There are already many articles on this site devoted to the topic of suffering—by which I mean psychic suffering, because it is precisely this kind of suffering that leads a person to psychotherapy. It is also what leads us toward spirituality and compels us to seek, in various spiritual practices, a remedy for the pain […]
Recommended books
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Reading books can be a form of therapy. When we allow the words we read to touch both mind and heart, the way we perceive ourselves—and life itself—begins to change. And if we remain committed to this intention to change, a new way of seeing gradually becomes a habit, eventually forming part of who we are becoming.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Reading books can be a form of therapy. When we allow the words we read to touch both mind and heart, the way we perceive ourselves—and life itself—begins to change. And if we remain committed to this intention to change, a new way of seeing gradually becomes a habit, eventually forming part of who we are becoming.
- Age of Aquarius
- Alchemy
- Analytical Psychology
- David Gordon
- Don Miguel Ruiz
- Eckhart Tolle
- Fear
- Feelings
- How Change Happens
- Improving Communication
- Individuation
- James Hillman
- Kundalini Awakening
- Loneliness
- Michael Tamura
- Pamela Kribbe
- Parents and Children
- Purpose of Life
- Relationships
- Spiritual Teachers
- Spiritual Transformation
- Success in Life
- The Mind
- The Pain
- Transpersonal Psychotherapy
- Yehuda Berg
01.02.2019
Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth”
“You cannot fight the ego and win, just as you cannot fight darkness and win. What you need is the light of consciousness. You are that light.” Eckhart Tolle The book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle is one of the books I most often recommend to people who are going through periods of great […]
“You have to finish things — that’s how you learn. You learn by finishing things.”— Neil Gaiman Below is the introduction I wrote for the Bulgarian translation of Branded by the Spirit by Al Collie. I came across this book during a period of active and in-depth research into the phenomenology of awakened kundalini […]
Following El Collie’s book Branded by the Spirit , here is another work devoted to the phenomenology of awakened kundalini in the human body—one that emerges from the intensity of direct personal experience and lived encounters with this mysterious psycho-spiritual bodily phenomenon.This is Gopi Krishna’s Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, a book that offers […]
29.03.2015
Fritz Riemann, “Basic Forms of Fear”
I haven’t recommended a book in a while, but a recent conversation with a client gave me the perfect reason to do so. The book is Basic Forms of Fear by Fritz Riemann. While many may have already read it, it was first published in 1961, I still want to highlight it because it remains […]
It has been a long time since I recommended books on my website, and to compensate, I will recommend three at once! This is because I am not just recommending the books, but their author—Jesper Juul, the Danish family therapist and author of numerous books on parent-child relationships and upbringing. His most famous work is […]
15.07.2014
Loneliness as an Archetypal Experience
James Hillman’s The Soul’s Code is an extraordinary book. It is imbued with pathos and passion, poetic imagery and soul-healing symbolism, through which Hillman “declares war” on traditional psychology—one that kills the human soul with dry reports, reductionist theories, and diagnoses that pathologize the human spirit. “I intend to declare war on the tradition of […]
I recommend this book – Crucial Conversations, with the subtitle Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High. The authors are four men with extensive experience in this field – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. If I were to give in to the impulse of my rising sign Aries, I would recommend […]
21.09.2012
You Are the Answer, Michael Tamura
Lately, I have been quoting Michael Tamura’s book You Are the Answer quite often, which in itself is a sign that this is a book I genuinely believe is worth reading. Now I would like to add a few more words about it, in order to include it in my “Recommended Books” category. I am […]
12.09.2012
Ursula Le Guin, Earthsea
“And the truth is that as a person’s true power grows and their knowledge expands, the path before them grows narrower. In the end, they begin to do only and entirely what must be done, without choosing.”Ursula Le Guin, Earthsea, p. 64 These are the words spoken by the Master Summoner to Ged, the main […]
02.07.2012
Healing the Soul or Caring for the Soul
“Care of the Soul” is the title of a book by Thomas Moore in which he presents his vision of a new kind of psychotherapy—one in which psychology and spirituality are reunited into a living whole. The core idea of the book is that there is a difference between(1) healing the soul and (2) caring […]
04.05.2012
Robin Norwood, “Why Me? Why This? Why Now?”
I highly recommend this book by Robin Norwood, subtitled “A Spiritual Guide in the Labyrinth of Questions about Human Existence” . To give you a better sense of the author and her writing style, I’ll begin with a quote: *”Imagine someone standing before you and saying: ‘In the next few years, you will go through […]
