Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative HistoryNYU Press, 2008 M07 19 - 345 páginas From Biblical stories of Joseph interpreting Pharoh’s dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as religiously meaningful experiences. In this widely shared view, dreams are a powerful medium of transpersonal guidance offering the opportunity to communicate with sacred beings, gain valuable wisdom and power, heal suffering, and explore new realms of existence. Conversely, the world’s religious and spiritual traditions provide the best source of historical information about the broad patterns of human dream life |
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... night . Plenty of people get by on less and others can't function without more , but your average ratio of time spent awake and asleep is likely to be about 2 : 1 , sixteen or so hours awake vs. eight or so hours asleep . In unusual ...
... night . The exception is when you remember a dream . Dreaming A dream is an imagined world of sights , sounds , thoughts , feelings , and activities that you ( either as a character in the dream or a disembodied observer of it ) ...
... night , decisions must be made about which places and eras can and cannot be represented . The most common path taken by books on world religions is to focus attention on those traditions with the largest contemporary populations and ...
... night . Toward the end of the night , NREM stages 3 and 4 tend to drop out , and a person's sleep alternates almost entirely between REM and NREM stage 2 . However , paradoxical sleep refers to the same cluster of neurophysiological ...
... night NREM stage 4 , and the dreamlike qualities of late night NREM stage 2 ) . At some future point , these terms will probably be discarded in favor of more precise conceptualizations of the complex , multifaceted ebb and flow of ...
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Chinese Religions | |
Buddhism | |
Christianity 7 Islam | |
Religions of Africa | |
Religions of Oceania | |
Religions of the Americas | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History Kelly Bulkeley Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |