Seeking Patterns in Dream Content: A Systematic Approach to Word Searches
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Jung’s Seminar on Children’s Dreams
Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 by C.G. Jung, edited by Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass, translated by Ernst Falzeder with the collaboration of Tony Woolfson (Princeton University Press, 2008). This new English translation of C.G. Jung’s seminar on the earliest remembered... [Read more of this post]
Detecting Meaning in Dream Reports: An Extension of a Word Search Approach
A new article I co-authored with Bill Domhoff is appearing in the latest issue of the APA journal Dreaming (vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 77-95). The abstract is below. What amazed me about this project was how easy it was to make accurate inferences about the waking life of our participant, “Van,”... [Read more of this post]
Dreams, Psychology and Brain-Mind Science: Reference Links
“Dreaming of the Dead: A Cognitive Scientific Analysis” (summary of conference presentation) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (website) “Dreaming Is Play II: Revonsuo’s Threat Simulation Theory in Ludic Context” (PDF – article) “Sacred Sleep: Scientific Contributions to the Study... [Read more of this post]
The Gospel According to Darwin: The Relevance of Cognitive Neuroscience to Religious Studies
How the Mind Works By Steven Pinker New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Pp. xii + 660. $29.95. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind By V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee New York: Quill, 1998 Pp. xvii + 328. $16.00. The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-Anatomical... [Read more of this post]
The Evolution of Wonder: Religious and Neuroscientific Perspectives
Paper Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion November 23, 2002 – Toronto, Canada Person, Culture and Religion Group Session: [Slide 1: specific regions of the cortex involved in word recognition, using PET scan] Who knows what this image represents? (Don’t answer... [Read more of this post]
