<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">A revelatory new book about dreams and dreaming from Toko-pa Turner, award-winning author of <em>Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home</em></strong></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">You don't need an expert to tell you what your dreams mean. Understanding their language is as natural as grasping the moral of a story or finding beauty in art. In </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">The Dreaming Way</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">, Toko-pa revives an ancient yet revolutionary idea to bring dreaming back to the people. To retrieve, from the psychology rooted in rationalism, our dreaming authority. Through a unique blend of animism, Sufism and Jungian Psychology, Toko-pa introduces us to the friend who lives within and around us: </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Wisdom</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">With eloquence and insight, she guides us in her dreamwork method for </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Courting the Dream,</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)"> which reverses the idea that we should try to acquire something from our dreams and attempt instead to discover what the dream longs for. Using vivid dream examples and real-life stories, Toko-pa reminds us that we already possess the tools we need to remember, understand, and embody the wisdom of our dreams.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Drawing on ancient mysticism, she shows how nature's animating intelligence is also patterning our dreams. When we learn to follow that wisdom, we discover that it's calling us toward a unique purpose. A purpose that, Toko-pa says, is nested within the larger intent of nature. As practical as it is enchanting, this book contains guidance on how to:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Improve your dream recall</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Understand the language of metaphor</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Work with archetypes and other patterns</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Engage in shadow work</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Discover dream incubation</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Practice active imagination</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Cultivate synchronicity</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">• Facilitate a dream group</span></p>