Dreaming—The Sacred Art: Incubating, Navigating and Interpreting Sacred Dreams for Spiritual and Personal Growth
Awaken to the wonders of your dreamself, and energize your spiritual potential for self-understanding and self-healing.
"Without a doubt, people of all times and places have had the capacity to dream the sacred. I write this book in a sincere effort to create space for us to share these dreams and to provide a practical guide to nurturing sacred dreaming as an art."
—from the Introduction
Sacred dreams—those in which the dreamer experiences the immediate presence of or communication with the Divine——have shaped the spiritual history of humankind. Jacob's ladder dream, Joseph's dream verifying Mary’s virgin pregnancy and Herod’s plans to destroy the child, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha’s auspicious dreams on his journey to enlightenment, Muhammad’s night journey dream—the pervasive power of the sacred dream is part of the scripture and lore of virtually all the world’s religions.
This fascinating introduction to sacred dreaming celebrates the dream experience as a way to deepen spiritual awareness and as a source of self-healing for people of all faith traditions—or none. Includes practical, step-by-step exercises in every chapter.
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Book details
- Author
- Lori Joan Swick
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Mind, Body, Spirit › Dreams
Mind, Body, Spirit › Inspiration & Personal Growth - Topics
- dream interpretation · spirituality · personal transformation · world religions · self-healing · divine communication
- ISBN-13
- 9781594735448 (Paperback)9781683360384 (Hardcover)
About the author
LORI JOAN SWICK is a speaker, retreat leader, adjunct professor, novelist, essayist, and poet specializing in women’s spirituality and religious, mystical, and mythological topics. Her books include Dreaming—The Sacred Art and Comfort and Mirth.
Swick holds a doctorate in philosophy and religion with a concentration in women’s spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a master’s degree with distinction in theology from the University of Notre Dame. She has served as an adjunct professor of religion, mythology, and philosophy at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, and as an adjunct assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
When she’s not writing, Swick leads retreats and speaks on women’s spirituality and related religious, mystical, and mythological subjects. Much of her work, both fiction and nonfiction, engages these themes directly.