Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life

That's when Barasch's fascination with the power of dreams began. The result is a breakthrough book that calls upon 15 years of research as well as hundreds of real-life dreams to expertly explore this mysterious frontier. Readers can expect excellent, poetic prose (Barasch is the former editor in chief of New Age Journal) that speaks to the transformative powers within the bizarre, shape-shifting landscape of the dream world. He helps readers see when a dream reveals a personal calling, a warning from a diseased body, or an insight that can help dreamers overcome the wounds or beliefs that hold them back. Barasch reaches far beyond the typical dream analysis into the more ambitious realms of spiritual turning points, personal relationships, and mystical opportunities. For many readers this will be a life-altering book, one that forever shifts the dreamer's approach to dreams as well as the conscious world. --Gail Hudson

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The Washington Post hails Healing Dreams as "a book as wise and healing as a dream...lucid, brave, and trailblazing." The winner of the Nautilus Award for best psychology book 2001, it invites the reader on an adventure of the soul. It offers a clear, compassionate understanding of what dreams mean, but also poses a daring question: What do our dreams ask of us, and how might we answer? Dr. Gayle Delaney urges, "Read this book if you want to live a bigger, more vivid life." Dr. Larry Dossey calls it "a new standard in the field of dreams...an uncommon joy," and Joan Borysenko calls it "a watershed in the appreciation of the psyche."

Iappreciate Barasch's new book for the rare and worthy achievementit is: Through beautiful, even poetic language, integrated with thegrounding influence of the facts from the lives of those heinterviewed, he gives us a glimpse of a holy World Order that inspiresus to try to empathize with something that we can not fullyunderstand. In that sense, Barasch's book is the next best thing toa personal encounter with a healing dream itself.Among the varioustypes of healing dreams he explores, he includes his experiences withthe "Dream Helper Ceremony." Perhaps the most far-flungexport from A.R.E.'s summer camp, where it was first invented,Dream Helper involves a group of people volunteering to donate theirdreams to help someone in distress, doing so without knowing inadvance the nature of the person's problem. What began as anattempt to put a spiritual spin on traditional dream telepathyexperiments soon evolved into a potent healing ritual that many peoplehave used to their benefit....On the basis of his dream helperexperience, Barasch draws two important conclusions about healingdreams. First: if you want to have one yourself, offer to have ahealing dream for someone else! That's the closest to a healingdream formula he offers in the entire book.Two: there is some kind ofliving, spiritual fabric that unites all of us with a life beyond thephysical and to which we have a important relationship, acknowledgedor not. Healing dreams, he has discovered, come to pull us back fromthe abyss of isolationism into a more conscious relationship with thatunifying lifeforce. There's more to a saint, in other words, thanwhat can be found in his pockets.


Review by David LaChapelle   November 8, 2000
What we have here is the living yoga of an inquiry that has opened the author, and now the reader, to the interwoven nature of our reality. We are unavoidably called upon to consider the intelligence of the universe. Marc's passionate pursuit of what he was given has taken the rubies of the inner world and held them up for us to marvel at, and become inspired from.

His personal journey has been the alchemical vessel in which the passion of dream knowledge has been fired and made authentic. Reading this book will change the way you go to bed at night, deepening your life with the ongoing adventure of conscious participation in this mysterious universe. It is an invitation to consider that guidance is a gift to all of us, and that when we sleep, we are in fact making a soul journey.

This book is not another self-help book sprung from some modest good intention and hope for fast money. It is a living document of life lived at the edge of fire, bringing back the heat of our inner world in a way that compels us to wake up, and acknowledge the mysteries at work. We are in Marc's debt for the work he has done, for a way has been opened that can deepen all our lives.