Are you ready for January 1? Maybe you want to spare a thought for what the ancients who named the first month, and made January 1 New Years Day, believed is going on at this time – and for who needs to be celebrated or propitiated at the turning of the year. The Romans gave…

As we approach the New Year, this is a good time to think about making the conscious decision to let your dream self scout out what 2011 may hold for you. By my observation, the dream self is forever traveling ahead of the waking self, checking out challenges and opportunities that lie in the future.…

The epics and sacred texts of India are filled with dreams.  The earliest Indian references to dreams, in the Rig Veda (c 1200 BCE) aren’t cheery. They involve scary things – being robbed, being attacked by a wolf, being raped – that can spill over into waking reality. The verses include formulas of protection, to…

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” may be the Rolling Stones’ best-known hit; it has certainly set millions writhing. Ironically, it was the product of dream satisfaction, a creative nocturnal episode described by Keith Richards in colorful detail in a recent interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air:: “I go to bed as usual with…

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