spirituality Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/spirituality/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 21:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png spirituality Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/spirituality/ 32 32 Reflections on Among All These Dreamers (1996) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:38:26 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4641 The first time I attended an annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams was in Santa Cruz in 1988. For the next several years (London in 1989, Chicago in 1990 (which I hosted), Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991) these conferences gave me an opportunity to learn more about the various ways in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-among-all-these-dreamers/feed/ 0 Reflections on Spiritual Dreaming (1995) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-spiritual-dreaming-1995/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-spiritual-dreaming-1995/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:43:59 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4624 An academic dissertation is written in compliance with a host of official requirements designed to focus the project and give it the best chance of successful completion. Those requirements definitely influenced how my dissertation and first book, The Wilderness of Dreams (1994), came to be what it is. As I sat down to write my …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-spiritual-dreaming-1995/feed/ 0 New Dream Posts from Psychology Today https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:08:29 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4538 Here are the recent posts I have written for Psychology Today, going back to the middle of last summer. Although each one is written as a stand-alone discussion of a special topic in dreaming, I now realize they also form a series of interrelated texts, like the chapters of a book I didn’t consciously know …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-posts-from-psychology-today/feed/ 0 Works in Progress https://bulkeley.org/works-in-progress/ https://bulkeley.org/works-in-progress/#respond Mon, 04 Oct 2021 01:02:32 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4360 Despite the many crises afflicting the world right now, or perhaps because of them, my Muses have been quite active recently. Urgent, even. They have inspired several writing projects I hope to share soon.  “Dreams, race, and the Black Lives Matter movement: Results of a survey of American adults” – an article co-written with Michael …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/works-in-progress/feed/ 0 The Inevitable Spirituality of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-inevitable-spirituality-of-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-inevitable-spirituality-of-dreaming/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 23:08:43 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4354 People make many strange and unexpected discoveries when they begin exploring their dreams. Of these discoveries, perhaps the most surprising is an uncanny encounter with images, themes, and energies that can best be described as spiritual or religious. It’s one thing to realize you have selfish desires or aggressive instincts; it’s another thing entirely to …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-inevitable-spirituality-of-dreaming/feed/ 0 Reflecting on my 2018 Dream Journal https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/ https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:18:28 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3785 The value of keeping a dream journal is inherent in the practice itself. Simply recording your dreams on a regular basis will increase your dream recall, deepen your self-knowledge, and help you maintain emotional balance in waking life. You can enjoy these benefits even if you never look back at your journal after recording each …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflecting-on-my-2018-dream-journal/feed/ 0 DreamRev: The Many Contributions of Jeremy Taylor https://bulkeley.org/dreamrev-many-contributions-jeremy-taylor/ https://bulkeley.org/dreamrev-many-contributions-jeremy-taylor/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:51:56 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3528 The Rev. Jeremy Taylor was one of the most prolific dream speakers and teachers of modern times.  He traveled to every corner of the U.S., and to many countries around the world, reaching out to people and promoting greater awareness of dreaming.  He combined his background as a Unitarian-Universalist minister with a deep familiarity with …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreamrev-many-contributions-jeremy-taylor/feed/ 1 Recent Interviews About “Big Dreams” https://bulkeley.org/recent-interviews-about-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/recent-interviews-about-big-dreams/#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:18:10 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3140 In the past couple of weeks I have spoken several times with journalists about Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion.  It’s a daunting experience to have smart people read what you’ve written and ask sharp questions about how you put together your argument… and all the more intimidating with a tape …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/recent-interviews-about-big-dreams/feed/ 0 New Dissertations in the Study of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:48:32 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2725 This year I’ve had the honor of serving as an advisor for three doctoral dissertations in the study of dreams.  Dianne Jackie Frost at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Cynthia S. Sauln at Sofia University, and Mary Walsh at San Francisco Theological Seminary have done highly innovative work in exploring some of the most important and potentially …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/feed/ 0 Dream Education = Religious Studies Education https://bulkeley.org/dream-education-religious-studies/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-education-religious-studies/#respond Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:45:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2204 This is an excerpt from a panel on dream education at the recent conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.  My co-panelists were Phil King and Bernard Welt, with whom I wrote Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education.   Any class on dreams that occurs within a …

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