Full Description
This book explores what we can learn from dreams, both nocturnal and waking, through their revelations of emotional truths, and how these truths can inform psychotherapeutic practice, spiritual practice, and everyday life.
The co-authors—both psychotherapists and artists, demonstrate the path of awakening not only from dreams but also to and through dreams. They suggest that to dream is to realize grace. Further, they apprentice grace by developing and deepening relationship to the soul's divine gifts and receiving the wondrous offerings of vivid dreamlife. Through contemplation of more than thirteen dreams, the authors share their collaborative dream dialogues and reflections. In this process, new meanings, questions and revelations about the life of the soul emerge. They show how to cultivate the practice of deeply listening to our dreams and the emotional truths they harbor by growing awareness and receptivity to our psyche's enigmatic expressions.
With rich dream dialogues and a focus on learning from dreams together, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and anyone wanting to explore how dreams can help us better understand ourselves in relationship to the mystery of the soul, to each other, and to the world.
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Contents
1. Scream: Learning from Being Heard 2. Watch: Learning from Time 3. Song: Learning from Singing—Guru Bodhichitta 4. Alchemy of Soul: Learning from Creativity and the Unconscious 5. Others: Learning from Multiple Selves 6. Surrender: Learning from Illness 7. Wanting Out: Learning from Cats—Bardo and the Shoji Screen 8. Circle Game: Learning from Cats—Chief and His Exercise Wheel 9. Devotion: Learning from Nondual Love 10. Departure: Learning from Goodbye 11. Burial: Learning from Death—Île-à-la-Crosse 12. Ascension: Learning from Divinity 13. Grace: Learning from Living—Tara's Promise 14. Afterword: Sing the Dream that Wakes You Up
