People often ask me, “How do you know this stuff?” The short answer is – a lifetime of study. The longer answer is what I have come to call “embodied learning.” Yes, I have read literally hundreds of books on the topics I teach and in the areas that I counsel. But more than just reading, I have done my best to embody the best of what scholars before me have articulated through their words, and have applied the practices of the mystics and contemplators and experienced the benefit of these practices in my own life.
Below is just a glimpse into the many books I have studied in forming the foundation of the offerings of Soul School. The benefit to my client and students is that they don’t have to read all these books. They can just show up for the classes and enjoy the distillation of all I have accumulated and gathered in a lifetime of study, integration, and practice.
Lauri Ann Lumby Reading List 2022
Books Related to Mary Magdalene:
Scholarly Works:
Begg, Ean, The Cult of the Black Virgin, Chiron Publications, 2006.
Bourgeault, Cynthia, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene – Discovering the Woman at the Heart of
Christianity, Shambhala Publications, 2010.
Haskins, Susan, Mary Magdalene – Myth and Metaphor, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993.
King, Karen, L., The Gospel of Mary of Magdala – Jesus and the First Woman Apostle,
Polebridge Press, 2003.
Leloup, Jean-Yves, Judas and Jesus – Two Faces of a Single Revelation, Inner Traditions, 2006.
Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Inner Traditions, 2002.
Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Gospel of Philip, Inner Traditions, 2003.
Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Gospel of Thomas, Inner Traditions, 2005.
Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary – The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of
the Christian Tradition, Inner Traditions, 2005.
MacDermot, Violet, The Fall of Sophia – A Gnostic Text on the Redemption of Universal
Consciousness, Lindisfarne Books, 2001.
Starbird, Margaret, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar, Bear & Company, 1993.
Starbird, Margaret, The Goddess in the Gospels – Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine, Bear &
Company, 1998.
Starbird, Margaret, Mary Magdalene – Bride in Exile, Bear & Company, 2005.
Fiction or Channeled Works:
Heartsong, Claire, Anna – Grandmother of Jesus. S.E.E. Publishing, 2002.
Heartsong, Claire, Anna – the Voice of the Magdalenes, S.E.E Publishing, 2010.
Kenyon, Thomas & Sion, Judi, The Magdalen Manuscript, Tom Kenyon Orb, 2006.
McGowan, Kathleen, The Expected One, Touchstone, 2007.
McGowan, Kathleen, The Book of Love, Touchstone, 2010.
Pevehouse, Dolores, I, The Christ, Hampton Roads, 2000.
Wilson, Stuart, Essenes – Children of the Light, Ozark Mountain Publishing, 2005.
Wilson, Stuart & Prentis, Joanna, Power of the Magdalene, Ozark Mountain Publishing, 2008.
Unitive Gnosticism/Gnostic Christianity:
Douglas-Klotz, Neil, The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus,
Quest Books, 1999.
Douglas-Klotz, Neil, Prayers of the Cosmos, Harper One 1993.
Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade, Harper Collins, 1987.
Eisler, Riane, Sacred Pleasure, Harper Collins, 1995.
Ericco, Rocco A. Setting a Trap for God: The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus, Unity Books, 1997.
Harvey, Andrew, Son of Man – The Mystical Path to Christ, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1998.
Hoeller, Stephan, Gnosticism – New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing, Quest
Books, 2002.
Malachi, Tau, The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas – Meditations on the Mystical Teachings,
Llewellyn Worldwide, 2004.
Malachi, Tau, Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ – a Gnostic Christian Kabbalah, Llewellyn
Worldwide, 2005.
Malachi, Tau, Living Gnosis – A Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity, Llewellyn Worldwide,
2005.
Malachi, Tau, St. Mary Magdalene – The Gnostic Tradition of the Holy Bride, Llewellyn
Worldwide, 2006.
Marion, Jim, Putting on the Mind of Christ – The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality, Hampton
Roads, 2000.
Pagels, Elaine, Beyond Belief – The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Random House, 2003.
Silva, Freddy, the Lost Art of Resurrection, Inner Traditions, 2014.
Human Development:
Aurobindo, Sri (2001). A Greater Psychology – an Introduction to the Psychological Thought of
Sri Aurobindo. New York, NY. Jeremy P. Tarcher.
Bridges, William (2004). Transitions – making sense of life’s changes. Cambridge,
MA. Perseus Books.
Kiersey, David & Bates, Marilyn (1984). Please Understand Me – character and temperament
types. Del Mar, CA. Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.
Maslow, Abraham (1970). Motivation and Personality. New York, NY. Harper and Row.
Maslow, Abraham (1968). Toward a Psychology of Being. New York, NY. Van Nostrand
Reinhold Company.
Maitri, Sandra (2000). The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram. New York, NY.
Jeremy P. Tarcher.
Maitri, Sandra (2005). The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues. New York, NY.
Jeremy P. Tarcher.
Newberg, Andrew (2010). How God Changes the Brain – Breakthrough Findings from a
Leading Neuroscientist. Ballantine Books.
Palmer, Parker (2004). A Hidden Wholeness – the journey toward an undivided
life. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass.
Palmer, Parker (2000). Let Your Life Speak – listening for the voice of vocation.
San Francisco, CA. Jossey – Bass
Plotkin, Bill (2003). Soulcraft – crossing into the mysteries of nature and psyche.
Novato, CA. New World Library.
Plotkin, Bill (2008). Nature and the Human Soul – cultivating wholeness and
community in a fragmented world. Novato, CA. New World Library.
Plotkin, Bill (2013). Wild Mind – a Field Guide to the Human Psyche. Novato, CA. New World
Library.
Riso, Don Richard & Hudson, Russ (1999). The Wisdom of the Enneagram. New York, NY.
Bantam Books.
Riso, Don Richard & Hudson, Russ (2003). Discovering Your Personality Type. New York, NY.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
Tallard Johnson, Julie (2010). Wheel of Initiation – practices for releasing your
inner light. Rochester, VT. Inner Traditions.
The Kabbalah and Tarot
Case, Paul Foster, The Tarot – A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Jeremy Tarcher, 1947.
Epstein, Perle, Kabbalah – the Way of the Jewish Mystic, Shambhala, 1988.
Fortune, Dion The Mystical Qabalah, Weiser Books. 1935
Hauck, Dennis William, The Emerald Tablet – Alchemy for Personal Transformation, Penguin
Compass, 1999.
Kaplan, Aryeh, The Bahir Illumination- Translation, Introduction and Commentary, Samuel
Weiser, Inc,, 1979.
Kaplan, Aryeh, Meditation and Kabbalah, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1982.
Kaplan, Aryeh, Sepher Yetzirah – the Book of Creation in Theory and Practice, Weiser Books,
1997.
Krafchow, Dovid, Kabbalistic Tarot – Hebraic Wisdom in the Major and Minor Arcana, Inner
Traditions, 2002.
Kushner, Lawrence, The Book of Letters, Jewish Lights Publishing, 1975.
Kushner, Lawrence, Honey from the Rock – an Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Lights
Publishing, 2000.
Kushner, Lawrence, Kabbalah – a Love Story, Broadway Press, 2006.
Malachi, Tau, Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ – a Gnostic Christian Kabbalah, Llewellyn
Worldwide, 2005.
Matt, Daniel C., The Essential Kabbalah, Harper Collins, 1995.
Munk, Michael L., The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet, Mesorah Publications, 1983.
Unknown Author, Meditations on the Tarot – a Journey into Christian Hermeticism, Jeremy P.
Tarcher/Putnam Press, 1985.
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