Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
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Creative Dreaming
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
"You can start dreaming creatively tonight…As you succeed in establishing
creative dreaming, you will increase your capacity for concentration and recall. You will
build a capacity for coping with fear-producing dream situations that carries over into
the waking state. You will experience pleasurable adventures in your dreams. You will
understand yourself better. You will help define and understand the unique personality
that is you. You will find support and help for waking problems…And all this may be
just the beginning…"
In this remarkable book, Patricia Garfield shows the reader how to plan and control his
or her own dreams, how to use and benefit from dreaming, and how to find in dreams the key
to a better, happier, more successful and productive life.
She teaches the reader how to keep a Dream Diary; how to develop Dream Control; how to
plan for Creative Dreaming; how to practice Self-Suggestion; and how to learn from the
dream cultures of other peoples and tribes, and from the experiences of great men and
women of the past.
Her book offers a simple, easy-to-follow method for planning, controlling,
understanding and using your dreams, whether it be for pleasure (erotic or otherwise),
increased self-awareness and understanding, or the solution of personal, business or
practical problems.
Twenty percent of our total sleep time is spent in dreaming, and the average person
will spend six years of his or her lifetime in the dream state—hours and years that
could be spent with full awareness in useful, creative growth, adventure, pleasure and the
invention of new ideas, rather than wasted or forgotten. Here is a workable way to make
your dreams a part of your life, to plan in advance for the kind of dream you want, to
remember your intention within the dream, and to carry over to the waking state valuable
dream discoveries.
Here truly is a book that can revolutionize your life.
Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream
Mandala
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
In our dreams we touch our most intimate beings. Yet when we awaken and yearn to
hold on to that vivid consciousness and eroticism, we don’t know how.
Patricia Garfield, author of the classic bestseller, Creative Dreaming, candidly
reveals her own rich, sensual journey through a lifetime of dreaming and shows you how to
chart your own pathway to ecstasy.
Garfield uses as her guide the sacred Tibetan mandala—a circle or group that is
organized symmetrically around its center. As you become more aware of your dreams and
learn how to remember, interpret, and even direct them, the mandala becomes a pathway
through various levels of consciousness to mystic union with the center, the vibrant core
within us all, the source of all life. Approaching the center of the mandala, you become
your own guide on the road to spiritual transcendence and sexual fulfillment.
Beautifully written, filled with the wondrous sensations of joy and power that are ours
for the asking, Pathway to Ecstasy is a book to read and use again and again for a
lifetime of ecstasy.
"The way of the mandala can lead to altered states of consciousness, to lucid
dreams, to out-of-body experiences, to orgiastic ecstasy, to healing states, and to mystic
experiences. Finding ourselves is a forever unfinished journey."
"The overall effect of the book is compelling. Some passages are virtually
hypnotic in their intensity." New Age
 Your Child’s Dreams
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
Children’s dream life is rich and varied. Not only can it express
contentment or fear, joy or anxiety, it can also influence their waking lives.
Here is a guide that lets you, the parent, enter that secret world of your child’s
dreams. Once there, you can help your child handle the real world by understanding the
nighttime feelings and what they mean. Among the many things you’ll learn:
o What typical dream themes say about your child’s feelings
o What to do about your child’s nightmares
o How to encourage happy and adventurous dreams
o How dreams can be a source of creativity
A renowned psychologist and author of the best-selling Creative Dreaming, Patricia
Garfield offers a warm, accessible, authoritative guide that is more than a
"cope" book. It’s as important a tool as you will find in helping your
child grow.
 Women’s Bodies, Women’s Dreams
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
"We trace here the life cycle as experienced in dreams. We watch the girl turn
teen; we follow the adolescent to womanhood; we ponder mating, birthing, parenting,
working, and divorcing; we see maturing, aging, sickening, and dying all through our dream
spectacles."
In Creative Dreaming, Patricia Garfield gave us the hands-on skill we need to make our
dreams work for us in everyday life. Now, in Women’s Bodies, Women’s Dreams, she
takes her research a dramatic step further. For the very first time, here is a unique and
controversial theory of why women dream differently from men—and how their dreams
reflect the on-going changes in their bodies and in their lives.
An emotional and spiritual journey through the seasons of a woman’s life, this
illuminating book reveals, chapter-by-chapter, the role dreams play in each stage of a
woman’s development—and how they can help her adjust healthily and calmly to her
changing body and emotional state. Here, too, are the recurrent dream symbols that appear
with each new life passage—and what they mean.
Compelling and enlightening, this book provides the prescription for understanding our
dreams, our bodies, and our lives. Written by a dream expert with the most extensive dream
log ever recorded—over 20,000 in all—it will guide the way to well-being and
emotional health for women everywhere.
 The
Healing Power of Dreams
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
Medical research has shown that what you dream about affects your body and emotions. In
fact, your dreams can warn you of oncoming health problems, help diagnose them, suggest
treatment, accelerate the healing process, and contribute to your lifelong health.
The Healing Power of Dreams is the first book to fully explore these exciting phenomena
and show how to actively participate in your own healing by:
o identifying and decoding special dream images that indicate the conditions of body
parts and systems
o creating a dream journal that helps you heal
o "redreaming" unhealthy images to change them into healthy ones
o writing and drawing your nightmares to release trauma
o visualizing with your dream images to speed your recovery
o making regular journeys to your inner dream temple to maintain vibrant health
Synthesizing scientific research with fascinating case histories, mythology, and her
own rich dream experience, Dr. Garfield gives us the technology and insight to put The
Healing Power of Dreams into our own hands.
"Patricia Garfield artfully combines ancient wisdom, modern science, and
personal experience in this unique and inspirational guide to the healing dream. Highly
recommended."
Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., author of Lucid Dreaming
 The Dream Messenger:
How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
"Sooner or later, all of us will have to endure the trauma of the death of a
significant person in our lives…Regardless of your beliefs about whether there is an
afterlife or not, one thing is certain: you will dream about the person who recently
died."
Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. has always been on the cutting edge of dream research. In The
Dream Messenger, the author of the classic book Creative Dreaming shows us how to
interpret our dreams of our lost loved ones, whether they departed recently or long ago,
and how these dreams can nourish and enrich our waking lives.
Whether these dreams are actual contact with spirit or images conjured up by our own
needs is not the issue: what we know is that we dream about the people we have lost, and
that these dreams are extraordinarily vivid and emotionally charged and can alter the life
and belief system of the dreamer. In the dream world, unfinished dialogues can be
completed and conflicts resolved.
Synthesizing material from hundreds of dreams, Dr. Garfield describes typical dream
encounters and what they mean to you, explains the nine common symbols that occur in
dreams about death, and gives practical techniques and affirmations to use on your
personal dream journey and to heal the wounds of grief.
"Our relationship with the dead is eternal. In our dreams, the dead have messages
for the living. The living also have messages for the dead that can be delivered in
dreams…This book will help you understand the nature of these dream
exchanges…You will find guidance for enriching the relationship that still exists
between you and the person who has died, and practical techniques for benefiting from your
dreams in such a way as to nourish your waking life."
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