Bibliography
A Foundational Bibliography
This bibliography is not an exhaustive list, but a curated, representative one. The thinkers and texts listed here are the foundational “conversation partners” for the work on “Integral Seeing.”
This list is designed to serve as a map, showing the deep intellectual and spiritual lineage that informs this framework. You will find the core phenomenologists (Gebser, Bortoft), the participatory philosophers (Barfield, Ferrer), the key diagnosticians of our current moment (McGilchrist, Tarnas), and the “perennial” headwaters of the tradition (Plotinus, Hermeticism, Blake).
For the interested reader, this list connects the main threads from ancient mysticism and Neoplatonism, through Goethe and Jung, to today’s leading-edge thinkers in neuroscience, idealism, and trauma.
Abram, D. (1996) The spell of the sensuous: perception and language in a more-than-human world. New York: Pantheon Books.
Abram, D. (2010) Becoming animal: an earthly cosmology. New York: Pantheon Books.
Barfield, O. (1973) Poetic diction: a study in meaning. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Barfield, O. (1988) Saving the appearances: a study in idolatry. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Boehme, J. (1969) The signature of all things, with other writings. London: James Clarke & Co.
Bohm, D. (1980) Wholeness and the implicate order. London: Routledge.
Bortoft, H. (1996) The wholeness of nature: Goethe’s way of science. Edinburgh: Floris Books.
Campbell, J. (1949) The hero with a thousand faces. New York: Pantheon Books.
Corbin, H. (1977) Spiritual body and celestial earth: from Mazdean Iran to Shi’ite Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
de Santillana, G. and von Dechend, H. (1977) Hamlet’s mill: an essay investigating the origins of human knowledge and its transmission through myth. Boston: David R. Godine.
Ferrer, J.N. (2002) Revisioning transpersonal theory: a participatory vision of human spirituality. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Ficino, M. (1998) Three books on life. Edited and translated by C.V. Kaske and J.R. Clark. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Foster, C. (2016) Being a beast: adventures across the species divide. London: Profile Books.
Freud, S. (1961) Civilization and its discontents. Translated by J. Strachey. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Gebser, J. (1985) The ever-present origin. Translated by N. Barstad and A. Mickunas. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Goethe, J.W. von (1995) Scientific studies. Edited and translated by D. Miller. New York: Suhrkamp Publishers.
Griffin, D.R. (1998) Reenchantment without supernaturalism: a process philosophy of religion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Hanegraaff, W.J. (2012) Esotericism and the academy: rejected knowledge in western culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heidegger, M. (1962) Being and time. Translated by J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hillman, J. (1975) Re-visioning psychology. New York: Harper & Row.
Iamblichus (1999) On the mysteries (De mysteriis). Translated by E.C. Clarke, J.M. Dillon and J.P. Hershbell. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
Jung, C.G. (1968) The archetypes and the collective unconscious. 2nd edn. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Jung, C.G. (2009) The red book: liber novus. Edited by S. Shamdasani. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Jung, C.G. and Pauli, W. (1955) The interpretation of nature and the psyche. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. New York: Pantheon Books.
Kastrup, B. (2014) Why materialism is baloney: how true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe and everything. Winchester: Iff Books.
Kastrup, B. (2019) The idea of the world: a multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. Winchester: Iff Books.
Keynes, G. (ed.) (1966) Blake: complete writings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lao-tzu (1988) Tao te ching. Translated by S. Mitchell. New York: Harper & Row.
McGilchrist, I. (22009) The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the western world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
McGilchrist, I. (2021) The matter with things: our brains, our delusions, and the unmaking of the world. London: Perspectiva.
Merchant, C. (1980) The death of nature: women, ecology, and the scientific revolution. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (2002) Phenomenology of perception. Translated by C. Smith. London: Routledge.
Plato (2000) The collected dialogues of Plato. Edited by E. Hamilton and H. Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Plotinus (1991) The Enneads. Translated by S. MacKenna. London: Penguin Books.
Schelling, F.W.J. (1995) On the world soul. Translated by B. F. M. H. Stolze. Timaeus Press.
Steiner, R. (1995) The philosophy of freedom: the basis for a modern world conception. Translated by M. Wilson. London: Rudolf Steiner Press.
Suzuki, D.T. (1956) Zen Buddhism: selected writings. New York: Doubleday.
Tarnas, R. (2006) Cosmos and psyche: intimations of a new world view. New York: Viking.
Taylor, C. (2007) A secular age. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
van der Kolk, B.A. (2014) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York: Viking.
Whitehead, A.N. (1978) Process and reality: an essay in cosmology. New York: The Free Press.
Wilber, K. (1991) Grace and grit: spirituality and healing in the life and death of Treya Killam Wilber. Boston: Shambhala.
Wilber, K. (1995) Sex, ecology, spirituality: the spirit of evolution. Boston: Shambhala.
Wilber, K. (2000) Integral psychology: consciousness, spirit, psychology, therapy. Boston: Shambhala.
Wilber, K. (2006) Integral spirituality: a startling new role for religion in the modern and postmodern world. Boston: Shambhala.