Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious

by Jeremy Taylor

Book Overview

Based on intensive study and thousands of case histories, this remarkable guide opens up the world of dreams by showing readers how to remember and interpret dreams, establish a dream group, learn the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446394629
• ISBN13: 9780446394628
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book.

Taylor's erudition and vast experience in unpacking dream landscapes is without question. By my reckoning Taylor stands alongside of Freud and other seminal thinkers in the analytical psychological tradition for providing a map to journey on the serpentine and difficult quest to interpret dreams. If depth psychology holds your interest, this book is a good place to begin. And Taylor a guide worth reading. As the author notes, "dreams come at the service of health and wholeness." If this is your aim, you will find a wise guide to access the depths and richness found in the language of Dreams.

Transformational work

This book is the essential guide to dreamwork. Taylor guides you with a loving hand through the labyrinths and mysteries of our dream worlds. And he brings us a joyous message: all dreams come in the service of health and wholeness"!

The method works; book ties together dozens of ideas

Having read the book with care, and having experienced the author live, I can and will testify that, for the group in which I participated, the processs works, and the book fairly represents the process. All dreams that can be remembered ultimately do seem "to come in the service of health and wholeness." Taylor-style Dreamwork combines a form of intimacy with respectful distance, because only by looking deep within "as if it were my dream" can a group member have anything to say about someone else's dream. So, each dream belongs to each member of the group -- in individual versions. This process is illustrated, with huge quantities of theoretical material tantalizingly presented. Quoting Taylor again, "I am a fanatic because I am convinced from 30 years experience. Don't take my word for it. I am the circus barker outside the tent, touting the wonders of 'Jo-Jo the Dog Faced Boy.' Come inside the tent and see for yourself." I agree. The book conveys more of the flavor of the live experience than one would think possible.

An excellent guide for beginning dreamwork

From Joan Mazza, author of DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF: A PERSONAL APPROACH TO DREAM INTERPRETATION; DREAM BACK YOUR LIFE; FROM DREAMS TO SELF-DISCOVERY, and WHO'S CRAZY, ANYWAY?Jeremy Taylor's work helped to shape and influence my style and understanding as a dreamworker. This is one of the finest and most inspirational books on dreaming, sensitively written and without dogma. His description of doing dreamwork with prisoners was especially moving.

Dynamic, self-empowering book - a great resource

This dynamic book is filled with profound insights into the nature of dreaming, the health and wholeness promoting quality of dreams, and specific techniques for exploring and "unpacking" the MULTIPLE LAYERS OF MEANING & SIGNIFICANCE IN EVERY DREAM - (even the tiny, fugitive "fragmants"!) The book will be of great use and interest to those just beginning to take a deeper interest in their dreams, as well as seasoned, experienced dream workers. Filled with a wealth of fascinating annecdotes and examples, as well as clearly stated findamental principles, the book is a tool of self-empowerment for dreamers - particularly dreamers who are interested in FORMING THEIR OWN ON-GOING DREAM GROUPS.