Integral dreaming
Subtitle: a holistic approach to dreams
By: Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers
Contributors: Deslauriers, Daniel, 1958-
Series: SUNY series in dream studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781438442389; 9781438442372
Subjects: Dreams
Description: This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed "integral" by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer's creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A larger calling: the field integral studies; title: An integral approach to dreams; title: The creative brain and the science of sleep and dreams; title: Embodied and purposeful dreaming; title: The subjective experience of dreams; title: Types of dreams: towards an ecology of dreaming; title: Dreams and self-inquiry; title: Dreams and intersubjectivity; title: Culture, ecology and identity; title: Tuning to larger patterns: dreams, society and the environment; title: Toward an integral dream practice; title: The hermeneutic of dream interpretation; title: Epistemic uncertainty: non-interpretive approaches to dreams; title: Philosophy of practice; title: Hermeneutic of creation: the five movements of integral dream practice; title: Dreams in creation: the ursa major dream.