Dream Alchemy: Shaping Our Dreams to Transform Our Lives

Discover safe and easy methods for gaining control of the transformative energy of dreams. Join bestselling author Ted Andrews as he shows you how to stimulate greater dream activity, experience the power of lucid dreaming, discover controlled out-of-body experiences, awaken your inner self, and much more.

Using dream totems and mandalas, exercises in metamorphosis, and ancient dream guardians, this guide to dream alchemy presents the process of becoming a shapeshifter—someone who can shift between the waking and dreaming worlds. When you control your dream state, you can unveil your inner potential, clear the debris from your subconscious, and be inspired to reshape your life for a better future.

ISBN-13: 9780738747729

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide - LTD.

Publication Date: 10-08-2015

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Ted Andrews (1952-2009) was an award-winning author and deeply respected teacher in the metaphysical and spiritual fields. Through his seminars, symposiums, workshops, and lectures, he was committed to making esoteric material comprehensible and practical for everyone. Ted Andrew's many gifts included clairvoyancy, aura interpretation, past-life analysis, dreams interpretation, numerology, and Tarot. He wrote many books on these subjects, but is best known for his work with animal mysticism and for his bestselling Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small. Certified in basic hypnosis and acupressure, Andrews was also involved in the study and use of herbs as an alternative path in health care, focusing strongly on esoteric forms of healing with sound, music, and voice. In addition to his interest in metaphysics, Ted was a trained pianist and often used the Celtic harp, bamboo flute, shaman rattles, Tibetan bells, Tibetan Singing Bowl, and quartz crystal bowls to create individual healing therapies and induce higher states of consciousness. Ted Andrews is the author of The Healer's Manual; Animal-Speak, How to See & Read the Aura; Enchantment of the Faerie Realm; Crystal Balls & Crystal Bowls; How to Uncover Your Past Lives; How to Heal with Color; Sacred Sounds; Simplified Qabala Magic; and many other New Age titles. He passed away on October 24, 2009.

Table of Contents

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Modern Shapeshifting and Dream Alchemy ....................... 1

PART ONE: The Mysteries of Sleep and Dreams
Chapter 1: A Different Look at Dream Processes ........................................ 9
Chapter 2: Understanding Our Dream Archetypes ............................. 15
Chapter 3: Creating the Dream Journal ....................................................... 31
Chapter 4: Increasing and Influencing Dream Activity ......................... 35
Chapter 5: The Rite of Dream Passage ........................................................ 55

PART TWO: Mythic Dream Work
Chapter 6: Dream Alchemy through Creative Imagination .............. 65
Chapter 7: Archetypes and the Mythic Dream Work Process ............... 83
Chapter 8: Four Exercises in Metamorphosis ........................................ 99
Chapter 9: Awakening the Ancient Dream Guardians..................... 117

PART THREE: Working with Dream Cycles
Chapter 10: The Cycles of Our Dreams ....................................................125
Chapter 11: The Sun Quest of the Dream Walker ..................................... 137
Chapter 12: Dreams Within the Tides of the Moon ............................... 155

PART FOUR: Dream Totems and Mandalas
Chapter 13: Dream Totems ............................................................................ 169
Chapter 14: Making and Using Dream Talismans and Mandalas ............ 187

PART FIVE: Dream Time Initiation
Chapter 15:Becoming the Dream Hero ....................................................... 207
Chapter 16: Labyrinth of the Soul ................................................................ 219
Conclusion: The Mythic Dreamer and the Modern Seer ........................... 229

Appendix A: Mythic Dream Worksheets ............................................. 233
Appendix B: Index to Mythic Images and Tales ...................................... 235
Bibliography ........................................................................ 245

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