The Transformational Power of Dreaming: Discovering the Wishes of the Soul
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 162055514X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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A fine feat! Highly recommended for all dream enthusiasts looking to remember who we really are.” (Ryan Hurd, author of Sleep Paralysis)“The Transformational Power of Dreaming is a beautiful synthesis of scholarship, science, mythology, and the many fascinating but little-known facts about the lives of those dreamers who have had an outsized influence on humanity--scientists and inventors, philosophers, and even some of the great spiritual heroes of our kind. If you had to choose just one, you could not do better than this beautiful integration of the biological, psychological, cultural, mythological, and spiritual dimensions of these mysteries of the night. Actua
. The founder, with his wife Janet, of Magicians Without Borders, he lives in Lincoln, Vermont. The founder and director of Stone Mountain Center, he lives in New Paltz, New York. Tom Verner is a practicing psychotherapist and professional magician and was a professor of psychology at Burlington College for 35 years. Stephen Larsen, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of psychology at SUNY Ulster and the author of several books, including <
They show how dreams and myth are related in the timeless world of the Archetypal Imagination and how dreams often reveal the wishes of the soul. Revealing how the alchemical cauldron of dreaming can bring inspiration, healing, and discovery, the authors show how dreams unite us with each other and the past and future dreamers of our world.. Dreams provide an extraordinary way to process the day’s events and uncover new perspectives. Many cultural creatives credit their world-changing creations to their dreams, and science now believes that dreams helped evolve the very process of thought itself.In this book, Stephen Larsen and Tom Verner examine dream traditions from around the world, beginning with the oldest records from ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and Australia and expanding to shamanic and indigenous societies. They also explore the clairvoyant and telepathic dimensions of dreaming and the practices of lucid dreaming and shamanic dreaming. The authors investigate the psychology of dreaming, the neuroscience behind the dreaming brain, the Jungian perspective, and the intersections of yoga and modern dream research. They examine the profound role that dreams have played in the survival of exploited and persecuted cultures, such as the Native Americans, African slaves, and the Jews during the Hol