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Subtitle: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist Recommended to me by: a friend Sylvia Boorstein is a Buddhist meditation teacher who grew up Jewish and who came to keep kosher and belong to a synagogue as an adult in addition to her Buddhist practice. As a secular Jew who meditates every […] Subtitle: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy This book, published in 2012, is a practical manual on how to live in challenging times. It has only become more necessary since it first came out. It starts with three stories of our times, Business As Usual, the Great Unraveling, and the […] Subtitle: How to Return to Your Soul Recommended to me by: Mereth Jane Meredith weaves together research and interpretation about three myths of descent into the underworld with her own experiences of unintentional and intentional descents. The book is divided into sections on Preparation, Descending, In the Underworld, and Coming Back Out. The three […] Subtitle: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition Recommended to me by: Tina Tau This book has a hopeful story about our current disastrous economic and political situation. In reaching for connection rather than separation, we can build a new sustainable world to emerge from the ruins of the old. I love […] Subtitle: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path I read and liked this a long time ago. I’ve been recommending it to folks lately, so I reread it to refresh my memory. The part I remembered and liked was the encouragement to be yourself in dating. Show up as you are, and […] Subtitle: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss This is a loving clear-eyed unflinchingly personal look at terminal illness, death, and grief by Oregon’s former governor Barbara Roberts. Her husband Frank Roberts died of cancer during her governorship. From the introduction: I hope for a culture of loving openness in every medical office, […] Subtitle: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World Recommended to me by: David Mitchell David Abram is both a sleight-of-hand magician, concerned with perception and connection, and a philosopher, concerned with insubstantial ideas. Traveling as a sleight-of-hand magician, he got to know indigenous magicians in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas. With them, he learned […] Subtitle: Celebrating 30 Years, An Anthology of We’Moon Art and Writing Recommended to me by: gift from a friend We’Moon, now in its 35th year, is an feminist astrological datebook that centers the moon cycles rather than the sun cycles. This anthology contains the extraordinary history of this project, as well as sample art […] Subtitle: A Practice for Counting the Omer Recommended to me by: Kol Aleph – Jewish Renewal Omer Offerings Online I tried Counting the Omer this year, moving through the sephirot of the Kabbalah in all their pairings over 49 days. I quickly found that I needed a woman’s voice to guide me through this […] Subtitle: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism Recommended to me by: Orasimcha Batdina I loved this book. Lynn Gottlieb talks about exactly what I needed to hear, that other women find Judaism to be hostile ground. I cheered on her battle to make that hostile world hers in a new way, and winced […] |