The Woman’s Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice

 by Connie Kaplan  foreword by Jamie Sams  Beyond Words Publishing  ISBN: 1-58270-008-7
 $14.95 trade paperback

Connie Kaplan gives women (and men, if they choose to join in)
everywhere a great gift with this book: the opportunity to take ones dream
life seriously and to see beyond the psychological towards the
transpersonal visions found within our dreams.  Rather than assuming that
all dreams are on the same mundane psychological level, she
acknowledges, as many spiritual traditions do, that dreams can range from
the trivial to the profound, and have different purposes and effects. Like
the Eskimos see snow, she outlines the many kinds of dreams we have –
from the personal and psychological types to clairvoyant, healing and
ceremonial dreams.

She also outlines how to work within a dream circle with other women
and explains the potency of this sort of work.  By providing support for
each other and shelter from the ordinary world, information and insight
can flow more easily.  The author draws heavily on her own experience
and on the experiences of the women she works with in dream circle to
outline a way to map one’s dreams and track your own patterns and
cycles in dreaming, giving many examples of how they reveal themselves.
She found that the astrological position of the moon has a strong effect
on  a woman’s dreams and provides a chart to help readers map and observe
their dreams over time.

Practical and grounded, yet opening up and empowering women (and
men) to acknowledge and use the information that comes to them from
dreams, this book is a highly recommended work tool for those in the
process of living and/or dying. Beautifully designed with a stunning
cover, it is a book that you will treasure, and who knows, may inspire you to
start your own dream circle to help people find their place in the
dreamweave.

- Megan Whilden