Darcia Narváez - Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom

I n the last days finishing this book, a little moth seemed to follow me around in the evenings, from the kitchen to my office upstairs. In the past I would have worried about my woolens and done something to keep it away from themput it outside. But this time I realized that they are not really my woolens but gifts of the earth. Why shouldnt the moth partake of them also? And who was I to say that its life was less valuable? In a world of fewer insects, I was so happy to see Moth. As Moth circled around my head I felt that she was encouraging me to complete the project with courage. May this book be a blessing to all who receive it.s

Self-healing

Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin

Lovingkindness: The revolutionary art of happiness by Sharon Salzberg

L.A.U.G.H. (60 therapeutic, perspective-building, life-changing activities) by Allen Klein

Forgiveness is a Choice by Robert Enright

Living room revolution: A handbook for conversation, community and the common good by Cecile Andrews

Integrative Accounts of Human Beingness and Therapeutic Approaches

Being and Becoming by Franklin Sills

Compassion edited by Paul Gilbert

Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist

Brain Plasticity

The neurobiology of gene expression by Ernest Rossi

The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge

The woman who changed her brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

Inherited and Fostered Brain Functioning

The Archeology of Mind by Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon

Philosophy in the flesh by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Human Brains and Development

Affect Regulation and Repair of the Self by Allan Schore

Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self by Allan Schore

The Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel

Affect regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self by Peter Fonagy, G. Gergely, E. Jurist & M. Target

Papers and chapters by Colwyn Trevarthen (see reference section)

Humans as Dynamic Systems

The Agile Mind by Wilma Koutstaal

The Biology of Violence by Debra Niehoff

The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch

Culture and Cooperatiion

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

Learning Nonaggression edited by Ashley Montagu

The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin

Evolution

The Mermaids Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things by Kenneth Weiss and Anne Buchanan

Cycles of Contingency edited by Susan Oyama, Paul Griffiths and Russell Gray

The Evolution of Childhood by Melvin Konner

War, Peace and Human Nature edited by Douglas Fry

Essays that Help Connect You to Nature

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation edited by Carl Meine

Earth works: Selected essays by Scott Russell Sanders

The art of the commonplace: The agrarian essays of Wendell Berry edited by Norman Wirzba

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering moss: A natural and cultural history of mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Literature and the environment edited by Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic and John OGrady

Companions in wonder: Children and adults exploring nature together edited by Julie Dunlap and Stephen R. Kellert

Poetry by Mary Oliver

Poetry and Essays by Gary Snyder

Indigenous World Views (written by non-Indigenous)

Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment by John Gowdy

The Perception of the Environment by Tim Ingold

Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor

The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff

In the Spirit by Calvin Luther Martin

The Way of the Human Being by Calvin Luther Martin

The Western Illusion of Human Nature by Marshall Sahlins

Critiques of Trends in Western Thought and Alternatives

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature; Science as Salvation; The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene by Mary Midgley

An Inquiry into Modes of Existence by Bruno Latour

The Battle for Human Nature by Barry Schwartz

A Meaning Older than Words by Derrick Jensen

Prosperity without growth: Economics for a finite planet by Tim Jackson

NEUROBIOLOGY AND
THE DEVELOPMENT OF
HUMAN MORALITY

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