Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How a Tribal Connection Is Revealed through Dreams and Synchronicities [Paperback]

Tess Castleman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

Threads, Knots, Tapestries reveals the way our dreaming expresses and reflects our deep interpersonal and environmental interconnectivity…. Drawing upon her decades of Jungian analytic practice, and many years of pioneering in dream groups, Castleman weaves a rich tapestry of dream threads which shows us how we are dreaming with and for each other. Her method is that of a storyteller telling the stories of people, their dreams, the stories of shamans, the stories of individuals suffering from cancer, love entanglements, and most delightfully, stories which show how dreams are woven together with communal life in other cultures, as well as in our own.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Do we have a tribal unconscious? The examples ... in this book make a good case for it. -- Robert Hinshaw, Ph.D., training analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich

[A] rich and colorful carpet of stories, myths, beliefs, and dreams. -- Alice Tawwater Frazier, LPC, LMFT, BCIAC, CGP, President Dallas Group Psychotherapy

[Castleman] writes with enthusiasm and care about ... the collective and personal unconscious, particularly its message delivered in dreams. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst and author of Women Who Run with the Wolves

About the Author

Tess Castleman, M.A., L.P.C., I.A.A.P. is a Zurich trained Diplomate Jungian Analyst. She is a training analyst for and president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Dallas where she teaches, lectures, holds seminars and conducts a private practice for both individuals and dream groups.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Syren Book Company (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929636171
• ISBN-13: 978-0929636177
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,391,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sacred Ground of Dreams, March 8, 2004

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Kay Stricklin (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How a Tribal Connection Is Revealed through Dreams and Synchronicities (Paperback)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sifting through stories, myths, and beliefs about dreams, April 13, 2004

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This review is from: Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How a Tribal Connection Is Revealed through Dreams and Synchronicities (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Reading, March 27, 2004

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This review is from: Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How a Tribal Connection Is Revealed through Dreams and Synchronicities (Paperback)

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.