The Womans Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice [Paperback]

Connie Kaplan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1999

This book shows women how to dream with intention, clarity and focus. It also explains the thirteen types of dreams, how your monthly cycle affects your dreaming, how the moon's position in the sky and its relationship to your astrological chart determines your dreaming, and how to create a personal map of your dreaming patterns.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582700087
• ISBN-13: 978-1582700083
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,065,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your dreams connect you to your soul!, October 27, 1999

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Tamar Frankiel (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Womans Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice (Paperback)

Connie Kaplan's book could revolutionize your life by changing your picture of yourself. Instead of seeing dreams as clues to your past, you will find that they are messages from your soul, guiding you into the future. She offers hints about dream interpretation that go far beyond the old "dream books" and even beyond psychology. This book is a very important tool for the serious spiritual inquirer.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some useful suggestions, April 20, 2001

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A. J Greig (Vienna AUSTRIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Womans Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice (Paperback)

I like this book, inspite of a number of shortcomings. It's a nicely presented edition from Beyond Words Publishing. The idea of creating a dream database for correlating lunar transits and days of the month with dreams is helpful, and the suggestion that we should recapitulate the events of the day before going to sleep each night is also very useful. I liked the idea of mapping the dream phases and establishing a dream circle of friends in which to share dreams. (The dream chart is the same idea as the menstrual mandala in "Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation through dreams and the female cycle" by Shuttle and Redgrove, 1995, with the addition of lunar transits.) As an interesting aside, this author leads dreaming circles through lindagoodman.net's academy, with the most recent on being entitled "dreaming on the vernal equinox 2001."

Overall, though, I found that there was too much emphasis on simply recounting people's dreams and without much guidance for the reader on how to work with their own.

Kaplan refers a lot to astrology, but she should have paid more attention to its technical aspects. For example, void-of-course Moon is defined as follows: "As the moon moves from sign to sign during a month, she may, for a few hours, be outside the direct influence of any sign. (Those constellations are far apart!) When the moon is between signs, she is said to be void of course." In fact, a void of course Moon is one that does not make any complete aspect to any planet or the Sun before leaving the zodiacal sign that it is in. It is not somehow outside the influence of a sign. Elsewhere, as another exmaple, she makes an odd statement: "Sagittarius governs the blood. Dreams may refer to the sense of inner peace invoked by proper blood flow." For a fuller and more accurate treatment of this subject, see "Crossing the Threshold: The astrology of dreaming" by Linda Reid. For a more complete exposition on dreaming and shamanism/consciousness work, see Robert Moss's books, such as "Conscious Dreaming: A spiritual path of everyday life."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, practical guide to dreamwork with others, October 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Womans Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice (Paperback)

This book is wonderful - it approaches a subject that is vast and overwhelming in a down-to-earth way. The author and her companions in dream circle take their dreaming and their observations seriously, rather than making pie-in-the-sky generalizations. Highly recommended if you want to go beyond the endless dream interpretation books and work within the dreamweave.