New Book Unopened Letters from God
Workbook using Biblical dreams to to unlock your nightly dreams.
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This workbook for dream groups and individuals can transform your life.
It is for the beginner, but also for those who already know and experience this reality — yet need the support, encouragement and wisdom of the dream community.
Each of the 14 Chapters explores a Biblical dream in its own context, suggests a method to work that dream, and shares similar contemporary dreams with exercises leading you to your own dream "ahas."
The ancient Hebrews and early Christians claimed that one of the primary ways God speaks to God's people is through dreams: not "a" way, but the "primary" way.
Unfortunately, along the way, people were discouraged from taking their dreams seriously.
I, too, was a non-believer in the reality of the dream world for 40 years. That was before experiencing a new spirituality for myself, 10 years' dreamwork with a Jungian analyst, attending the C. G. Jung Institute, and completing a Master's program in the use of dreams in spiritual direction.
I have recorded hundreds of dreams, integrating dream work with my priestly, spiritual direction and counseling duties. The riches acquired during this incubation period led to the formation of The Haden Institute which has graduated over 500 people in dreamwork and spiritual direction.
Dreams are crazy. Real crazy. They appear crazy to us because they are not literal, but rather metaphorical, like Jesus' parables. Metaphor is the primary language of the Divine. Metaphor takes us to a deeper level of awareness.
Dreams are autonomous. They are like another personality in us. They have a life of their own. Amazing.
Dreams deepen our belief in the afterlife.
Many conversions, inventions, healings, vocational and other life changes have come through dreams as well as dangers averted and problems solved.
Dreams are particularly meaningful to those who have "been around the block": those in the second half of life who have experienced dead end streets, tragedies, failures, the dark night of the soul. The dream can be our guide through this maze leading us to a place where we begin to live on a deeper level.
Praise for Unopened Letters
"Our culture needs to recover a sense of the sacred — that mysterious but ever present rhythm of the universe. Part of this recovery depends on taking seriously our inner life as manifested in our dreams. Bob Haden provides us with a sane and grounded guide into the world of dreams."
"In clear repeated steps and evocative questions, Bob Haden suggests ways for us to engage Scripture and our own dreaming, and find in the spaces between them, an unfolding of ourselves and of our faith. This is a workable book that will bring surprises where it leads."
"Carl Jung has been an inspiration to religious writers and seekers for more than 100 years, and his work continues to energize and support contemporary spiritual explorers today, as this wonderful little book by Bob Haden demonstrates. Don't let the comfortable size fool you — this is a profound, and extraordinarily comprehensive work, and at the same time, it is so clearly written that it makes even the most paradoxical and complex aspects of archetypal psycho—spiritual development understandable."
"This book helps Christianity reclaim its legitimate birthright: the world of dreams, visions, and meaningful coincidences that has guided the people of God from earliest times, and would guide us still if we could but remember how to listen."
"After having worked Bob Haden's book with my own dreams, I will never again fail to open those mysteriously instructive letters from God."
"Bob Haden brilliantly brings the lessons of the divine into our personal lives by weaving the dreams of biblical times into a working journal for our own dreams. It is not only a "must read" but a "must do."
"Bob Haden's new book uses time—honored stories from sacred Scripture to invite our own journey in the richness of dreams."