Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions
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Documented throughout time and across cultures, dreams experienced by those on the verge of death can offer profound insight into the process of dying and provide deep spiritual solace for the individual passing away. In Dreaming Beyond Death, Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley bring together their diverse areas of expertise to create a guide to pre-death dreams that offers practical advice and provides a broader understanding of this phenomenon.Drawing from a rich understanding of dreaming in culture, history, psychology, and through modern dream study, this book explicitly addresses three common aspects of pre-death dreams and offers interpretations that will aid both the dying person and the caregiver. Rev. Patricia Bulkley’s experience with the transformative possibilities of pre-death dreams as a hospice spiritual counselor lend this book a deeply personal and human touch, while Kelly Bulkeley’s insightful analysis and intellectual framework make it easy to understand the deeper meanings behind this type of dreaming. A final chapter provides resources and concrete methods for a caregiver to respectfully guide a dying person through the dreaming process and, ultimately, to a sense of peace. Library Journal Kelly Bulkeley, president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and his mother, Patricia, a minister at the Hospice of Marin (CA), explore the dreams that patients in the final stages of terminal illness are likely to have in order to help those patients experience a "good death"-i.e., one that is peaceful, painless, and loving. While the book avoids adopting a particular religious perspective and sidesteps questions about the existence of life after death or the predictive power of dreams, it is infused with the sense that dreams-and human lives-are intrinsically meaningful. Though the book targets caregivers, there are some abrupt shifts in focus: the penultimate chapter addresses the dying person directly, and the final chapter seems to be intended for society at large. Nonetheless, this book would be an excellent addition to medical, seminary, and academic libraries.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Ch. 1Dreams of mortality11Ch. 2The nature and meaning of dreams33Ch. 3Journeys53Ch. 4Guides71Ch. 5Obstacles91Ch. 6Care for the dying115AppResources for caregiving for the terminally ill143
