hickey, The Washington Times

      "A model for transcending our lies and defenses and how to work toward a realm of complete openess and honesty with ourselves as well as others." - Nautral Health

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The Book on the Taboo
Against Knowing Who You Are
by Alan Watts
Recommended by Tamarack Song

      Perhaps the most famous of all Alan Watt's works this book delves into the cause and cure of the illusion that the self is a seperate ego, housed in a bag of skin, which "confronts" a universe of physical objects that are alien and stupid. According to Dr. Watts, this illusion underlies the misuse of technology for a violent and hostile subjugation of man's natural environment, leading to its eventual destruction.

      To find the ugently needed answer to this problem of personal identity, the author modernizes and restates the ancient hindu philosophy of Vedanta and brings out the full force of its startling and psychologically subversive way of realizing that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe.

      With his customary lucidity and wit, Alan Watts presents this "lowdown" on the nature of the self in the form of The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - a manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence which any father might slip to his son, or mother to her daughter, upon the threshold of adult life. Paperback, 163 pages.

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Legacy of the Heart
The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood
by Wayne Muller
Recommended by Tamarack Song

      In this inspiring book, Wayne Muller draws on eighteen years of work with adult children of troubled families to show how hard-won wisdom born of hurt can become a powerful source of strength and peace. He teaches us how to recognize and transform the damaging effects of childhood wounds and rediscover our natural vitality, creativity and joy. Paperback, 204 pages.

      "Wayne Muller draws the lineage of many rich, spiritual teachings through his fine heart to offer healing to those in need." Stephanie Levine, author Gradual Awakening

      "Like a lullaby, this gentle book soothes the spirit, reaching out by the inner child and reassuring the wounded adult... Buoyed by words from the Old and New Testaments, Buddhist and Sufi wisdom, the text speaks to the heart." - Publishers Weekly

      "Wayne Muller guides us in an alchemical process whereby, through gaining spiritual perspective, we transmute our psychologial sufferings into grace." - Ram Dass

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Touching
The Human Significance of the Skin
by Ashley Montagu
Recommended by Tamarack Song

      A groundbreaking achievement when it was first published in 1971, this moving and absorbing examination of the importance of tactile interaction - touching - on all facets of human development is now brought thoroughly up to date in light of research since 1978. Dr. Montagu here devotes special attention to the relation of the skin and touching to mental and pshyical health; the discovery of the immunological functions of the skin; the importance of touching, especially for older people; a demonstration of the harmfulness of newfangled methods of dealing with the newborn; gender differences; the relation between touching and imaging; and the uses of touching in psychytherapeutic situations. Paperback, 494 pages .

      "Excellent and well-documented" - Psychology Today

      "The mother and father of all books written on touch." - Dr. Jules Older

      "This very stimulating and provocative book is highly recommended. All professionals concerned with human behavior will find something of value in this book, but others, especially parents of babies and young children, can gain insight into the nurting needs of infants." - Janet Rhoads, American Journal of Occupational Therapy

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