A Bibliography of Grief
- Wanting a Child. Edited and with an introduction by Jill Bialosky and Helen Schulman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.A collection of stories about having (and not having) children. A lot of powerful stories.
- Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Edited by Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey. Harper San Francisco, c1992.Very powerful book on Tibetan Buddhism. Very profound, lots of death, suffering, and the way out of suffering through love.
- Nearing, Helen. Loving and leaving the good life. Chelsea Green Pub. Co., c1992.This is an autobiography of Helen Nearing who grew up in the early part of the century in a theosophist family in a New York suburb. She and Scott Nearing went “back to the land” early in the depression, practicing a simple life in Vermont and later in Maine, while writing and speaking on social and economic justice.
- Cobb, Nancy. In Lieu of Flowers: a Conversation for the Living. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.A book about grief that was recommended by a friend. The strongest passages are those where the author writes about her own mother’s death. The generalizations about grief are less useful.
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Brian Weiss is a scientifically minded clinical psychologist who came upon past life regression when working with a patient. This was the beginning of a spiritual path for him and he has since written many books and used past life regression to treat a number of patients. These books all have the same themes, but the newest (or the second, “Only Love is Real” may be the most powerful. All are worth reading and, like The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying they deal with death, with fear, and with the primacy of love.
- Weiss, Brian L. Messages from the Masters : Tapping into The Power of Love. New York: Warner Books, c2000.Don’t be turned off by “The Master” language here. Master are people that Weiss gets teachings/message from. The books are about reincarnation, and mostly about principles for living.
- Weiss, Brian L. Only Love is Real: a Story of Soulmates Reunited. New York: Warner Books, c1996.This book is framed by the story of “Soulmates Reunited”, but, like the other books, has a number of other case studies and stories. Very powerful.
- Weiss, Brian L. Many Lives, Many Masters. New York: Warner Books, 1996.The first book. Primarily the story of Weiss’ first experience of past-life regression through a single patient and her story. Also very powerful.