Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past [Paperback]

Kathleen Sullivan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

Do you ever wonder why your dreams often contain recurring symbol or themes? Have you been haunted by recurring dreams of being chased, being naked in public or having your teeth fall out? Based on her work with dreamers analyzing their own recurring dream symbols, Kathleen Sullivan explains that working recurrent dreams as a series is the key to unleashing the healing force of these symbols. Fourteen dreamers participate in the study illustrating the process of uncovering the profound meaning within each recurring symbol. These are transformational stories of dreamers engaging their own recurring symbols leading to a new wholeness and deep level of growth and understanding.

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About the Author

Kathleen Sullivan has a private practice in dream work/counseling and has her own show on public radio. She resides in Pacific Grove, CA. She is the author of Recurring Dreams: A Journey to Wholeness.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Paulist Press (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809141841
• ISBN-13: 978-0809141845
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,240,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Gems, May 23, 2004

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Barbara B. Nelson, M.A., M.F.T (Pebble Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past (Paperback)

Kathleen Sullivan's newest book, Recurring Dream Symbols:Maps to Healing Your Past, reads like a series of short stories. These stories are deceptively simple. I found that I needed to gently remind myself to slow down, so as not to miss the many gems that are discovered within each dream story. I enjoyed playing dream detective, along with the dreamers and Ms. Sullivan, as they explored the dreams. Ms. Sullivan expresses through her writing who she is and how she teaches. By example, she teaches us how to be dream explorers. And throughout the book, each dreamer proves that we can HEAL ourselves by paying attention to recurring dreams.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sheds Light on Recurring Dreams, May 16, 2004

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Parallel P (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past (Paperback)

Kathleen Sullivan has done an excellent job on a subject that is relatively untouched in the dream field. Not only does she make sense of the hugely different dream series she worked with but she provides an articulate and highly readable overview of what recurring dreams may be trying to help us work through or heal, AND fantastic guidelines for people to begin identifying and working with recurring dream symbols of their own.

It was especially intriguing to me to see, as both a reader and a person with a recurring dream series of my own, that working through a dream series is not necessarily a linear process. The whole idea that change and awareness takes place on many different levels at different times, and is not a simple progression from "A" to "B" to enlightened being.

This is a breakthrough book on the subject of recurring dreams and is a good read for anyone interested in dreams -- whether yours are repeating or not!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, May 11, 2004

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Patrick D. Gallagher (Bangkok, Thailand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book for people who take their dreams seriously and want to understand them. The heart of the book is the 14 case studies (ten women and four men) whose work on their recurring dreams with the author led them to transform their lives in very positive and inspiring ways. And I found it very interesting and valuable that in these case studies nearly every dream symbol imaginable is discussed and interpreted. In the last fifteen years I have read a lot of books on dreams and this may be the best of them. I highly recommend it.