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Summary: Sacred Ground of Dreams
Review: In "Threads, Knots and Tapestries" Ms. Castleman steps into a gap often left in Jungian literature. She invites us to consider the realm of the communal unconscious - the territory found between the more explored regions of the personal and collective unconscious. Here we find a rich new way of thinking about some of the people and objects, places and events that we experience in our dreams. Ms. Castleman wants us to look at the complicated way in which personal dreams impact the larger community and other individuals. It is compelling and essential that we do so."Threads" also serves as a guide to working with dreams in a group. Excellent practice for coming to understand the impact of dreams beyond the individual. Her references are often to Native American traditions, combined with many years of her own professional practice. Articulate, concise and very wise, "Threads, Knots and Tapestries" is readable and fun as well as scholarly. Important material for the lay person and the professional alike.
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Summary: Fascinating Reading
Review: Is it possible that our dreams affect others and the dreams of others affect ours? Is there some kind of collective dream world that we all share in and that through it we affect each other? These are the kind of questions author Tess Castleman, a Jungian Analyst based out of Dallas, Texas, examines in her book "Threads, Knots, Tapestries". Her primary area of interest and expertise is the use of dream groups. After years of studying these groups she now shares her experience and how common dream threads demonstrate our interconnectedness with each other. Some schools of psychology teach that all the characters of your dream are just different parts of yourself. Is it possible that there are times when a dream is much more than this? Tess Castleman examines situations where it appears there is some type of communal dreaming occurring. Apparently there is some sort of collective dream world that we can all access and do at times. Going one step further she shows how we may be interacting not only other people, but also with our environment itself, or even with other cultures. "Threads, Knots, Tapestries" is a fascinating trip into the realm of possibilities and how closely we may all be bound together in the web of life.
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Summary: Fascinating Reading
Review: Is it possible that our dreams affect others and the dreams of others affect ours? Is there some kind of collective dream world that we all share in and that through it we affect each other? These are the kind of questions author Tess Castleman, a Jungian Analyst based out of Dallas, Texas, examines in her book "Threads, Knots, Tapestries". Her primary area of interest and expertise is the use of dream groups. After years of studying these groups she now shares her experience and how common dream threads demonstrate our interconnectedness with each other. Some schools of psychology teach that all the characters of your dream are just different parts of yourself. Is it possible that there are times when a dream is much more than this? Tess Castleman examines situations where it appears there is some type of communal dreaming occurring. Apparently there is some sort of collective dream world that we can all access and do at times. Going one step further she shows how we may be interacting not only other people, but also with our environment itself, or even with other cultures. "Threads, Knots, Tapestries" is a fascinating trip into the realm of possibilities and how closely we may all be bound together in the web of life.
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Summary: Transpersonal Connections for Artist
Review: Thank you for a job well done! Written in a conversational tone, sharing personal anecdotes of years of dream groups, Castleman reminded me we are never alone in our endeavors. As an artist I spend most of my time alone in the studio, but the time in altered states of consciousness, similar to dreaming, that can come about when emersed in the process of art work, puts me into the company of the collective where eagles soar.
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Summary: Transpersonal Connections for Artist
Review: Thank you for a job well done! Written in a conversational tone, sharing personal anecdotes of years of dream groups, Castleman reminded me we are never alone in our endeavors. As an artist I spend most of my time alone in the studio, but the time in altered states of consciousness, similar to dreaming, that can come about when emersed in the process of art work, puts me into the company of the collective where eagles soar.
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Summary: Sifting through stories, myths, and beliefs about dreams
Review: Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How A Tribal Connection Is Revealed Through Dreams And Syncronicities by Tess Castleman (a Zurich trained Diplomate Jungian Analyst), focuses upon "Dream Groups", and what Jungian analysis has to say about revealing and interpreting human psychology through the examination of unconscious messages. Sifting through stories, myths, and beliefs about dreams in order to better explore just what dreams can tell us about internal and external worlds alike, Threads, Knights, Tapestries is a superbly written and deftly presented analysis which is most especially recommended reading for student of Jungian psychology and psychoanalysis.
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Summary: Sifting through stories, myths, and beliefs about dreams
Review: Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How A Tribal Connection Is Revealed Through Dreams And Syncronicities by Tess Castleman (a Zurich trained Diplomate Jungian Analyst), focuses upon "Dream Groups", and what Jungian analysis has to say about revealing and interpreting human psychology through the examination of unconscious messages. Sifting through stories, myths, and beliefs about dreams in order to better explore just what dreams can tell us about internal and external worlds alike, Threads, Knights, Tapestries is a superbly written and deftly presented analysis which is most especially recommended reading for student of Jungian psychology and psychoanalysis.
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