Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative HistoryFrom 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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... cognition . I do not argue that dreaming is the origin of religion as such ; rather , my thesis is more focused : dreaming is a primal wellspring of religious experience . The natural rootedness of dreaming in the human brain - mind ...
... cognitive abilities of the human mind. These abilities gave our species the power to survive and dominate not just in our primal African homeland but in virtually every region and environment around the world. According to a generally ...
... cognitive abilities of our species have developed over time in direct response to pressing interests stimulated by environmental forces on people's lives . There is no reason to suppose this process stopped two hundred thousand years ...
... sensory association . Research in this area is providing an increasingly well - defined portrait of the cognitive capacities of the dreaming imagination . Throughout the book , we explore the multiple correlations between this research.
... cognitive abilities suffer tremendously after just one missed night's sleep , and after a few days the emotional suffering becomes so acute that no ethically responsible research has pursued the matter further . It is interesting that ...