Thursday, August 27, 2009

Dreams

I am continuing slowly through Under the unpredicatable plant which I have learnt is the only way to read Peterson. I came across this section on the Psalms and spiritual discipline that had one discipline that jumped out at me as not in the usual list:

"The fourteen disciplines most in use in spirituality are spiritual reading, spiritual direction, meditation, confession, bodily exercise, fasting, Sabbath-keeping, dream interpretation, retreats, pilgrimage, almsgiving (tithing), journaling, sabbaticals, and small groups" [Page 108]

Anyone ever read a book on dream interpretation that wasn't bought from a bookshop with a weird smell and an owner who has purple hair wearing black eye-liner?

Here are a few questions.

How many of these disciplines do you practice with regularity?

Are there key one's for you among the list?

What are the best books on these things?

For what it's worth, here are some of the most valuable books I have read on all of this if you want to learn more about this stuff:





If you want a easy-access starter, I would really commend a great book by Steve Farrar called Overcoming Overload.

Feel free to recommend a dream interpretation book that isn't bonkers.


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