The Library

Welcome to The Ask the Wild Bee Library.  The following books and articles are highly recommended.  I have avoided putting these books into categories but have listed them in alphabetical order by author.

• Buxton, Simon.  The Shamanic Way of the Bee:  Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters. Rochester, Vermont:  Destiny Books, 2004.  ISBN 089281148-X
• Buxton, Simon.  “The Path of Pollen,” in Soul Companions:  Conversations with Contemporary Wisdom Keepers – A Collection of Encounters with Spirit.  Winchester, UK; Washington, USA: O Books, 2008.
• Collin, Rodney.  The Theory of Celestial Influence:  Man, the Universe and Cosmic Mystery.  London:  Penguin, 1954.
• Connolly, Joan Breton.  Portrait of a Priestess:  Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece.   Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK:  Princeton University Press, 2007.  ISBN 0-691-12746-8
• Cook, AB.  “The Bee in Greek Mythology,” in Journal of Hellenic Studies 15 (1895), pp 1-24.
• Corbin, Henri.  “Mundus Imaginalis: or, The Imaginary and the Imaginal.”  Located at www.hermetic.com/bey/mundus_imaginalis.htm.
• Crane, Eva.  The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting.  Taylor & Francis, 1999.
• d’Este, Sorita, ed.  Priestesses, Pythonesses, Sibyls:  The Sacred Voices of Women who speak with and for the Gods.  London, England:  Avalonia Books, 2008.  ISBN 978-1-905297-21-4
• Eliade, Mircea.  Everything he wrote and Shamanism:  Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy.  Forward by Wendy Doniger.  Princeton and Oxford:  Princeton University Press, 1964, 2004.
• Estes, Clarissa Pinkola.  Women Who Run With the Wolves:  Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.  New York:  Ballantine Books, 1995.
• Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy.  Python:  A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins.  Biblio and Tannen Publishers, 1974.
• Gimbutas, Marija.  Ancient Symbolism in Lithuanian Folk Art.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  American Folklore Society, 1958.  No ISBN.
• Gough, Andrew.  17 Questions:  An Interview with Simon Buxton.  Located at www.andrewgough.com.
• Gough, Andrew.  “The Bee:  Beedazzled, Beewildered, Beegotten.” Located at www.andrewgough.com.
• Graves, Robert.  The Greek Myths, Volume One.  Penguin, 1957.
• Hall, Nor.  The Moon and the Virgin:  Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine.  London, England:  The Women’s Press, 1980.  ISBN 0-7043-3862-9
• Harner, Michael.  The Way of the Shaman.  New York:  Harper Collins, 1990.
• Harrison, JE.  Themis:  A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Thought.  Cambridge:  University Press Cambridge, 1927.
• Heaven, Ross and Simon Buxton.  Darkness Visible:  Awakening Spiritual Light through Darkness Meditation.  Rochester, Vermont:  Destiny Books, 2005.  ISBN 159477061-1
• Hedsel, Mark.  The Zelator:  A Modern Initiate Explores the Ancient Mysteries.  Introduction and Notes by David Ovason.  London, England:  Century Books, 1998.  ISBN 0-7126-7807-7
• Hemenway, Priya.  Divine Proportion:  PHI in Art, Nature & Science.  New York:  Sterling Publishers, 2005.
• Jung, C.G.  I highly recommend all books by Jung.  Personal favorites follow.
• Jung, C.G. Psychology and Alchemy.  Trans R.F.C. Hull.  London:  Routledge, 1992.
• Jung, C.G. “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams.”  In The Undiscovered Self.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1990.
• Jung, C.G.  Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe.  Translated from the German by Richard and Clara  Winston.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1989.
• Jung, C.G.  Mandala Symbolism.  Trans by R.F.C. Hull.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1973.
• Keller, Catherine.  Face of the Deep:  A Theology of Becoming.  Routledge, 2003.
• Keller, Mary.  The Hammer and the Flute:  Women, Power and Spirit Possession.  Baltimore, Maryland:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
• Kerenyi, Karl.  Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life.  Princeton University Press, 1996.
• Lawler, Lillian B.  “Bee Dances and the ‘Sacred Bees’” in The Classical Weekly, Vol 47, No 7 (Feb 15, 1954), pp 103-106.
• Levine, Peter A.  Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma:  The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences.  With Ann Frederick.  Berkeley, California:  North Atlantic Books, 1997.  ISBN 978-1-55643-233-0
• Lipsey, Roger.  Have You Been to Delphi?:  Tales of the Ancient Oracle for Modern Minds.  SUNY Press, 2001. ISBN:  0791447812; 9780791447819.
• Longgood, William.  The Queen Must Die:  And Other Affairs of Gods and Men.  Norton, 1988.
• Loewe, Michael and Carmen Blacker, eds.  Oracles and Divination.  Boulder, CO:  Shambhala Publications, 1981.
• Matthews, Caitlin.  Singing the Soul Back Home:  Shamanism in Daily Life.  Shaftesbury, Dorset:  Element Books, 1995.
• Matthews, Caitlin and John.  Walkers Between the Worlds:  The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus.  Rochester, Vermont:  Inner Traditions, 2003.
• Nasrallah, Laura.  An Ecstasy of Folly:  Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard Divinity School, 2004.
• Patton, Kimberley Christine and John Stratton Hawley.  Holy Tears:  Weeping in the Religious Imagination.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2005.
• Ransome, Hilda.  The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times & Folkore.  London:  George Allen & Unwin, 1937.  Republished by Dover Books 2004.
• Preston, Claire.  Bee.  Reaktion Books, 2006.
• Roob, Alexander.  Alchemy and Mysticism.  Germany:  Taschen, 2006.
• Sawyer, Karen.  Soul Companions:  Conversations with Contemporary Wisdom Keepers – A Collection of Encounters with Spirit.  Winchester, UK; Washington, USA:  O Books, 2008.  ISBN 978-1-84694-060-6
• Shuttle, Penelope and Peter Redgrove.  The Wise Wound:  Menstruation and Everywoman.  Middlesex, England:  Penguin, 1980.  ISBN 0-14-00-5048-5
• Steiner, Rudolf.  Bees.  Introduction by Gunther Hauk.  Afterword by David Adams, ‘From Queen Bee to Social Sculpture:  The Artistic Alchemy of Josephy Beuys.’  Barrington, Massachusetts:  Anthroposophic Press, 1998.  ISBN 0-88010-457-0
• Stone, Merlin.  Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood:  Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage.  Volumes I and II.  New York:  New Sybilline Books, 1979.
• Sullivan, Erin.  Saturn in Transit:  Boundaries of Mind, Body and Soul.  York Beach, Maine:  Samuel Weiser, Inc., 2000.
• Sullivan, Lawrence.  Icanchu’s Drum:  An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions.  New York:  Macmillan, 1988.
• Travers, P.L.  What the Bee Knows:  Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story.  London, England:  Penguin Arkana, 1993.  ISBN 0-14-019466-5
• Vernant, Jean-Pierre.  The Universe, the Gods and Mortals.  Trans from the French by Linda Asher.  London:  Profile Books, 2002.
• von Franz, Marie-Louise.  On Dreams & Death:  A Jungian Interpretation.  Chicago and La Salle, Illinois:  Open Court, 1998.
• von Franz, Marie-Louise.  Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales.  Boston and London:  Shambhala, 1995.
• Webb, Hilary S.  Interview with Simon Buxton.  Traveling Between the Worlds:  Conversations with Contemporary Shamans.  Charlottesville, Virginia:  Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2004.