The World Dream Book: Use the Wisdom of World Cultures to Uncover Your Dream Power - Softcover

Bluestone, Sarvananda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892819022 ISBN 13: 9780892819027

Publisher: Destiny Books, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Author:

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.

From the Back Cover:

NEW AGE / DREAMS

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 dream experiences and lore of the world’s cultures--from the Siwa people of the Libyan desert to the Naskapi Indians of Labrador, from the Temiar of Malaysia to the Ute of North America--Sarvananda Bluestone challenges the assumption that our dream consciousness and our waking consciousness must exist separately. Instead, each can inform and enhance the other to allow us to be truly whole.

Emphasizing that symbols seen in dreams do not universally signify the same things to all dreamers and using numerous examples of dream practice and belief from the world’s indigenous cultures, The World Dream Book encourages readers to develop their own personalized symbols and methods for understanding their consciousness and bridging the gap between waking and dreaming.

To aid the reader in achieving this, the author offers Dream Explorations, which are practical exercises for inducing, recalling and understanding our dreams; inspiring tellings of traditional dream tales from many cultures; and engaging personal stories and anecdotes. Throughout, Sarvananda Bluestone demonstrates that, with a few simple tools, everyone has the capacity to unleash their full dreaming potential.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0892819022
• ISBN 13: 9780892819027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264