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.

Introducing students at all levels to the key concepts of modern dream psychology, this concise book provides an overview of major theories regarding the formation, function, and interpretation of dreams. Why do people dream, and what do dreams mean?

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.

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.

Soul, Psyche, Brain is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. Soul, Psyche, Brain explores questions like: what can knowledge about the neurological activities of the brain tell us about consciousness?

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.