Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative HistoryNYU Press, 2008 M07 19 - 345 páginas From Biblical stories of Joseph interpreting Pharoh’s dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as religiously meaningful experiences. In this widely shared view, dreams are a powerful medium of transpersonal guidance offering the opportunity to communicate with sacred beings, gain valuable wisdom and power, heal suffering, and explore new realms of existence. Conversely, the world’s religious and spiritual traditions provide the best source of historical information about the broad patterns of human dream life |
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... Daoism ) in chapter 2 and then Buddhism in chapter 3. These closely related traditions are among the largest and most ancient in the world . They offer an abundance of teachings , myths , and practices for study , and they remain ...
... Daoism ) offered its followers a mysterious , otherworldly otherworldly process of discovering their own personal connection with the primal energies of creation . The earliest Daoist sages , Lao Zi ( third century BCE ? ) and Zhuang Zi ...
... Daoist view the continuity of waking and dreaming was a pathological sign of our existential imprisonment ... Daoists offered an alternative way of understanding the relationship between the living and the dead. They minimized ancestor ...
... Daoists like Zhuang Zi took little interest in that kind of divination . Instead , they wanted to question the underlying idea that waking and dreaming are stable , meaningfully related categories of existence ( with a not- so - subtle ...
... and dying . A later Daoist text , the Lie - zi ( fourth CE ? ) took this theme of dreaming - waking interaction in a more socially and economically subversive direction : Mr. Yin of Zhou managed a large estate . Those.
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Chinese Religions | |
Buddhism | |
Christianity 7 Islam | |
Religions of Africa | |
Religions of Oceania | |
Religions of the Americas | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History Kelly Bulkeley Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |