Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume III – Personal Spirituality: Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul, Bellmawr, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2006. Research on NDE, OBE, spirit survival, reincarnation, spiritual awareness.

Ferrer, Jorge N. Embodied Spirituality: Now and Then, J Transpersonal Psychology 2003, 35(1) p. 21-42. http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?ferrer2.html

Ferrer, Jorge N. and Sherman, Jacob H. The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies, Syracuse, NY: SUNY  2008

Hamilton, Allan J. The Scalpel and the Soul – Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing. New York, NY: Penguin Group 2008 (Outstanding sharings of a deeply caring surgeon)

Kurtz, Ernest and and Ketcham, Katherine. The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning, NY: Bantam 1993.

Larson, DB/ Lu, FG/ Sawyers, JP, Model Curriculum for Psychiatric Residency Training Programs: Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice, A Course Outline, Rockville, MD: National Institute for Healthcare Research 1996, 28-31.

Levin, Jeffrey S/ Larson, David B/ Puchalski, Christina M, Religion and spirituality in medicine: research and education, Journal of the American Medical Association 1997, 278, 792-793.

Oz, Mehmet with Arias, Ron and Oz, Lisa. Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future, New York:

Plume/ Penguin 1998. (Surgeon shares compassionate care + CAM approaches)

Puchalski, Christina M/ Larson, David B, Developing curricula in spirituality and medicine, Academic Medicine 1998, 73, 970-974.

Puchalski, Christina M/ Larson, David B/ Lu, Francis G, Spirituality courses in psychiatry residency programs, Psychiatric Annals, 2000, 30(8), 543-548.

Shem, Samuel. The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital, New York: Dell 2003.

Siegel, Bernard. Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients, New York: Harper & Row 1986. (Wonderful reading, from the heart of a surgeon with a wealth of clinical experience and a sense of humor.)

Yancey, Philip and Brand, Paul. The Gift of Pain: Why we hurt and what we can do about it, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan/HarperCollins 1993, 1997. (Surgeon working in India & US with people who have leprosy points out the blessings of pain.)