THE LIBRARY
Human Medicine
What helps us live more attentively and meaningfully in relationship with ourselves, others and the natural world?
A curated collection of books, films, music and ideas that have informed and inspired our understanding of health, healing and the human experience.
An invitation to slow down, look more closely and cultivate a more considered way of living. Included here are works that have challenged and expanded our thinking, as well as those that have brought comfort, perspective and joy.
Books -
Health & Physiology
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom - Christiane Northrup
Psychology & Human Behaviour
Character and Neurosis - Claudio Naranjo
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Nature & Relationship
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm - Stephen Harrod Buhner
Meaning & Consciousness
The Divine Milieu - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Emmanuel's Book - Pat Rodegast
Psychology and Alchemy - C. G. Jung
Wetiko - Paul Levy
Poetry
The Nectar of this Breath - Alfred K. LaMotte
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
To Bless the Space Between Us - John O’Donohue
The New Romantics - Ayesha Ophelia
The River of Winged Dreams - Aberjhani
Films
Perfect Days
Paterson
Columbus
The Taste of Things
Music
Songs
Leif Vollebekk — Rest (Acoustic)
Yasmin Williams — Restless Heart (Live Video)
Juke Ross — Breathe
Labi Siffre — Watch Me (Live)
LULU. — Yesterdays ft The Joy
Nimino — Light up
DRAMA — Low Tide
Obongjayar — Prayer
Låpsley — Painter (Valentine)
Khruangbin — May Ninth
Albums
Talking Timbuktu — Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder
Human — Vanbur
Music for Airports — Brian Eno
Artists
Cinematic Orchestra
Mamadou.
Judah Earl
Listening
Light Medicine of the Future - Jacob Liberman
Conversations
Rick Rubin — On creativity and presence
Krista Tippett — On meaning, wonder and the human experience
Gabor Maté — On trauma, adaptation and health
Esther Perel — On relationships and intimacy
Essays
The Loss of the Creature - Walker Percy
The Power of Patience - M. J. Ryan
The Function of Stillness - Howard Thurman
The Art of Stillness - Pico Iyer
Essays from The Marginalian by Maria Popova
Resources
The Artists Way - Julia Cameron
Dalai Mama - Food & Philosophy
Places
Hermitage Foreshore Track, Sydney
Fairy Bower, Manly
Promised Land, Bellingen
Angunakolapelessa, Sri Lanka
Meiji Shrine Tree Path, Tokyo
Rituals
Write a letter by hand.
Eat one meal without distraction.
Watch the sunrise at least once each season.