Kelly Bulkeley: Is Dreaming the Source of Spirituality?

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

How do dreams influence and reflect our spiritual beliefs and experiences across different cultures and historical periods, and what does scientific research reveal about this relationship?

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is a global expert on dreaming and the psychology of religion. We explore his latest book "The Spirituality of Dreaming: Unlocking the Wisdom of Our Sleeping Selves."

Dreams universally function as essential gateways to spiritual understanding, a truth echoed across cultures and eras. Modern sleep and dream research confront and expand upon the traditional views revealing a more complex nature of dreams. These dreams, whether as visitations, flights, or nightmares, reflect our existential questions and actively shape religious beliefs and practices. Merging empirical research with mystical interpretations, dreams are clearly more than mere reflections of waking life; they are direct conduits to deep spiritual insights.

Prepare to discover who historically engaged with dreams in spiritual contexts; when these interpretations have been significant, from ancient times to the present; how dreams connect with spiritual experiences, often seen as divine messages or reflections of the soul; what types of dreams, such as visitation or flying dreams, are spiritually significant; where across different cultures and traditions dreams are valued for their spiritual implications; whether modern scientific research supports historical beliefs about the spiritual nature of dreams; which aspects of dreaming, like vividness and metaphorical content, shape religious beliefs; and why dreams remain a source of intrigue in understanding human spirituality and its relation to the divine…..and so much more…..

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:03.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,
0:09.0	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.0	I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. Well, today on the podcast, Joseph and I had the very great pleasure of speaking
0:42.2	with Dr. Kelly Bulkely who is an enormously
0:46.4	prolific writer and researcher about dreams he is a dream researcher, a psychologist of religion, and the author of numerous books on dreaming.
0:58.8	He is also the director of the and he is a doctorate in religion and psychological studies from the University of
1:16.4	Chicago Divinity School. His books are literally too numerous for me to name, but I will be listing them on our book list so you
1:26.1	can look for that in the show notes and we are discussing today his most
1:31.9	recent book which is called the Spirituality of Dreaming.
1:36.6	And in today's episode, one of the things we talked about was the importance of the dreamers, how we can all have the capacity for
1:46.8	dreaming and even for having big dreams and how in how are how dreams and
1:51.8	rich culture and and how it can be hard to be a dreamer.
1:55.8	So if you're a dreamer and especially a big dreamer,
1:59.7	you might find today's episode especially helpful. We also talked about dreams and technology,
2:06.3	some of the exciting things happening with dreams and technology and some of the
2:10.2	frightening things. We talked about dreams and death and how dreams often prepare us for death. We talked about whether dreams are endangered and we also spoke about the importance of
2:24.7	dream sharing. It's a traditional practice in many cultures and we've come
2:30.8	away from that in our culture but maybe there's some modern versions of dream sharing as well.
2:36.0	We've then talked about a very interesting dream of a young man who had the experience of waking up repeatedly in his dream only to discover that he was still dreaming.
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