I have had the distinct pleasure over the past few months of immersing myself in some wise and erudite books on dreams. Here, rising to the top of the pile, are two books that I consider essential to the serious study of dreams in history and practice. The first is by Dr. Kelly Bulkeley, former president [...]
Yes, it’s time once again to post my New Year’s Dream Resolutions. Actually it is well past time to post them, and my handwritten notes from reading through last year’s dreams have been sitting on my desk for over a month, waiting for me to write them up. The one waking-life resolution I made for [...]
The ramp-up to this year’s huge PantheaCon event has been remarkably mellow for me. I have been working hard on it for days now, but blessedly without the usual high-pitched whine of anxiety in the background. I attribute it partly to the unheard-of luxury of having a partner who has my back and is happy to [...]
Just like dressing for success puts our best foot forward, dreaming for success can help us achieve our biggest goals this year. Last year I shared 10 great tips for having big winter dreams. But more important than having big dreams is knowing how to work with all the dreams we have. Here’s how to make [...]
Back in August I commented in my review of Robert Moss’s new book that, People are people… The dirty little secret of the human potential movement is that even if we all develop to our fullest potential, our society will still not be perfect.” Much to my surprise, I did not get a lot of blowback from [...]
Monday I stood up a friend for brunch. I didn’t mean to, and I certainly didn’t plan on it. I had been looking forward to it just a couple days before, had the meeting written in my book, and the book was with me as I did errands beforehand. Yet so complete was my forgetting [...]
That dreams have been influential in many pivotal episodes in history is accepted as fact in some circles; in other circles it is considered nonsense. Yet for anyone bothering to dig into the archives, it becomes indisputable that many important figures over time and across disciplines have been guided by their nighttime dreams—and have changed [...]
Saturday I spent a few hours prepping my hallway for painting. The color had been chosen over a year ago, the paint bought back in December, but for some reason I had not yet gotten around to the project. It is a small T-shaped hallway, no bigger than a closet really, with a total of [...]
It has been over two years since my first post about elders. And now, handily, Brendan Myers has posted a lovely article on the same topic over at the Wild Hunt blog. Not only that, but he’s also taken up the issue of what to do when you have no elders around to learn from. [...]
I am a big fan of working with dream material during the daytime, through meditation, art, writing, or acting in ways which are suggested by the events of the dream. What many people don’t realize is that this process is just as rewarding using other people’s dream material as it is with our own. Case [...]
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