Reading & Resources: The World of The Sensitive


New books, films, Web sites, and organizations that address these topics are being created all the time. Below are some resources that I feel have stood the test of time and offer the most unique information on the topics.

Amazon.com is a great place to review the content of my recommendations.

Books

Learning about the Sensitive
Beyond the Indigo Children, P.M.H. Atwater
Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff
Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child, Marti Olsen Laney
The Highly Sensitive Child, Elaine Aron
The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron
HSP's Survival Guide, Ted Zeff
I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You, Roger Pearman & Sarah Albritton
The Magical Child, Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Magical Child Matures, Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Out-of-Synch Child, Carol Stock Kranowitz
Parenting from the Inside Out, David Siegel & Mary Hartzell
The Psychic Power of Children, Cassandra Eason
Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Sensory Integration and the Child, Jean Ayres
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight, Sharon Heller

Resources for Sensitives
Acupressure for Emotional Healing, Michael Reed Gack
The Complete Book of Energy Medicines, Helen Dziemidko
The Cultural Creatives, Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
Encyclopedia of Bach Flower Remedies, Mechthild Scheffer
Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hands of Light, Barbara Brennan
Please Understand Me, David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates
The Reconnection, Eric Pearl
The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, Kyra Mesich

Descriptions Relevant to the World of the Sensitive
Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Barbara Hand Cloud
And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Beauty, John O'Donohue
City of Masks, Daniel Hecht (fiction)
I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You, Roger Pearmann
and Sarah Albritton
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Jung, A Journey of Transformation, Vivianne Crowley
Nobody, Nowhere, Donna Williams
On Becoming an Alchemist, Catherine MacCoun
(some of her descriptions are useful)
Party of One, Anneli Rufus
Shoes Outside the Door, Michael Downing
Somebody, Somewhere, Donna Williams
The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram
Synaesthesia, edited by Simon Baron-Cohen and John Harrison
Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin
Touching the Rock, John Hull
Witch of Cologne, Tobsha Lerner (fiction)

Other Authors of Note: Emily Carr, Canadian painter of nature; Carlos Castaneda; Stanislav Grof; Mary Oliver, poet. Descriptions in biographies and autobiographies of artists and scientists often illuminate the inner life of the sensitive. Although Grof writes about expanded states of awareness resulting from the intake of hallucinogens, his work, and that of Castaneda, resonate with many sensitives who struggle with their inherently expanded consciousness. Joanna Trollope is a fiction writer who is extraordinary in her ability to describe the subtlest qualities of the interior worlds of both adults and children.

Films

Art 21
Birdy
The Color of Paradise
Darger
Garden State
Golden Door (true sensory experience)
Happy Accidents
Helvetica
Heroes (1st Season Series – learning to live with gifts)
How to Draw a Bunny
K-Pax
The Matrix
My Child Could Draw That
Nell
Pillow Book (exquisite imagery)
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
The Tomorrow Man
Tully

Other Topics of Interest

Conductive education, for brain-damaged children
Craniosacral work (referrals available from the Upledger Institute)
Dowsing
Educational kinesiology
Flower essences
Mislabeled Child
Myers-Briggs personality inventory, for learning about your temperament
Neurological integration
Soul-level astrology

Other Links

www.metagifted.org
Articles on types of intelligence and challenges
www.handclow2012.com
Esoteric explanation of dimensions of awareness www.hoagiesgifted.org
Extensive information on giftedness
www.talentdevelop.com
One person's celebration of the creative
www.keirsey.com

Excellent site for understanding temperament and type
www.freewillastrology.com
New perspectives
www.sensitiveprofessionals.com
A clearing house of professionals who are sensitives

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