Dreams Beyond Time: On Sacred Encounter and Spiritual Transformation

Lee Irwin's book Dreams Beyond Time explores the four basic types of dreaming: normative, mythic, psychic, and transpersonal, and how they can be used to look more closely at additional dream types that indicate dreaming as a process of creative discovery. It also explores how virtual dreaming encounters can reveal latent human potentials and suggest aspects for spiritual development. The author uses an existential and phenomenological method to analyze dreaming contents in relationship to altered states of mind, trance, out of body and near-death experience, meditation, imagination, and stages of lucid self-awareness. Transpersonal dreams are given considerable attention in relationship to mystical traditions, paranormal research, and the comparative anthropology of self.

Format: Hardback
Length: 366 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

Dreams Beyond Time: On Sacred Encounter and Spiritual Transformation delves into the captivating realm of dreams, offering readers a comprehensive exploration of dreams research as applied to non-ordinary dreams. Author Lee Irwin introduces four fundamental types of dreaming: normative, mythic, psychic, and transpersonal, providing vivid illustrations for each category. These dream types serve as a lens through which we can examine additional dream types, revealing dreaming as a transformative process of creative discovery. By engaging in virtual dreaming encounters, latent human potentials are unveiled, offering insights into spiritual development based on dream recording, interpretation, and analysis. This introspective journey leads to a metaphysical description that encompasses a vibrant, living universe of process-becoming, where certain dream types unveil mythic, psychic, and transpersonal capacities as intrinsic to a deeper, more awakened sense of intersubjective self-awareness. While the author explores diverse dream theories from various authors, they employ an existential and phenomenological approach to analyze dreaming contents in relation to altered states of mind, trance, out-of-body experiences, meditation, imagination, and stages of lucid self-awareness. Transpersonal dreams receive particular attention in their relationship to mystical traditions, paranormal research, and comparative anthropology of the self. This captivating book invites readers to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery, exploring the depths of their dreams and unlocking the potential for spiritual transformation.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793642615