Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions

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Beacon Press, 01‏/07‏/2006 - 160 من الصفحات
Drawing from a rich understanding of dreaming in culture, history, psychology, and modern dream study, Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley's Dreaming Beyond Death explicitly addresses three common aspects of pre-death dreams and offers interpretations that will aid both dying persons and their caregivers. Rev. Patricia Bulkley's experience with the transformative possibilities of pre-death dreams as a hospice counselor lend this book a deeply personal and human touch, while Kelly Bulkeley's insightful analysis and intellectual framework provide an understanding of the deeper meanings behind this type of dreaming. A final chapter provides resources and concrete methods for caregivers to respectfully guide a dying person through the dreaming process to a sense of peace.
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
DREAMS OF MORTALITY
11
Across the Life Span
12
Visitations
18
NearDeath Experiences
22
Religion andor Spirituality
24
Your Life as a Dreamer
30
THE NATURE AND MEANING OF DREAMS
33
Following the Elders
83
Family and Faith
87
OBSTACLES
91
Family Traditions Family Barriers
95
Dreams Visions and Dementia
97
Painful Secrets
99
Dying for Her Faith
105
CARE FOR THE DYING
115

Metaphors We Live By and Die By
36
The Anticipatory Function
39
What You Can Learn from Them
45
JOURNEYS
53
The Last Dream of Socrates
54
Modern Transportation
58
Subtle Shifts
62
Life Reviews
64
Just WishFulfillments?
65
GUIDES
71
Companions on the Journey
73
Family Visitations
74
Margies Second Dream
76
PreDeath Dreams as Religious Experience
77
Following the Children
80
What Is a Good Death?
116
Exploring a Lifetime
118
Dealing with Your Stuff
122
Reconciliation
124
Tending the Soul
127
Taking Ones Own Life
129
Hummingbirds
131
CONCLUSION
135
A Summary of Methods
137
The Democracy of Dreaming
139
Resources for Caregiving for the Terminally Ill
143
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
145
NOTES
147
REFERENCES
149
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Kelly Bulkeley is a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and the author of several books, including Dreams of Healing and The Wandering Brain. Rev. Dr. Patricia (Tish) Bulkley is a Presbyterian minister who was the spiritual services provider at Hospice of Marin for ten years. She currently serves on the teaching staff of the Program in Christian Spirituality at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California.

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