Deep Dreaming is an innovative process that lets us peer below the visible surface of life into its implicate depths. Join us in discovering how emergent dream themes connect with the world we live in and its challenges.
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Deep Dreaming is an innovative process that lets us peer below the visible surface of life into its implicate depths. Join us in discovering how emergent dream themes connect with the world we live in and its challenges.
Continue readingLucid dreaming is the experience of awareness that one is dreaming, an altered state that comes naturally to some, with practice to others.
Continue readingShamanizing For The Culture with Meredith Sabini Friday, October 17, 2:00-5:00PM The Dream Institute of Northern California, 1672 University Avenue, Berkeley, 510-845-1767 $45, please RSVP http://dream-institute.org/calendar-of-events/#shamanizing “Shamanism is a cultural practice present throughout history that draws on dreams and … Continue reading
Deep Dreaming is an innovative process that lets us peer below the visible surface of life into its implicate depths. Join us in discovering how emergent dream themes connect with the world we live in and its challenges.
Continue readingShamanism is a cultural practice present throughout history that draws on dreams and visions. This program begins with an account of the sophisticated dream practices of the Iroquois and the Achuar of Equador, which have both been compared with modern psychotherapy. Indigenous societies also may have had culture shamans who received guidance for their people as a whole. This will be illustrated by contemporary examples of Oglala Sioux Black Elk and C. G. Jung, each of whom had sweeping visionary dreams about impending large-scale disasters; and the examples of Harriet Tubman and Taoist rainmaker Kiao-chou, who enacted effective rituals for societies in distress.
Continue readingPeople familiar to us appear in dreams rather frequently. How are we to know if the dream content pertains to them, or to ourselves? The goal of this program is to correct the overly personalistic (narcissistic) bias of modern dream theories and to broaden our understanding of the dreaming mind, which is quite capable of distinguishing between self and other and helping us tend our human relations.
Continue readingDeep Dreaming is an innovative process that lets us peer below the visible surface of life into its implicate depths. Join us in discovering how emergent dream themes connect with the world we live in and its challenges.
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