Towards Awakening
Suggested Reading List – Nondual / Tantra.
· Adyashanti – The Impact of Awakening. Open Gate Publishing, 2000.
· Adyashanti – True Meditation. Sounds True, 2006.
· Ballentine, Rudolph – Kali Rising: Foundational Principles of Tantra for a Transforming Planet. Trantrikster Press, 2010.
· Maharaj, Sri Nisargadatta – I AM THAT. The Acorn Press. 2009 (first published 1973).
· Odier, Daniel – Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love. Inner Traditions International, 1997.
· Odier, Daniel – Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening. Inner Traditional International, 2001.
· Odier, Daniel – Crazy Wisdom of the Yogini: Teachings of the Kashmiri Mahamudra Tradition. Inner Traditions International, 2021.
· OSHO – Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002.
· OSHO – Tantra: The Supreme Understanding. Watkins, 2015 (original publication 1975).
· Saraswati, Swami Satyananda – Meditations from the Tantras. Yoga Publications Trust, 2007 (original publication 1974).
· Saraswati, Swami Satyananda – Kundalini Tantra. Yoga Publications Trust, 2013 (original publication 1984).
· Sat Shree – The Bhagavad Gita Revealed: A Living Teaching for Our Time (Part 1, Chapter 1-6). New Dharma Publications, 2018.
· Schindler, William (aka Swami Mahavirananda) – Gay Tantra. Lulu, 2012.
· Wallis, Christopher D. – Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition. Mattamayura Press, 2012.
· Wallis, Christopher D. – The Recognition Sutra: Illuminating a 1,000-year-old spiritual masterpiece. Mattamayura Press, 2017.
· Wallis, Christopher D. – Near Enemies of the Truth. Wonderwell and Mattamayura Press, 2023.
Suggested Reading List - Queer Spirituality.
· Conner, Randy P. - Blossom of Bone. HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
· De la Huerta, Christian - Coming Out Spiritually. Penguin Group, 1999.
· Evans, Arthur - The Evans Symposium. White Crane Books, 2018 (original publication of Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture, 1978)
· Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists. Gay Sunshine Press, 1998.
· Thompson, Mark - Gay Spirit, 1987, Gay Body, 1990, Gay Soul, 1994.
General Reading (Historical Fiction).
· Link to my novel, Fermented Spirits
It’s 1902, Stevie Monroe is a shipbuilding sheet metal worker living in the Gorbals, a Glasgow slum. Stevie is a friend, a husband, a father, and a man with a deviance that must be kept secret at all costs. Navigating this world leads Stevie to a life wrought with worry, confusion, murder, and love.