DREAM MEDICINE: Learning How To Get Help From Our Dreams [Paperback]

Henry Reed (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 17, 2005

"Father of the modern dreamwork movement" describes his research on the use of dreams in self-help, creativity, relationships, spirituality and culture, including incubation, remembering, interpretation and application of dream insights. Author describes his spiritual healing in dreams from alcoholism, how dreams directed his dream research program, and taught him to paint. 119 illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: We Publish Books (February 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929841183
• ISBN-13: 978-1929841189
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,481,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Author Offers Sample Chapter, April 25, 2005

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Henry Reed "Creator Spirit" (Mouth of Wilson, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DREAM MEDICINE: Learning How To Get Help From Our Dreams (Paperback)

I am really proud of this book and it tells an important story. An alternative to the normal style of dream research led to the dreamwork movement, giving dreams back to the dreamer. Visionary Dreaming. Dreaming in Groups for the Benefit of Others. Dream America. Dream Art. Much more.
For a sample chapter, exactly like the book, in adobe acrobat, go to www.henryreed.com/intuitivdream.pdf
Then buy the book here at amazon! I have none to sell myself.

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Meds: Follow Your Dreams to Follow Your Dreams?, February 4, 2011

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Susan Parcheta (Gregory, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DREAM MEDICINE: Learning How To Get Help From Our Dreams (Paperback)

Dream Meds: Follow your dreams to follow your dreams?
What if someone told you that you carry your own medicine bag with you at all times? What if you found out that your dreams are big medicine? And, what if you came to realize that you are the doctor of your dreams -- and that all you have to do is follow them? Henry Reed, in his marvelous big book of Dream Medicine lays it all out: you CAN get help from your dreams. Often referred to as the "father of the American Dream movement," Reed - in his pleasant, lyrical style - inspires the understanding that -YOU - are the beautiful dreamer. Yes, YOU are the dreamer. Your dreams are yours. And YOU are the one to pay attention to them, engage with them, and apply what you've learned from them.

Reed received his PhD from UCLA and was assistant professor of Psychology at Princeton University and professor of transpersonal studies at Atlantic University (AU). As director of the Edgar Cayce Institute of Intuitive Studies, and as a retired Licensed Professional Counselor, Reed "specializes in intensive, transformational work centered in dreams, energetic healing, and creativity." He also leads mentored dream quests. Dream Medicine: Learning How To Get Help From Your Dreams and his workbook Dream Realizations! Dream Solutions! are tools for the journey. Reed brands the dream movement, which began sparking among his contemporaries in the late 1970s, and gradually gaining momentum these last three decades, as revolutionary. After my own Dream Quest, under Reed's mentorship, I began to realize how cutting edge his early work was. I'd always known that dreams are important, but to think that I might personally solve their puzzles to create a better life seemed beyond possibility. Sigmund Freud brought dreams into the realm of the medical or psychiatric laboratory. But it was Reed who, because of a serendipitous and powerful dream remembered, helped transform the dreamwork movement into one that we can all enjoy. Like the magic in Disney movies, Reed discovered that a dream really is "a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep." Or as he relates, "It is the story of the dream that changes us while we sleep."

His signature dream inspired his healing from alcoholism, as well as a community of dream researchers, who were ordinary people sharing their dream experiences. This resulted in the publication of the groundbreaking Sundance Community Dream Journal, giving dreamers a public voice, and establishing dreams as a personal resource, which is always with you. There is power in your dreams, to inspire the creative spirit and to heal. Reed's work highlights the transpersonal dimension of dreams via the amazing Dream Helper Ceremony, in which dreamers dream for each other, and in the phenomenon of dream incubation. That alone, is revolutionary in our times, even though the process (sleeping in a special or sacred place in anticipation of a visionary dream) goes back to the healing dream temples of ancient Greece and the vision quests of Native American Indians. Dreams are medicine for your soul. You have your own medicine bag to pick up, look inside, and become acquainted with the healing tools it holds. As the song goes, "Follow the fellow who follows a dream." Henry Reed's Dream Medicine should be a cornerstone of everyone's dream book library, and always alongside your dream journal on your night table.