Women, Wisdom and Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul, plays a vital role in empowering women in the work of healing their lives and the world around them. In this elegant and practical guide on feminine wisdom and dreams, Anne Scott leads us into a deepening relationship with our dream world, not only to help us understand its personal significance, but also to use the insights we uncover there to help heal our world. Asking us to cultivate a courageous attentiveness to our inner lives, Anne Scott provides valuable tools for restoring the link between feminine spirituality and social change. Reclaiming the language of dreams, practicing states of inner attention and stillness in our busy lives, and gathering in groups to share from a deeper place, offer rich methods for reconnecting to the love, joy and creativity that are our birthright and contribution to life.
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A dreamy read,
This review is from: Women, Wisdom & Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul (Paperback)
Anne Scott's book, "Women, Wisdom & Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul" physically reflects its topic. From my first glance inside the cover, the book conveyed a sense of dreaminess. Wide margins and deep line spacing combine with generous amounts of white space to create a sense of an airy expanse transcending page boundaries. I breathed deeply and sank into my chair in anticipation of a trip into mystical territory.
Glancing down the Table of Contents, I was surprised to discover pedantic sounding chapter titles, but I quickly realized each was too short to be ponderous or presecriptive. The book has four parts, lots of chapters, and only 122 pages, so I assumed it would move fast. It did. As I began reading, I discovered that sparely written dream summaries are embedded in nearly every page. A silken thread of text illuminates them, weaving a fascinating web of illusion and mystery as Scott highlights and suggests more than telling. She quickly made it clear that she does not espouse universal, archetypal interpretations for dream symbols. She explains that no dream component has meaning beyond its significance to the individual dreamer. That sealed her credibility for me. I quickly realized I did not want to read this particular book slowly and analytically. Both narrative and dream accounts flowed as fluidly as an actual dream and moved as softly through my mind. I did not learn specifics about understanding dreams. I did develop a deeper appreciation for them, a few new tips for pondering them, and increased determination to continue my practice of recording and exploring my own. When I finished reading, I felt invigorated and eager dream. I awoke the next morning from a dream that began as I watched a circle of fur-clad women milling around their sod-roofed house. I could not hear their words. A group of men appeared holding a circular fur blanket several feet in diameter. They were there for a blanket toss! I tingled with excitement. The women circled around and lifted me onto the blanket. I soared so high they became pinheads on the tundra. "I can see Russia!" I hollered, amazed that I could see for hundreds of miles in all directions as I hung suspended in the air. This dream was not as odd as it sounds. I was in Alaska a mere three weeks ago, and I was enchanted with pictures and descriptions of Inuits doing a blanket toss. Using Scott's tips, my dream seemed to merge the female focus of her book into a larger picture. Women may dream and have visions, and women placed me on the tossing blanket, but man-power was required to launch me to "see" level. All worked together. Was this dream triggered by the book? Quite possibly. And I believe reading the book gave me an even deeper appreciation for the power of that dream than I would have had previously. I've always valued my dreams and taken them seriously, and this tiny book has further enriched that experience, in a soothing, poetically dreamy way.
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A Profound Visit to the Feminine Soul,
By Peggy Tabor Millin (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Women, Wisdom & Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul (Paperback)
"During a difficult time of my life, I had only my dreams to guide me. As I began to understand them, I saw how the shift in consciousness that the dreams brought me became reflected in changes in the circumstances of my life. These personal dreams were followed by more universal dreams, showing me how women can give birth to a sacred quality of being that heals and transforms their lives." Anne Scott
I have worked with my dreams much of my adult life, and for nine years led a dream group. The approach I learned and taught others I now recognize as a Western approach that entailed my "figuring it out." When I attended a workshop with Anne Scott, I was given a new way of looking at my dreams, a way that aligned with changes already going on within me. This approach felt natural and organic, as if the dream were a flower growing from my very center. I had only to hold it, encourage it, observe, and nurture. The dream's message unfolded its petals and gave its perfume. When I read Scott's book, I was filled with a knowing of its truth. I felt as though I were sitting in her presence, being gently taught while we sipped tea. In the first three sections, "Dreamwork: Learning the Language of the Soul," "Gathering Together," and "Restoring Stillness in Our Lives, "she uses dreams to present brief teachings. The fourth section of the book, "Dreams: Messengers of Wisdom," contains little prose. Instead, dreams gathered from women around the world read like poems, asking us to open our hearts and souls to understand. Women, Wisdom, and Dreams not only contains The Light of the Feminine Soul, it is written from the feminine soul. Its message awakens the heart's longing for recognition and connection and opens an inner spaciousness where the feminine soul in all of us, regardless of gender, shines, waiting to be invited to share its wisdom. This is a book to read for guidance upon waking and for inviting dreams before sleeping. Imbibe it slowly, savor one dream at a time. Peggy Tabor Millin, author of Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine
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