Here's a guy who's really put in the research, not just by reading other people's books but by talking to people, many of them from other cultures (Tibetan, Australian Aboriginal, Native American) - and not just in a one-off interview but in a continuing friendship with several of them. In addition he has a powerful personal story to tell about his experiences of various kinds of dreamwork, starting from the time when vivid...
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"In his fascinating, well-organized and lucid book, Marc Ian Barasch carries us along with him on a brave night journey through the dream world. He challenges the doubting reader with impressive charts of this realm and logs centuries of prior research and discovery. It is a courageous task, as many of the charts he uses belong to times and value systems that do not conform to Western scientific experimental psychology. If...
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In the epilogue to his latest book, Healing dreams: Exploringthe dreams that can transform your life (Riverhead Books) Marc Baraschrelates the story of his editor trying to envision a simple sound-bitepromotion for his book. The editor asked, "How would a healingdream help the average person be effective in their daily lives?"Barasch, was, in his own words, "flummoxed" by thequestion. He had spent years researching the subject,...
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What we have here is the living yoga of an inquiry that has opened the author, and now the reader, to the interwoven nature of our reality. We are unavoidably called upon to consider the intelligence of the universe. Marc's passionate pursuit of what he was given has taken the rubies of the inner world and held them up for us to marvel at, and become inspired from. His personal journey has been the alchemical vessel in which...
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What could be more welcome than a guide through the inner world of one's dreams? I found Marc Barasch's Healing Dreams extremely compelling, particularly in its exploration of the relationship between the dream and dreamer. Before reading this, I'd never thought to ask what a dream might be asking for, never mind had a way to go about it. The book is well organized into motifs, for example, dreams about animals, that make...
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