Below is a small sample of books, music, films, and media sites that have been useful to me to have a more informed and inspired journey. These are not all enlightened stories, instead they are expressive, honest, and, most often, they are heavy. Rather than feeling good the goal is to gain understanding of cultural, historical, and philosophical experiences.

Books and Authors

Body Mind Mastery – Dan Millman

Book of Five Rings – Myamoto Musashi

Borderlands – Gloria Anzaldúa

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal – Joel Salatin

Native American Postcolonial Psychology and Healing the Soul Wound – Eduardo Duran

Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and other books – Martín Prechtel

The Practice of Astrology As a Technique in Human Understanding – Dane Rudhyar

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do – Bruce Lee

Trauma and Recovery – Judith Herman

Writing on the Wall – Mumia Abu-Jamal

Writings Toward a Liberation Psychology – Ignacio Martín-Baró

Music

Abstract Rude

Arkaingelle

Chezidek

Ruby Ibarra

Supaman

Documentaries and Films

Church Forests of Ethiopia

I Am Not Your Negro

Re-Greening the Desert

River’s End

También la lluvia

Media Sites

NPR

PBS

The Guardian

The Intercept