Soulskin Kin Resources

Soulskin Kin Resources

While always incomplete, here are some general resources that support some aspects of Soulskin:

Books & Audio Recordings

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

  • Mother Night: Myths, Stories and Teachings for Learning to See in the Dark

  • Seeing in the Dark: Myths and Stories to Reclaim the Buried, Knowing Woman

  • The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories on the Cycles of Creativity

  • The Beginner's Guide to Dream Interpretation

  • Basically, everything else too…

Bill Plotkin

  • Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche 

  • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World 

  • Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche 

  • The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries

Stephen Foster & Meredeth Little / Lost Borders Press

  • The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature

  • Roaring of the Sacred River: The Wilderness Quest for Vision & Self Healing

  • Betwixt & Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation

Darcy Ottey

  • Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up

Jack Zimmerman & Virginia Coyle

  • The Way of Council

Sharon Blackie

  • If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging 

  • Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women 

  • The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday

Toko-pa Turner

  • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home 

Dr. Martin Shaw

  • A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace of Wildness

  • Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia

  • Wolf Milk: Chthonic Memory in the Deep Wild

  • Courting the Wild Twin

  • Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass

David Abram

  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

  • Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Joanna Macy

  • Spiritual Ecology

  • Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World

  • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy

Richard Louv

  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder 

  • The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder 

  • Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life 

Daniel Foor

  • Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

Pegi Eyers

  • Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community

Andreas Weber

  • Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology

  • The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science

Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  • Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Jon Young, Evan McGown, Ellen Haas 

  • Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature

Trebbe Johnson

  • The World is a Waiting Lover: Love, Desire, and Our Quest for Meaning

Francis Weller

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

  • Alchemy of Initiation

Parker Palmer

  • A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, Welcoming the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World

Michael J. Cohen

  • Reconnecting with Nature: Finding Wellness through Restoring Your Bond with the Earth

Adrienne Maree Brown

  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Stuart Brown & Christopher Vaughan

  • Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul 

Charles Eisenstein

  • The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Michael Meade

Malidoma Patrice Some

Jay Griffiths

Terry Tempest Williams

Max Dashu

David Sobel

Brene Brown

The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places (Concord Library) by Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble 

 

Podcasts

Living Myth , Michael Meade

The Emerald, Joshua Michael Schrei

OneWoman Radio , Christiane Pelmas

Kalliope’s Sanctum, Sylvia V. Linsteadt

Smoke Hole Sessions, Martin Shaw

House of Legends: World Myths and Legends, Daniel Allison

This Mythic Life and The Hagitude Sessions Sharon Blackie

For the Wild , Ayana Young

Emergence Magazine

Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature

Orion Magazine