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1977 my wife, Carol, and I were tv writers living
in Westport, Connecticut, when our friend,
comedian Richard Belzer, suggested that we get
hold of a new book called "The Dream
Makers." He knew of our interest in dreams -
Carol had recently read Patricia Garfield's
"Creative Dreaming" and I was a big fan
of Carlos Castaneda. While reading and digesting
this simple, but profound book we each
experienced a series of revelatory dreams that
changed our perception of ourselves and put us
into a heightened state of awareness that
reminded us of being high on LSD. It went on for
weeks and seemed very magical. |
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months later we moved our family to Los Angeles
to enter a radical therapy founded by the authors
of "The Dream Makers," Richard Corriere
and Joseph Hart. Their program was called The
Center for Feeling Therapy, and, at the time we
joined, it consisted of a group of thirteen
psychotherapists treating a community of about
300 patients. Community was an important concept
at the Center and it was something that we, too,
wanted very much to have in our lives. |
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| Feeling
Therapy had many valuable lessons to teach and
most are contained in an earlier work by Corriere
and Hart, "Going Sane: An Introduction to
Feeling Therapy," but the program itself was
a disappointment. It had stopped stressing the
importance of dreams and was promoting a regimen
called Psychological Fitness. I left the therapy
after three months and Carol dropped out a few
months later. An article that describes the rise
and fall of the Center for Feeling Therapy
appeared in the August, 1988 issue of California
magazine. (Click here
to read "When Therapists Drive Their
Patients Crazy" by Carol Lynn Mithers.) |
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the past twenty years we've used the techniques
of interpreting dreams that we learned at the
Center and have helped our children and friends
understand the important messages that are
expressed by our unconscious minds in the images
of dreams. It seemed tragic that an important
intellectual achievement had been dismissed
because of its association with a discredited
therapeutic practice, but we were busy with our
show business careers and had no time for
teaching or writing about the interpretation of
dreams. |
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| In the
Spring of 1998 a new wave of powerful,
life-altering dreams prompted the establishment
of Temple of Dreams. Through the Internet the
dream interpretation techniques learned at the
Center and evolved over twenty years by personal
trial and error can be passed along to other
dreamers seeking to enrich their spiritual lives
and deepen their self-understanding. |
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| To
find out more about this revolutionary way of
learning from and living from your dreams read
the teachings, visit
the dream archives,
or check out the programs
offered. |
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| Lane Sarasohn |
| Temple of Dreams |
| Desert Hot Springs, CA |
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