Overview

"A unique self-help guide to dream interpretation using techniques and icons from cultures around the world. • Challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. • Includes numerous stories, games, and exercises for inducing, recalling, interpreting, and utilizing dreams. • Extends beyond Jung and Freud to include dream theory from numerous world cultures, including the Temiar of Malaya, the African Ibans, the Lepchka of the Himalayas, and the Ute of North America. Dreaming can be used as a tool for understanding our own consciousness, enhancing creativity, receiving visions, conquering fears, interpreting recent events, healing the body, and evolving the soul. Tapping into the vast dreaming experiences and lore of the world's cultures--from the Siwa people of the Libyan desert to the Naskapi Indians of Labrador--Sarvananda Bluestone challenges the assumption that all symbols universally signify the same thing to all dreamers. The World Dream Book encourages readers to develop their own, personalized symbols for understanding their consciousness and provides a series of stories, multicultural techniques, and games to help them do so. Playful explorations, such as the aboriginal ""Sipping the Water of the Moon,"" teach how to induce, recall, interpret, and utilize the power of dreams. Readers will discover how a stone under a pillow can help us remember a dream and will explore their own dormant artist and writer as they reclaim the power of their sleeping consciousness. Sarvananda Bluestone applies his uniquely engaging style to demonstrate that, with a few simple tools, everybody has the capacity to unleash their full dreaming potential."

Full Product Details

Author:   Sarvananda Bluestone
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint:   Destiny Books,U.S.
Edition:   Original ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780892819027

ISBN 10:   0892819022
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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: Remembering 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 Deja Vu 8. A Thousand Realities: Understanding Dreams Notes

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. . . finally a writer has come along who recognizes the role world cultures play in accurately accessing dream significance. The World Dream Book is a wonderful, witty compendium of dream legend and lore from around the world. . . . much more than dream interpretations; it is a handbook for using your dream state to enrich and change your life. The World Dream Book is far more practical than other dream books I've read. It's clear, interesting, and relevant. It provides tools and insights to make dreaming life meaningful and relevant. & quot; . . . finally a writer has come along who recognizes the role world cultures play in accurately accessing dream significance.& quot; & quot; . . . much more than dream interpretations; it is a handbook for using your dream state to enrich and change your life.& quot; & quot; The World Dream Book is a wonderful, witty compendium of dream legend and lore from around the world.& quot; & quot; The World Dream Book is far more practical than other dream books I've read. It's clear, interesting, and relevant. It provides tools and insights to make dreaming life meaningful and relevant.& quot; & nbsp; , . . much more than dream interpretations; it is a handbook for using your dream state to enrich and change your life. The World Dream Book is far more practical than other dream books I've read. It's clear, interesting, and relevant. It provides tools and insights to make dreaming life meaningful and relevant. . . . much more than dream interpretations; it is a handbook for using your dream state to enrich and change your life. . . . finally a writer has come along who recognizes the role world cultures play in accurately accessing dream significance. The World Dream Book is far more practical than other dream books I've read. It's clear, interesting, and relevant. It provides tools and insights to make dreaming life meaningful and relevant. The World Dream Book is a wonderful, witty compendium of dream legend and lore from around the world.

. . . much more than dream interpretations; it is a handbook for using your dream state to enrich and change your life. --Diane Wilde, SHE magazine , 06/03

The World Dream Book is far more practical than other dream books I've read. It's clear, interesting, and relevant. It provides tools and insights to make dreaming life meaningful and relevant.

Author Information

Sarvananda Bluestone, Ph.D., received his doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin. After years of teaching, he left academia behind for an ashram in India and then a spiritual community in Oregon. He now lives and works in upstate New York.

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