Recommended Reading

Animal Spirit Guides and Power Animals

Animal Dreaming, Scott Alexander King. Victoria, Australia: Project Art and Photo, 2003.
Animal Magick: The Art of Recognizing and Working with Familiars, D.J. Conway. Llewellyn Publications: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2002.
Animal-Speak: The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, Ted Andrews. Llewellyn Publications: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2001.
Animal Spirit Guides: An Easy-to-Use Handbook for Identifying and Understanding Your Power Animals and Animal spirit Helpers, Steven Farmer. Hay House: Carlsbad, California, 2006.
Animal Wisdom: the Definitive Guide to the Myth, Folklore and Medicine Power of Animals, Jessica Dawn Palmer. Element/HarperCollinsPublishers: London, 2001
Animal-Wise: The Spirit Language and Signs of Nature, Ted Andrews. Dragonhawk Publishing: Jackson, Tennessee, 1999
Celtic Totem Animals, John Matthews. Eddison Sadd Editions Ltd: London, 2002.
The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby. New York, NY: Jeremy P. Tarche.1999.
Druid Animal Oracle, Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm. Connections Book Publishing: London, 1996.
Kinship with All Life, J. Allen Boone. HarperSanFrancisco, 1954.
Magical Unicorn Oracle Cards, Doreen Virtue. Hay House: Carlsbad, California, 2005.
Medicine Cards, Jamie Sams and David Carson. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Power Animals, Steven Farmer. Hay House: Carlsbad, California, 2004.
Power Animal Oracle Cards, Hay House: Carlsbad, California, 2006.
Totems: The Transformative Power of Your Personal Animal Totem, Brad Steiger. HarperSanFrancisco: 1997.
The Vision, Tom Brown, Jr. The Berkley Publishing Group: New York, 1988.

Information about Animals


Animal, David Burnie and Don E. Wilson, eds. DK Publishing, Inc.: New York, 2001.
Dorling Kindersley Animal Encyclopedia, Jonathan Elphick, Jen Green, Barbara Taylor, and Richard Walker. DK Publishing, Inc.: New York, 2000.
The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, Jenni Bruce, Karen McGhee, Luba Vangelova, and Richard Vogt. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004.
The Last Big Cats: The Untamed Spirit, Erwin A. Bauer. Voyageur Press, Inc.: Stillwater, MN, 2003.
The Life of Birds, David Attenborough. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1998.
The Life of Mammals, David Attenborough. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2002.
National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia, Jinny Johnson, National Geographic Society: Washington, D.C., 1999 (great for children).
Scholastic Encyclopedia of Animals, Lawrence Pringle. Scholastic, Inc.: New York, 2001 (great for children).

Shamanism


The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary, Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. San Francisco, California: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
Shamanic Journey: Didjeridu, (CD for shamanic journeys) Stephen McDonnell. Mill Valley, California: Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.shamanism.org), 1997.
Shamanic Journey: Multiple Drumming, (CD for shamanic journeys) Bridgewalker Drummers. Mill Valley, California: Foundation for Shamanic Studies (www.shamanism.org), 1993.
Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life, Tom Cowan. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1996.
Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, Sandra Ingerman. San Francisco, California: Harper San Francisco, 1991.
The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1997.
The Spirit of Shamanism, Roger Walsh. New York, NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.
Spiritual Dimensions of Healing: From Native Shamanism to Contemporary Health Care, Stanley Krippner and Patrick Welch. New York, NY: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1992.
Urban Shaman: A Handbook for Personal and Planetary Transformation Based on the Hawaiian Way of the Adventurer, Serge Kahili King. New York, NY: Fireside, 1990.
The Vision, Tom Brown, Jr. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1988.
Vision Seeker: Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge, Hank Wesselman. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc., 2001.
The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner. San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco, 1990