These are all books referenced at the back of our books... Each of these books provided insight and direction for me--Basia Alexander--and for Dr. Jim Conroy while we were writing our own books.
Books shown in bold are Basia's favorites. She has read all of these books and has written a few of them ... :-)
Reading List by Categories
Connecting with Nature and Trees
- Conroy and Alexander, Tree Whispering; A Nature Lover’s Guide to Touching, Healing, and Communicating with Trees, Plants, and All of Nature (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
- Dorothy Maclean, Call of the Trees (Everett, WA: Lorain Press, 2007)
- John R Stowe, The Findhorn Book of Connecting with Nature (Forres, Scotland, UK: Findhorn Press, 2003)
- Conroy and Alexander, The Tree Whisperer’s 10 Tree and Plant Insights (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
Paradigm Shifting
- Edmund Bourne, Global Shift–How a New Worldview is Transforming Humanity (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2008)
- Conroy and Alexander, Live and Let Live: How Multidimensional Collaboration Heals Ecosystems, and Live and Let Live: Enlightened Stewardship
- Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley L Dennis, Dawn of the Akashic Age (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2013)
- HRH, Charles The Prince of Wales with Juniper and Skelly, Harmony; A New Way of Looking at Our World (New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2010)
- Peter Russell, The Global Brain; The Awakening Earth in a New Century (London, UK: Floris Books, 2007)
- Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming
- The Hunger Project, Ending Hunger; An Idea Whose Time Has Come (New York, NY: Praeger, 1985)
- Debbie S. Miller, Are Trees Alive? (New York, New York: Walker and Company, 2002)
- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax (New York, NY: Random House, renewed in 1999)
- Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who (New York, NY: Random House, renewed in 1982)
Intelligence in Nature
- Conroy and Alexander, Tree Whispering; A Nature Lover’s Guide to Touching, Healing, and Communicating with Trees, Plants, and All of Nature (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
- Conroy and Alexander, The Tree Whisperer’s 10 Tree and Plant Insights (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
- The Findhorn Community: Peter Caddy, Eileen Caddy, and Dorothy Maclean, The Findhorn Garden (London, England: Harper Colophon Books, Harper & Row Publishers,1975)
- Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret Life of Plants, (New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1973)
- Marko Pogacnik, Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings; Working with the Intelligence in Nature (Forres, Scotland, UK: Findhorn Press, 2004)
- Machaelle Small Wright, Co-Creative Science; A Revolution in Science Providing Real Solutions for Today’s Health and Environment (Warrenton, VA: Perelandra, Ltd, 1997)
- Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows; A Field Guide to the Senses (New York, NY: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
Environmentalism
- Frances Moore Lappe, EcoMind; Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want (New York, NY: Nation Books, 2011)
- Jeanette Winter, Wangari’s Trees of Peace; A True Story from Africa (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2008)
The Essential Connectedness of Everything
- A. Allen Boone, Kinship with All Life
- Fritjof Capra, PhD, The Tao of Physics: An exploration of the Parallels Between Mordern Physicas and Eastern Mysticism
- Arrant, Chases, and Vicente, What the Bleep Do We Know!?; Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2005)
- Lynne McTaggart, The Field; The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008)
- James Lovelock, Gaia; A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything (Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2000)
Human Heart as a Transmitter, Receiver and Perceiver
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution; The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence (New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1999)
New Science Understandings of Living Systems, Energy Medicine, Quantum Physics
- Fritjof Capra, PhD, The Web of Life (New York, NY: Random House, 1997)
- Jeremy Narby, Intelligence in Nature; An Inquiry into Knowledge (New York, NY, Penguin Group, 2006)
- James L. Oschman, Energy Medicine; The Scientific Basis (London, UK: Churchill Livingstone, 2000)
- Gary E. Schwartz, PhD., The Energy Healing Experiments; Science Reveals Our Nature Power to Heal (New York, NY: Atria Books, 2007)
- Fred Alan Wolf, Taking the Quantum Leap; The New Physics for Non-Scientists (New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989
Human and Plant Bio-Electro-Magnetic Energy Fields
- Conroy and Alexander, Tree Whispering; A Nature Lover’s Guide to Touching, Healing, and Communicating with Trees, Plants, and All of Nature (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
- Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment; Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2007)
- Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teaching of Plants; The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2004)
The Link Between Mind and Matter
- Arrant, Chases, and Vicente, What the Bleep Do We Know!?; Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2005)
- Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water (Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., 2004)
New Genetics/New Cellular Biology
- Bruce Lipton, PhD, The Biology of Belief; Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles (Santa Rosa, CA: Mountain of Love–Elite Books, 2005)
Trees, Plants, and Spirituality
- Conroy and Alexander, Tree Whispering; A Nature Lover’s Guide to Touching, Healing, and Communicating with Trees, Plants, and All of Nature (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
- Conroy and Alexander, The Tree Whisperer’s 10 Tree and Plant Insights (Morris Plains, NJ: Plant Kingdom Communications)
- The Findhorn Community: Peter Caddy, Eileen Caddy, and Dorothy Maclean, The Findhorn Garden (London, England: Harper Colophon Books, Harper & Row Publishers,1975)
- Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld with Jessica van Tijn, Science, Soul, and the Spirit of Nature; Leading Thinkers on the Restoration of Man and Creation (Rochester, VT: Bear and Company, 2006)
Working with Elemental Realms
- Tanis Helliwell, Summer with the Leprechauns
- Penny Kelly, The Elves of Lily Hill Farm
- William Bloom, Working with Angels, Fairies, and Nature Spirits
- Nathaniel Altman, The Deva Handbook
- Ted Andrews, Enchantment of the Faerie Realm