Dream History, including Surrealism - starts Oct 1
RCWilk
DreamGate Presents the 12th Class via E-mail on Dreams and Dreaming!
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Correspondence Dream Classes and Interactive Groups - October 1st
20 classes and Dream Sharing Groups on mail lists, Web,
Newsgroups, IRC, more...
$10.00 class registration fee - worth 20x that much!
WHAT YOU GET:
-> 20 classes 1-2/week (see syllabus below)
+ DreamGroups Online
+ Dream Guide to the Internet
+ Global Dreaming News x1 per month
+ Subscription to Dream Sharing Ezine, Electric Dreams
+ most importantly, an introduction to the online dreaming community.
Register today : Starts October 1st
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To get registration info, send an e-mail to
dreamc...@dreamgate.com
And say something like:
"Hey Richard, sign me up for the October Dream Class #12 and
send me the registration address!"
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More on DreamGate and Dream Classes
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Thanks for your interest in the 10th DreamGate Class on Dreams!
Hi - I'm Richard Wilkerson and will be teaching this class.
This class is a overview of dream work from ancient times to the latest
Internet technology. It also includes participation in life dream groups
and other dream sharing net venues, and connections to the best dream
sharing communities Online. I've included more information below.
TO REGISTER: Simple!
** Send me an e-mail saying:
"Yes, put me in the OCTOBER 1st Class on Dreams!" **
Also, if you can send me a couple paragraphs on what interests you in
dreams and what your
previous experiences and training have been, it will help in class
orientation.
QUESTIONS about the class? Sure! - send them to me,
Richard Wilkerson
rcw...@dreamgate.com
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WHAT DO YOU GET?
DreamGate is again (10th class) offering the popular dream sharing
class that introduces you to the world of dreams and
dream sharing. The $10.00 fee includes:
- 20 Classes on all aspects of dream sharing (see
Syllabus below) from Ancient Bablyon to Contemporary
Dream labs.
- Special classes and labs on dreams and the Net -
including newsgroups, ezines, the web, Internet Relay
Chat and other alternative sources for information and
dreams!
- Dream Groups - using email and other net modalities,
you will be able to participate in the newest forms of
dream sharing on the net!
- Guides, Dreamsharing E-zine subscription, and updated
resources to the world of dreaming Online!
All at your own pace and sent direct to your e-mail box.
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For QUESTIONS or information on how to register, e-mail Richard
Wilkerson at rcw...@dreamgate.com
http://www.dreamgate.com/dg-6.htm
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Class Syllabus: Intro to Dream Sharing On the Net
Class Syllabus: Intro to Dream Sharing On the Net
!!Summary!!
Dream Recall Basics - Dream Techniques From Freud
Ancient Dreams: Dream texts & practices in Early
Western Cultures, C. G. Jung, Adler, Surrealism, Breton,
Social Theorists, Perls, Gestalt, Dreambody and Experiential,
Walter Bonime Montague Ullman, Grassroots Dream work in
America Lucid Dreaming and Lucid Control, Dreaming Science,
Dreaming Anthropology Alternative Dreaming, mutual dreaming,
incubation,Dream sharing in the 21st century - Postmodern&Social
influence and practices.
Week 1
01. Introduction - Sign up to Electric Dreams Ezine
Get plugged into the major source about dreams and dreaming online,
the e-zine of the global grassroots movement. Still in its infancy, this
newsletter is more of an online community and is highly interactive.
02. Dream Recall Basics
Some basics and helpful hints for those who don't recall & journal,
or those wanting to improve these skills.
03. Dream Techniques From Freud - Free Association & the Unconscious
Since my interest is not in teaching psychotherapy but in tapping into
each individuals own source of (a. Creativity and (b. Inner authority on
meaning and value
my approach is historic and playful, seeking in Freud want can be used as
viewpoints to engage dream imagery. Some basic ideas are needed for this.
Week 2
04. Dream Techniques From Freud -
The Dream-Work + References
Freud's model for dreaming is still so highly referenced in academic and
clinical thought that I felt it was essential to include this a part of
an overview on dream theories. Also, as postmodern thinking becomes
dominant, it is important to see the psychoanlytic roots and bias that
come with it.
---> Dream Lab I insert - DreamSharing via email sign up.
This is the core model of online dream sharing groups as brought
online by John Herbert and modeled after Montegue Ullman. Groups are done
in cooperation with the Electric Dreams community.
05. Ancient Dreams: Dream texts & practices in Early Western Cultures
A quick tour of Western Roots and its classical attitudes towards dreams
and dreaming. Again, a focus on how to not just see this as abstract
information, but rather a doorway into re- combinations allowing novel
approaches to dream imagery.
Week 3
06. C. G. Jung I. Me and my Shadow.
I feel that even a quick foray into Jung yields potent tools in
perception and significant relationships with oneself. But its a little
odd for many to learn how to approach icky, yucky stuff in dreams as
potential gold mines.
07. C. G. Jung II: Beyond & Through the Personal -
This essay carries Jungs basic model into contact with the non-personal
realms as they relate to dreams and dreaming and extends the idea of what
a relationtion ship with the unconsicous might look like and how dreams
may mediate this relationship.
Week 4
08. Jung III: Archetype & Myth
One of the most accessable & popular aspects of Jungian thought and
practice evolves from Jung's love of story, fables and myth. Campbell
helped bring to the late 20th Century American Culture this love of story
and together they offer tools for those of us in love with myth to
continue the journey. When combined with dreamwork, the study of myth
becomes a study of the journey of ones self as well as The Self.
09. Jung IV: Jung and Dreams
Though Jung never wrote a separate book on dreams, there is *so* much
material that a special essay is needed to give a general lay of the land.
Although Jung felt *each* dream should yield its own new theory, the
Jungian have developed a wide array of helpful techniques. While one could
spend several lifetimes mastering these techniques, many are accessable
right away with a little practice. As a matter of fact, Jung thought
dreams were *already* doing what they needed to be doing. We simple help
the processes along.
Week 5
10.: Other Pre-1960's Dream Theories
All is not Jung and easily Freudened! The Surrealist Movement championed
dreams as a path away form the deadness of everyday worldviews and a
gateway into novel experience and surreality. Phenomenology combined with
psychoanalysis to produce ideas about approaching dreams on their own,
bracketing out our pre-conceived notions and allowing the imagery to
evolve on its own. This essay explores these and other dream movements and
theories that haven't gotten as much attention as they deserve.
11.: Perls, Gestalt & Dreams
The 1960's brought with it an explosion of new therapies and with them a
renewed interest in dreams. None was as popular as the Gestalt movement.
While many saw Perls techniques as deriviative of others before him, none
can deny that Perls brought dream awareness to millions of Americans and
those in the world following the deveopment of the new therapies. This
essay expores this history and the relevant techniques that we can use
outside of therapy.
---> Dream Lab II insert - DreamLink and other Web sites
Week 6
12. Dreambody and Experiential Dreamwork
One of the areas that came into the light in the past 30 years in
therapy has been the body. This essay looks at two major practitioners who
have combined Freud, Jung, Reich, Eastern Practices and phemomenology to
produce methods we can use to dialogue with the body. In this, there is a
paradigm shift from content to process. The dream becomes then a part of
our process that we come into dialogue with. Much of this work can be done
outside the theraputic setting.
13. From the Couch to the Culture: Walter Bonime
Montague Ullman
While the Jungians have always enjoyed working with manifest dream
material, the psychoanalytically trained schools have only come to this
more recently. Bonime and Ullman were two pioneers in this regard. Bonime
shifted the emphasis to the manifest or visable dream and Ullman taught
practices and held groups that could work with this material in
non-clinical settings. These techniques have become the standard in
grassroots dream work and are used by the Association for the Study of
Dreams at their conferences for introducing new particpants to group
dreamwork.
Week 7
14. Grassroots Dream work in America
There has been an explosion of regional small dreamgroups in America
which now has its own history, journals, mini movements and conflicts.
Some of this movement has been organized and part of other social
institutions and communities, but the soul of the movement has been the
local dream group, usually of a dozen or less people. These are the people
tinkering in the garages with techniques that now form a larger body of
literature and practices that can be found in popular literature.
15.Lucid Dreaming and Lucid Control
One of the popular new offshoots of dreamwork is lucid dreaming, or
knowing you are dreaming while you are dreaming and being able to varying
degrees to control the events and content of the dream. While clinical
practice has not been able to respond adequately to this phenomena
(usually siting issues of too much ego control based on old theories of
the unconscious)the lucid dreamers have formed groups and organizations to
address the particular issues invoved and advance the techniques used to
increase the frequency of its occurance. This essay explores the history
and give some of the most popular techniques for inducing lucid dreaming
and control.
----> Lab III Dreaming on Usenet and IRC
While e-mail seems the easiest way to conduct groups, it requires that
the participants organize their own notes over a week or two period.
Usenet & Web Bulletin Board style approaches are a way of keeping the
group's comments and dream texts together are available, but lend
themselves to a different mood. IRC or chat room venues allow real time
interaction and they too lend themselves to a more emotionally based
experience. In this lab we explore some of these other venues.
Week 8
16 Dreaming Science
Why does a dreamworker need to know anything about dream science?
Besides how fascinating it is, and defending yourself against attacks by
pseudo-scientific remarks as "Oh, science has shown that all dreaming is
just chaotic brain garbage." I would like for you to know how science and
imaginative exploration go hand in hand. From the first REM discovery
nights in the Chicago labs to the latest debates on neural networks, this
essay not only explores the history of empirical findings, but takes a
more positive approach and looks at how dream science can aid in
dreamwork.
17. Dreaming Anthropology
If science is correct, we have been dreaming for as long as we have been
mammals, maybe longer. If Campbell and Jung are correct, we have been
making meaning from dreams before recorded history. This means that some
cultures have been practicing dreamwork for millions of years. This essay
explores a general, brief overview of what we know about native cultures
and their dream practices.
Week 9
18 Alternative Dreaming
There is now a wider range of dreaming practices that are being
explored besides the the use of dreams for therapy. Some make intentions
before going to sleep and incubate dreams. Some find that telepathic
powers are increased during dreams. Some people like to meet in their
dreams with others at pre-designated places, some like to use dreams for
inspiring writing and other arts. Some simply llike to *do* things in
dreams, increasing the chances of flying, eating, having sex and going on
virtual journeys. James Hillman & the Archetypal school have opened the
dream to the culture at large, and soon the postmodern writers &
cyberspace will be opening us up to unheard of catagories yet to be
explored. This essay explores the alternatives and offers options to our
usual egoic efforts that impose uses on dreams. Yes, even "being open" is
an imposed paradigm.
19. Final notes & resources on Dreams and Dreaming
One of the more fun parts of the Networking is the chance to see what
others are doing and have them see what you are doing. But even more than
*seeing* is being. It is not just an information exchange but a living
interconnection and chance to see one's place as a microcosm in the
macrocosm. In native cultures, the process of initiation took the
indivdual and his/her inner light and opened this lantern to the society
at large. For several millenium we have lost this in Western Culture as we
made the transition from nature bound to technologically bound reality.
Changes happen too fast. Parents can no longer initiate children into
their society, because by the time they could, it is gone. Seeking all the
answers in the paradigm of "out there somewhere besides nature" has led to
ecological disaster and tecnological horror. But as with ancient
initiations, an element of this transformation is brought about by the
individual seeing his or her own death. As sophisticated moderns, we see
this death as symbolic, but fail to see that its now not so much just an
individual trip as a collective journey. Our culture has seen it's own
death in the bomb and pollution and lose of traditional values. But like
the ancient initiation, we don't really die. Apocalypic theories will
continue but they error in literalizing the death of the world. Its simply
the death of the modern world.
I see two factors emerging in the modern world that I want to bring
forward into the post-modern. The first is the inner relationship and the
other is the outer relationship. The inner relationship can be mediated by
dreamwork, bodywork, and meditation practices (not literally inner, but a
sense that there is value in what we have, the subtlites of *this* moment
and not just what we can get from Otherness), and the outer relationship
with forms the community and can be mediated by regional and neighborhood
organizations and can be mediated globally via the Net and what is surely
to be later, more extensive, and faster manifestations of the Internet.
The inner work provides the access to the individual and the unique and
the outer work allows this individuality to unfold and be initiated in the
multiple fields of social & cultural practice.
In this sense, Dreamwork in Cyberspace provides a model & practice for
profound and diverse developments in the 21st Century, which see nature &
technology in new ecologies as inter- dependent friends and assitants.
This final essay is more a call to the reader to allow the community to
support your individuality by offering the resources we have developed and
finding mutually suportive platforms from which to precede.
Reading Reference:
Two kinds of Bibliographies will be provided. The first will be the
smaller bibliographies that will come with each topic area and the second
will be a wider bibliography provided at the end of the class.
There are no required readings for the class, as we will use more of a
hands-on or interactive approach. However, we do offer suggested reading
and highly recommend them as we feel they will deepen your knowledge base
and widen the experience, as well as providing alternative perspectives to
the bias we carry in the email approach.
There are no required readings for the class, as we will
use more of a hands-on or interactive approach. However,
we do offer suggested reading and highly recommend them
as we feel they will deepen your knowledge base and widen
the experience, as well as providing alternative
perspectives to the bias we carry in the email approach.
Any one of them is a good introduction to dream sharing.
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Suggested Readings for
Introduction to Dream Sharing On the Net
Some Introductory Texts that are available
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1. Faraday, Ann (1974). The Dream Game. New York: Harper
& Row.
[This is a very readable and easy to find book, usually
located in any used bookstore for a few dollars. Good
simple overview of the dreaming field]
2. Delaney, Gayle (ed) (1993). New Directions in Dream
Interpretation. Albany, New York, NY: SUNY Press.
[This is a bit more advanced text than most novices want
to take on, but provides authoritative essays on how-to
interpret dreams, many chapters by the people who
developed the techniques themselves. Gayle has a good
beginners book out too called (1988). Living Your Dreams:
Using Sleep to Solve Problems and Enrich Your Life.
Revised Ed. San Francisco: Harper and Row.]
3. Van De Castle, R. L. (1994). Our Dreaming Mind. New
York: Ballantine Books.
[A fairly recent overview of the Dream World in General,
including Science, Religion, Psychology, Anthropology and
more by one of the pioneers and authorities in the field.
Fairly expensive though.]
4.Taylor, Jeremy (1983) Dream Work. New York: Paulist
Press.
[A great beginning approach to Dreamwork using Jungian
principles. Taylor has a new and delightful book out
about social dreaming now too, called _Where People Fly
and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to tap the Wisdom of
the Unconscious_. New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc. You
should be able to find a used copy for $5 -$6]
5. Shafton, Anthony (1995). _Dream Reader: Contemporary
Approaches to the Understanding of Dreams_. Albany,
NY:SUNY Press.
[Probably have to special oder this and its pricey - I
think I just paid $30 or so. But it is quite extensive
and has a lot of information often left out on grass
roots dreamwork. Nothing about the Net, yet]
6. Krippner, Stanley (ed) (1990). Dreamtime and
Dreamwork: Decoding the Languge of the Night. Los
Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher.
[20+ renowned researchers on a variety of dream sharing
topics and issues]
Specific Bibliographies will be included with each class.
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DreamGate Classes on Dreams rcw...@dreamgate.com
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RCWilk
Thanks for all the questions and registration requests - but my
dreamgate.com email gate is getting overloaded! please send all
correspondence to
richard wilkerson
rcw...@aol.com
thx- R