Reading
This is Angel! I am the conduit for all the wisdom that the Universe has to offer. I pass this wisdom on to you through the artists and creators. You can receive this wisdom by Reading!
Love Letters
Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941 - 1968 Edited by Judith Adamson
The letters are lovely and become more loving as time goes by. An excellent explination of what England was like during and after WWII. Trekkie Ritchie divided her time between the two men until Leonards death. Hard to belive there was not physical love between them, but they had an obvious love affair of their minds.
Healing Anxiety and Depression
Daniel G. Amen, M.D. and Lisa C. Routh, M.D.
Based on cutting-edge brain-imaging science, this book revels 7 types of anxiety and depression and provides proven-effective treatment plans for each type.
The Physics of Angels
Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit meets
Matthew Fox - Rupert Sheldrake
Although angels have been ignoerd by the scientific and theological establishments, recent surveys have shown that many people believe in them. Reassuring read for those of who live with the angels.
The Trip to Echo Spring
On Writers and Drinking
Olivia Laing
Picador 2014
The question I asked myself, why do so many writers drink? Why do I drink?
Survivors should not use alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant; chronic drinking may cause a downward spiral in mood which if untreated can lead to suicide. Survivors who have not faced the reality of their past have various coping skills some of which like alcohol are dangerous. Trapped in a cycle of self-doubt and self-blame survivors lean heavily on short-term solutions to their long-term problem.
Olivia Laing examined the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six writers were alcoholics, the subject of drinking winds its way through some of their finest works.
Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family. One spring she decided to explore the use of alcohol in the lives of those six writers. She took a journey by train to the locations those writers lived and worked. Laing recorded the devastating effect alcohol had on the writers and the people around them. In her journey Laing discovered not only the horror of alcohol addiction, but the possibility of recovery.
How did the conscious mind develop in the primitive brain?
JULIAN JAYNES
THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNES
IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE
BICAMERAL MIND
"O, What a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, and infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, yet nothing at all - what is it? And where did it come from? And why?" Julian Jaynes
You may wish to understand your mind in order to make sense of the chaos you are experiencing trying to effect a recovery from the abuse you sustained as a child. Your mind brain combination was altered by the constant exposure to that abuse. Now you are left with a legacy of disfunctional thinking that only survivors can understand.
Here is another read which may help you understand how your conciousness was affected by your abuse.
Journey to the Centers of the Mind
Toward A Science Of Consciousness
Susan A. Greenfield
"Our secret inner world, our consciousness, is the ultimate enigma of the brain and the most baffling problem that that same brain will ever ask itself about itself." Susan A. Greenfield
On Wellness and healing
YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE LUXURY OF A NEGATIVE THOUGHT
A Book for People With Any Life-Threatening Illness - Including Life John-Roger & Peter McWilliams
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE MIND Edited by Richard L. Gregory
Allies in Healing
Laura Davis Harper Perennial
WHEN THE PERSON YOU LOVE WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED AS A CHILD. This book brings understanding of how sexually abused children react to the challanges of daily life and how those reactions affect those around them. The first paragraph gives the clearest definition of child sexual abuse I have encountered. This is worth while reading for those abused as well as the ones who love them.
How the Brain and Mind interact to become one
The Mind and the Brain
Jeffrey M. Swartz MD. and Sharon Begley
Harper Collins
Neuroplasticity and the power of mental force. Gives the reader an explanation of Obsesive-Compulsive Disorder. It may be possible to apply the information in this book to the effects of flashbacks from child abuse in order to re-cast them and lessen the severity of those events.
Child Sexual Abuse
Betrayed as Boys
Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men
Richard B. Gartner The Guilford Press
Intended for clinicians and educators interested in the psychodynamic perspectives on trauma, gender, and sexality. The case studies contain explicit details of the sexual abuse of boys and the affect it has on them in later life, not for the faint of heart! If you have not come to terms with your own abuse, this may not be the reading for you. Survivors may find new perspectives about thier own abusive childhood.
The topic of ART
The Artist's Way
A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron
"Artists are visonaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a cerative goal that shimmers in the distance-----often visible to us, but invisible to those around us."-----from The Artists Way
The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An internatinal bestseller, it has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that can inhibit the creative process. In it, julia Cameron takes the readers on an amazing twelve-week journey to discover the inextricable link between their spiritual and creative selves.
The World around us
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
A must read for those with an open mind. The world is not coming to an end, on the contrary, the innate ability humans possess to creatively solve problems by working together will overcome any threats to human survival. It is more popular to be pessimistic about the future and to call for an end to the world than to allow the the natural course of change to bring about a new order. The systems of science and education are biased to supress the change that fresh thinking and new ideas bring to us daily.