In Episode 10 Dr. Kelly Bulkeley talks about keeping a dream journal, dreams and prophecy, and building a dream library. Interview starts at 30:20.
Image Description: Kelly wears a black leather jacket over a dark purple shirt. He looks directly into the camera. The background is shades of brown, grey and white. We talk about:
How Kelly’s nightmares early on in life led him to dreamwork
A powerful dream he had the summer of 1981
Dream-sharing, trust and respect
What made Kelly do a 180-degree shift with his dream research
The pattern language of dreams
What moved him to write his book The Scribes of Sleep: Insights from the Most Important Dream Journals in History
Benjamin Banneker’s dream journal
Tracking our dreams personally and collectively and how this can contribute to human potential
Where Kelly believes the first or early dream journals are located
Lucrecia de León, a 21-year-old prophetic dreamer who lived in the late 16th century
His perspective on the ways people respond to prophetic dreamers
Dreaming being a part of socialization and cultural education
Finding a community of like-minded dreamers
How different parts of ourselves try to get our attention through dreams
Dream interpretation as play and dream-sharing practiced with a spirit of play
How dreaming is gendered
Men’s dreams
Remembering our dream lineages / dream teachers and ancestors / who has influenced our dream journey
The dream library he and his wife are building + SO much more!
RESOURCES:
Books: Scribes of Sleep: Insights from the Most Important Dream Journals in History | Lucrecia the Dreamer: Introduction | Stanford University Press | Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition | Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion
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