Secret History of Dreaming

Name: Secret History of Dreaming
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ISBN: 9781577319016

ISBN-10: 157731901X

ISBN-13: 9781577319016

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robert Moss

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What do the first major oil discovery in Kuwait, Mark Twain's fiction, and Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad have in common? They were all first experienced in dreams. In this book, Robert Moss marshals his narrative flair to make history vivid and the esoteric accessible, exploring the role of dreams in such diverse subjects as the "Dreamtime" of indigenous peoples, the Spanish Inquisition, and the letters of Carl Jung. Acting as an archaeologist, he reveals dreams, coincidence, and imagination to be secret engines in a human story that points to a dimension beyond the physical. Ultimately, Moss shows that since the dream realm is the seedbed of innovation, those who wake up to this…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: New World Library
Publication date: 8/10/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: Fields of Dreaming



Secret Engines of History



Earth Speakers and Dream Travelers



Interpreters and Diviners



Divine Dreaming



The Angel That Troubles the Waters



From the Dream Library



How Dreaming Gets Us Through



Masters of the Three ï¿½Onlyï¿½ Things



Joan of Arc and the Tree-Seers



The Beautiful Dream Spy of Madrid



The Underground Railroad of Dreams



Mark Twain's Rhyming Life



The Man Who Blew Things Up



Winston Churchill's Time Machines


Epilogue: The Future History of Dreaming


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author