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While
The Dream Cards were based on many people's major dream symbols and are
designed for gaining meaning from your dreams, they also work effectively in
helping you find inner wisdom about your own life issues. People use these
Cards for daily meditation by choosing at random a Card from anywhere in the
deck and using it as a focus for what to expect during that day.
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Dream
cycles offers a new and exciting approach to dream interpretation. The
premise is that dreams come from an inner source full of symbolism. Using the
nine basic cycles in your life that are determined from your birthday, you
can open your dreams and read them in the full context of the events in your
life.
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on
dreams, myth and social change
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We
spend (or should spend) eight hours out of every twenty-four sleeping. Sleep
is the time for our unconscious to be most active. For those seeking a sacred
connection, but unable to let go of their conscious selves in
meditation, Sacred Sleep proves a useful and informative book.
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One Sunday morning, when I was
four years old, I excitedly said to my family at the breakfast table,
"Last night, I flew all the way to the bottom of the stairs, and I
didn't even hurt myself."
"Ohh,"
they laughed. "That was just a dream."
Just a
dream, I thought sadly and, taking my cue from them, neglected my dreams for
the next twenty years. Fortunately, before I reached thirty, my dreaming self
woke me up. I have spent the rest of my life trying to recapture and
understand the magic of that early dream, somewhat successfully.
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Dreams That Come True: Their Psychic
and Transforming Powers Mass Market
Paperback – December 30, 1989
by David
Ryback Ph.D. (Author)
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(Used) Tanous,
Alex and Gray, Timothy, Bantam Books, 1990. Your dreams can light the way to
positive changes in your life... Have you ever dreamed you were
falling...flying...floating...fishing? Have you ever wondered if a particular
dream was a warning, a premonition, even an out-of-body experience? Now Dr.
Alex Tanous, one of America's most respected psychics, reveals the powerful
workshop techniques he's employed to help thousands remember, analyze, and
use their dreams to: reveal valuable information confront and conquer
repressed feelings raise self-esteem solve personal problems release untapped
psychic and spiritual energy reduce stress and susceptibility to disease
uncover new reserves of love and courage Fascinating, clear, and easy to
follow, Dr. Tanous' methods are illustrated through dream examples that were
obtained firsthand in workshops, interviews, and therapy sessions. These
dreams are presented in a series of workshop exercises designed to increase
your ability to interpret your own dreams. DREAMS ,SYMBOLS & PSYCHIC
POWER is an amazing guide to dream exploration that lets you harness the
miracle of dreams..to communicate more directly with your subconscious, to
free your psychic abilities, and to promote happiness and peace of mind.
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by Jess
Stearn
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We dream always
about ourselves, and a dream is really nothing more than a stage presentation
in which no costs are spared – the actors and the properties and the theatre
with only one person in the audience, the dreamer himself. In the dream, all
ones different personalities, possessions, hopes and fears, are symbolized in
one way or another in a fictitious setting, and it is the business of dream
interpretation to find out what this nightly play – be it comedy, tragedy or
farce – means to the dreamer
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Description
Covers
spirit guides, dreams as vision quests, divination, shamanism, and more.
Interweaves the author's own life experiences, thought-provoking research and
quotes, and clearly written self-help material. This book has already won the
hearts of thousands of readers. (Reprint originally published by Celestial
Arts/Ten Speed Press).
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EXCERPT: 1. WHAT COMES TO YOU?
What
are your associations in relation to the dream?
What
comes to mind as you think about the dream?
Or
pick a part of the dream. What comes to you in relation to that?
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Living
Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney
Your mind works actively every night reviewing what you learned the day before, working out new points of view and solutions to the problems you face. 
Dr. Delaney does not focus
on the paranormal, new age, and dogmatic or superstitious dimensions of
dreaming. The focus of the Dream Interview Method is on using the products of
our sleeping brain to improve our insight and abilities to assess and solve
life’s personal, professional, and creative issues.
Living Your Dreams: The Classic
Bestseller on Becoming Your Own Dream Expert Paperback – October 18,
1996 by Gayle
M. Delaney
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Hillman
wrote this book in the mid-seventies, and it is surprising to me how little
effect it seems to have had on the various schools of dream interpretation.
Perhaps this is because Hillman's "underworld" is an ambiguous,
sometimes frightening place, a place where each psyche is rooted into the
Beyond, and where daytime morality has no dominion. According to the author,
the underworld and its dreams contribute to the making of Soul, and are not
to be used as helps to fix up our daytime life. To do so is an act of
exploitation. This clearly is at odds with our culture's fixation on mining
one's dreams for images, ideas, and information that can help us be more
productive and functional players in the status quo world we inhabit during
waking hours.
Hillman
carefully develops his ideas through looking at the work of Freud, Jung, and
other twentieth century dream workers. He winnows out the wheat from the
chaff, and uses the wheat to thrust dream interpretation forward, and farther
away from the safe, cozy realm the ego would so much like to stay wrapped up
in. One gets the feeling reading this book that safety does not a strong soul
make.
Being
an inveterate "miner" of dreams myself, I was at first rather
resistant to Hillman's thesis. Eventually, though, I came around to his point
of view (with reservations), mainly because I realized that dreams and
soulwork are very much like art. Just as art should not always be made for
any practical "daytime" use, so with our souls and dream images.
However,
this opens a question. For thousands of years, shamans have traveled into the
underworld to bring back energy for healing individuals and their
communities. They act as conduits for energies traveling up from the
Otherworld so that this world can be "seeded" and keep evolving. Is
this, too, an act of exploitation? I don't think so. But I do think, after
reading this book, that we should be aware of, and careful about, how we use
the images and teachings that come to us, unbidden, as we sleep.
What I did find
both fascinating and helpful was his insistence that most dream analysis is
an exercise of the ego. We tend to impose our "dayworld"
preoccupations and interests on our dreams, and this, he suggests, is a
violence. Dreams are not symbolic recapitulations of what goes on in
our waking life. They are underworldly (from the viewpoint of death/the
dead) commentaries on or critiques of our waking life. The question is
not, "How can understanding my dreams help me to achieve my goals?"
so much as, "What does my dream-self think of my goals?"
"Therapy, or
analysis, is not only something that analysts do to patients; it is a process
that goes on intermittently in our individual soul-searching, our attempts at
understanding our complexities, the critical attacks, prescriptions, and
encouragements we give ourselves. We are all in therapy all the time insofar
as we are involved in soul-making."
- James
Hillman, Re-visioning
Psychology
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DREAMS REFLECT YOUR WAKING LIFE.
BETTY'S "THE DREAM
BOOK: SYMBOLS FOR SELF UNDERSTANDING" HELPS YOU DECIPHER YOUR VITAL MESSAGES
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Psychoanalyst Jill
Morris offers case studies and detailed guidelines to help the reader utilize
"dreamwork" to solve problems, enhance creativity, resolve inner
conflicts, learn new skills, and receive intensely pleasurable experiences.
Recognize and
interpret specific dream images and symbols
Keep a dream
journal and record the progress of self-discovery
Uncover the hidden
meanings of dreams
Turn nightmares
into sources of power
Share dreams with
a partner for enhanced intimacy and understanding
From
the Inside Flap
Dreams
are the ultimate personal creation -- a vast storehouse of insight,
information, and power. In this hands-on workbook, psychoanalyst Jill Morris
draws on fundamental historical, scientific, and psychological theories to
offer detailed instructions on how you can open the door to your inner self
and make the most of your dreams. You'll learn how to:
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Draw on dreams to solve problems, enhance creativity, resolve inner
conflicts, master new skills, and discover intensely pleasurable experiences.
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Recognize and interpret specific dream images and symbols.
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Keep a dream journal and record the progress of self-discovery.
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Use free association to uncover hidden meanings in your dreams.
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Turn nightmares into sources of power, confront your worst fears, and
overcome them.
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Share your dreams with a partner for enhanced intimacy and understanding.
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Control the form and content of your dreams, make them end happily, and make
them come true. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition
of this title.
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