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Dreaming of Animals

Our dreams about animals, according to psychoanalyst James Hillman, show us what we need to do to heal ourselves and the Earth.  Dreams include day-dreams (imaginative thoughts, religious and scientific ideas, meditative visions, myths, and stories) as well as night dreams.  Since our inner attitudes determine what we do, they have consequences in the outer world. 

Animals connect us to powers larger than ourselves. Each is part of us as we are of them, not only in DNA or genes but in the labyrinth of our brain.  Yet, now most scientists agree we only have about 30 years to turn the extinction rate for species around.  Since we will not save what we do not love, this book seeks to restore honor to animals so that we bring them to the table of community.   For the true and whole community is the (largely) invisible web that includes ants and trees, plants and galaxies.  Beauty dwells in this unity of being.  It hurts to see loss, because when a wounding occurs to one of us, our souls are wounded too. 
 
Atonement implies at-one-ment.  Thus, in this book readers are introduced to details about particular (mostly wild) animals lives and shows how we have related to that animal over the ages.  Each chapter contains a section on the meaning of animal imagery in spiritual and cultural myths, dreams, and the arts.  The last chapter provides techniques for the reader to use in working with animals in inner relationship.  The book can be used for both reference and self-help.

A graduate of Smith College, I am the author of eight books in the genres of psychology, nature, biography.  I served as a Science Editor at the National Audubon Society.  For over 20 years I have led psychological workshops in centers, such as the Open Center in New York City as well as in Chicago, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, Vancouver, Canada, and Skyros, Greece.  I have traveled and researched in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Indonesia, Morocco, and throughout Europe.  After moving to Bozeman 10 years ago to indulge my passion for wild animals, I joined the Boards of the Montana Friends of Jung (currently President) and the Montana Wilderness Association.
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Published by Magic Circle Press, this book may be ordered from any bookstore.
Price: $17.95 paperback.   An e-book is also available.
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 11, 2005); ISBN: 0595343112