Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

Discusses extraordinary dreams and offers suggestions for interpreting and appreciating your own extraordinary dreams. From visions of a past life to glimpses of the future, history is full of accounts of unusual dreams. This fascinating book explores historical, scientific, and cross-cultural research on these sorts of extraordinary dreams, and offers practical suggestions on how to work with them—either individually or as a member of a dream group—to enhance one’s intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health. Each chapter is devoted to a particular type of dream, and presents a summary of research data on their nature. Specific categories of dreams discussed include creative, lucid, out-of-body, pregnancy, healing, collective, telepathic, clairvoyant, precognitive, past-life, initiation, and spiritual visitation dreams, as well as dreams within dreams. Entertaining and instructive, this book points the way to an expanded conception of human potential for the twenty first century. Stanley Krippner is Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School. He is the author of many books including, with David Feinstein, The Mythic Path: Discovering the Guiding Stories of Your Past—Creating a Vision for Your Future. Fariba Bogzaran is Associate Professor of Consciousness Studies and Founding Director of the Dream Studies program at John F. Kennedy University. She is the author of Through the Light: An Exploration into Consciousness. André Percia de Carvalho is a clinical psychologist and motivational speaker in Brazil specializing in the fields of human resources and industrial development.