prophecy Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/prophecy/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 25 Feb 2024 20:28:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png prophecy Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/prophecy/ 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 The Prophetic Dreamer https://bulkeley.org/the-prophetic-dreamer/ https://bulkeley.org/the-prophetic-dreamer/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:37:42 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3562 On May 25, 1590, by direct order of King Philip II, the Spanish Inquisition arrested a young, uneducated woman from Madrid named Lucrecia de Leon on charges of heresy and treason.  She was brought to a secret prison in Toledo, interrogated, and tortured to make her confess her guilt.  The evidence against her was overwhelming.  She had been …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-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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]]> https://bulkeley.org/lucrecia-the-dreamer/feed/ 0 How Not to Raise a Witch https://bulkeley.org/raise-witch/ https://bulkeley.org/raise-witch/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:44:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2667 Many years ago a student told me a story about her childhood dreams that still haunts me.  It’s not a happy story—in fact I find it incredibly sad—but it’s kept me thinking about what we know, and don’t know, about the potentials of dreaming.   Wanda (a pseudonym) was a student in a religious studies …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/raise-witch/feed/ 4 Abraham Lincoln’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/abraham-lincolns-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/abraham-lincolns-dreams/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:07 +0000 http://madbadcat.org/church/?p=862 Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, and in honor of his birthday I am reposting a brief essay about four dreams he reportedly experienced while President: a visitation dream, a dream of parental concern, a prophecy of his assassination, and a series of dreams relating to military battles.  Each of these dreams is …

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