The History of Waking Up

by Daniel Rekshan

Illustrated retelling of the "Jack & the Beanstalk" story. It considers the notion that dreaming maybe be closer to the source of reality than discursive thought.

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About the author

Daniel Rekshan lives with his beloved family. He is an artist, dreamer, and hypnotist. He holds a MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He holds a BA in the Western Liberal Arts tradition from St. John’s College in Annapolis. Daniel is a certified hypnotherapist in the spiritual counseling modality of Depth Hypnosis and is certified in Beyond Quantum Healing. He is an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church.

Daniel is the Chief Dream Officer of Dream Well, a mobile app for dream, sleep, and mindfulness (https://DreamWellBeWell.com).

Daniel offers hypnosis, dream work, and spiritual counseling service as a ministry through Cosmic Dream Sanctuary (https://CosmicDreamSanctuary.org).

Daniel worked at Goodreads back when it was growing up as a software engineer focused on the new user onboarding experience.

Reviews

[Ettore Pasquini · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll start with the negative: typos! There are a few. There are also a few cases of multiple verb tenses in the same sentence, which is pretty confusing.

But overall I thought it was pretty cool. I liked the parallel between dream world and absence of space and time. The illustrations are also nice. Somehow it reminded me of Flatland.