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		<title>Spiritualistic and Parapsychological Interpretations in Jungian Dream Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a long history of dreams being associated with parapsychological phenomena, especially such things as the revelation of divine truth or advice and prediction of the future.  Jungian psychology from Jung onward has always been fascinated with the apparent ability of dreams to "defy" the standard laws of time and space, and even many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Shorts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I never intended to treat this website like a traditional blog, I recently noticed that I have accumulated many long drafts of essays that I never seem to finish.  If I ever get back to them, I often feel like I would rather start over form scratch on the same subject than revise and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Big&#8221; Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So-called "Big" dreams can be drenched in pretentious, often mystical valuation by many who see magical or spiritual profundity in dreams. But "Bigness" is no less relative (to the individual) than "smallness" is. "Big" dreams usually seem to be the narrative problem/resolution dreams probably indicative of REM state sleep. But not every narrative dream is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Small&#8221; Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the difficulties any dream researcher or worker faces is the phenomenon that not all dreams are of the same richness or quality. This phenomenon has not been adequately understood yet, and it has allowed some neuroscientists studying the dreaming brain to argue that dreams are "meaningless". Underlying this particular problem of classifying and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Work and Dream Interpretation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to properly label this practice I am calling dream work.  Calling it "work" might seem pretentious or grandiose.  For that reason, it doesn't sit completely comfortably with me.  I don't mean it to be grandiose.  Anything but.  I see it as pragmatic.  It is (or at least can be) like exercise for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is a Dream?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many notions of what a dream is (traditional, New Age, Jungian, etc.) that portray the dream as a mystical message from God or the Self to the ego or that consider dreams to be direct communications to consciousness from some Other autonomous personality or intelligence.  I find it entirely understandable why people have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Work Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the following essays, I will explore the practice and the concepts of dream work. There are already many books and articles on dream work and dream interpretation. My approach doesn't differ greatly from some of these, especially those that are more strictly or professionally Jungian, but there are some important differences and, perhaps especially, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uselessscience.com/blog/2012/04/dream-work-introduction/</link>
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		<title>Acknowledgements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am profoundly grateful to my wife, Christina, for her divine tolerance and love, to my father Gary for my ability to think, to my mother Randi for my vocation, to Ron, the closest thing I’ve ever had to a mentor, to Don (for telling me that I was a writer), to my Companion (old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Volunteer from the Audience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“There is no invention to it, there is no trick, there is no fake; you simply lie down in a coffin and breathe quietly.” Harry Houdini For my next trick . . . a volunteer from the audience to be sawn in half or disappeared in a cabinet. Pick your poison. Please remove the largest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uselessscience.com/blog/2011/10/a-volunteer-from-the-audience/</link>
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		<title>The Family Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for CM “A young man in the dark am I But a wild old man in the light That can make a cat laugh, or Can touch by mother wit Things hid in their marrow bones . . .” W.B. Yeats, “The Wild Old Wicked Man” We have an old man who lives upstairs. It’s [...]]]></description>
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