Bibliotherapy: Read Books. Feel Good.

Nature Immersion Themed Bibliotherapy Reading List; for a deeper connection to nature and your nature.

A Collage of Selected Authors on Nature, Life and Love.

this paragraph has been created using excerpts from the books on this month’s suggested reading list.

The convergence between my listening ears and my gazing eyes has brought me much deeper into my animal body and my body’s world. Stories hold, in their narrative layers, the sedimented knowledge accumulated by our progenitors. The first wellspring of Walt Whitman’s greatest work was a radical experience of reality, magnificent and disruptive; and the second the transformative power of a life of uncharted desire. The depression that makes it impossible to vigorously participate in life as it is offered has a collective expression as well. Lacking a compelling sense of purpose or destiny, our society muddles along, going halfheartedly through the motions. One attitude, indispensable for the practice of the art of loving, which thus far has been mentioned only implicitly, should be discussed explicitly since it is basic for the practice of love: activity.  What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony, a ceremony that makes a home. Plants communicating by means of sound waves? That makes me curious to know more, because people also communicate using sound waves. It is a simple case. The eye that does not look back does not acknowledge. 

The Reading List:

Becoming Animal by David Abram

The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

What Is the Grass Walt Whitman in My Life by Mary Doty

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Upstream, Selected Essays  by Mary Oliver