A hands-on tool to explore the inner world of dreams • Includes 46 full-color cards that explore common dream plots, settings, feelings, and figures as well as guidance on remembering dreams and interacting with them, inducing lucid dreams, and the wisdom of nightmares • Gain insight to better interpret your dreams, incubate a specific dream topic, and understand your psychological state • Features evocative art and psychotherapeutic insights to activate the unconscious and merge idea and image Created by a psychologist-artist and a psychiatrist, this oracle deck will help you harness your dreams for personal growth and healing as well as understand the language of the soul as it appears in your dreams. Designed for dream contemplation, the 46 full-color cards feature evocative art and therapeutic guidance to help engage all parts the brain. The cards explore common dream plots, settings, feelings, and figures as well as feature a group of teaching cards with recommendations for remembering dreams, inducing lucid dreams, and keeping healthy sleep routines. The deck can be used to incubate a specific dream topic, gain insight into your current psychological state, and better understand and interpret your dreams. For therapists and healers, the cards can also help you work with clients’ dreams and can be used to activate the unconscious. “Throughout our history, cultures and religions have found the key to living full lives guided by their dreams. Greg and Heather guide us into this part of our heritage with trustworthy voices born from the interweaving of their professional and personal experiences. They open the doors to potential within us that can bring healing, strength, creativity, and love.” ― Bud Harris, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and author of Becoming Whole “Dream Wisdom Oracle is a magical tool for inner work, spiritual growth, psychic creativity, and archetypal expression. It is a divination matrix that guides the user into a deepening relationship with the cosmos. Dreams become a lens into the roots of being and the stepping stones to rebirth in creativity and spirit.” ― Susan Rowland, Ph.D., author of Jung: A Feminist Revision “As an integral therapist, artist, and author, I am a humble admirer of the creative process and how it has the potential to bridge the sacred and the profane. Heather and Greg are an exquisite example of the sacred union between mysticism and science that exists on the micro realm of the psyche and macro realms of the universe. This oracle is a pearl of wisdom to grapple with for a lifetime.” ― Victoria Christian, M.A., M.S.W., artist and editor of Feminine Mysticism in Art: Artists Envisionin Greg Mahr, M.D., is an academic psychiatrist actively involved in teaching and research on acute trauma and nightmares. He is on the faculty of the medical schools at both Michigan State University and Wayne State University and is the author of The Wisdom of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity and the Language of the Soul. He lives in Plymouth, Michigan. Heather Taylor-Zimmerman, Ph.D., is a psychologist trained at Pacifica, a Jungian program in California. She is the director of an experiential teaching program in personal transformation through visionary art. Her healing artwork has appeared in clinics and hospitals as well as in public and private collections. She lives in Olympia, Washington. Chapter One Active Imagination Inconspicuous, in the lower right corner, lies a sleeping woman. All around is the vast field of the mythopoetic imagination, full of images, full of the eyes that see them. There is the Grail, there is Death, there is the double helix of science woven together in a new worldview that is truly comprehensive. Here we can sleep yet be fully awake. Here we can experience the sacred mythical dimensions of life. Some dreams seem to reach beyond the boundaries of the dream world and demand our engagement in the waking one. Such engagement is called active imagination. Jung described active imagination as a way to "heal, raise, and transform the personality."1 When we practice active imagination, we consciously allow ourselves to reenter a dream landscape or have a dialogue with a dream figure. Active imagination can be used to elaborate and deepen the experience of a dream. It can be considered a more advanced technique for "tending the dream garden." Jung used active imagination extensively in his personal and clinical work. After his break with Freud, Jung went through an intense period of personal crisis. Freud was the mentor, and Jung was the heir apparent. Without Freud, Jung was professionally isolated. He became depressed and experienced haunting dreams and visions. Instead of struggling against his depression, Jung decided to "drop down" into his inner world and simply accept whatever he encountered. He saw demons, images of death, and seas of blood, but he also met Philemon, his winged spirit guide. Through encountering this inner world in a