Life as a Waking Dream - Softcover

Pike, Diane Kennedy

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ISBN 10: 1573226033 ISBN 13: 9781573226035

Publisher: Riverhead Trade, 1997

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For many years, dream analysis has enabled people to identify elements and themes that guided them in deciphering the hidden messages of the unconscious world of sleep. In a startlingly original techique, grounded in Jungian psychology, Diane Kennedy Pike develops and expands traditional dream analysis to help us make sense of the "waking dreams" of our lives. Through the stories of waking dream group participants, she reveals how the examination of your vivid life experiences can help strengthen relationships, enrich creative vision, and lend meaning to everyday life. Finally, a way for those who cannot remember their dreams to tap into the wisdom and insight of dream analysis.

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Here's a twist. Author Diane Kennedy Pike shows readers how to apply the same interpretation of archetypes and symbols to our waking life as we use for our nightly dreams. According to Pike, waking dreams are the surreal moments when visuals suddenly flip and feelings become ethereal. When this happens an important message is struggling to release itself from the unconscious. Learning to recognize and hear these undercurrent messages are the meat of Pike's book. She also helps readers explore their unconscious relationships with contemporary waking dream symbols, such as cars, houses, clothes, and even bank accounts.

About the Author:

Diane Kennedy Pike is a teacher, lecturer and consultant who travels extensively giving classes and dream workshops nationwide. A graduate of Stanford University who received her M.A. from Columbia, she is the director of Teleos Institute in Arizona. She is the widow of the Reverend Pike.

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