Product Description

Sally Nelson helps you put on your night wings with techniques for courting and giving form to your dreams. Once you’ve done this, Nelson teaches you how to recognize personal and transpersonal themes and characters and how to develop them in your writing through visionary meditation and numerous exercises. In doing so, you foster your own growth as well as tap the source of human experience from which you can develop material that will speak to others, which is the key to success in all writing. She illustrates this exciting process with clear writing examples that will inspire you to take flight with your creative writing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1311792 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
Gifted, passionate, a heroine’s journey. . . . -- Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., author of Shaman, Healer, Sage.

I was moved by the author’s openness and courage to share with others from her authentic self. -- David H. Rosen, M.D., author of Transforming Depression and The Tao of Jung.

Sally Nelson has done for dreams what Joseph Campbell did for myth. -- Jonathan Young, Ph.D., Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives

Through her many fine writing exercises and examples she helps us become midwives for the birth of our own souls. -- Vic Mansfield, author of Synchronicity, Science, and Soul-Making and Head and Heart.

About the Author
Sally J. Nelson, Ph.D. has her doctorate in clinical psychology and master’s degree in humanistic and Jungian psychology. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and family therapist, and is certified in biofeedback and hypnotherapy. In graduate school, she worked with Dr. Stanley Krippner and studied the Ira Progoff approach to journal writing. Dr. Nelson conducts corporate stress-management programs and gives seminars in Jungian dream work and personal creative writing as a therapeutic process.

Customer Reviews

Unique Approach to Dream Journaling and Interpretation
I chose this book because I was intrigued with the idea of using dreams toward other types of writing than dream journaling. While the bulk of the information about dreams in the first few chapters of the book is not new to those of us who have done years of reading, Nelson does present some of it in a unique manner. For instance, she makes a point of telling us that to effectively journal, we need to write the dream as though we were still experiencing it. I also like her recommendation of writing down just parts of dreams that you may remember even if they mean nothing or even using old dreams to start your practice. I'm looking forward to practicing writing a dream forward. Nelson has gotten me excited about combining the two things I love most - dreaming and writing. I may not have considered using my dreams this way if I hadn't run across this book. I've always used my dreams as a method of meditation, but it never dawned on me to utilize them as a basis for creative writing.