THE WAKING DREAM

Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives

by Ray Grasse

"Life is a sacred text, to be unlocked through the key of metaphoric knowing. Thus understood, life events yield information about our personality, our karma, and even our future potentials, pointing the way toward greater levels of awakening." ---Chapter 12

We have all experienced certain extraordinary coincidences in our lives, events so startling they compel us to reflect upon their possible significance. Do such events hint at a hidden design underlying our world? Or are they, as science suggests, explainable strictly in terms of probability and chance processes? A ground-breaking study of symbolism and synchronicity, THE WAKING DREAM explores the subtle workings of destiny and coincidence in everyday life. Drawing upon a wide-ranging study of esoteric systems around the world, Grasse offers a provocative challenge to Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity by suggesting that our world is permeated with "meaningful coincidences" of many types. Discover how we can begin to draw spiritual guidance from the symbols in our own life, and learn what the timeless principles of symbolic wisdom have to offer contemporary science.

About the Author

Ray Grasse is a writer, teacher, and assistant editor of The Quest magazine. He studied for over 15 years with teachers in the Kriya Yoga tradition, and has written for such journals as The Mountain Astrologer, Welcome to Planet Earth, Magical Blend, The Quest, and NCGR Journal. He recently contributed the opening chapter for the anthology EASTERN SYSTEMS FOR WESTERN ASTROLOGERS (Samuel Weiser,1997).

Reviews and Comments

"This book bulges with wisdom. THE WAKING DREAM is CPR for the soul!" ---Dr. Larry Dossey, author of HEALING WORDS

"A masterpiece." ---Colin Wilson, author of THE OUTSIDER, FROM ATLANTIS TO THE SPHINX

"Ray Grasse has produced a work which is extraordinary in scope. It explores such an extensive area of everyday existence and spiritual thinking that at the end of the book the reader is left with a profound sense of the deeper meaning of life." ---Theosophy in Australia

"THE WAKING DREAM invites us to see our lives as if behind the seemingly unassimilable events there lay the hand of a master novelist, a Tolstoy of the soul. It is a commendable essay into uncharted territory." ---Gnosis Magazine

THE WAKING DREAM

Cloth, $22.95 ISBN: 0-8356--0725-7
Paper, $16.00 ISBN: 0-8356--0749-0
Published by Quest Books Available at bookstores, or order directly from Quest Books: 800-669-9425.

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