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\section{Suggested Encounters}

\lettrine{T}{he} works listed below have had a deep impact on me. 
Their imprint can be found all over this book. 
Some of them might speak to you too.

\bookentry{Beethoven, Ludwig von}{The Late Quartets}{These 
are the last music he composed (three CDs worth) 
--- deaf and bedridden in pain. 
Yet this music soars. 
I strongly recommend the Guarneri String Quartet recording.}

\bookentry{Campbell, Joseph}{The Hero with a Thousand Faces}{The 
foundational book on the Hero's Journey. I encountered this book during my first sojourn
to the Underworld, and having a roadmap made all the difference.}

\bookentry{Dante}{The Divine Comedy}{The Soul's Journey down through Inferno, 
then up through Purgatory to Paradise. 
Dante has insights about the Soul's Journey that can be found nowhere else. 
For example, \textit{Purgatory} has the same rings as \textit{Inferno}.
But in Purgatory, they're able to ``do the Work'' to find their way out and upward,
while in Inferno, they're eternally stuck.}

\bookentry{Eschenbach, Wolfram von}{Parsifal}{The first complete Grail myth, and it's a doozy.}

\bookentry{Ram Dass}{Fierce Grace}{A documentary film. Ram Dass after his stroke --- the involuntary descent, transformation through suffering, and then transcendence grounded in his new reality.}

\bookentry{Rumi}{\textup{All of him}}{Extraordinary mystical poetry about longing for the Divine.}


%\bookentry{Jung, Carl G.}{The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious}{Princeton University Press, 1969}

%\bookentry{James, William}{The Varieties of Religious Experience}{Longmans, Green \& Co., 1902}

%\bookentry{John of the Cross}{Dark Night of the Soul}{Translated by Mirabai Starr. Riverhead Books, 2002}

%\bookentry{Plato}{Symposium}{Various translations}




%\readingsection{On Longing, Eros, and the Soul}

%\bookentry{Augustine of Hippo}{Confessions}{Translated by Henry Chadwick. Oxford University Press, 1991}


%\bookentry{John of the Cross}{Spiritual Canticle}{Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh. ICS Publications, 1991}

%\bookentry{Lewis, C.S.}{Surprised by Joy}{Harcourt, 1955}

%\bookentry{Lewis, C.S.}{The Weight of Glory}{HarperOne, 2001}

%\bookentry{Plato}{Phaedrus}{Various translations}



%\readingsection{On Myth and Archetype}



%\readingsection{On Cosmology and Complexity}

%\bookentry{Lane, Nick}{The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life}{W.W. Norton, 2015}

%\bookentry{Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre}{The Phenomenon of Man}{Translated by Bernard Wall. Harper \& Row, 1959}

%\bookentry{Whitehead, Alfred North}{Process and Reality}{Free Press, 1929}


%\bookentry{Chalmers, David}{The Conscious Mind}{Oxford University Press, 1996}


%\bookentry{Nagel, Thomas}{Mortal Questions}{Cambridge University Press, 1979}

%\bookentry{Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite}{The Divine Names and Mystical Theology}{Translated by John D. Jones. Marquette University Press, 1980}

%\bookentry{Singer, Peter}{Hegel: A Very Short Introduction}{Oxford University Press, 2001}