The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

by Toko-pa Turner

A revelatory new book about dreams and dreaming from Toko-pa Turner, award-winning author of Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

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 The Dreaming Way, 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: Wisdom.

With eloquence and insight, she guides us in her dreamwork method for Courting the Dream, 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.

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 instructive as it is enchanting, this book contains guidance on how to:

• Improve your dream recall

• Understand the language of metaphor

• Work with archetypes and other patterns

• Engage in shadow work

• Discover dream incubation

• Practice active imagination

• Cultivate synchronicity

Genres: Nonfiction

362 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2024

Reviews

[Holly Friesen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this insightful and timely book about dreaming. We spend so much of our lives in this other dimension which is rich with poetry and metaphor. It is well worth learning ways to be in communication with this part of ourselves which is ripe with symbols and meaning tailored specifically for our own growth. Dreamtime gives us direct access to the imaginal realm- the source of all creativity. Tokopa explores so many aspects of Dreamtime in wise and wondrous ways. An enlightening and delightful read.

[Andrew Marshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read several books on how to interpret dreams and bought this one because it covered leading a dream group. I can thoroughly it (and did to the people attending the retreat).

Thoughtful, well written and full of love.

[Ethan M Teed · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is absolutely spectacular and wholly necessary for us to remember ourselves back into wholeness; in both our inner and outer worlds. Beautifully resonate and transformative! Thank you!

[fede · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and rich and intricate. I felt my life raising up into more dimensions as I read it :)

[Dustin · Rating 5 out of 5]

An informative journey about every aspect of dream and dreamer.