Lucrecia the Dreamer Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/lucrecia-the-dreamer/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:48:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Lucrecia the Dreamer Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/lucrecia-the-dreamer/ 32 32 Dreaming of the Future: The Anticipatory Function of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:48:41 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3914 Throughout history, people have believed prophetic dreams can give us glimpses of future events. Is there any reason to believe such dreams are possible? It would seem not. Most instances of a dream predicting a significant event in waking life are probably just coincidences. For example, people periodically dream of car crashes, so at some …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-of-the-future-the-anticipatory-function-of-dreams/feed/ 0 Dangerous Dreaming: The Spanish Inquisition’s Trial of a Prophetic Dreamer https://bulkeley.org/dangerous-dreaming-the-spanish-inquisitions-trial-of-a-prophetic-dreamer/ https://bulkeley.org/dangerous-dreaming-the-spanish-inquisitions-trial-of-a-prophetic-dreamer/#respond Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:46:03 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3738 “It is in dreams that one can catch sight of the most fundamental and stable symbolisms of humanity passing from the ‘cosmic’ function to the ‘psychic’ function.” (Paul Ricoeur, 1967) [The following is the text of a presentation I will make on Saturday, Nov. 17, at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting in Denver, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dangerous-dreaming-the-spanish-inquisitions-trial-of-a-prophetic-dreamer/feed/ 0 Lucrecia the Dreamer https://bulkeley.org/lucrecia-the-dreamer/ https://bulkeley.org/lucrecia-the-dreamer/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2017 01:08:21 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=3279     I’ve just finished writing a new book about a young woman in 16th century Spain whose uncannily accurate prophetic dreams led to her arrest and torture by the Inquisition.  The book is titled Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition, to be published by Stanford University Press in early 2018. Lucrecia’s case is …

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