DreamTending: Techniques for Uncovering the Hidden Intelligence of Your Dreams

Aizenstat Ph.D., Stephen

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9781591795001: DreamTending: Techniques for Uncovering the Hidden Intelligence of Your Dreams

ISBN 10: 1591795001 ISBN 13: 9781591795001

Publisher: Sounds True, 2006

Have you ever had a dream that surprised or mystified you? Did the people and places in that dream seem to be as real as your waking life? If so, teaches Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, you may have already discovered the astonishing truth: that your dreams are―very literally―alive. On DreamTending, Dr. Aizenstat invites you to tap into the "world unconscious"―the living, dreaming mind of the universe itself.

Everything Is Dreaming
Why do we dream? How does our dream life influence our physical, mental, and spiritual health? For more than 25 years, clinical psychologist and Pacifica Graduate Institute founder Stephen Aizenstat has investigated the therapeutic and spiritual use of dreams throughout the world.

His remarkable conclusion: that our dreams immerse us in the vast multidimensional psyche of Nature (the cosmos), where everything is dreaming―every person, creature, plant, and object. Here, in this communal realm, we can interact with and listen to other dream visitors to heal ourselves, help others, and gain new insights from the hidden intelligence of our dreams.

Course objectives:

Describe techniques for uncovering the hidden meaning of your dreams
� Utilize new, more powerful ways to access the wisdom of your dreams
� Demonstrate a way to engage interactively with dream figures and learn what they have to teach you
� Identify ways of working with dreams in relation to health and illness
� List methods of remembering dreams
� Discuss the four ideas that Dream Tending orients around

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About the Author:

Stephen Aizenstat
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the chancellor and founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His Dream Tending methodologies extend traditional dream work to the vision of an animated world where the living images in dream are experienced as embodied and originating in the psyche of Nature as well as that of persons. His work opens creativity and the generative process. Dr. Aizenstat’s book, Dream Tending, describes multiple new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World's Dream, relationships, and the creative process. His other recent publications include: Imagination & Medicine: The Future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (co-editor with Robert Bosnak); "Dream Tending and Tending the World," in Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind; "Soul-Centered Education: An Interview with Stephen Aizenstat" (with Nancy Treadway Galindo) in Reimagining Education; Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning; The Soul Does Not Specialize: Revaluing the Humanities and the Polyvalent Imagination, with Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig; "Depth Entrepreneurship: Creating an Organization out of Dream Space", in The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century; and "Fragility of the World’s Dream", in Eranos Yearbook 2009-2010-2011 Love on a Fragile Thread.

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