Linda Yael Schiller - Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Souls Wisdom

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Souls Wisdom 2019 by Linda Yael Schiller.

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First e-book edition 2019

E-book ISBN: 9780738762074

Book design: Samantha Penn

Cover design: Kevin Brown

Editing: Annie Burdick

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Yael Schiller, Linda, author.

Title: Modern dreamwork : new tools for decoding your souls wisdom / Linda

Yael Schiller.

Description: Woodbury, Minnesota : LLewellyn Publications, 2020. | Includes

bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019040249 (print) | LCCN 2019040250 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738761824 (paperback) | ISBN 9780738762074 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738762074 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Dreams.

Classification: LCC BF1078 .Y34 2020 (print) | LCC BF1078 (ebook) | DDC

154.6/3dc23

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Contents

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Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Acknowledgments

This book would not exist without the wisdom and support of my fellow dreamers and their kind and generous permission to share their dream travels. First to my own long-term dream circle of over thirty years: Lisa Kennedy, Marcia Lewin-Berlin, and Suzie Abu-Jabar. You cheered me on and encouraged me and held the vision even before I started the blogtelling me that I didnt have to wait until I had enough time to write a whole book, just start writing short bits now. I took your advice, and seven years later, here we are. Thank you for letting me interview you on your own visitation dreams. You are all such a gift in my life.

Thank you to my Thursday dream group: Joy Weider, Joyce Rosen, Marcia Post, Mia Woodford, Starr Potts, and Ruth Silverstein for your support, caring, and willingness to share your dreams with me, with each other, and now with the broader world. Special thanks to this crew for helping me come up with the acronym GAIA. Thank you to all my clients who gave me permission to share their dream journeys in the service of helping others on their healing paths.

To my other dear friends for their unending enthusiasm, support, and offers of help: Julie Leavitt, dream-dancer and spirit-sister who helps me to embody my dreams; Diane Pardes, sister from another mother who has been traveling with me in this life longer than anyone except my parents and siblings; Sara Kopf Levine, woods-walker and ritual-builder who holds and offers the space; Beth Rontal, dear friend and colleague who has joined me on several dream adventures; Lynn Roberson, friend, healer, and Reiki master; Allison Rimm, my hero for getting out a book; Ellen Alfaro, adventure-sharer par excellance; and all my Torah Women and co-seekers. Thank you to David Kahn: friend, dreamer, and dancer who consulted with me on the neuroscience of dreams. Any inadvertent mistakes are mine.

It takes a village to write a book, and I have had wonderful editorial help along the way. First, an enormous thank-you to dreamworker, author, and editor par excellence Jason DeBord, who taught me how to go from long-form writing 101 to graduate school. Your generosity is unparalleled, and I have started a file of your writing tips! Amy Glaser at Llewellyn Worldwide has been such a source of support, encouragement, and great collaboration. Thank you also goes to the other wonderful staff at Llewellyn: cover artist Kevin Brown, who delighted my senses; editor Annie Burdick, whose careful reading made this manuscript better; Sami Sherratt; and Kat Sanborn. Many thanks for earlier editorial help to Melanie Gorman and Estella Arias, and to the web of support and dream connections that stretches from Jean Campbell, Dreamtime editor at IASD and to Lisa Hagen at Lisa Hagen Books. Thank you to fellow dream sister Lauren Schneider who helped me vision this through her Taropy reading. A big shout out to IASDthe International Association for the Study of Dreams. This welcoming worldwide organization supports and encourages dreamers, dream artists, dream scientists, and dream therapists, and has provided me with an international community of dreamers.

This book would not be here if not for the love, support, and inspiration of my daughter and husband. Sara, dreaming you home started this journey to take dreams out from the privacy of my own bed and head into the worldthank you so much for granting me the privilege of sharing your beginnings story. Steve, as always, you have been my rock, tending the home fires while I disappeared into writing or editorial land. Thank you both for giving me the time and space to birth this book.

Introduction

One of the great gifts of darkness and the night is our capacity to dream.