Dreams have been with us since the beginning of time, and have been viewed differently from century to century, and culture to cultures. Check out these resources to help you take a dream journey through time:
The History of Dreams with Richard Wilkerson This delightful six week course gives you both e-mail essays on the history of dreams and dreaming, as well as interactive labs and online dream groups to teach you ways of exploring and understanding your dreams. Course includes dream groups on line plus:
1. Introduction and Basic Recall Skills: The Peer-Relations Approach
2. Ancient Dreams: Messages from the Gods
3. Sigmund Freud: The Dreamwork of the Unconscious
4. Carl Gustav Jung: Mythic Dreams and Wholeness
5. Other Pre- 1960’s Dream Theories
6. Frederick (Fritz) Perls : Gestalt Dream Techniques.
7. Mindell and Gendlin: The DreamBody
8. From Couch to Culture: Grassroots & Modern Dreamwork Movements
9. Non-Interpretive Dreamwork: Lucid, Mutual, Paranormal & Pro-active Dreaming.
10. Dream Science and Dreamwork: Friends or Foes?
11. Dream Anthropology: How Culture Influences Dreamwork
12. Dreaming In Cyberspace: New Trends in Dream Sharing on the Internet.
Our Dreaming Mind, the definitive book on dream techniques, theories, and perspectives historically. By Robert Van De Castle.
From Ancient Thrace to Cyberspace: Moments in Dream History
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010by
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
The Greek Dream Bridge
It may seem strange to start a column on the history of dreams with such a late culture as the Classic Greeks. Ater all, texts were first written in cuneiform by the Sumarians and among those texts are records of dreams. Anthropological evidence suggests dream sharing must be as ancient as language itself. Yet I feel the Classic Greeks (let’s stretch it and say 600-150 BeE) to be a marker culture, specifying a time (at least metaphorically) when our loyalties began to divide between rational and irrational.
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