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The History Of Last Night's Dream
Rodger Kamenetz
Discovering The Hidden Path To The Soul
HarperOne
September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0061237949
EAN: 9780061237942
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
A third of our time on earth is spent sleeping, yet our
dreams, if we remember them at all, have been relegated to
nothing more than curious anecdotes. When Sigmund Freud
awakened modern interest in the dream a century ago, his
theory of interpretation undermined the potential insights
dreams had to offer. For Freud, dreams were little more than
fragmented puzzle parts made up of events from our waking
lives. Most of us today still live under Freud's
far-reaching influence. When we wake up after experiencing a
powerful series of images, we too readily explain them away
or simply ignore them all together. Whatever emotion or
insight the dream evokes slowly fades. But what if Freud was
wrong? Unless we challenge his deeply-ingrained assumptions,
we will forever lose the gift of our dreams. International bestselling author Rodger Kamenetz believes it
is not too late to reclaim the lost power of our nightly
visions. Kamenetz's exploration of the world of dreams
reopens all the questions scientists and psychologists
claimed to have settled long ago. The culmination of decades
of research, The History of Last Night's Dream is a riveting
intellectual and cultural investigation of dreams and what
they have to teach us. We discover how the age-old struggle
between what we dream and how we interpret our dreams has
shaped Western culture from biblical times to today.
Kamenetz introduces us to an eighty-seven-year-old female
kabbalist in Jerusalem, a suave Tibetan Buddhist dream
teacher in Copenhagen, and a crusty intuitive
postman-turned-dream master in northern Vermont. He
fearlessly delves into this mysterious inner realm and shows
us that dreams are not only intensely meaningful but that
they hold essential truths about who we are. In the end,
each of us has the choice to embark on this illuminating
path to the soul. But one thing is certain: our dreams will
never be the same again.
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