After decades of ongoing study and search, I am particularly grateful to the following subset of teachers I’ve had the fortune to study with directly or whose works I have studied.  If you’re interested in starting your own inquiry, a partial reading list is below.  You may wish to start with the teachers and works noted by an asterisk*.

Life Purpose & Right Livelihood

Carol Adrienne

• The Purpose of Your Life
• Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life

Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

• Your Money or Your Life

Rick Jarow*

• Creating Work You Love
• The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide*
• The Yoga of Work (Strategies for Right Livelihood from the World’s Wisdom Traditions)

Margaret Lobenstine

• The Renaissance Soul

Maria Nemeth

• The Energy of Money

Barbara Sher

• I Could do Anything if I Only Knew What it Was
• Live the Life You Love
• Wishcraft

Marsha Sinetar

• Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow

Barbara Winter

• Making a Living Without a Job

Meditative Inquiry

Pema Chodran*

• Awakening Loving-Kindness
• Be Grateful to Everyone (Guide to the Practice of Lojong)
• Don’t Bite the Hook (Freedom from Anger, Resentment and Other Destructive Emotions)*
• From Fear to Fearlessness
• Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
• Pure Meditation
• Start Where You Are (A Guide to Compassionate Living)
• Tonglen (The Path of Transformation)*
• The Wisdom of No Escape (and The Path of Lovingkindness)
• True Happiness
• When Things Fall Apart

Diane Musho Hamilton

• Everything is Workable (A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution)

Jack Kornfield

• A Path With Heart (A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life)
• Bringing Home the Dharma (Awakening Right Where You Are)

Thich Nhat Hahn

• Friends on the Path:  Living Spiritual Communities
• The Miracle of Mindfulness:  An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Larry Rosenberg

• Breath by Breath:  The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation

Sharon Salzburg*

• A Heart as Wide as the World
• Lovingkindness (The Revolutionary Art of Happiness)*
• Real Happiness (The Power of Meditation)
• Real Happiness at Work
• Voices of Insight

Spiritual & Metaphysical Inquiry

David Hawkin*

• Healing and Recovery
• In the World but Not of it (Living Spiritually in the Modern World)
• Power vs. Force*
• Transcending the Levels of Consciousness

Caroline Myss

• Sacred Contracts

Brian Weiss

• Many Lives, Many Masters
• Messages from the Masters:  Tapping into the Power of Love
• Miracles Happen
• Through Time Into Healing

The Intuitive Life

Sonia Choquette*

• Your Heart’s Desire*
• The Psychic Pathway*
• True Balance
• Trust Your Vibes*
• Trust Your Vibes at Work*
• Diary of a Psychic
• Ask Your Guides
• Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose*

Judith Orloff

• Intuitive Healing
• Second Sight

Lynn Robinson*

• Divine Intuition*
• Compass of the Soul
• Real Prosperity

Energy Healing

Gary Craig (EFT)*

Karen Kingston

• Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
• Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui

Bruce Lipton

• The Biology of Belief

Carolyn Myss

• Anatomy of the Spirit
• Energy Anatomy
• Why People Do’t Heal and How They Can

Phillip Mountrose & Jane Mountrose

• Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

• Childhood Disrupted:  How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal

Judith Orloff

• Emotional Freedom
• Positive Energy

Donna Eden and David Feinstein

• Energy Medicine
• Energy Medicine for Women

Venessa Rahlston (Soul Genesis School)

Chloe Wordsworth (Resonance Repatterning)

Creativity and Life Management

David Allen*

• Getting Things Done*
• Ready for Anything
• Making it all Work

Peter Bregman

• 18 Minutes (Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done)

Julia Cameron

• The Artists Way (A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity)

Todd Henry

• The Accidental Creative – How to be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice

Alan Weiss

• Life Balance (How to Convert Professional Success into Personal Happiness)
• Thrive! (Stop Wishing Your Life Away)