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Dream Power: Can Our Dreams Make Us Well?

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Bookstores are filled with promises of easy one-step responses to deep and complex problems. Dream Power breaks from the pack by offering a simple tool with limitless applications. The author, Davis-Grant, brings the rich tradition of archetype alive, makes it accessible and easy to use for all of us. Combining the author's personal healing journey with a lifetime of work as a therapist, teacher, and community activist, Dream-Power charts a map that any of us can use. As an extra bonus in my own work with people, Dream-Power is one of the few books in this genre equally appropriate for anyone -- Buddhist, traditional Christian, Agnostic, or on the cutting edge of the new age.

If life is a journey, pilgrimage, creative process or adventure for you, there is probably more going on within than you realize. Becoming a whole person involves knowing what the inner dynamics are about. Mary Jo Davis-Grant shares her "waking dreams" that led her to insight and healing. She answers the question, "Do my dreams mean anything?" with "Yes." As a wakeful dreamer myself in search of meanings in my dreams, I found Mary Jo's story to be encouraging, and her dream analysis gives clues about how I can understand my own dreams. Anyone who dreams and seeks healing through those dreams can benefit from this book. Mary Jo's work with images, archetypes, myth, belief, family teachings and suffering will guide others in discovering their own personal dynamics.

This is an excellent book for reaffirming the power of the mind to heal the body. Through a form of meditation the author imaged her way to health. I have long believed this to be possible and am so comforted to be able to read about someone who has actually accomplished it! I highly recommend this to all who believe and those who are teetering on believing in the awesome power of the mind.

Dream Power invites the reader into the internal world of a remarkable woman. Mary Jo Davis Grant shares her experiences in her search for improved physical, emotional and spiritual health. Based on her own dream experiences, that are integrated into and interwoven with years of research and study, in the areas of energy medicine, psychology and counseling, she emerges as a leader on the frontier of new approaches to healing and wholeness.

Dr. Grant encountered a unique experience where waking dreams and visitation by archeptypes had both physical and spiritual healing effects as they reacted with her energy systems(chakras). She shares a journey of her life with the readers as we watch healing begin at a tribal level and proceed upwards into the Kingdoms of Heaven. Perhaps this book can best be expressed as an individual experience of the Anatomy of Mrs. Grants soul as she reaches upwards towards the light of her spirit.

Mary Jo Davis-Grant did a superb job in sharing about dreams and what they meant in her life and what they can mean in our lives as we reach for health and wholeness. Her life experiences in helping so many people have helped prepare her for writing this book. She is a dynamite author. I picked up the book the day after receiving it and read it in one sitting. It held me in a trance, and I enjoyed every bit of it. I would recommend the book to anyone who is searching for health and wholeness. I certainly hope Mary Jo will write a sequel to share with the world. Thank you Mary Jo!

I love Dr. Grant's ability to believe in the powers of the universe. I'd say she not only believes in the potential of the human mind and spirit, but has experienced far more than most people believe is possible. She knows "miracle" first hand.

Mary Jo Grant has done a brilliant job of taking the reader by the hand and leading her through the world of dreams, energy and archetypes. A safe and comfortable journey wherein she shares her exceptional human experiences.

Through a comprehensive investigation into her own 7-year journey out of chronic pain (with the help of Biogenics), Grant discovered within herself the deep well of knowing. She wisely and graciously gives the reader permission to discover for herself that same well by continuously illuminating our innate connection to God.

As Grant illustrates her personal integration of the chakra system, dreams, symbols and archetypes, she reminds us that Shamans (from whom both the modern doctor and priest descend) have always understood that we need go nowhere but inside for our own transformation.

"Living bridges", that's what Grant believes we are called to be by using our hearts, minds, spirits, faith, prayer, dreams, intuition, and love to bring about positive change in our lives, our communities, our organizations, our culture, and our world. She shares Braden's belief that one person who allows for a new possibility becomes a living bridge, both a pioneer and a mid-wife, for every person who will have the courage to choose the same new path. And each time the same choice is made, that choice becomes easier - then easier and easier.

Grant suggests that an in-depth exploration into Dissociative Identify Disorder (multiple personalities) as archetypes could facilitate a breakthrough in perspective and encourage more accurate, effective, and compassionate treatment by mental health professionals and the larger community.

In her wisdom, Grant also suggests that the introduction of Biogenics in schools, hospitals, churches, workplaces, etc., would teach a good portion of the population to experience and maintain harmony of body, mind and spirit. An approach that would surely cut health costs, reduce violence and release creativity!

As a counselor, Grant suggests that archetype and chakra alignment is a multi-layered holistic method of healing which has the potential for gentle, deep, hard work in a short period of time. A revolutionary concept!

Grant speaks of angels being living prayer. I've come to believe that her guidance through Dream Power is just that - living prayer and a living bridge in a world that so needs to be reconnected to Source. Dream Power can be read like a treasure map showing us the way, or a reference guide to refer to again and again. Better yet, a license to believe in and practice wholeness.

Grant's work validates my personal journey and the work I do as a SoulCollage® Facilitator. SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups It embraces the power of images (symbols/archetypes) and energy work to transform, heal and guide us towards our goal. We may call that goal healing, or wholeness, or individuation - whatever we call it, it's ultimately the same goal and Mary Jo Davis-Grant has shown us the way.

I found "Dream Power" to be not only intriging but understandable even for a lay person. The book described in vivid detail a true and amazing account of how the author's dreams healed her from an excruciating and debilitating disease. This book is a gift to all of us because it proves beyond a showdow of a doubt the "power of dreams." Readng this book will make anyone recognize and understand that the unconscious is always striving for physical and mental health and that dreams are one way that it communicates with us.

When I read this book for the first time, it was like a mystery story as I was so interested in her progress and what she was doing. Then I read it again and started underlining the special parts that spoke to me. I found much to meditate on and to help me in my aches and pains. I wish I had had it sooner as it is a process of learning to concentrate and learn how to meet God and to meditate. This book is packed with original insights that take study and time to get to the depths. I am so glad I read it.

Most seekers are content to simply survive the monumental miracle of giving birth to themselves; only the rare few attempt to make a metaphysical map of the experience in case it might show someone else the way home. Mary Jo Davis-Grant not only delineates the map, but also provides a detailed and riveting travelogue of her adventures in physical, psychological and spiritual healing.

Davis-Grant's depth of documentation and analysis lends authority to the idea that healing body-mind-spirit through dream work and the interaction of archetypes and energy centers is not just another bit of New Age pie in the sky. Her scholarship shines light on the subject in a way that allows others to see the patterns she intuitively understood. Her passion informs the story with a humanity that makes it seem accessible and possible to others.

Finally, the author's care and precision with language makes this a book that builds a bridge across faith traditions and between science and spirit.