Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power

Of all the aspects of dream study, mutual or shared dreaming is probably the least understood. The very fact that people can meet in the dream state and recall it upon waking challenges our ideas of time, space and the nature of dreams. In this stunning new book, World Dreams Peace Bridge founder, Jean Campbell, traces the history of group dreaming research beginning in the 1970s and demonstrates how this research led her to believe that dreamers, working together can change the world.

Jean Campbell's Group Dreaming book is fascinating in its mystery-like compelling "what's next" longitudinal exploration of group dreaming. The possibilities she inspires toward Group Dreaming for Peace is humbling.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in dreams and/or consciousness studies - however we choose to define that. The studies conducted by Jean Campbell over a period of 25 years support the experiences of many people, of having shared dreams with friends and family, and show that such dreams cannot be merely coincidental - the most common form of dismissal by many western `experts'. Many of us know that we go places in our dreams, and meet with people, and Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power confirms not only our ability to do this, but that it is both a common phenomenon and perfectly normal! Jean's style of writing is immediate and engaging, this is a book you will likely want to read from cover to cover, as the people in the book come to life and you really can't wait to learn what happens next!

Jean Campbell, who I know as a pioneer of dreamwork and peace, surprising us once more with her endless gifts. You will see this book is not only a research or history of group dreaming but she wrote it as a novel, in literary style. Not only teaching but also exciting, enthusiastic and tastefull. I think, the most important thing she shows us in the last part of this book is; opening a new horizon on how group dreaming can be used for serving humanity, children, world peace and harmony. How we can dream for peace together, become groups of peace dreamers and make our dreams come true in waking reality. How we can go to dream, we can interpeate in connection, we can build projects on our dream wisdoms and than we can touch the souls and wounds of others so far from us. And thanks to her, we are reading all these as living a fairy tale which brings magic on earth.

Jean Campbell is the pioneer of group dreaming and she finally wrote a new book! You could say that this new book has three parts, with especially the first and last parts telling about group dreaming. In case you never heard of it before: Group dreaming goes far beyond just sharing dreams in a group, group dreaming is about sharing experiences and information in dreams themselves. The book starts with many chapters on the Dreams to the Tenth Power experiments, experiments that took place decades ago. Don't expect hard nosed research, as generally this type of research still is in its earliest stages of exploring possibilities. I found the experiments a fascinating read and everybody with more than a passing interest in dreams and dreaming should get this book for these chapters alone. In the next part of the book Jean Campbell tells about key events in the recent history of the dream movement, especially seen from the perspective of psychic dreamers. This part of the book also reveals much about the formation of the IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams). The book ends with a series of chapters on the World Dreams Peace Bridge. This group started soon after 9/11 and seeks to combine dreaming and group dreaming with peace work. Group dreaming appeared naturally with this group, but the circumstances of this group are very different from the early experiments. The Peace Bridge is a real (online) community and has been running for many years day after day. That gives not only a deeper experience with group dreaming, but also very varied experiences, which is why this last part of the book has a completely different feel to it than the first part. It's probably not a book for somebody interested in an introduction to dreaming. Then again, this stuff is far more exciting than anything else.