The DREAM MESSENGER: How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts [Hardcover]

Patricia Garfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 3, 1997

A psychologist offers nine elements that exemplify dreams about lost loved ones and explains how they can be used to help guide the dreamer through the process of grieving and healing. 20,000 first printing.

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Regardless of your beliefs about whether there is an afterlife, one thing is for certain: you will dream about the person who has recently died, writes Patricia Garfield in The Dream Messenger. Unfortunately, these profound dreams often get lost in the debate over whether the dreamer has actually contacted the spirit world or not. In sidestepping this age-old question, Garfield allows the dreamer to use these dreams as nourishment during the grief process, messages concerning major life decisions, and ultimately as catalysts for resolving relationships with the departed.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (February 3, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684813599
• ISBN-13: 978-0684813592
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,144,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreaming of the Dead Brings Inner Healing, January 6, 1999

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This review is from: The DREAM MESSENGER: How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts (Hardcover)

Patricia Garfield's sixth book ,"The Dream Messenger (How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts)" continues her tradition of exploring how dreams can function as tools for healing in our waking lives. The Dream Messenger focuses upon dreams of the dead -- identifying several components of such dream encounters, and providing techniques for integrating these dreams with bereavement and re-awakening to life after the loss of a loved one. Based on a study of hundreds of dreams of bereaved persons, as well as her own journals and the writings of other contemporary authors, Garfield brings a rich sense of shared emotion and human experience to the grieving process, and to the need toaffirm our continuing relationships with those who have died.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic research on dreams about the dead, January 13, 2009

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This review is from: The Dream Messenger: How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts (Hardcover)

All of Patricia Garfield's books on dreams are wonderful, but this is perhaps the best of all. In this book, she has collected over 1000 dreams about the dead, from nightmares of open caskets, to wishful fantasies that it was a horrible misunderstanding, to dreams that lay open the question of communication from the other side. With potent sensitivity, the author stays out of our way, offering the research and the accounts in organized themes, without tampering with faith or belief systems. It is stunning to learn that so many of us who grieve have similar types of dreams, and that our dreams of the dead follow a predictable course, evolving over time and becoming less painful, more intriguing, and finally healing. I am constantly recommending this book to clients and students, and hear it has been a soothing focus and source of insight. If you are interested in dreams, or you are grieving, this book is a treasure. Give it to a friend. Give it to yourself.

Gillian Holloway www.lifetreks.comThe Complete Dream Book, 2nd edition: Discover What Your Dreams Reveal about You and Your Life