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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... ( upanishads ) between ritual practice and spiritual discovery , prompting new interest in self- exploration by means of breathing , meditation , yoga , and dreaming . Several Upanishadic texts devoted careful attention to the spiritual ...
... Upanishads . For classical Hinduism , fire is the patron element of sleepers and dreamers . The efficacy of rituals involving sleep and dreams led many of the Upanishadic poets to experiment with various alterations of consciousness ...
... Upanishads explore the existential dimensions of sleep experience in ways that certainly strive to be empirically grounded in actual human life . In the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad , a dialogue between the sage Gargya and the king ...
... Upanishad passage continues with Ajatasutra describing the further condition of “deep dreamless sleep” in which the ... Upanishadic discussion back to the Vedic interest in conception and dreaming. The most detailed and provocative ...
... Upanishad is a religious text , it provides a surprisingly secular and naturalistic explanation for dream formation ... Upanishads to refer to dreaming , creating , speaking , imagining , and seminal emission ) . Bits and pieces of the ...
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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 |