The scribes of sleep : insights from the most important dream journals in history /
"Dream journals are a surprisingly powerful resource for psychological and spiritual discovery. Contemporary dream science has shown that as much as we can learn from single dreams, far more information can be derived from analyzing a series of dreams over time. Various people through history h...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- The Scribes of Sleep
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I Seven Dreamers and their Journals
- 1. Aelius Aristides: Devotee of the Healing God
- 2. Myōe Shonin: Extreme Visionary
- 3. Lucrecia de León: Prophet of an Empire's Doom
- 4. Emanuel Swedenborg: Mystical Scientist
- 5. Benjamin Banneker: Mapping the Heavens
- 6. Anna Kingsford: Spiritual Dynamo
- 7. Wolfgang Pauli: Quantum Physicist, Depth Psychologist
- Part II Discovering Patterns of Content
- 8. Digital Methods of Analyzing Dreams
- 9. Baseline Patterns in Dream Content
- 10. Anomalous Patterns in Dream Content
- Part III Interpreting Psychological Meaning
- 11. Psychoanalysis
- 12. Archetypal Psychology
- 13. Cultural Psychology
- Part IV Exploring Dimensions of Religiosity
- 14. Individualism
- 15. Mysticism
- 16. Pluralism
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Appendix: Summary of Word-Search Results
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.