Dream Theatres of the Soul

by Jean Benedict Raffa
Dream Theatres of the Soul
Author: Jean Benedict Raffa
Publisher: Innisfree Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Dreams
ISBN: 9781880913109
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What are your dreams telling you? Dr. Raffa believes that "dreams show us who we are and what we can become." In this fascinating book of how to analyze dreams, explore the feminine aspects, and use dreams to grow emotionally and spiritually, Raffa combines the metaphor of a theatre with the practicality of a handbook to provide a practical guide to understanding your dreams.

Healing the Sacred Divide

by Jean Benedict Raffa
Healing the Sacred Divide
Author: Jean Benedict Raffa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781936012602
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What if you got a wrong memo about what God wants of you, and ran with (or against) it for years? Raffa helps you find and take joy in healing painful divides this could cause in yourself and relationships, and between values like masculine/feminine and spiritual/unspiritual in your world. She presents this process as an authentic spiritual practice--from a seasoned, progressive Christian Jungian perspective--to become wisely open-minded and open-hearted.

The Soul's Twins

by Jean Benedict Raffa
The Soul's Twins
Author: Jean Benedict Raffa
Publisher: Red Feather
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-10-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780764360602
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Humanity today is plagued by a loss of meaning and alienation from self and others. The result is unprecedented levels of divorce, depression, anxiety, addictions, suicide, and crime. Because societal institutions have failed to resolve these and other everyday problems, it is now the task of each individual to heal and unite their divided self: body and spirit, conscious and unconscious, feminine and masculine. Drawing on Jungian psychology and wisdom traditions from world religions, Dr. Raffa offers a self-guided journey to heightened self-awareness and compassion for oneself and others. A self-assessment tool called the Partnership Profile gives readers a personalized status report on their inner forces, including the maturity of four feminine archetypes, four masculine archetypes, and a newly emerging archetype of egalitarian partnership. This awareness, combined with suggested practices, empowers readers to address their imbalances and create the lives for which they yearn.

The Book of Not Knowing

by Peter Ralston
The Book of Not Knowing
Author: Peter Ralston
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1556438575
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For fans of Eckhart Tolle—a guide to mastering self-awareness through direct experience rather than old presumptions or harmful thought patterns Through decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing. Even the most sincere investigation of self and spirit, he says, is often sabotaged by our tendency to grab too quickly for answers and ideas as we retreat to the safety of the known. This "Hitchhiker’s Guide to Awareness" provides helpful guideposts along an experiential journey for those Western minds predisposed to wandering off to old habits, cherished presumptions, and a stubbornly solid sense of self. With ease and clarity, Ralston teaches readers how to become aware of the background patterns that they are usually too busy, stressed, or distracted to notice. The Book of Not Knowing points out the ways people get stuck in their lives and offers readers a way to make fresh choices about every aspect of their lives—from a place of awareness instead of autopilot.

Dreams

by John A. Sanford
Dreams
Author: John A. Sanford
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1989-03-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 006067055X
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First published twenty years ago, this revised edition of John Sanford's classic exploration of the psychological and spiritual significance of dreams draws on the work of C.G. Jung to show how dreams can help us find healing and wholeness and reconnect us to a living spiritual world. Featuring a new preface by the author and using case histories from his own experience as a counselor, Dreams traces the role of dreams in the Bible, analyzing their nature and examining how Christians, through fear and the constraints of dogma, have come to reject the visions through which God speaks to humanity, making dreams -- in Sanford's words -- "God's forgotten language."

Dream Language

by Robert J. Hoss
Dream Language
Author: Robert J. Hoss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9780972520713
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A fast, easy method for dream interpretation is introduced in this guide that links color and visual imagery in dreams to the activity of the sleeping brain. Contributions from 16 dream experts report on psychological and physical evidence that dreams create their own logic -- operating not with words, but with visual images and colors -- and that these associations provide a key to waking emotions in personal, professional, and group dreamwork. Self-help exercises such as The 6 Magic Questions are included for readers looking to decode colors and symbols and uncover hidden emotions in their own dreams, and the book also covers topics such as nightmares, paranormal dreams, and dreams of spiritual enlightenment.

On Dolls

by Kenneth Gross
On Dolls
Author: Kenneth Gross
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2023-12-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1912559617
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Some of the greatest thinkers and writers of our age meditate on play and the mysteries of inanimate life. This unusual literary collection contains writings from Baudelaire, Kleist, Rilke, Freud, Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Bruno Schulz, Elizabeth Bishop, Dennis Silk, and Marina Warner. The essays and reflections explore the seriousness of play and the mysteries of inanimate life - 'the unknown, spaces, dust, lost objects, and small animals that fill any house' - which have provoked many writers to take the side of these dead or non-human things, resulting in some of the most profound passages in literature. The collection is introduced and edited by Kenneth Gross. On Dolls includes contributions from: Heinrich Von Kleist 'On the Marionette Theatre', Charles Baudelaire 'The Philosophy of Toys', Sigmund Freud 'The Uncanny', Rainer Maria Rilke 'On the Dolls of Lotte Pritzel', Frank Kafka 'The Cares of a Family Man', Bruno Schulz 'Tailor's Dummies', Walter Benjamin 'Old Toys: The Toy Exhibition at the Markisches Museum', Elizabeth Bishop, 'Cirque d'Hiver', Dennis Silk 'The Marionette Theatre', and Marina Warner 'On the Threshold: Sleeping Beauties'.

Soulcraft

by Bill Plotkin
Soulcraft
Author: Bill Plotkin
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1577313577
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Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding women and men into the wilderness — the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American West — but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a descent into layers of the self much deeper than personality, a journey meant for each one of us, not just for the heroes and heroines of mythology. A modern handbook for the journey, Soulcraft is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from wilderness experience, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity. Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over 40 practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.

Dream Explorations

by Rachel G. Norment
Dream Explorations
Author: Rachel G. Norment
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-09-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1452577544
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Through Rachel Norments Dream Explorations: A Journey in Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization, you can learn contemporary methods of dreamwork inspired by Carl Jung and developed by Montague Ullman, Jeremy Taylor, and many others; and discover the deep inner wisdom you have within yourself that can guide you towards spiritual growth and physical and psychological health and wholenesstoward becoming the person you are meant to become. Rachel Norments Dream Explorations is a gift to us all! The combination of her careful attention to her own dreams over decades and her keen eye for the dreams and insights of other dreamers has produced a work of great depth, wisdom, and inspiration. It is a joy to read. Jeremy Taylor, D.Min., cofounder and past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and author of The Wisdom of Your Dreams In this valuable and highly readable book, longtime dreamworker Rachel Norment offers us her collection of dream treasures with instructive reflections on common symbols and dream themes. This book clearly illustrates the rewards of a lifetime of dreamwork to guide and heal our lives. Chelsea Wakefield, Ph.D., LCSW, psychotherapist and author of Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty: Becoming the Person You Were Born to Be Serious dream workers and seekers after self-knowledge will be delighted by this book. Rachels practical insights into her personal symbols and themes are sure to bring light and guidance to anyones inner explorations. I highly recommend it. Jean Benedict Raffa, Ph.D., author of The Bridge to Wholeness, Dream Theatres of the Soul, and Healing the Sacred Divide