The World Dream Book: Use the Wisdom of World Cultures to Uncover Your Dream Power
A unique self-help guide to dream interpretation using techniques and icons from cultures around the world. • Challenges
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English Pages [268] Year 2002
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Meeting the Dreamer: Seeing with Our Eyes Shut
1. The Veil between the Worlds: Crossing the Borders between Awake and Dream
2. Purging the River Lethe: Rememberind and Inducing Dreams
3. Song and Dance, Mask and Lance: Our Sleeping Artist
4. Saddling the Night's Mare: Awakening to Our Sleeping Fears
5. On the Wings of the Night: Soul Searching and the Searching Soul
6. Dreaming Wholeness: Shamans, Healers, and Dreamers
7. Remembering the Future: Dreams, Divination, and Déjà Vu
8. Making Love to Your Psyche: Understanding Dreams
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| cee recent events, Mbaline thesot and ‘vole the s ae into the vast dream egpetienses and lore = Hepro Indians of | aBtadon from the Temiar ofMalaysia to the Ute of North America—Sarvananda Bluestone challenges the assumption that our dream consciousness and our waking consciousness must exist se arately. Instead, each can inform and enhance the other to allow u to be truly whole. Emphasizing _that symbols seen in and do not 1 Bisa! signify the same things to all dreamers and using numerous |
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cultures, The World Dream Book encourages readers to develop their _ own personalized symbols and methods for understanding their con- __ sciousness and bridging the gap between waking and dreaming. To aid the reader in achieving this, the author offers Dream |
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Explorations, which are practical exercises for inducing, recalling and understanding our dreams; inspiring tellings of traditional
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dream tales from many cultures; and engaging personal stories and anecdotes. Throughout, Sarvananda Bluestone demonstrates that, with a few. simple tools, ace gas has the carci ¢to unleash their . ; full dreaming potential. — Sarvananda Bluestone, Ph.D., received his doctorate in history from the University of éWisconsin. After years of teaching, he left acade| mia behind for an ashram in India and then a i spiritual community in Oregon. He now lives PHOTO HIRA BLUESTONE BY
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