SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Matrifocal Studies

Biaggi, Cristina. The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins, History and Impact of Patriarchy. Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, 2005.

 

Briffault, Robert. The Mothers: The Matriarchal Theory of Social Origins. Belle Fourche, S.D.: Kessinger, 2005.

 

Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book. New York: Teachers College Press, 1990.

 

Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987. (CB.)

 

French, Marilyn. From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2008.

 

Gimbutas, Marija. The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe. HarperCollins, 1993.

 

Gimbutas, Marija. The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization. 1. paperback ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

 

Grahn, Judy. Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

 

Noble, Vicki. Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World: The New Female Shamanism. 1st ed. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

 

Noble, Vicki. The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power. Rochester, Vt: Bear & Co, 2003.

 

Sjoo Monica and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth. Harper SanFrancisco, 1987, 1988.

 

Tedlock, Barbara. The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books, 2005.

 

Vaughan, Genevieve, ed. The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy. Toronto: Inanna Publications & Education Inc, 2019.

 

India

 

Devadatta Kālī, ed. Devīmāhātmyam: In Praise of the Goddess: The Devīmahātmaya and Its Meaning. Berwick, Me: Nicolas-Hays, 2003.

 

Doniger, Wendy. The Hindus: An Alternative History. A Penguin Book. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.

 

Kinsley, David Robert. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. Repr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2005.

 

Pintchman, Tracy. The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, 1994.

 

Dark Mother

 

Alesha, Matomah. The First Book of the Black Goddess. A Study and Reflection on the First Cause of the Black Maternal.

 

Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola. Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers. Lincoln, NE: Authors Choice Press, 2001.

 

Jayakar, Pupul. The Earth Mother. Legends, Ritual Arts, and Goddesses of India. (San Francisco:Harper & Row, 1990).

 

Göttner-Abendroth, Heide. The Goddess and Her Heroes. 10th ed., Expanded and Rev. Stow, Mass: Anthony Pub. Co, 1995.

Origins

Ashe, Geoffrey. Dawn behind the Dawn: A Search for the Earthly Paradise. New York: H. Holt, 1993.

 

Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. Genes, Peoples, and Languages. 1st ed. New York: North Point Press, 2000.

 

Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin Books, 1988.

 

Falk, Dean. Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

 

Knight, Chris. Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

 

Lewis-Williams, J. David, and Sam Challis. Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

 

Marshack, Alexander. The Roots of Civilization: The Cognitive Beginnings of Man’s First Art, Symbol and Notation. Mount Kisco, N.Y: Moyer Bell, 1991.

 

Mithen, Steven. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2007.

 

Neale, Margo, and Lynne Kelly. First Knowledges. 1, Songlines: The Power and Promise. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Thames & Hudson Australia, 2020.

 

Tomlinson, Gary. A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity. First edition. New York: Zone Books, 2015.

 

Wallin, Nils Lennart, Björn Merker, Steven Brown, and Nils L. Wallin, eds. The Origins of Music. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

Classical Tantra - India

General

 

Bhattacharyya, N. N. History of the Śākta Religion: An Historical, Ritualistic, and Philosophical Study. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1996.

 

Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath. History of the Tantric Religion: An Historical, Ritualistic, and Philosophical Study. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005.

 

Chinnaiyan, Kavitha M. Shakti Rising: Embracing Shadow and Light on the Goddess Path to Wholeness. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 2017.

 

Doniger, Wendy. Siva: The Erotic Ascetic. Oxford University Press, 1981.

 

Harper, Katherine Anne, and Robert L. Brown, eds. The Roots of Tantra. State University of New York Press, 2002.

 

Jamme, Franck André. Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan. Siglio, 2011.

 

McDermott, Rachel Fell. Invoking Lakshmi: The Goddess of Wealth in Song and Ceremony. State University of New York Press, 2011.

 

Padoux, André. The Hindu Tantric World: An Overview. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

 

Padoux, André. Vāc: The Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publ, 1992.

 

Kashmir Shaivism and Śaiva Traditions

 

Alper, Harvey P., ed. Mantra. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

 

Amazzone, Laura. Goddess Durgā and Sacred Female Power. Lanham, Md: Hamilton Books, 2010.

 

Bailly, Constantina Rhodes. Shaiva Devotional Songs of Kashmir: A Translation and Study of Utpaladeva’s Shivastotravali. State University of New York Press, 1987.

 

Biernacki, Loriliai. Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Bäumer, Bettina Sharada. The Yoga of Netra Tantra: The Third Eye and Overcoming Death. New Delhi: DK Printworld, 2019.

 

Chinnaiyan MD, Kavitha. Fractals of Reality: Living the Śrīcakra. Sfaim Press, USA, 2022.

 

Chinnaiyan, Kavitha M. Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma: A Practical Manual of Śrīvidyā. United Kingdom: New Sarum Press, 2020.

 

de Vietri, Christian. Trika Maṇḍala Prakāśa: Illuminating the Mandalas of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka. The Magnetic Citadel Press, 2024.

 

Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. The Aphorisms of Śiva: The Śiva Sūtra with Bhāskara’s Commentary, the Vārttika. State University of New York Press, 1992.

 

Dyczkowski, Mark. Tantrāloka: The Light on and of the Tantras – Volume One: Chapter One, With the Commentary Called Viveka by Jayaratha, Translated with Extensive Explanatory Notes. Independently published, 2023.

 

Goudriaan, Teun, ed. Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism: Studies in Honor of André Padoux. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

 

Padoux, André, and Roger-Orphé Jeanty. The Heart of the Yoginī: The Yoginīhṛdaya, a Sanskrit Tantric Treatise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

 

Silburn, Lilian. Kundalini: The Energy of the Depths. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

 

Wallis, Christopher D. The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece. Mattamayūra Press, 2017.

 

Goddess Traditions and Śākta Philosophy

 

Bäumer, Bettina Sharada, and Hamsa Stainton. Tantrapuspanjali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir, 2018.

 

Bäumer, Bettina Sharada, and Hamsa Stainton. Tantrapuspanjali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir. Indica Books, 2018.

 

Bäumer, Bettina. Abhinavagupta’s Hermeneutics of the Absolute: An Interpretation of His Parātrīśikā Vivaraṇa. D.K. Printworld, 2011.

 

Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism. State University of New York Press, 1987.

 

Kṣemarāja, and Christopher D. Wallis. The Recognition Sūtras: A Complete Translation and Explanation of the 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece the Pratyabhijñā-Hr̥daya by Rājānaka Kṣemarāja. Boulder, CO: Mattamayūra Press, 2017.

 

Lakshmanjoo, Swami. Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Edited by John Hughes. Universal Shaiva Fellowship, 1988.

 

Lakshmanjoo, Swami. The Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. Edited by John Hughes. Universal Shaiva Fellowship, 2015.

 

Lakṣman Joo. Vijñāna-bhairava: The Practice of Centring Awareness. Indica, 2007.

 

Mishra, Kamalakar. Kashmir Shaivism: The Central Philosophy of Tantrism. Indica Books, 2012.

 

Mishra, Kamalakar. The Essence of Kashmir Shaivism. Rudra Press, 1999.

 

Rosenblum, Bruce, and Fred Kuttner. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

Sanderson, Alexis. “Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions.” In The World’s Religions, edited by S. Sutherland, L. Houlden, P. Clarke, and F. Hardy, 660–704. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1990.

 

Sanderson, Alexis. “The Śaiva Exegesis of Kashmir.” In Mélanges tantriques à la mémoire d’Hélène Brunner. Pondicherry: Institut Français d’Indologie/École française d’Extrême-Orient.

 

White, David Gordon. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. 1st Edition, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Neo-Tantra

Anand, Margot, M. E. Naslednikov, and Leandra Hussey, illus. The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers. New World Library, 1989.

 

Anand, Margot. Love, Sex, and Awakening: An Erotic Journey from Tantra to Spiritual Ecstasy. New World Library, 2017.

 

Anand, Margot. The Art of Everyday Ecstasy: The Seven Tantric Keys for Bringing Passion, Spirit, and Joy Into Every Part of Your Life. New World Library, 1998.

 

Anand, Margot. The Art of Sexual Magic: Cultivating Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life. Novato, CA: New World Library, 1996.

 

Leland, Kurt. Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to Brennan. Lake Worth, FL: Ibis Press, 2016.

Middle East

Callataÿ, Godefroid de. Ikhwan Al-Safa’: A Brotherhood of Idealists on the Fringe of Orthodox Islam. Makers of the Muslim World. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2005.

 

Dumbrill, Richard J. The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publ, 2005.

 

Farraj, Johnny, and Sami Abu Shumays. Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century Middle East. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

 

Feldman, Walter, Dimitrie Cantemir, and Ali Ufkî. Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire. Boston: Brill, 2023.

 

Güvenç, Asst. Prof. Dr. Rahmi Oruc. The Eternal Sheikh. Paperback. Istanbul: Timas Publishing, 2021.

 

Jamal, Mahmood, ed. Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the [Early] Mystics to Rumi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2009.

 

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines: Conceptions of Nature and Methods Used for Its Study by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ, al-Bīrūnī, and Ibn Sīnā. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

 

Netton, Ian Richard. Muslim Neoplatonists: An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ). Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.

 

Shehadi, Fadlou. Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, v. 67. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1995.

East

Tibetan Buddhism and Bon Traditions

 

Nhất Hạnh. Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise. First HarperCollins paperback edition. New York, NY: HarperOne, 2016.

 

Barth, Peter F. The Meditations of Longchen Rabjam: A Guide to the Four Chog Zhag and Three Samadhis of the Chöying Dzöd. Kindle ed. November 15, 2017.

 

Chenagtsang, Nida, and Robert Thurman. Nejang: Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga. London: SKY Press, 2020.

 

Chenagtsang, Nida, and Tam Nguyen. The Tibetan Art of Dream Analysis. Edited by Evelyn Quek. London: Sorig Press Limited, 2013.

 

Chenagtsang, Nida. Karmamudra: The Yoga of Bliss. London: Sky Press, 2018.

 

Chenagtsang, Nida. The Tibetan Book of Health: Sowa Rigpa, the Science of Healing. Preface by Robert Thurman, PhD. London: Sky Press, 2017.

 

Chögyam Trungpa. Journey Without Goal: The Tantric Wisdom of the Buddha. Second Printing ed. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2000.

 

Clemente, Adriano, and Gshen-gsas. Visionary Encounters: The Dzogchen Teachings of Bönpo Treasure-Revealer Shense Lhaje. First edition. Boulder: Snow Lion, 2016.

 

Dalton, Jacob P. The Gathering of Intentions: A History of a Tibetan Tantra. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.

 

Davidson, Ronald. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement. First Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

 

Dri-med-vod-zer, Finding Rest in Illusion. Translated by The Padmakara Translation Group. First edition. Trilogy of Rest / Longchenpa ; Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, volume 3. Boulder: Shambhala, 2018.

 

Jacoby, Sarah H. Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro. Illustrated ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

 

Klein, Anne C., and Tenzin Wangyal. Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

Kvaerne, Per. Tibet Bon Religion: A Death Ritual of the Tibetan Bonpos. Iconography of Religions, fasc. 13. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985.

 

Mullin, Glenn H., ed. The Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa. 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2006.

 

Padmasambhava, and Karma Lingpa. Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness. Translated and with commentary by John Myrdhin Reynolds. 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2010.

 

Peters, Larry. Tibetan Shamanism: Ecstasy and Healing. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2016.

 

Ray, Reginald A. Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet. 1st ed. Vol. 2 of World of Tibetan Buddhism. Boston: Shambhala, 2002.

 

Roberts, Shinshu. Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Uji. Somerville, Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications, 2018.

 

Shaw, Miranda. Buddhist Goddesses of India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

 

Wilkinson, Christopher, trans. The Jewel Maker: The Great Tantra on the Consequence of Sound : With Tibetan Text. Portland, Oregon: Christopher Wilkinson, 2017.

 

Williams, Paul. Buddhist Thought: Second Edition. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2011.

 

Yeshe, Lama Thubten. The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Illustrated ed. Edited by Robina Courtin and Ailsa Cameron. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1998.

 

Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

 

Dowman, Keith. Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel. Illustrated ed., Reprint edition, Snow Lion, 1 January 1996.

 

Changchub, Gyalwa, and Namkhai Nyingpo. Lady of the Lotus-Born: The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, 12 February 2002.

 

Tsogyal, Yeshe. The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava. Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang. Introduction by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol. 3rd ed. Kathmandu: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004.

 

Dakinis & Yoginis

 

White, David Gordon. Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts. 1st ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

 

Allione, Lama Tsultrim. The Empowered Feminine: Meditating with the Dakini Mandala. Unabridged ed. Audio CD. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2021.

 

Allione, Lama Tsultrim. Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine. 2018a ed. New York: Atria/Enliven Books, 2018.

 

Odier, Daniel. Crazy Wisdom of the Yogini: Teachings of the Kashmiri Mahamudra Tradition. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2021.

 

Mross, Michaela. Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen. Studies in East Asian Buddhism 30. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2022.

Indus Valley

Parpola, Asko. Deciphering the Indus Script. 1st paperback ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.

Listening

Adams, Stephen. R. Murray Schafer. Canadian Composers = Compositeurs Canadiens 4. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1983.

 

Bull, Michael, ed. The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019.\

 

Cage, John, and Kyle Gann. Silence: Lectures and Writings. 50th anniversary Edition. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

 

Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2021.

 

Kane, Brian. Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice. New York, Oxford University Press, 2014.

 

Mathieu, W. A. The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music. Boston: Shambhala, 2011.

 

Oliveros, Pauline. Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. New York; Shanghai: iUniverse, 2005.

 

Schaeffer, Pierre, Christine North, and John Dack. Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.

 

Schafer, R. Murray. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, Vt.; United States, Destiny Books; 1993.

Music

Aldridge, David, and Jörg Fachner, eds. Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addiction. London ; Philadelphia: J. Kingsley Publishers, 2006.

 

Benade, Arthur H. Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics. New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

 

Borgo, David. Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age. New York: Continuum, 2005.

 

Clarke, David, and Eric F. Clarke, eds. Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

Doty, David B. The Just Intonation Primer: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Just Intonation. Third edition. [San Francisco, CA: Just Intonation Network], 2010.

 

Flatischler, Reinhard. The Forgotten Power of Rhythm. Mendocino, CA: LifeRhythm, 1992.

 

Huron, David Brian, and David Huron. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. 1. MIT Press paperback ed. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.

 

Lucas, Ann E. Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions. The Joan Palavsky Imprint in Classical Literature. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2019.

 

McPherson, Gary, ed. The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development. Second edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2016.

 

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Rev. and Expanded, 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.

 

Schneider, Marius, Rudolf Haase, Hans Erhard Lauer, and Joscelyn Godwin. Cosmic Music: Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality: Essays. Rochester, Vt. : [New York]: Inner Traditions ; Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Harper and Row Publishers, 1989.

 

Small, Christopher. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Music/Culture. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998.

 

Tame, David. The Secret Power of Music. New York: Destiny Books, 1984.

 

Van der Schyff, Dylan, Andrea Schiavio, and David J. Elliott. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds: Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022.

Music Instruments

Abels, Frank. Himalayan Sound Revelations: The Complete Singing Bowl Book. Polair Publishing, 2018.

 

Diallo, Yaya, and Mitchell Hall. The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings. Rochester, Vt: Destiny Books, 1989.

 

Fletcher, Neville H., and Thomas D. Rossing. The Physics of Musical Instruments. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.

 

Gass, Robert, and Kathleen A. Brehony. Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.

 

Hart, Mickey, Fredric Lieberman, and D. A. Sonneborn. Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

 

McNamara, Phil. Gongs and Tam-Tams: A Guide for Percussionists, Drummers and Sound Healers. Upton upon Severn: Philip McNamara, 2012.

 

Rault, Lucie. Musical Instruments: Craftsmanship and Traditions from Prehistory to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

 

Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006.

 

Schlesinger, Kathleen. The Greek Aulos: A Study of Its Mechanism and of Its Relation to the Modal System of Ancient Greek Music. Groningen: Bouma’s Boekhuis, 1970.

 

Svoboda, Dr. Robert. Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution. Albuquerque, NM: Lotus Press, 1998.

 

Whittaker, Sheila. In the Heart of the Gong Space: The Gong as a Spiritual Tool. Honiton: Healing Sound, 2012.

Sound Art

Couzins, Richard. Voice as Art: From Theatre to Forensics. First Edition. Routledge Voice Studies. New York: Routledge, 2022.

 

Groth, Sanne Krogh, and Holger Schulze. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. Bloomsbury Handbooks. New York [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

 

Havers, Richard. The Art of Sound. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2017.

 

Schmidt, Ulrik. A Philosophy of Ambient Sound: Materiality, Technology, Art and the Sonic Environment. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

 

Scoates, Christopher, ed. Brian Eno: Visual Music. First Chronicle Books LLC paperback edition. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2019.

 

Street, Séan. Sound Poetics. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2017.

 

Weibel, Peter. Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art [Exhibition, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe March 17, 2012-January 6, 2013 ]. Cambridge, Mass: Mit Press, 2019.

 

Chattopadhyay, Budhaditya. The Auditory Setting: Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts. Music & the Moving Image Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2021.

 

Pinch, Trevor, and Karin Bijsterveld, eds. The Oxford Handbook Sound Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

Street, Seán. The Sound Inside the Silence: Travels in the Sonic Imagination. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Art

Anati, Emmanuel. World Rock Art: The Primordial Language. Capo di Ponte, Italy: Edizioni del Centro, 1993.

 

Bataille, Georges. Lascaux; Or, The Birth of Art: Prehistoric Painting. The Great Centuries of Painting. Lausanne, Switzerland: 1955.

 

Pfeiffer, John E. The Creative Explosion: An Inquiry into the Origins of Art and Religion. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1982.

 

Walker, Rob. The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Ayurveda

Lad, Vasant D., M.A.Sc. Secrets of the Pulse: The Ancient Art of Ayurvedic Pulse Diagnosis. Edited by Margaret Smith Peet, Glen Crowther, and Barbara Cook. Albuquerque, NM: Ayurvedic Press, 2006.

 

Lad, Vasant, and Anisha Durve. Marma Points of Ayurveda: The Energy Pathways for Healing Body, Mind, and Consciousness with a Comparison to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Albuquerque, NM: Ayurvedic Press, 2008.

 

Lad, Vasant. The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies: Based on the Timeless Wisdom of India’s 5,000-Year-Old Medical System. New York: Harmony Books, 1999.

 

Lad, Robert. Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution. Revised Enlarged Second Edition. The Ayurvedic Press, 2004.

 

Svoboda, Robert E. Vāstu: Breathing Life into Space. Albuquerque, NM: Lotus Press, 2020.

Yoga

Mallinson, James. The Shiva Samhita: A Critical Edition and an English Translation. Woodstock, NY: YogaVidya.com, 2007.

 

Mallinson, James, and Mark Singleton, eds. Roots of Yoga. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2017.

 

Svatmarama. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Translated by Brian Dana Akers. Woodstock, NY: YogaVidya.com, 2012.

Meditation

Adyashanti. My Secret Is Silence: Poetry and Sayings of Adyashanti. Los Gatos, CA: Open Gate Publishing, 2003.

 

Adyashanti. The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. Los Gatos, CA: Open Gate Sangha, 2013.

 

Gendlin, Eugene T. Focusing. Princeton, N.J.: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2007.

 

Goleman, Daniel, and Richard J. Davidson. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. New York: Avery, 2017.

 

Goleman, Daniel, and Richard J. Davidson. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. New York: Avery, 2017.

 

Harris, Sam, narrator. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. New York: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2014.

 

Kempton, Sally. Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2011.

 

Khyentse, Dzongsar Jamyang. Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices. Boston: Shambhala, 2012.

 

Longchen Rabjam. Finding Rest in Illusion: The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 3. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Boston: Shambhala, 2020.

 

Longchen Rabjam. Finding Rest in Meditation: The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 2. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Boston: Shambhala, 2018.

 

Longchen Rabjam. Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Boston: Shambhala, 2017.

 

Prendergast, John J. The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2019.

 

Spira, Rupert. The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter. Boulder, CO: Sahaja, 2017.

 

Tift, Bruce. Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2015.

 

Trungpa, Chögyam. The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation. Boston: Shambhala, 2002.

Sound Science

Barton, Adriana. Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound. Tapa blanda, 2023.

 

Benade, Arthur H. Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics. New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

 

Benson, Herbert, and Miriam Z. Klipper. The Relaxation Response. New York: HarperTorch, 2000.

 

Doman, Alex, and Don Campbell. Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives. New York: Plume, 2014.

 

Heller, Eric J. Why You Hear What You Hear: An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics. Princeton, NJ & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012.

 

Helmholtz, Hermann von, Henry Margenau, and Hermann von Helmholtz. On the Sensations of Tone. Edited by Alexander John Ellis. New York: Dover, 1954.

 

Jeans, James Hopwood. Science and Music. Dover Books on Music, Music History. New York: Dover Publications, 1968.

 

Jourdain, Robert. Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination. Reprinted. New York; NY: Harper Perennial, 2002.

 

Levitin, Daniel J. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. London: Plume Book, 2007.

 

Mannes, Elena. The Power of Music: Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song. New York: Walker, 2013.

 

Merrick, Richard. Interference: A Grand Scientific Musical Theory. Texas: R. Merrick, 2009.

 

Parncutt, Richard, and Gary McPherson, eds. The Science & Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

 

Rayleigh, John William Strutt. The Theory of Sound. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

 

Roederer, Juan G. The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction. 4th ed. New York: Springer, 2008.

 

Stevens, William R., ed. Trade and Development: Focus on Free Trade Agreements. Global Economic Studies Series. New York: Nova Science, 2010.

 

Tomatis, Alfred, and Billie Thompson. The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation through Listening. Barrytown, N.Y: Station Hill Press, 1991.

 

Tomatis, Alfred, and Roberta Prada. The Ear and the Voice. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005.

Sound History

Arom, Simha. African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology. Cambridge University Press; Editions de la maison des sciences de l’homme, 2004.

 

Faulkner, Andrew, ed. The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

Isacoff, Stuart. Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization. New York: Vintage, 2003.

 

Johnston, Sarah Iles. Ancient Greek Divination. Blackwell Ancient Religions. Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Pub, 2008.

 

Kennedy, John Bernard. The Musical Structure of “Plato’s Dialogues.” Durham (GB): Acumen, 2011.

 

Lafarga Marqués, Manuel. “Music and Language in Homo Lineage.” In The 8th International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory, 2016.

 

Lardinois, A. P. M. H., and Laura McClure, eds. Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2001.

 

Mathiesen, Thomas J. Apollo’s Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

 

Partch, Harry. Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots and Its Fulfillments. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1979.

 

Rouget, Gilbert. Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

 

Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice. Edited by Joyce L. Irwin, 127–148. Journal of the American Academy of Religion Thematic Studies 50.1. Chico, CA: Scholars, 1983.

 

Sloboda, John A. Exploring the Musical Mind: Cognition, Emotion, Ability, Function. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

Snyder, Bob. Music and Memory: An Introduction. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2000.

 

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

 

Toop, David. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds. London; New York: Serpent’s Tail, 1995.

 

West, M. L. “The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts.” Music and Letters, 161–179.

Harmonic Knowledge

Ashton, Anthony. Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music. New York: Walker, 2003.

 

Inayat Khan. The Mysticism of Sound and Music. Rev. ed., 1st Shambhala ed. Shambhala Dragon Editions. Boston, NY: Shambhala, 1996.

 

Mathieu, W. A. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression. Rochester, Vt: Inner Traditions International, 1997.

 

McClain, Ernest G. The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics, and Music from the Ṛg Veda to Plato. New York: N. Hays, 1976.

 

McClain, Ernest G. The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself. Stony Brook, NY: Hays [u.a.], 1978.

 

Merrick, Richard. The Venus Blueprint: Uncovering the Ancient Science of Sacred Spaces. Berkeley, Calif: Evolver Editions, 2012.

 

Moffett, James. Harmonic Learning: Keynoting School Reform. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.

 

O’Sullivan, John. Eagle 53, My Ultimate Musical Tuning: The Mathematics behind Eagle 53. Third edition. Co. Cork: Pan Music Publishing, 2020.

 

Rael, Joseph. Being & Vibration: Entering the New World. Graham, N.C.: Pointer Oak, 2015.

Schatz, Howard Barry. The Science of Religion: A Framework for Peace. Tonecircle Publishing, 2012.

Schatz, Howard Barry. All papers and journal articles on Academia.edu.

Stewart, R. J. The Spiritual Dimensions of Music: Altering Consciousness for Inner Development. Rochester, Vt: Destiny Books, 1990.

Sound Therapy

Aldridge, David. Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine: From out of the Silence. London; Bristol, Pa: J. Kingsley, 1996.

 

Beaulieu, John. Human Tuning. High Falls, New York: Biosonic Enterprises Ltd, 2010.

 

Beaulieu, John. Music and Sound in the Healing Arts: An Energy Approach. Barrytown, N.Y.; New York, N.Y: Station Hill Press, 1987.

 

Campbell, Don G. Music: Physician for Times to Come. 2nd ed. Wheaton, Ill.; [Enfield]: Quest; [Airlift] [distributor], 2000.

 

Crowe, Barbara J. Music and Soulmaking: Toward a New Theory of Music Therapy. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

 

Eidsheim, Nina Sun. Sensing Sound: Singing & Listening as Vibrational Practice. Sign, Storage, Transmission. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

 

Gardner, K. Sounding the Inner Landscape: Music as Medicine. Stonington, Me., U.S.A: Caduceus Publications, 1990.

 

Hall, Manly P., and Manly P. Hall. The Therapeutic Value of Music; Including, The Philosophy of Music. Los Angeles, Calif: Philosophical Research Society, 1982.

 

McClellan, Randall. The Healing Forces of Music: History, Theory, and Practice. San Jose: ToExcel, 2000.

 

McKusick, Eileen Day. Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy. Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2014.

 

Miller, Eric B. Bio-Guided Music Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Clinical Integration of Music and Biofeedback. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.

 

Steiner, Rudolf, and Alice Wulsin. The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone: Selected Lectures from the Work of Rudolf Steiner. Spring Valley, N.Y: Anthroposophic Press, 1983.

 

Van Dyke, Deborah. Travelling the Sacred Sound Current: Keys for Conscious Evolution. Bowen Island, B.C.: Sound Current Music, 2001.

Trauma

Blackstone, Judith. Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2018.

 

Dana, Deb. Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2021.

 

Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf. Power in the Helping Professions. Woodstock, NY: Spring Publications, 1998.

 

Heller, Laurence, and Aline LaPierre. Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2012.

 

Levine, Peter A. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010.

 

Levine, Peter A. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1997.

 

Maté, Gabor. When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, 2011.

 

Ogden, Pat, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain. Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.

 

Ray, Reginald A. Somatic Descent: How to Unlock the Deepest Wisdom of the Body. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2020.

 

Ray, Reginald A. The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life. First edition. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2016.

 

Solomon, Marion Fried, and Daniel J. Siegel, eds. Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

 

Van der Kolk, Bessel A. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2015.

Science

Dawkins, Richard. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

 

Lanza, R. P., and Bob Berman. Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe. Dallas, Texas: Benbella Books, 2010.

 

Newberg, Andrew B. Principles of Neurotheology. Ashgate Science and Religion Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub, 2010.

 

Newberg, Andrew, and Mark Robert Waldman. How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation. New York: Avery, 2017.

 

Rosenblum, Bruce, and Fred Kuttner. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

Strieber, Whitley, and Jeffrey J. Kripal. The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. New York: TarcherPerigee, 2016.

Psychology
Various

Martin, Jeffery A. The Finders. Encinitas, CA: Integration Press, 2019.

 

Owens, Lama Rod. Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2020.

 

Strieber, Whitley, and Jeffrey J. Kripal. The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained Is Real. TarcherPerigee, 2017.

 

Williams, Rev. angel Kyodo, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah, Ph.D. Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2016.

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AfricaAlaskaAmericaAndesAsia · Australia · BabylonBelgiumBeninBoliviaBrazilChinaCreteCrotonaDelphi ・DenmarkEastEgyptEthiopiaGhanaGreeceIndiaIndonesiaIranIrelandIsrael ・KnosssosMarsMesopotamiaMexicoMiddle East · MongoliaNepalNorwayPapua New GuineaPeruPerseRomeSabahSarawakScotlandSaudi ArabiaSiberiaSouth AmericaSpainSri LankaSumerScotland ・TaiwanTurkey ・UkraineUSAVietnamYukon