Bøker av Kelly Bulkeley

The Scribes of Sleep analyzes the dream journals of seven remarkable people - Aelius Aristides, Myoe Shonin, Lucrecia de León, Emanuel Swedenborg, Benjamin Banneker, Anna Bonus Kingsford, and Wolfgang Pauli - and employs an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on their meanings, drawing on data science, depth psychology, and religious studies.

What if our dreams could offer spiritual insight for personal growth and social transformation? Leading dream expert Kelly Bulkeley brings us time-honored methods to stimulate our innate dreaming capacity, including the latest research on dreaming and strategies from seasoned, vivid dreamers.

This interdisciplinary study of the religious dimensions of dreams shows how modern dream research supports and enriches our understanding of religiously meaningful dreams.The Wilderness of Dreams does four things that no other work on dreams has done. First, it surveys the whole range of modern dream research-not just the work of depth psychologists and neuroscientists, but also the findings of anthropologists, content analysts, cognitive psychologists, creative artists, and lucid dreaming researchers. Second, it draws upon new advances in hermeneutic philosophy in order to clarify basic questions about how to interpret dreams. Third, it develops a careful, well-grounded notion of religious meaning-the "root metaphor" concept-to show that seeking religious meanings in dreams is not mere superstition. And fourth, the book reflects on the question of why modern Westerners are so interested in affirming, or debunking, the idea that dreams have religious meanings.

Through the lens of cognitive science, this book takes a new and exciting look at Lucrecia de Leon, a young woman from 16th-century Spain who was arrested by the Inquisition and charged with heresy and treason because of her gift for prophetic dreaming.

Children's Dreams teaches readers how to understand and appreciate memorable "big dreams" of childhood. The book introduces readers to the basic psychology and neuroscience of dreaming, then discusses dreams from early childhood through adolescence, exploring why we dream and how dreams can help us enhance creativity and make sense of our lives.

An introduction to major psychological theories about dreams and dreaming offering an historical overview of how these theories have developed from 1900 to the present. It presents the theories of Freud, Jung and other clinical psychologists and concludes with an examination of dreams and an analysis of a sample dream.

A carefully researched, accessibly written portrait of dreaming as a powerful, unpredictable, often iconoclastic force in human religious life

This book argues that the profounded questions raised by cognitive neuroscience may best be answered through a dialogue with religion.