In my earlier days, I had no real interest in politics, because I saw the kind of change really necessary was so profound that no-one in political power could even think about it. Now to my amazement I find the possibility opening up that these ideas can become actively relevant and useful. I thought it would takes centuries. I am talking Spirituality and Embodiment. -Peter Payne
Contemplative and creative bodies: suggested
reading
Ashton-Warner Sylvia 1961 Spinster Bantam
Castaneda Carlos 1991 The power of silence
Clynes M 1978 Sentics: the touch of emotions Anchor
Friedman, Lenore and Susan Moon 1997 Being bodies: Buddhist women on the paradox of embodiment, Shambala.
- Embodiment and religion. Includes piece on illness and meditation.
Gendlin, Eugene T. Focusing. New York: Bantam, 1981.
- Describes how to open energy holds just by putting awareness into them. (EE)
Harvey Andrew 1991 Hidden journey: a spiritual awakening Henry Holt
Henderson Julie 1986/1987 The lover within: opening to energy in sexual practice, Station Hill Press.
Henderson's book is ostensibly about sex but is actually about tantric energetics, "my increasing systemic capacity for charge, pulsation and pleasure." "I began to turn my attention directly to what I experienced, what I liked, what excited me, what satisfied me setting aside all previous judgments, expectations, and demands." She is unusually clear and unflakey, has a PhD. The book is hard to find but Amazon has it.
Milner Marion / Joanna Field 1990 On not being able to paint International Universities Press
Ondaatje Michael 1996 Coming through slaughter Vintage
Pierrakos, Eva 1990 The Pathwork of Self-Transformation. New York. Bantam
Redgrove Peter 1988 The black goddess and the unseen real Grove/Atlantic. A British surrealist poet wrote this book about subtle and subliminal forms of perception.
Tulku, Tarthang 1977 Time, space, and knowledge: a new vision of reality Dharma Publishing