Shower of Stars: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism & Taoism

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

A tradition of intentional and initiatic dreaming, stretching from present-day dream-interpretation booklets back to ancient Sumerian and Egyptian practices, connects the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, medieval Kabalah, hemp-inspired Taoist scriptures, Afro-Brazilian spirit cults, and early Christian angel alphabets. Shower of Stars pulls from this history specific methods of inducing prophetic or true dreams, with the purpose of achieving non-ordinary consciousness through autonomous openings to the world of the imagination.

Genres: Islam, Religion, Philosophy

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Peter Lamborn Wilson also writes under the pseudonym Hakim Bey.

Reviews

[Tait · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wilson, otherwise known as Hakim Bey, is an Islmacist scholar who moonlights as an anarchist magician. This book is an overview of dream incubation practices in Sufism and Daoism, and considers the ways that the revelations of dreams can be manifested through the writing of dream-books

[Felipe Muller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Del otro lado de una redacción que confunde, la claridad de los sueños.

[Gabriel · Rating 4 out of 5]

An examination of books devoted to describing dreams with a focus (thus far) on Sufism. Tackles a sort of "which came first" investigation of picture and meaning.

I'm still not sure where this book is taking me but few people satisfy my love of mystical/political/historical synthesis quite like PLW/Hakim Bey.