The Scribes of Sleep

Insights from the Most Important Dream Journals in History

Kelly Bulkeley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760960-6 (ISBN)

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The Scribes of Sleep analyzes the dream journals of seven remarkable people -- Aelius Aristides, Myoe Shonin, Lucrecia de León, Emanuel Swedenborg, Benjamin Banneker, Anna Bonus Kingsford, and Wolfgang Pauli -- and employs an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on their meanings, drawing on data science, depth psychology, and religious studies.

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. Many have intuitively understood this point, and carefully recorded their dreams for years, even decades, drawing profound guidance from the patterns they discovered. The Scribes of Sleep is the first book to gather historical and cross-cultural evidence showing the value of dream journals as potent sources of healing, religious experience, and metaphysical insight. Dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley profiles seven remarkable people who kept dream journals: Aelius Aristides, Myoe Shonin, Lucrecia de León, Emanuel Swedenborg, Benjamin Banneker, Anna Bonus Kingsford, and Wolfgang Pauli. Because dreams are so complex and multi-faceted, especially when viewed in a series, Bulkeley employs an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on their meanings, drawing on data science, depth psychology, and religious studies. As the findings of these different methods are woven together and they begin to illuminate each other, it becomes clear that the practice of keeping a dream journal stimulates several specific qualities of religiosity, prompting the dreamers to move in more individualist, mystical, and pluralistic directions-towards becoming a free spirit.

Kelly Bulkeley is director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a Senior Editor of the APA journal Dreaming, and a former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He is the author of numerous books, including Dreaming in the World's Religions, Big Dreams, and Lucrecia the Dreamer.

I. Seven Dreamers and their Journals
1. Aelius Aristides: Devotee of the Healing God
2. Myoe Shonin: Extreme Visionary
3. Lucrecia de Leon: 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

II. Discovering Patterns of Content
8. Digital Methods of Analyzing Dreams
9. Baseline Patterns in Dream Content
10. Anomalous Patterns in Dream Content

III. Interpreting Psychological Meaning
11. Psychoanalysis
12. Archetypal Psychology
13. Cultural Psychology

IV. Exploring Dimensions of Religiosity
14. Individualism
15. Mysticism
16. Pluralism
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 164 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-19-760960-0 / 0197609600
ISBN-13	978-0-19-760960-6 / 9780197609606
Zustand	Neuware