In Understanding Dreams, Markku Siivola offers a
practical, clear, easy-to-follow formula for conducting dream groups according
to the Montague Ullman method. The beauty of this method is that it can be
applied by anyone prepared to follow it to the letter, and requires no prior
knowledge of, or training in, dream theory. Siivola likens a dream to an
artwork, a fine sculpture, whose different sides and aspects can be revealed by
illuminating it from different angles, until the dreamer receives an emotional
connection – an aha – that enlightens his personal understanding of his dream.
Siivola is careful to state that the goal is not dream therapy or
psychotherapy, but simply that the dreamer reaches an understanding of his
dream, though this in itself can be therapeutic for both the dreamer and the
dream group participants.
Siivola is at his best in his final chapter where he freely
explores and adores the sense of mystery inherent in and beyond dream reality.
He draws on physics, quantum physics, biology, brain science, philosophy,
metaphysics, spirituality, and art, to entice us toward connecting with the
deeper realities of our existence.
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