What follows is a book list that I offer to students in my mentorship to choose a title for review. Each one of these books, as surprising as it may at first appear, reflects and influences my understanding of Chinese medicine. Many more could be added to the list, of course.

Chinese Magical Medicine

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain

A Story Waiting to Pierce You

In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Star.Ships

A Story as Sharp as a Knife

Secret Teachers of the Western World

Make Prayers to the Raven

Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine

The Body Bears the Burden

Waking the Tiger

How Forests Think

The Secret Teachings of Plants

Fools Crow

The Other Within

Original Tao

The Mushroom at the End of the World

Shamanism Colonialism and the Wild Man

Nervous System (Taussig)

A Thousand Plateaus

Seven Quartets of Becoming

Early Chinese Medical Literature

For the Time Being

The Unbroken Field

Bodymind Energetics

Sacred Land, Sacred Sex, Rapture of the Deep

The Heart of Listening vol 1

Stillness

Mandate of Heaven

Meditations on the Tarot

Ever Present Origin

Secret of the Vedas

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Moby Dick