The author, who has adopted the name of Simon S. Godfrey, was educated at Columbia University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has a Ph.D. in psychology, and for years practiced psychotherapy, taught graduate courses, conducted workshops, and undertook extensive research on dreams. His intense involvement with the field of dreams led him to trespass on a path that, for millennia, has been the jurisdiction of religion and theology. He found that human nature is far greater than it has been depicted, that a superhuman power is at work in the world, and that there is a close affinity between...