Thread: Hi All

Originally Posted by Serith

That book you read when you were 17 sounds interesting, what was it called?

Thanks for the reply & info Serith. The Book was called "Visions of the Night" by David Coxhead and Susan Hiller, 1976

Besides containing marvelous information about the ancient and esoteric history of oneirology, this book has marvelous illustrations, gathered from many cultures, illustrating key points about dreams.

The dream mediates between the worlds of matter and spirit, time and eternity. In Jacobs dream; the ladder with angels ascending and descending; symbolizes the ease of transition between these levels of reality in the mind of the dreamer; Time is abolished, and analogous incidents of past and future are perceived simultaneously as the dream opens the way from one world to another, establishing a relationship between the mundane and spiritual realities.

The entire world may be understood as the dream of an awakened dreamer. In dreams of this order there is, literally, no distinction between levels of reality. The creative principle of the World grows out of the navel of the dreaming god in the mythical instant of the creation of the universe. This concept is present in the shamanistic tradition, perhaps as old as human history, in which the individual adept, assumes the role of conscious creator.