Big Dreams - The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion

Zusatztext this book offers so many other insights into psychology, neurology and dream content analysis, it is well worth your money. Informationen zum Autor Kelly Bulkeley is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Klappentext Big Dreams is the first full-scale cognitive scientific analysis of highly memorable dreams, with an original theory about their formation, function, and meaning. The book draws on evidence from religious studies, psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience to explore how big dreams are a wellspring of religious experience. Zusammenfassung Big Dreams is the first full-scale cognitive scientific analysis of highly memorable dreams, with an original theory about their formation, function, and meaning. The book draws on evidence from religious studies, psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience to explore how big dreams are a wellspring of religious experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section I. Sleep 1. The evolution of sleep 2. The brain's paradoxical activities in sleep 3. The role of sleep in human health and development 4. Cultural practices of sleep through history Section II. Ordinary Dreaming 5. Dream recall 6. Patterns in form and content 7. Continuities between dreaming and waking life 8. Discontinuities and metaphors Section III. Big Dreams 9. Aggressive 10. Sexual 11. Gravitational 12. Mystical Section IV. Religious Experiences 13. Demonic attack 14. Prophetic vision 15. Ritual healing 16. Contemplative practice Conclusion Appendix: Word search methods in the study of dreams Index

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Bulkeley, Kelly (Visiting Scholar Bulkeley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2016
• EAN: 9780199351534
• ISBN: 978-0-19-935153-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Neurology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, RELIGION / Religion & Science, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Psychology: states of consciousness, Health psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Sleep & dreams, Religion and science, Religion & science