Prologue
Introduction: Wake Up and Dream
1--Pattern and Perception
2--The STOP! Game – Setting Up Your Life Plan
3--Paying Attention to Your Dreams
4--Interacting with the Dream
5--Reversing
6--Returning to Your Senses
7--Practicing Life’s Quickening Exercises
8--Intent and Dreaming
9--The Waking Dream
10--Changing the Past
11--The Master Game: Perfecting the Life Plan
12--Return to Oneness
Appendix 1--Example of a Set of Exercises
Appendix 2--Words for Chanting (Shemot)
Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist, healer, and teacher with a private practice in New York City. She spent 10 years of intense study of the Kabbalah of Light in Jerusalem with Colette Aboulker-Muscat and an additional 20 years in continuing collaboration with her. In 1982 Catherine Shainberg founded the School of Images, dedicated to teaching the revelatory dream and kavanah (intent) techniques of this ancient Sephardic Kabbalah tradition. She conducts imagery and dreaming workshops internationally.
"Shainberg, a Ph.D. in psychology and student of the renowned
Kabbalist Colette Aboulker-Muscat, offers not so much a book about
the Kabbalah as one from the very essence of the traditional Jewish
mystical text. Through our dreams, she teaches, we strive for the
oneness that lies at the heart of Kabbalah--indeed at the heart of
most religions. This universal search for wholeness becomes
Shainberg's primary theme, making this a book for anyone seeking a
deeper sense of self. Her personal story of spiritual quest and her
references to a life that, at times, was less than ideal make up
most of the fascinating introduction. Her candor quickly
establishes a trust between author and reader, drawing readers in
just enough to take a chance on the esoteric practice of unlocking
dreams. Her premise, though simple in theory, requires much
devotion in practice but little in the way of physical
equipment--merely an armchair and a handful of notebooks.
Throughout, Shainberg presents a gentle guide to techniques for
merging our present conscious selves with the past and future
contained within our subconscious. The result: a more unified,
creative, complete individual. Like Julia Cameron in The Artist's
Way, Shainberg offers the tools to ignite a deep-seated creativity,
one that feeds not only the mind, but the soul."
*Publishers Weekly, March 16, 2005*
“A brilliantly articulated exploration of the elusive mystery of
dreams and imagination, and how they dance both sides of the veil
between fantasy and reality. Combining ancient mystical wisdom with
contemporary metaphor, Catherine Shainberg not only illuminates our
understanding about the phenomenon of dreaming and its impact on
the waking world, but also offers us ample user-friendly exercises
and meditations to experience the wisdom of both. Shainberg is a
foremost disciple of one of the few and most notable women
kabbalists, Colette Aboulker-Muscat, herself a descendant and
student of the thirteenth-century Rabbi Yitzchak Saggei Na’hor
(known as Isaac the Blind) and of his mystery school. Like her
teacher Colette, Shainberg has helped innumerable people through
her healing work with imagery and dream. In Kabbalah and the Power
of Dreaming she has, for the first time, shared with all of us the
heretofore inaccessible wisdom of dream from the rich kabbalistic
tradition of her teacher and her people. This is a book that
delivers everything its title promises; it is an important addition
to the classical literature of Jewish spiritual wisdom.”
*Rabbi Gershon Winkler, author of Kabbalah 365: Daily Fruit from
the Tree of Life*
“Catherine Shainberg contributes a fresh, creative, and innovative
approach to dreaming and imagination through the practice of waking
dream. In doing so she brings alive the ancient wisdom of prophetic
Kabbalah in a practical and readily usable way. Kabbalah and the
Power of Dreaming deserves to be read and enjoyed; its reader will
be richly rewarded with the spiritual view of life it
provides.”
*Gerald Epstein, M.D., author of Healing Visualizations: Creating
Health Through Imagery*
“The medieval system of Jewish Kabbalah taught that a more real
world than our own lies behind the common one of day-to-day
experience. Through lifelong routines of meditation and
visualization, kabbalists drew on the insights of that other world.
Now Catherine Shainberg, psychologist, poet, and dream specialist,
provides a warm, richly detailed guide to this kind of thinking for
the seekers of today. Her book opens with a moving account of her
own search for bearings, then spans the ocean of kabbalistic tales
and models. It is a heartfelt and generous guide to the questing
imagination and, inevitably, to deepened relationships with others
on the same trail.”
*Eleanor Munro, author of Originals: American Women Artists*
“Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming is a magnificent guide to
putting soul back in the body and walking a path with heart.
Catherine Shainberg is a profound spiritual teacher who reminds us
that dreaming is not only about what we do when we sleep but about
waking up to a deeper life by remembering and navigating from our
sacred purpose. It instructs us on how to tap into our Source
energy--including the images that speak to the body that can make
it well--and informs us on how we can be present at the place of
creation. Her book contains a panoply of practical exercises for
transforming fear and anger into heart-centered energy, thereby
liberating ourselves from the rule of habit and healing the wound
between Earth and Sky. I highly recommend this book.”
*Robert Moss, author of Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the
Secret Wishes of the Soul*
“Catherine Shainberg’s book begins with an entrancing account of
her personal entry into the world of dreams and images, and reveals
how she discovered her own great teacher of images and dreams, the
renowned kabbalist Colette Aboulker-Muscat. Shainberg draws upon
many years of experience to guide us through the possibilities of
inner growth through dreamwork, offering exercises along the way
that are intriguing and seem likely to open the mind and heart
further and further. The power of dreaming is something I’ve come
to appreciate more and more in my own life, and Shainberg’s book
does justice to that power. She is on a path of great beauty.”
*Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus*
“Many cultures believe that during a dream the soul leaves the
dreamer’s body and journeys to other worlds, possibly visiting the
imaginal realm where the dreamer seems to break free of the
limitations of time and space. In Kabbalah and the Power of
Dreaming Catherine Shainberg not only takes us into that realm, she
provides insights and a travel guide. Not since the time of Joseph
and his prophetic dreams has such a well-written storytelling
guidebook been offered.”
*Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., author of Mind Into Matter*
"[Shainberg's] inner-vision exercises initiate creative and
transformative images that generate the pathways to
self-realization."
*Branches of Light, Spring-Summer-Fall 2005*
". . . choose psychologist/healer Catherine Shainberg's Kabbalah
and the Power of Dreaming: Awakening the Visionary Life if what you
seek is a practical application of Kabbalah principles to daily
spiritual purposes."
*The Midwest Book Review, Sept 2005*
". . . if you'd like to discover the power of your dreams and bring
about inner transformation and get more in touch with your
intuitive side, Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming is a great place
to start or refine your skills."
*Cyndi Witkus, In the Library Reviews, July 2005*
"Shainberg unveils the esoteric practices used by ancient prophets,
seers and sages to control dreams and visions."
*Aznet News, Oct-Nov 2005*
"Insightful and imaginative, Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming is
about enlightenment, awareness, and intent."
*Jean E. Hansgen, New Age Retailer, New Year 2006*
"My self-talk dreams began in earnest before I even finished one
quarter of the book, and it has been a fun journey. I do believe
that each person who reads her book will benefit from it and I
really recommend this book for everyone who wishes to refine the
process of listening to self and dream working!"
*Reality Undefined, Aug 2008*
" . . . shows us a rarely seen side of the power of dreaming. This
book is not about dreams; it is about the act of dreaming itself. .
. . Learning to harness the power of dreaming through the study of
Kabbalah will inevitably lead us to develop the mind's intuitive
and transformative processes."
*Kathryn Price, book editor, WomensRadio, April 2008*
". . . unveils the esoteric practices that allow us to unlock the
dreaming mind's transformative and intuitive powers."
*Branches of Light, Spring-Summer-Fall 2005*
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