A few references/personal influences
William Blake; Robert Bly, Marion Woodman (Iron John, The Maiden King); Joseph Campbell (Hero with a Thousand Faces); Ortega y Gasset; Ann Weiser Cornell (The Power of Focusing); Emily Dickinson; Andre Gide; Kahil Gibran (The Prophet); Thomas Hardy; Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score); John Guarnaschelli (YouTube); Herman Hesse (Siddhartha); Carl Jung; John Lee; Kabir; Martin Luther King; Heinz Kohut (Analysis of the Self); Sheldon Kopp (If you meet the Buddha on the Road); Krishnamurti; Antonio Machado; Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child); Robert Moore; Toni Morrison; Pablo Neruda; Rumi; Stanley Rosenberg (Accessing the Power of the Vagus Nerve); Shunryu Suziki; Derek Walcott; Esther Wojcicki (How to Raise Successful People); WB Yeats.