PRIMARY INFLUENCES

ASTROLOGY

1. Jane Hoskinson My first teacher 1969, who somehow, taught me how to use the Moon and Ascendant in a really novel way…a technique that has never failed me.  She also introduced me to Rudhyar.
2. Dane Rudhyar  reading all his books was the foundation for my astrological life.
3. Tony Joseph influenced my early integration of the mythic realms.
4. Richard Tarnas for his comprehensive archetypal world view, and building on the foundation of Rudhyar.
5. Liz Green Her early works influenced my integration of Jungian concepts. I also loved her iconoclastic attitude towards new age astrology.
6. Zip Dobyns her sign/house alphabet of life understanding
7. Cyril Fagan  informing me of the original sidereal zodiacs
8. B.Yeats His book A Vision
9. Robert Hand   particularly for his work on precession, and, most of all, introducing us to the Whole Sign House System.
10. Alice Bailey Her book Esoteric Astrology in some ways presaging Shamanic Astrology by training us to reject traditional astrological dogma  and The Labors of Hercules, an alternate and immensely complimentary view of the constellations adjacent to the Zodiac.
11. Elisabeth Vreede for her book Anthroposophy and Astrology which also presages Shamanic Astrology in a number of ways. Written in the 1920’s it elucidates the need for using two zodiacs and to name the constellations with different names than the signs.
12. Demetra George for her work on myth, asteroid Goddesses, and the Sacred Feminine
13. Geoffery Cornelius  on divination, and showing us why astrology can’t be about prediction.
14. Edwin Steinbrecher for spiritual and archetypal contributions
15. Charles Ponce for his remarkable essay: “The Nightmare of Astrology”.

PSYCHOLOGISTS

1. G.Jung Where the archetypal journey all started as well as the animus/anima conceptions, and the four psychological functions.
2. James Hillman Almost in every way, the inspirer of the view of the Soul, embraced by Shamanic Astrology.
3. James Hollis Another author in alignment with similar positions as Shamanic Astrology, with really special contributions with regards to Men’s work, and the Inner Sacred Marriage Process.
4. Sylvia Perera  Her work on Venus/Inanna, the Underworld, addiction, the scapegoat complex, and pre-patriarchal masculinity have been indispensible for the Shamanic Astrology Paradigm™. She also emphasis the Celtic contributions, instead of a Greek emphasis.
5. Charles Ponce Unheralded and brilliant, he takes Jungian and Hillman’s approaches into totally new territory.  His insights are the cutting edge of the Shamanic Astrology Paradigm ™.
6. Esther Harding Her books opened up a brand new door for me in the 1970’s concerning women and matriarchal and matrilineal.
7. Toni Wolff Her work on the 4 female psychological types which I first became aware of in the 1970’s, influences me to this day.
8. Jean Bolen Fabulous and highly influential contributions for both Women and Men, based on Greek Goddesses and Gods.
9. Christine Downing Her views on the Greek Goddesses have been greatly influential.
10. Merlin Stone She brought seminal and early on awareness to many of the original primacy of the Goddess.

PHILOSOPHICAL

1. Dane Rudhyar always the best
2. Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) My first ‘guru”, and spiritual teacher. His initial book “Be Here Now” and sitting at his early talks in 1969 had an immeasurable impact on my like.
3. Alan Watts because of his book: The Book, that came into my life at exactly the right time!
4. William Braden for his remarkable book :  The Private Sea, LSD and the Search for God. Written in 1967, this book more than any other explained my own consciousness quest.
5. Sri Aurobindo a truly enlightened being who inspired my understanding of involution as well as involution.
6. Buckminster Fuller Possibly the most brilliant mind I have ever been around in person. He gave us ‘Spaceship Earth”, and dedicated his entire life trying to make the world work for everyone.
7. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi It was being in his inner circle in the early 1970’s that taught me the most about what my life should NOT be about. But I did establish a meditation practice from him.
8. Albert Camus His answer to Sartre, as well as his view of the human as ‘rebel’, and his contributions concerning ‘Sisyphus’ have been hugely important to me.
9. Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Karl Jaspers for their contributions to phenomenology and the philosophy of interpenetration.
10. H.Almaas (Ali Hameed)   Certainly the most profound revelation of consciousness and enlightenment there is, from my perspective…..also the best take of all on the enneagram.
11. Carlos Castaneda  Whether his books were fact or fiction, the knowledge about sorcery and shamanism had a tremendous impact on me and so many others of my generation of seekers. His work with dreams is the best that I know of.  He contributed to me the knowledge of the ‘assemblage point”.
12. Thaddeus Golas For his two books:  The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightment that has helped me and so many others, and his largely unknown follow-up: Love and Pain, that will challenge almost everything that you have always assumed.
13. John Moriarty Ireland’s preeminent philosopher.  My greatest inspiration for understanding the predicament of our current times, through the lens of the conflict between the Fomorians and the Tuatha De Danann.
14. Martin Prechtel Deepest understanding about shamanism and the nature of grief. Also hugely influential regarding the inner sacred marriage process for men.
15. David Abram Absolutely gorgeous understanding of language and shamanism….just reading his books induces altered states of consciousness.
16. Jaron Lanier His books You are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future are fabulous critiques of the internet and social networking, written by the co-creator of virtual reality. Essential reading for exposing the dangers of technocracy.
17. Alfonso Verdu My college philosophy professor and advisor, who introduced me to the philosophy of interpenetration…combining German phenomenology, Heidegger, Vedanta, and Kegon Buddhism.
18. Frithjof Schuon: Philosopher and metaphysician of the Perennialist School of comparitive religious thought. His book “The Transcendent Unity of Religions” (1948) had a profound effect on my world view.
19.  Zap Comix: Highly influential and prescient entertainment about what was happening in the late 60’s. In particular, Mr.Natural, and the madness of R.Crumb. I went to college with the other main cartoonist, S.Clay Wilson.

FICTION

1. Marion Zimmer Bradley: author of the remarkable Darkover novels, as well as the famous Mists of Avalon and Firebrand novels.  Marvelous explorations of the sacred feminine and of the Virgo archetype.
2. Evangeline Walton: author of the feminist Maginogion historical novels, as well as the amazing The Sword is Forged novel about Theseus and Antigone
3. June Rachuy Brindel: author of the feminist novel:  Ariadne:A Novel of Ancient Crete
4. Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus Trilogy
5. David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus  remarkable metaphysical “science fiction’ written in 1920
6. Ursula Le Guin: her amazing novels particularly: A Wizard of Earthsea (the entire trilogy), The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Word for World is Forest. Primary themes of gender, sexuality, and women’s issues.
7. E.Van Vogt for his novel Slan
8. Isaac Asimov for his Foundation Trilogy
9. Robert Heinlein for Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers
10. Rod Serling For Twilight Zone and its incredible influence on my generation.

NON-FICTION AND RESEARCH, COSMOLOGY AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORY

1. Hamlet’s Mill by Hertha Von Dechend and De Santillana influenced everything! Hertha is one of my all times heroines! She is a relatively unrecognized genius.
2. Alexander Thom Scottish stone circle master researcher and investigator of ancient metrology.
3. Robin Heath Following on the heels of Thom, amazing research on metrology, the Wales/Stonehenge connections, the 5/12/13 triangle and the ‘silver fraction’.
4. Clyde Hostetter My original inspiration for the understanding of the Venus cycle that I use.
5. Margaret Curtis For her being the ‘Keeper’ of the Callanish stones, her dedication to the Great Mother, and introducing me to the Lunar Standstill.
6. John Major Jenkins All his books have been influential and deeply in alignment with my work
7. Norman Davidson He first introduced me to the magic of astrosophy, and how wondrous naked eye astronomy can be.
8. Robin Heath  on ancient metrology, Wales, and Stonehenge.
9. Jack Roberts from whom I have learned the most about Celtic mythology
10. Anthony Murphy on Newgrange and the wonders of Neolithic Ireland
11. Charles Mann Fabulous updated research and interpretation of Europe’s effect on the “New World”.
12. Edo Nyland remarkable and alternative views about Scotland, matriarchy, and linguistic archeology.
13. Stephen Oppenheimer His amazing book Eden in the East with his Sundaland Atlantean hypothesis.
14. Arysio Santos   Will blow your mind about where Atlantis really is!
15. Graham Hancock If you have never gotten into ‘alternative” history, start with Hancock
16. Robert Bauval  I Love everything by him
17. Andrew Collins Love his Gobekli Tepe, Denosovian, and Cygnus views, on Atlantis, not so much.
18. Chistopher Knight and Robert Lomas Alternative history and sacred geometry
19. Stan Gootch First spoke of human/Neanderthal hybrids in the 1970’s.
20. Robert Graves His work on the Greek Myths and his fabulous brilliant The White Goddess. His work greatly influenced my matrilineal leanings.  He also was quite aware of the turning of the ages with different constellations appearing in different seasons over long periods of time. Born the same year (1895) as Dane Rudhyar.
21. Marija Gimbutas  Original researcher into the Neolithic and early European Goddess oriented cultures. Proposed the Kurgan hypothesis regarding the patriarchal overthrow.
22. Riane Eisler  Writer of Chalice and the Blade, and my personal favorite: Sacred Pleasure. Influenced by Marija Gimbutas, and bringing us the concept of gylany—a non-ranking cooperative culture between men and women, with limited warfare.