Of Universal Wisdom

• The Hermetica,
  by Freke and Gandy
• Sacred Contracts,
  by Caroline Myss
• The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary,
  by Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.
• Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them,
  by Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.
• The Seat of the Soul
  by Gary Zukav
  
• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
  by Deepak Chopra
• The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book
  by Don Miguel Ruiz

Of Deepening your Christian Spiritual Practice, Traditional and Esoteric

• The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
  by Ronald Rolheiser
• Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
  by John Eldredge
• The Story of Christian Spirituality: Two Thousand Years from East to West
  General Editor, Gordon Mursell
• Gnosis: the Nature and History of Gnosticism
  by Kurt Rudolph
• Jesus and the Essenes
  by Dolores Cannon
  
• Hidden Stories of the Childhood of Jesus
  by Glenn Kimball
• Christianity and Evolution
  by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
  by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
• The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls
  by Geza and Vermes
• The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered
  by Eisenman and Wise
• Conversations with God
  by Neale Donald Walsch
• Living Buddha, Living Christ
  Thich Nhat Hanh

Of Healing and Energy

• The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Chakras
  by Anodea Judith, Selene Vega
  
• Energy Anatomy
  Advanced Energy Anatomy (also see my review(under P.L. Daly) on this CD set
  by Caroline Myss
• Isis and Other Guides to Health: Helpful Hints on the Road to Well-Being
  by Maria Fe Arriola, Edited by Lan Mercado Carreon. Published by Isis International-Manila. For you copy click to their library page of Isis International-Manila.
• A Call for Connection
  by Gail Bernice Holland
  
• Healing the Soul of America
  by Marianne Williamson
• Medicine for the Earth
  by Sandra Ingerman
• The Lightworker's Way: Awakening Your Spiritual Power to Know and Heal
  by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
• You The Healer
  by Jose Silva and Robert B. Stone
• Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
  by Deepak Chopra

The Rise and Uplifting of Feminine Aspect for Balance and Harmony in All.

• The Circle of Life: Thirteen Archetypes for Every Woman
  by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard
• Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers
  Edited by Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios
• The Goddess Re-Awakening
  Compiled by Shirley Nicholson
• A Woman's Worth
  by Marianne Williamson
• A Woman of Wisdom: Honoring and Celebrating Who You are
  by Caroline Joy Adams
• The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries
  by Zsuzsanna Budapest
• Soul Sisters: The Five Sacred Qualities of a Woman's Soul
  by Pythia Peay
• Sacred Circles: A Guide to Creating Your Own Women's Spirituality Group
  by Robin Deen Carnes and Sally Craig
• Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much,
  by Anne Wilson Schaef
• Women Who Run with the Wolves
  by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D.
• Embracing Jesus and the Goddess: A Radical Call for Spiritual Sanity
  by Carl McColman
• The Flowering of the Soul: A Book of Prayers by Women
  Edited by Lucinda Vardey
• A Woman's Journey to God
  by Joan Borysenko
• At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
  by Carol Lee Flinders

Of the Philosophical, Psychological, Historical, Scientist's
(Left Brain-Right Brain) Approach

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• A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan
  by Leny Mendoza Strobel
• Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization among Post-1965 Filipino Americans
  by Leny Mendoza Strobel
• Between the Homeland and the Diaspora
  by S. Lily Mendoza
• Filipino Personality Indeigenous and Cross-Cultural Studies
  by A. Timothy Church and Marcia S. Katigbak
• Filipino Philosophy
  by Rolando M. Gripaldo
• The Filipino Mind: Philippine Philosophical Studies II
  by Leonardo M. Mercado
• Looking for the Pre-hispanic Filipino
  by William Henry Scott
• Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People
  Encyclopedia-like set published by Reader's Digest
• Jung's Thoughts on God: Religious Depths of the Psyche
  by Donald R. Dyer, Ph.D.
• The Earth has a Soul: The Nature Writings of Carl Jung
  edited by Meredith Sabini
  
• Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome them? A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama,
  An Extraordinary Collaboration Between Buddhist Scholars and Western Psychologists, Neuroscientists, and Philosophers
  Narrated by Daniel Goleman(New York Times Bestselling Author of Emotional Intelligence)
• Working on Emotional Intelligence
  by Daniel Goleman
• The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
  by Gary Zukav
  
• The Hidden Face of God in Science
  by Gerald L. Schroeder
• Waking Up in Time
  Peter Russell
• Global Brain Awakens
  Peter Russell
• From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light
  Peter Russell

A note from the artist:

For almost a decade I have been on a search... again, the pagbabalikloob discussion group and the babaylan discussion group fit perfectly in that.... I am not surprised that I found kindred spirits, like-minded souls and true babaylan women in the pagbabalikloob list serv.

....finding meditation, yoga, readings in gnosticism, kabbalah, buddhism, hinduism, native american shamanism, jungism... finding my attention steered towards the Feminine Principle of the goddess and moon cycles... becoming comfortable in my late 30s with my own messy physical cycles.

.....and looking and longing for something key... elements that would connect me to my ancestral spirituality...and now finally coming to that crucial point in physical reality that my body has been dying for it.... my body is saying "Wake up, Perla, it is time for you to take action... or else..." Will it be too late for me... and so this web site has burst forth... but my body, in its frustrating weakness...is still saying..."you are not finished"....

And so continuing on a search for something more connecting that has been elusive for me here on a remote country mountain in Connecticut.... Even when I took a two week trip back to the P.I., my budgeted time and fate did not allow me an encounter that I was hoping for...

And finally... now....here in the U.S., after having mentored young women who are looking for their connection to...something of sisterhood, of being Filipino... in love for the Philippines and who we are as Filipinas... I have found windows giving me peaks and doors that lead to what my ancestors knew and did..

For those of you who are fearful of other religions and mysterious spiritual practice... I was there once, too. Pray for guidance on how to move forward... how to explore and deepen your spirituality... how to become closer to God... pray to Jesus the Christ, God, Mother Mary, Quan Yin, Buddha, Krishna, Saints, your ancestors, the Angels of Love and Goodness, and the Divinity that you trust...

For those of you who see some of the concepts and titles as "new age" become aware that what you thought of as "new" is really quite old... steeped in mystery from the East and even in the West... belittled, stigmatized and put underground by conquering and controlling forces of rulers, patriarchs, colonizers. empires... there is a rebirth of what is even older then the "traditional"... for healing and wholeness there is coming about a harmonization of that which is old and that which is even older... a marriage of understanding between that which has been embraced and traditional to that which has been subjugated and forgotten...

Here are some titles that are in my library... more to come... an ongoing work as I find the time to work on this web page and add more titles from my library add links... and find more books...

I hope this helps you if you have been on a search... looking for something... You have the choice to explore outside of what you have been taught... to make decisions for yourself... to harvest Wisdom and Truth and Light where you find it. You will find that our highest aspirations, the best and the noblest in all of us men and women around the world, no matter what religion, no matter what race, is the same. We are indeed brothers and sisters, Children of God, the Nameless/Many-Named Divine.