Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Dream Messenger: How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gift
By Patricia Garfield
Simon & Schuster, 1997
ISB~ 0-684-81359-9
Patricia Garfield’s sixth book, The Dream Messenger (How Dreams ofthe DepartedBring Healing Gifts),continues her exploration of how dreams can function as tools for healingin our waking lives. The DreamMessenger focuses upon dreams ofthe
departed-identiiYing components of such dream encounters and providing techniques for integrating these dreamsof bereavement to reawaken to life afterthe loss of a loved one. Based on a study of hundreds of dreams of personal loss, as well as her own journals, and d the writings of other contemporary authors, Garfieldbrings a rich sense of shared emotion and hmnan experience to the grieving process, and to the need to affirm our continuing relationships with those who have died.
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The Institute of Noetic Sciences will sponsor a workshop entitled Extraordinary Dreams, led by dreamworkers Fariba Bogzaran and Patricia Garfield, October 9-11 in Petaluma, CA.
Patricia Garfield, PhD has authored ten books on dreams, including the bestseller Creative Dreaming (1974, 1995); she is past president and co-founder of the Association for the Study of Dreams. Fariba Bogzaran, PhD, in East-West Psychology is an associate professor, and the founder of the Dream Studies Program at the Graduate School for Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University one of the first program in Dream Studies in an accredited University.
With dream awareness you move deeply into the great dimensions of the mind where wisdom lies, sip from the source of creation, and return with a gift. Extraordinary dreams are important portals that can help you and your clients open to new perspectives, generate insight toward transformation, and deepen understanding of your life path.
The retreat will focus on extraordinary dreams and how to work creatively with them. It will explore gifts of insight and inspiration from multiple dream types: lucid, creative, spiritual, mutual, and initiation dreams. You will experience dream intention and dream incubation for improving your waking reality.
You will learn:
* Scientific and phenomenological dream perspectives
* To identify a variety of distinct dream experiences and ways to work with them
* Cross-cultural aspects of extraordinary dreams
* To apply insights from dreams to your work practice and daily life
This weekend will benefit everyone interested in exploring dream awareness as an integral daily practice for personal and collective transformation.
For more information, visit the website: IONS.
Tags: Fariba Bogzaran, IONS, Patricia Garfield
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
The Universal Dream Key
Patricia Garfield
Harper Collins/Cliff Street Books, 2001
ISBN: 0060953640
Every night, all over the world, sleepers are dreaming the same 12 dreams. The details differ but the same themes recur in every culture, as they have throughout recorded history. This much anticipated book presents a detailed analysis of the many possible meanings of these fundamental dreams, creating a skeleton key to the 12 doors of the dreaming mind.Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. is a worldwide authority on dreams. She is one of the six co-founders of The Association for the Study of Dreams and is the 1998-99 President. Her bestseller Creative Dreaming is considered a classic, available in twelve languages. For more information, visit the website.
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Dreams naturally lend themselves towards creative expression. Here are my favorite books dealing with dreams and creativity:
Garfield, Patricia. Pathway to Ecstasy, The Way of the Dream Mandala. 1979, New York, Prentice-Hall Press.
If you can find this book (it’s currently out of print), it will be well worth your while. Garfield uses the mandala, a symbol of wholeness, as a starting point for connecting with both the creativity and sensuality inherent in dreams.
Mellick, Jill. The Natural Artistry of Dreams: Creative Ways to Bring the Wisdom of Dreams to Waking Life. 1996, Berkeley, CA, Conari Press.
Mellick pioneered the idea of using creative medium as a way of connecting with and interpreting dreams. (Read an interview with Jill Mellick here)
Mellick, Jill. The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative Dream Work. 2001, Berkeley, CA, Conari Press.
Further work with creativity and dreams.
Tonay, Veronica. The Creative Dreamer: Using Your Dreams to Unlock Your Creativity. 1995, Berkeley, CA, Celestial Arts Publishing.
Tonay uses dreams as a springboard for inspiring creativity in waking life. Consider using this book with her companion workbook, The Creative Dreamer’s Journal.
Tags: art, Creativity, Jill Mellick, Patricia Garfield, Veronica Tonay
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