Books are nourishment for the Gemini mind and soul. Geminis love to read anything and everything. Here are a number of my favorite books of all time. I will put a little about why I like them after the book title and you can go from there. These books will go some way in helping to decolonize your mind.
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Comunity in a Fragmented World by Bill Plotkin – Shows how human development became derailed and offers suggestions of how to do the work to heal this.
The Universe Always Has a Plan by Matt Kahn – Gives the 10 rules for emotional freedom – Very uplifting – Matt is an amazing visionary and spiritual teacher – ck youtube for his videos
Wild Mercy; Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr – Beautiful and powerful images of the work of women to heal the world.
The Smell of Rain on Dust, Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel – Hope and courage given for times of loss. An indigenous viewpoint with great heart.
Nature, Culture and the Sacred, A woman Listens for Leadership by Nina Simons – Excellent resource for leading in a feminine style – help in moving past the patriarchal style of leading. Nine and her husband co-founded Bioneers, a yearly conference that gather innovative thinkers, artists and indigenous ways of knowing.
The More Beautiful World Our hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein – very uplifting vision of how we might take the steps to move into the more beautiful world. Charles is a brilliant thinker with lots of heart.
Embracing a New Planetary Consciousness by Habiba Kabir – from a review: Habiba gives us beautiful meditations based on the four seasons and the four elements. She weaves together sacred traditions and her understanding of the pivotal change point we are all experiencing — the threshold of “the new heaven and the new earth.”
Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World by Joanna Macy – addresses the anguish of people trying to address the challenges of our time and gives practices to ease the heaviness.
The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita Sanchez – four gifts from indigenous elders around the planet to help us live a more sucessful life in these times.
Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese – head on advice for facing adversity
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos by Brian Swimme – What does it mean to be human, to live on planet Earth, in the universe as it is now understood? The search for a new story brilliantly written.
The Sacred Universe by Thomas Berry – A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, gives us a series of his best ideas.
The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren – an amazing work on the power of emotions. It shows us how all of our emotions are important messagers sent to us to bring clarity, keep us in integrity, and free us from suffering.
The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson – helps us to reach into the past and clear trauma from not just our own lives, but from our lineage and past lives as well. Powerful work.
Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell by Joyce Whiteley Hawkes – Gives us exercises for health and healing. Illustrated with stories, electron microscope photography, and other inspiring pictures by the author, the book shows how simple tenets of spiritual healing can be applied to individual situations.
I Heard God Laughing by Daniel Ladinsky – poems to uplift the spirit
