The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life

by Jeremy Taylor

Overview

Discover how the hidden messages in your dreams can change your life.

A renowned expert on the subject of dreams, Jeremy Taylor has studied dreams and has worked with thousands of people both individually and in dream groups for more than forty years. His discoveries show us how dreams can be the keys to gaining insight into our past and our conflicts, as well as excursions into the fantastic realm of creative inspiration.

An expanded and updated edition of his classic guide to understanding your dreams—Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill—The Wisdom of Your Dreams provides readers with specific, hands-on techniques to help them remember and interpret their dreams, establish a dream group, and learn the universal symbolism of dreaming. Full of case histories and featuring a revised introduction by the author and a new chapter about dreams as clues to the evolution of consciousness, this is a life- changing and potentially world-changing work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585427543
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/15/2009
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Jeremy Taylor, an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for more than forty years, blending the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He is also the author of The Living Labyrinth: Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life, and Dream Work. Taylor is also a published poet and a prize-winning screenwriter. He lives in Fairfield, CA, with his wife, with whom he lead Myth and Dream Tours all over the world.

Table of Contents

Brief Introduction and Acknowledgments ix

An Initial Word About Anonymity and Confidentiality xiii

Chapter 1 What You Should Know About Dreams: Ten Basic Assumptions 1

Chapter 2 Exploring the Many Layers of Dreams-The Basic Assumptions in Action 10

Chapter 3 Dreams and the Evolution of Consciousness 31

Chapter 4 Techniques for Improving Dream Recall 61

Chapter 5 Dreams, Nonviolence, and Social Change 89

Chapter 6 Working with Dreams in Groups 115

Chapter 7 Recurrent Dreams and Recovering Memories of Childhood Trauma in the Dreams of Adulthood 152

Chapter 8 Lucid Dreaming and Shamanism 180

Chapter 9 Dreaming and the Evolution of the Archetypes 214

Chapter 10 Dreams and the Evolution of Human Consciousness 231

Appendix I Suggestions for Further Reading & Other Resources 296

Appendix II Some Basic Hints for Working with Your Dreams by Yourself 308

Appendix III An Exemplary Dream Group Meeting: Dream Work (More or Less) Verbatim 314

Index 328