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There are dreams, and then there are dreams. There are those simple, straightforward, recycle the mental-clutter dreams; get-rid-of-the-boss dreams; and get-the-girl-of-your-dreams dreams. And then there are dreams that feel bigger, more compelling. These are dreams that stop us in our tracks, tell us that we're not who we think we are, reveal dimensions of experience beyond the everyday. They can shock us, console us, arouse us, repulse us. And they can change our lives. These are Healing Dreams. In his new book Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life (Riverhead Books; November 1, 2000), Marc Ian Barasch, author of The Healing Path and Remarkable Recovery offers us a now, multidimensional method of dreamwork that can help us achieve greater wholeness and authentic living through understanding and appreciating these "larger-than-life" dreams. Going beyond Freud and Jung, Barasch takes us through the new fundamentals of dream interpretation, helping us to both understand our dreams and embrace their essential mystery. Based on hundreds of revealing, real-life dream examples and drawing upon fifteen years of research, Barasch explores the many facets of dreamlife and what it can tell us about ourselves: *Dreams of Personal Calling. How dreams can help us reenter the realm of our potentiality and find our meaningful, meant-to-be vocation. *Dreaming Together. What dreams can reveal about our closest relationships: the ones we have, the ones we hope to have, and the ones we are destined for. *The Otherworld. How dreams can offer us otherworldly visions and take us into the sacred realm. *The Dream of the Body. How dreams can take us through an inner journey from sickness to health. *Healing the Shadow. How dreams can help us face the darkness within and embrace our contradictions with compassion and understanding. *Healing Time's Wound. How dreams can collapse the boundaries between past, present, and future, and give us wings to escape our own personal limitations. *The House of Dreams. How dreams can collapse the boundaries between our dream-lives and our waking-lives, allowing us to become more fluid and creative. Most of us have had (or will have) a dream that stops us in our tracks, forcing us to question the major choices in our lives, offering a startling new image of a loved one, or provoking a greater awareness of our very existence. Such "big" dreams tell us that we're not who we think we are, and reveal dimensions beyond everyday reality. But even when we're certain we've encountered a vision of life-altering magnitude - something as vivid and memorable as anything in waking life - the question remains: what exactly are we to make of it? What does such a dream really mean? And, more challengingly, what does the dream want from us? With breathtaking clarity, this book sets out a new, multi-layered method of method of dreamwork, and shows us how unlocking its mysteries can help us discover our greatest potential for authentic life. Through hundreds of revealing examples of unusually vivid dreams, the author takes us through the fundamentals of interpretation and appreciation, focusing on the different aspects of life - health, work, relationships, and spirituality - that can be transformed through the unimaginable power of listening to one's inner experiences. |
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