Caroline MyssCaroline Myss is dedicated to creating educational programs in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. In 2003, she established CMED, her own educational institute, which offers two programs, each running three courses per year, on Sacred Contracts and Mysticism. Myss also maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule and continues a consultation practice as a medical intuitive with physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and other health practitioners. Myss has taught in 35 countries, continuing her international work at present. In addition to writing six books, (including Sacred Contracts and Entering the Castle) she is also a leading recording artist for Sounds True, Inc. In 2003, Oprah Winfrey gave Myss her own television program with the OXYGEN network in New York City, which ran successfully for one year. Myss does an average of six radio shows per month and five newspaper or magazine interviews in both national and international publications. |
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John PerkinsJohn Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. Then he made a decision: he would use these experiences to make the planet a better place for his daughter’s generation. Today he teaches about the importance of rising to higher levels of consciousness, to awaken — in both spiritual and physical realms — and is a champion for environmental and social causes. He has lectured at universities on four continents, including Harvard, Wharton and Princeton. Perkins' books have been published in over 30 languages. They include: Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation; The World Is As You Dream It: Shamanic Teachings from the Amazon and Andes; Psychonavigation: Techniques for Travel Beyond Time; The Stress-Free Habit: Powerful Techniques for Health and Longevity from the Andes, Yucatan, and Far East and Spirit of the Shuar: Wisdom from the Last Unconquered People of the Amazon. |
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Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D.Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Behavioral Medicine Program. She is the Past President of both the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dreaming: The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Dr. Barrett has written three books including The Committee of Sleep (Random House, 2001) and edited two books, The New Science of Dreaming (Praeger/Greenwood, 2007) and Trauma and Dreams (Harvard University Press, 1996). Dr. Barrett has published dozens of academic articles and chapters on health, hypnosis, and dreams. Dr. Barrett's commentary on psychological issues has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, Fox, and The Discovery Channel. She has been interviewed for dream articles in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Life, Time, and Newsweek. Her own articles have appeared in Psychology Today and Invention and Technology. Dr. Barrett has lectured at Esalen, the Smithsonian, and at universities around the world. (http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/deirdre_barrett.html) |
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Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D.Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. She has been teaching for the Department of Consciousness Studies and Arts and Consciousness at JFKU since 1989. Dr. Bogzaran has been pioneering research and writing on transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming. In mid 80's, she worked in a research team for the Lucidity Project at Stanford Sleep Laboratory and was a program chair and a Board member for Lucidity Association and Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD). She started the ASD arts in 1987 and curated numerous shows on dream inspired art. In 1998 with the surrealist painter Gordon Onslow Ford she co-founded a non-profit art organization, Lucid Art Foundation. She is the author of Through the Light and co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work With Them (SUNY, 2002). |
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Dr. Laurel ClarkDr. Laurel Clark, president — School of Metaphysics, is also an ordained minister, teacher and counselor. She has been teaching dreams and related aspects of applied metaphysics since 1979. An accomplished public speaker, she speaks to organizations, universities, businesses, hospitals and other groups on many applications of metaphysics for better living. She is the author of numerous books including Dharma: Finding Your Soul’s Purpose; Karmic Healing, The Law of Attraction and Other Secrets of Visualization; Vital Ingredient: Healing for a Higher Purpose and Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery. |
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Layne DalfenFounder of The Dream Interpretation Center in Montreal, and author of Dreams Do Come True; Decoding Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential, Layne Dalfen has emerged as a speaker and guest on TV and radio programs in the United States and Canada. She lectures at Concordia and McGill Universities in Montreal, and speaks regularly at Canyon Ranch Spas in Lennox, MA and Tucson, AZ. A Gestalt therapist, but eclectic in her approach to dreams, Layne provides the tools needed to decode and understand why we have certain dreams on a particular night, and how that knowledge can potentially enrich our lives. Layne is also a member of the Board of Directors for The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). |
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Teresa L. DeCicco, Ph.D.Dr. Teresa DeCicco is a university professor at Trent University who teaches and conducts research in the field of psychology. She has lectured extensively in the areas of health psychology, personality and abnormal psychology. Her research includes coping with stress and illness, personality and health, health and identity and prodromal (health) dreaming. Research interests include dreams as therapy, health dreams, and the scientific investigation of dream symbols. Her applied work involves conducting dream workshops with universities, clinics, and schools in Canada, the US, India and Europe. She has run clinics for 8 years for the management of: anxiety, depression, cancer, cardiovascular disease, loss and grief, chronic illness and chronic pain. Her PhD in Psychology has been combined with training in Applied Behavioural Medicine through the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine. Client’s clients include: hospitals, medical centers, corporations, manufacturing industries, church congregations and schools. |
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Gayle Delaney, Ph.D.Dr. Delaney graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Union Graduate School. She has studied at L'Ecole Des Science Politiques in Paris and at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She created the Dream Interview Method of interpretation and of the modern "Phrase Focusing Method" of dream incubation. She has authored seven books and several audio and video programs on the modern, practical uses of dreams for problem solving. Her best selling book, Living Your Dreams, sparked modern interest in dream incubation in 1980 and showed readers how to target their dreams to help them solve specific problems and creative blocks.
Founding President of the Association for the Study of Dreams, Director of The Delaney & Flowers Dream Center in San Francisco, frequent North American and European media guest and lecturer in English, French and Italian on the topic of dreaming. Specializing in the practical uses of dreams for problem solving and psychological insight. |
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Rita DwyerYears ago, Rita Dwyer was a convert from outer space to inner space, having a professional life in the aerospace industry during its early years, and eventually ending up much later fully immersed in the dreamwork field. She become aware that all of her life experiences and interests have led to a greater understanding of herself and the world in which she lives, as well as the many possibilities that exist beyond, yet to be explored. In 1959, Rita nearly burned to death in an industrial accident, the explosion of a rocket fuel in a laboratory in which she worked for one of our earliest pioneers in the aerospace industry. Her life was saved by Ed Butler, a co-worker, who had repeated nightmares about the accident and rescuing her. When it happened in waking reality, he did as he had in the dreams, and she is alive because of his "dream rehearsals", as he calls them. Much of her life since that time has been a search to understand and use these wonderful gifts we are given nightly, particularly those mysterious experiences, such as telepathy, precognition, and other anomalous phenomena which current scientific theories can't fully explain but which happen to persons of all ages, cultures and belief systems. Besides the "psychic" side of dreams, Rita is also interested in the spiritual aspects of dreams which illuminate our soul's path and interface with the wisdom that comes from our inner resources and higher sources to shield, help and heal. Her current goal, to spread the good news and to make others aware not only of the collective unconscious which Carl Jung described, but also of a collective consciousness that drives our actions and our society. Beyond that, there is a sense of the universal collective that impacts upon everything in our universe. (http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/rita_dwyer.html) |
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Dr. Marcia EmeryDr. Marcia Emery is a pioneer in the field of applied intuition, is a psychologist, consultant, college lecturer and author whose expertise has been brought to bear in both private clinical practice and in her client-tailored Intuition Seminars. Teaching across diverse sectors — clinical, academic, corporate and institutional — has afforded Dr. Emery rare insights into intuition’s extraordinary manifestations in every aspect of life. Its strength as a tool for facilitating personal and professional transformation is unsurpassed when actively cultivated. Thus her mission is to bring the means and methodologies for harnessing this power to as many people as possible for their personal illumination and for the advancement of civilization as a whole. She is the author of Dr. Marcia Emery’s Intuition Workbook: An Expert’s Guide To Unlocking the Wisdom of Your Subconscious Mind; The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician, which includes a foreword by renowned medical intuitive Caroline Myss, and POWERHUNCH! |
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Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.Patricia Garfield, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author and an internationally known dream researcher and lecturer. 2005 marks the thirty-first anniversary of the publication of her classic bestseller, Creative Dreaming, which has been published in 14 languages. She is also the author of The Healing Power of Dreams; Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams; Your Child's Dreams; and Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream Mandala. Recent books include The Dream Messenger: How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts; The Universal Dream Key: The 12 Most Common Dream Themes Around the World; The Dream Book: A Young Person's Guide to Understanding Dreams; Dream Catcher: A Young Person's Journal for Exploring Dreams. She is one of the Founding members of the Association for the Study of Dreams and was president from 1998 - 1999. |
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David Gordon, Ph.D.David Gordon is a clinical psychologist in Norfolk, Virginia and founder of The Dreamwork Institute through which he conducts dreamsharing groups, as well as retreats and workshops on the topic of dreams, myth and spirituality throughout the U.S. and Canada. The author (Mindful Dreaming) is also founder and director of Studio for the Healing Arts where he hosts workshops and seminars on indigenous and mainstream spiritual traditions, including Buddhism and Hinduism, Kabbalah, Sufism, Christian Gnosticism, shamanism, ecstatic dance as well as Gaian philosophy and Jungian studies. Past Membership Chair for the board of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), and a frequent guest on TV and radio, Gordon has co-hosted the public radio program DreamWorks in Norfolk, Virginia and written numerous columns on the topic of dreaming. Currently he is also a Script and Editorial Consultant for the DREAMTIME television series. In private practice for the past 30 years, he provides ongoing supervision and training in the area of individual and group dreamwork.
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Rev. Bob Haden, M.Div., S.T.M., D.A.P.A.Bob Haden is a Jungian Psychotherapist, Pastoral Counselor, Priest, and Director of The Haden Institute. The Haden Institute offers certified training in spiritual direction and dream group leadership on a national and international basis with training sites in North Carolina and Ontario, Canada. The training is a combination of onsite and distance learning. The Institute also sponsors an annual Summer Dream Conference, which is now known as “the portal for Christian dream work in the country.” It is for beginners and advanced dream workers and has top nationally known faculty. Bob has 30 years experience working with dreams, a masters degree in the use of dreams in spiritual direction, ten years dream work with a Jungian Analyst, and has done graduate study at The C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Bob is co-author of Soul's Labyrinth and is writing a book on Biblical Dreams. He teaches courses in "Jungian Psychology", "The Dream", "The Care of the Soul", and "Becoming More Loving in Our Relationships". |
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Ernest Hartmann, M.D.Ernest Hartmann, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and lectures in psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. He is Director at the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston. Dr. Hartmann's interests include sleep, dreaming, nightmares, and sleep disorders. He has developed theories to describe the continuum of consciousness from sleep, reveries to waking. He is also doing research on characterizing personality differences, and implications for mental health. Dr. Hartmann is past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams and author of nine books and 325 articles in professional journals. Books include: Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams, Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and Meaning of Dreams, The Functions of Sleep, The Nightmare: The Psychology and Biology of Terrifying Dreams, The Sleep Book: Understanding and Preventing Sleep Problems in People over 50, and The Sleeping Pill. (http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/ernest_hartmann.html) |
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Robert Hoss, M.S.Robert Hoss is author of Dream Language, Executive Officer and Past President International Association for the Study of Dreams, Founding Director of the DreamScience foundation for research grants, faculty member of the Haden Institute for Dream Leadership Training and former adjunct faculty of Sonoma State University and Scottsdale College. A scientist and former researcher in the field of light energy, he was a pioneer with multiple patents in the field of optical communications, and was corporate vice president for global communications at both American Express and IBM. He now devotes his science and management skills to dream studies, for which he has been a frequent guest on radio and TV, and an internationally acclaimed lecturer and instructor for 30 years. His unique, simple but powerful dreamwork approach is based on his training in Gestalt therapy and background in Jungian studies, the neurobiology of dreaming, plus his pioneering research on the significance of color in dreams. |
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David Kahn, Ph.D., M.S.Dr. Kahn is a physicist receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the department of Psychiatry. His current interests are in understanding the ability of complex systems to self-organize. He is actively engaged in research to understand normal states of the brain while dreaming. He is a chapter author in the book Soul, Psyche, Brain: New directions in the study of religion and brain-mind science published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2005; and a chapter author in The New Science of Dreaming. (http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/david_kahn.html) |
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Milton Kramer, M.D., M.S.Milton Kramer, M.D., is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the ASD, Dr. Kramer joined the faculty in Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati in 1960 where he remained until 1982. He was a founding member of the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers, which is now the Academy of Sleep Medicine. In 1984 he opened a Sleep Center at Bethesda Hospital. He remained in that position until he retired and moved to New York in 1999. He was appointed Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati in 2000. Currently Dr. Kramer is currently Visiting Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author/editor of six books, most recently having published The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration, 163 articles, 126 abstracts, and 60 book reviews and discussions dealing primarily with dreams and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders and other health and health related social issues. He has recently published an article on vigilance in PTSD, a review article on the long-term use of hypnotics in chronic insomnia and an article on dream content predicting therapeutic change in psychotherapy. (http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/milton_kramer.html), |
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Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.Stanley Krippner, professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, is a Fellow in three APA divisions, and former president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, Kent, Ohio, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, Brooklyn New York. Krippner has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis in over 25 countries and at the four congresses of the Interamerican Psychological Association. He holds faculty appointments at the Universidade Holistica Internacional (Brasilia) and the Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avanzada de la Conducta (Ciudad Juarez). He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams. He has authored numerous books including Dreamscaping: New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others, Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them, Dreamtime and Dreamwork: Decoding the Language. |
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Justina Lasley, Ph.D.Justina Lasley is an author, dream therapist, and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Dream Studies which offers a certification course for work with dreams in private and clinical settings. It is designed for therapists, counselors, spiritual directors, ministers, health care workers, teachers, as well as those interested in self individuation. She is internationally recognized as a facilitator of individual and group work, a leader of workshops, a lecturer and as a qualitative researcher. Justina earned her Master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology with an emphasis in Dreams at the University of West Georgia, and has a B.A. in both Applied Art and Education from Converse College. She also studied at the University of Paris and with many well-known authors and dream specialists. After over twelve years organizing and conducting dream groups in Atlanta, Justina is now working out of the Charleston, SC area. She has recently published Honoring the Dream: A Handbook for Dream Group Leaders and In My Dream…, a dream journal. |
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Frank N. McMillan IIIAuthor of the novel, Cezanne Is Missing (Cambridge House Publishing, 2006), Frank McMillan lives in Corpus Christi, Texas with his wife, Sheryl, and two sons, Frank and Rob. A graduate of Texas A&M University at College Station, McMillan teaches Geography at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Del Mar College and consults with nonprofit organizations that address homelessness, poverty, illiteracy and other social issues. He has also served on the board of several environmental and human service organizations. Holocaust education is an important part of McMillan’s life today, and, in Cezanne Is Missing, he speaks to the significance of memory, tolerance and love, and the ever-pressing need for bravery in the face of fanaticism and hate wherever they arise. Currently at work on his second novel, McMillan is also editing a collection of his father’s papers, including his extensive dream journals, scheduled for future publication by the Texas A&M University Press. (The Pattern Of The Lion: The inner quest of Frank N. McMillan, Jr. and the story of the creation of the world’s first Professorship in Analytical Psychology.). |
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David H. Rosen, M.D.Dr. Rosen is a Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst, McMillan Professor of Analytical Psychology, Professor of Humanities in Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science. Prior to going to Texas A&M University in 1986, Dr. Rosen was associate professor of psychiatry and medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. He has a B.A. from the University of California (Berkeley) in psychological-biological sciences and a M.D. from the University of Missouri (Columbia). Dr. Rosen’s psychiatric training was at the Langley Porter Institute (University of California Medical Center, San Francisco), where he remained on the faculty until 1982. Dr. Rosen is also a Jungian psychoanalyst. His training in analytical psychology was with the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, California and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. |
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Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Ph.D.For three decades, scientist and anthropologist Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Ph.D. has pioneered clinical and field-based research in the area of human transformation and healing. She is a thought leader on matters of individual and social change whose respected voice offers new insights into the most pressing challenges of our time. A researcher, speaker, change consultant, and writer, Marilyn’s books include: Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life and Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine. |
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Alan Siegel, Ph.D.Alan Siegel, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and practices psychotherapy and assessment with children and adults. He is Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Science, University of California, Berkeley, and teaches Clinical Use of Dreams and supervises dream research at Alliant University's California School of Professional Psychology. He is the author of Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life's Answers in your Dreams published in 2003 by Ten Speed Celestial Arts and Dream Catching: Every Parent's Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children's Dreams and Nightmares with Kelly Bulkeley. His research on the Dreams of the East Bay Firestorm Survivors is published in the book, Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett published by Harvard University Press. He wrote the introduction for Clara Hill's 2003 book, Dream Work in Therapy published by the American Psychological Association. He is a contributor to the ASD Nightmare page assembled in response to September 11th. His work on dreams is featured on the web on ABCNEWS.COM, PBSKIDS.com, AtHealth.com, electric dreams and other sites. |
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Jeremy TaylorJeremy Taylor, an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over 30 years; he blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. Founding member and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he has written three books integrating dream symbolism, mythology and archetypal energy. The latest is: The Living Labyrinth: Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. His earlier books, Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill and Dream Work, have been translated into many languages. |
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Robert Van de Castle, Ph.D.Dr. Van de Castle has been studying dreams for over 40 years. With Calvin Hall Ph.D., who was considered to be the most prominent dream researcher in the world at that time, Dr. Van de Castle co-authored The Content Analysis of Dreams in 1966. The content analysis method they pioneered in their classic book has become the standard approach to objective dream research used by hundreds of later researchers. Dr. Van de Castle has had wide-ranging field experiences in collecting hundreds of dreams from subjects in Panama, Nicaragua, and Guatemala; and has worked with the dreams of participants at workshops he has offered in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, and Russia. In addition to his presentations at various scientific conventions, Dr. Van de Castle has appeared on several national TV shows, with Phil Donahue, David Letterman, Barbara Walters, Tom Snyder, Mike Douglas, and on numerous regional TV shows to discuss dreams. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia (retired in 1993). Former Director of the Sleep and Dream Laboratory at the University of Virginia Medical Center (1967-85). Associate Director of the Institute of Dream Research in Miami , FL (1963-65). President of the Association for the Study of Dreams (1985-86). Senior Editor of Dream Network Bulletin (1985-87). Editor, SUNY Series in Dream Studies (1987- present). |
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Robert WaggonerRobert Waggoner is the President-Elect of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and a summa cum laude graduate of Drake University with a degree in psychology. He is a frequent speaker at national and international dream conferences on lucid dreaming, or becoming consciously aware in the dream state. Waggoner is coeditor of The Lucid Dream Exchange (dreaminglucid.com), a quarterly publication devoted specifically to lucid dreaming. Over the past thirty years he has logged almost 1,000 lucid dreams. His groundbreaking book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Moment Point Press, October 2008) details how consciously aware dreamers can interact with a listening and responsive inner awareness by counter-intuitively ignoring the dream figures and objects, and posing questions to the awareness behind the dream symbols. The profound and varied responses suggest a knowledgeable and far reaching consciousness exists there and is accessible to those consciously aware in the dream state. (http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/robert_waggoner.html) |
