Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
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The definitive guide to dreamwork and dream interpretation--Discover the secrets of your subconscious for spiritual self-healing and profound self-discovery
We all know our dreams have meaning, but their complexity, creativity, and complete vividness can seem impossible to decipher. Why did that suddenly appear? I haven't thought of her in forever. What is all of this trying to tell me?
In this groundbreaking Jungian approach to dream interpretation and active imagination, Robert A. Johnson offers powerful and practical insight into discovering the depths of our psyche. He makes the astounding case for valuing our subconscious--all the unusual, imaginative, and sometimes intense aspects of our hidden persona--to better understand our conscious selves.
By offering a sweeping framework for decoding dreams and the symbolism the possess, this book exposes:
- How our dreams are entirely unique to us as individuals and cannot be interpreted collectively (a bird means one thing to one person and something else entirely to another)
- How the imaginative images we see in our dreams are actually us communicating to ourselves, and what happens when we learn to listen
- How to integrate our subconscious thoughts into our conscious patterns, and the shocking revelations that come from the harmony of the two
- How a four-step approach to dreamwork--associations, dynamics, interpretations and rituals--can bring us to a place of radical self-understanding and acceptance
Soulful, spiritual, and stunningly revelatory, Inner Work gives readers the tools to fully harness the power of their dreams and subconscious to become the best version of themselves--asleep and awake.
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Rated 5 starsThe Wisdom Inside
This wonderful book is clear and practical, and really goes to the point. It instructs you and helps you at two levels: first it explains how our dreams and imagination function as a link between our conscious and unconscious lives; then it goes on to instruct the reader on how to learn from this link and how to build a fruitful and lifelong dialogue between these two spheres of being. In order to achieve the latter, the author...
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Rated 5 starsThe Introverted Intuitive's Dream!
It is difficult to imagine how powerful this small book is. Granted, it is probably most appealing to intuitives and introverts, like myself, but for us, it is like manna from heaven. Johnson has such a gift for putting things simply. The book can be read quickly but may well take a lifetime to permeate your consciousness. As a professional astrologer, VisionCoach and expert Tarot symbolist, one of the most frequent questions...
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Rated 5 starsDreams
Everyone, I'm told, has dreams during sleep whether they are remembered or not. Some people dream in color (I do), others in black and white only. Robert Johnson's book on Inner Work is just that, a book that is a guide to finding and communicating with the inner self - the true you. Our lives are so fragmented today, we are all encouraged to "multi-task" - housewives frequently talk on the phone while doing the dishes,...
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Rated 5 starsPractical, effective introduction (blows away the myths)
Before "Inner Work" I had read a few other dream interpretation books all of which basically described certain recurring dream images and labelled them with a limited definition: basically they were the "Teacher's Edition" to understanding your dreams with the answers in the back. I never understood how an image, say a snake or falling, could be interpreted in basically the same way by so many different people. Johnson explains...
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Rated 5 starsHow following the guidelines helped through a dilema
One night I had a dream that I was a pitcher on a softball team. My older brother was playing first base and yelling abusive things about me like, "Get him out of there! He don't know what he's doing!" I went to pitch the ball, drew my arm back and saw someone standing between the pitchers mound and home plate. He had on a ball cap and was standing with his head down so I couldn't identify who it was. I couldn't pitch...
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