Dream Sharing and Shared Metaphors in a Short Term Community

ISBN-13: 9783330332089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 124 str.

Alexander Randall 5th

Opis

Dream telepathy was demonstrated in the laboratory in the early 1970s. Is it real? Can ordinary people do it? Does it occur spontaneously in natural settings? Randall explored what factors in group dynamics brought people together with unusual harmony. At a conference on Shamanism at the Atlantic University, he noticed the role that dreams played in the community's cohesion. He explored what happens when people share their dreams. On one particularly interesting evening, the group conducted an experiment based upon Henry Reed's Dream Helper ceremony, and Robert Van De Castle's dream telepathy research. The group endeavored to reach one member's psyche and achieve group dreaming. Hence this became a field study under natural conditions of dream telepathy. Did it work? What actually happened? What did the group think happened? Is it really Dream Telepathy? Dream Healing? Shared mind or shared metaphor?

O autorze

Alexander Randall 5th is professor of Communication at the University of the Virgin Islands. Randall is the author of "Dream Wizard Conquers his Knight Mare". He earned his doctoral degree at Columbia University under Dr. Margaret Mead. He holds two Master's degrees from Columbia and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University.