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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... symbolism and embodied experience . From this perspective , at least some of the bizarre elements of dreaming can be understood as expressions of a different kind of intelligence whose natural language consists primarily of image ...
... symbolic connection is simply assumed . Dream incubation rituals in other religions are usually practiced in locations far removed from the ordinary social world ( e.g. , a cave or graveyard ) , but here the fire itself represents a ...
... symbolic connections between dream imagery and important waking life concerns . All this is consistent with the theories and practices of mainstream Western dream science . To be sure , modern researchers would likely disagree with the ...
... symbolically to identify auspicious or inauspicious messages about the future. In the second, dreams are interpreted as illusory creations with no ultimate meaning; in this view, to interpret a dream is to see through it and move beyond ...
... symbolic equivalencies , though it could be significant that all the animals mentioned are " wild , " that is , undomesticated , thus representing some degree of autonomy from human control . All the dream animals were interpreted in ...
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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 |