The World Dream Book

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.