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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > Dreams & their interpretation
KABBALAH / SELF-HELP "A brilliantly articulated exploration of the
elusive mystery of dreams and imagination and how they dance both
sides of the veil between fantasy and reality. This is a book that
delivers everything its title promises." Rabbi Gershon Winkler,
author of Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from the Tree of Life
"Catherine Shainberg is a profound spiritual teacher who reminds us
that dreaming is not only about what we do when we sleep but about
waking up to a deeper life by remembering and navigating from our
sacred purpose." Robert Moss, author of Dreamways of the Iroquois:
Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul "Shainberg guides us through
the possibilities of inner growth through dreamwork, offering
exercises that are intriguing and open the mind and heart. She is
on a path of great beauty." Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in
the Lotus "Not since the time of Joseph and his prophetic dreams
has such a well-written storytelling guidebook been offered." Fred
Alan Wolf, Ph.D., author of Mind Into Matter In Kabbalah and the
Power of Dreaming Catherine Shainberg unveils the esoteric
practices that allow us to unlock the dreaming mind's
transformative and intuitive powers. These are the practices used
by ancient prophets, seers, and sages to control dreams and
visions. Shainberg draws upon the ancient Sephardic Kabbalah
tradition of dreaming passed down from the renowned
thirteenth-century kabbalist Isaac the Blind, as well as
illustrative stories and myths from around the Mediterranean, to
teach readers how to harness the intuitive power of their dreaming.
While the Hebrew Bible and our Western esoteric tradition give us
ample evidence of dream teachings, rarely has the pathto becoming a
conscious dreamer been articulated. Shainberg shows that dreaming
is not something that merely takes place while sleeping--we are
dreaming at every moment. By teaching the conscious mind to be
awake in our sleeping dreams and the dreaming mind to be manifest
in daytime awareness, we are able to achieve revolutionary
consciousness. Her inner-vision exercises initiate creative and
transformative images that generate the pathways to
self-realization. CATHERINE SHAINBERG, Ph.D., is a psychologist,
healer, and teacher with a private practice in New York City. She
spent ten years studying the Kabbalah of Light in Jerusalem with
revered kabbalist Colette Aboulker-Muscat and an additional twenty
years in continuing collaboration with her. In 1982 Catherine
Shainberg founded the School of Images, dedicated to teaching the
revelatory dream and kavanah (intent) techniques of this ancient
Sephardic Kabbalah tradition. She conducts imagery and dreaming
workshops internationally.
Dreams and Spiritual Growth presents a new and fully comprehensive
dreamwork methodology. It not only reviews some of the ancient
Judaeo-Christian dreamwork traditions, but it also integrates an
understanding of dreams and dreamwork techniques developed by
modern psychology.
Ever wish you had a magic wand to wave when a creative project was
not going the way you wanted it to? Enchanting Creativity is a book
to help the artist find their happily-ever-after by using a unique
blend of fairy tales, dreams, rituals, and journaling, along with
practical applications. Within the metaphoric structure of the
Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, the book provides readers with
techniques to remember, record, and work with waking and sleeping
dreams; methods to expand the dream experience or as an alternative
to dreaming; and tips to develop and use rituals to honour dreams
and creative work. A fairy tale weaves its way through the
chapters, providing an exploration of the creative process, while
the author's personal creative experiences and those of her clients
offer examples of dream and/or oracle work, journaling questions,
and simple rituals. Create a bridge between the practical and the
imaginal worlds and watch the power of your creative magic express
itself.
The Art of Lucid Dreaming is a quick and easy guide to helping you
wake up in your dreams. When you are aware and lucid in a dream,
you can ask your subconscious mind for guidance, perform healing
magic, seek creative solutions to problems, or explore the dream
realm more deeply than ever before. With more than sixty practices
and fifteen tailor-made programs to help you get started, this
hands-on book encourages you to discover your personal dream type
so you achieve lucidity as quickly as possible. Focusing on how to
get lucid, stay lucid, and take control in your dreams, this book
shows how to transform your nightly slumber into an exciting
spiritual adventure that fills your life with meaning.
"Growing numbers of people are fascinated by the dream world. From
psychological scholars and analysts to spontaneous groups and
cults, the dream has a compelling voice. I make the point in this
book that our dreams are our most creative inner source of wisdom
and hope. The criterion for selection is simply that each one
illustrates a common human life experience that all readers have
had or are likely to have." -- From the Introduction by the Author
'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external
source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica)
is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream
interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete
from Graeco-Roman times. Written in Greek around AD 200, when
dreams were believed by many to offer insight into future events,
the work is a compendium of interpretations of dreams on a wide
range of subjects relating to the natural, human, and divine
worlds. It includes the meanings of dreams about the body, sex,
eating and drinking, dress, the weather, animals, the gods, and
much else. Artemidorus' technique of dream interpretation stresses
the need to know the background of the dreamer, such as occupation,
health, status, habits, and age, and the work is a fascinating
social history, revealing much about ancient life, culture, and
beliefs, and attitudes to the dominant power of Imperial Rome.
Martin Hammond's fine translation is accompanied by a lucid
introduction and explanatory notes by Peter Thonemann, which assist
the reader in understanding this important work, which was an
influence on both Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault.
What if you could dream 24 hours a day, even while awake? According
to innovative psychotherapist Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., we already do.
The seeds of dreaming arise in every moment of the day, in body
symptoms, problems, relationships, subtile feelings, interactions,
random thoughts, and fantasies. We're getting countless little cues
from the unconscious every minute. All are signs from the world of
dreaming. And, according to Mindell, we can be in this state of
lucid dreaming all day long.
In Dreaming While Awake, Mindell shows how to become aware of
these "flirts" from the dreamworld and how to interpret their
message. The goal, he says, is to be wide awake and lucid 24 hours
a day in the midst of this unending dreamfield of information.
Practicing 24-hour lucid dreaming:
- Helps you solve personal, physical, and emotional problems
- Serves as a preventive medicine for relationships and health,
helping you catch the earliest warning signs before they turn into
problems
- Helps resolve conflicts in relationships, families, large
groups, corporations, even politics
Dreaming is the mystical source of reality, says Mindell. "My
goal is to make the Dreaming roots of reality so accessible, so
visceral, that your conscious mind will give you back your right to
dream."
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