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...Rodger Kamenetz is an award-winning author whose books include the bestselling “The Jew in the Lotus” and “Stalking Elijah,” which won the National Jewish Book Award. His latest book, “The History of Last Night’s Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul,” is a journey into the intellectual and cultural history of dreams, which ultimately leads to truths about our world and ourselves. Kamenetz is a professor of English and religious studies at Louisiana State University...
...Rodger Kamenetz (RK): Dreams tell us the truth about our lives and they can deepen their feelings and they can show us the awesome...
...Kamenetz: No. I couldn't. You'd have to say, "He finally found something. God knows, he was looking long enough...
...Kamenetz: We've found that if you change the way you behave in a dream, you can change the way you behave awake, making better choices as you begin to recreate the kind of relationships that evolve in your dreams. In my case, one aspect was learning how to be a student. I've been teaching for 27 years, and do you know how hard it is to shift from thinking you're the teacher in every damn moment to realizing that you can be the student? That came out of my dreamwork, and students have come...
...Kamenetz: Yeah and the New Age folks complain I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience. We don't want to get hung up on, "Wait, if I experience this, does it mean I need a new religion?" Dreams are at the foundation of all religions and I find the work done by Bregman and his group, North of Eden, bears a remarkable similarity to some ideas in the Kabbalah, which honors dreams. Many of the Christians involved are comfortable with the idea of the animus as Christ...