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Links & other external resources
Notes :
links below are not updated regularly, and the web is becoming increasingly unpredictable and ephemeral.
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I have tended to exclude most (though not all) material that focuses on "what is wrong/broken" and (in line with the ethos of this book) have instead focussed much more on material that points towards positive, resourced ways of seeing the world, and that increase resilience.
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General Books, Audio-video resources, websites and people expressing similar (or different but interesting) ideas!
Natureza Gabriel Kram (a new version of Autonomics that includes healthy adaptive states) - also see https://restorativepractices.com/ and the Restorative Practices Alliance: a set of over 200 practices for grounding and finding our personal resources - in a framework designed to help you easily home in to the ones that most suit your needs. These practices are primarily based on indigenous American traditions and wisdom (such as taught by e.g. Tiokasin Ghosthorse or Phil Lane),
but also on modern neurology and collective experiences of many thousands of people. The site is a mix of free resources and paywall material.
Veronique Mead Chronic Illness Trauma Studies. Linking PTSD (and other trauma) to chrinic illnesses via the Cell Defence Response.
Ruth Lanius - particularly her new book Sensory pathways to healing from trauma :
Ruth A. Lanius, Sherain Harricharan, Breanne E. Kearney & Benjamin Pandev-Girard (2025) Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma: Harnessing the Brain’s Capacity for Change. Foreword by Daniel J. Siegel ISBN 9781462556915
Harvard Center on the Developing Child Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It : a set of resources for parents and practitioners
Louis Weinstock - author of : How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It: A field guide to raising empowered children and growing a more beautiful world (2022) ISBN-13: 978-1785043796
John Arden talks about neural networks and feedback loops. The mind and emotions, senses, physical body, physiology, immune system, and genetic (cellular) expression are all connected in a series of feedback loops.
Ecology, Evolution, Biology, Embryology, Neurology, Animal Behaviour & Life
(also see #General category above for neurology/ANS links)
Leopard-Impala-Baboon 100100 Channel video showing recovery from Dorsal Vagal submission ("playing dead" is NOT playing).
Re-calibration to safety is a wonderful thing. It's much easier to experience GRATITUDE if (as with this dog) the capacity to self-defend has been retained.
B.A. Keating, D. Vago, K. Hett, C. Considine, M. Garza, C. Han, C. McKnight, D.O. Claassen, & M.J. Donahue (2025) Neurofluid circulation changes during a focused attention style of mindfulness meditation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (49) e2504961122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504961122
Resources on the topic of Dissociation
Nautil.US - the importance of dissociation to reduce overwhelm from trauma
Book for professionals (2026) Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice Guidance for Mental Health Professionals and Multi-Disciplinary Teams by Helena Crockford, Melanie Goodwin, Paul Langthorne, Publ. Routledge, 390pp, ISBN 9781041038443
First Person Plural - this charity for people suffering from multiple (dissociative) identity disorders has now dissolved, but their website remains with lots of useful resources.
AMSR (Autonomous sensory meridian response : a calming, pleasurable feeling often accompanied by a tingling sensation. This tingle is said to originate in a person's head and spread to the spine (and sometimes the limbs) in response to stimulation. The stimuli that trigger ASMR vary from person to person.) One way that AMSR arises is by watching expert craftsmen working in a natural rhythm.Ieuan Rees stone carver.
Climate, Psychology and Change: a set of essays around re-identifying who we are as climate issues continue to escalate and the planet we live on enters a period of chaos before finding its new balance.
Anything by David Graeber - see the v for a full set of free books/articles/interviews, and in particular see Debt - the First 5000 Years (note : it's not particularly obvious, the first page has a set of chapter links to the full book).
Also see David Graeber & David Wengrow (2022) The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0141991061
Lecture by Dr. Renatus Derbidge: Overcoming the Dogma of Separation: An Introduction to Goethes Holistic Approach in Natural Science (Youtube)
Paul Kingsnorth (2025) Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity. Particular Books ISBN-13: 978-0241788400 -
also see his substack page - The Abbey of Misrule
Bruno Groening Circle of Friends.
For a list of links of free online resources see
LinkTree - and particularly the YouTube Channel ( e.g. Pawel Schemet : surviving Chernobyl).
A daily self-healing practice with constantly refreshed content can be accessed using the phone/tabletApp for Android or Apple - that includes free direct access to all books, music, documentary films and healing report interviews.
A comparison between Christian mysticism and Craniosacral biodynamics - a class by Ryan Halford - episode 72.
Michael Newton (2002)
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. Llewellyn Publications,U.S. ISBN-10: 9781567184853
References & Notes
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I have seen some absolutely irreplacable sites disappear over the past couple of years ... to name just two, James de Korne's remarkable exposition of the iChing was taken down after his death, and the Cell Intelligence site (with all its videos of cells behaving badly) of Guenter Albrecht Buehler seems to have been one of the victims of Trump's re-allocation of every spare dime to the nearest needy billionaire. I have made sure that the website you are currently reading has (so far as guarantees about the internet are worth anything) guaranteed hosting for the next 10 years.
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In my opinion, our culture is too medicalised for its own good, resulting in a literally obsessive need to find out what has gone wrong and what could go wrong. This information might be juicy for the intellect, but it adds more burden on the body and is therefore (past a certain surprisingly small threshold) counterproductive. f you really wish to feel more embodied and resilient and get there in the shortest possible time, it is important to focus on where you are going much, much more than where you and other people might have been.
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