This book surveys both the scientific and the spiritual terrain of altered states of consciousness, highlighting how extrasensory encounters can be soul-healing balm. It explores a wide range of cultural interpretations of out-of-body experiences, from shamanistic practices to the importance of dreams in ancient world cultures. A dozen or more interviews with health-related professionals present unique, holistic glimpses of our inner lives. Dreaming takes center stage, with the author presenting her most profound and insidious dreams. Part reference work and part guidebook, this book tells readers how to make the most of their dream experiences through a variety of techniques like incubation, talisman creation, tarot and more.

Can the mind, one's true essence, or soul travel through dream? Can we interact with future children and deceased loved ones while dreaming? This colorful book asks those questions and more, as the reader takes a journey through time and place, across culture and religion. Announcing dreams and dreams around the time of death are highlighted and examined alongside related phenomena followed by tips for greater dream awareness.