Through contemplation of dreams of the day and night, we share our collaborative dream dialogues and further dream reflections. These are conversations between trusted spiritual friends, not psychotherapy sessions between a therapist and her patient, even as psychotherapeutic wisdom is engaged. Through this emergent apprenticeship, to our dream life and to the life of the soul, we hear the themes of our selected dreams—through a scream, a cry, song, art, time, love, death, divinity, otherness, music, animal companions, illness, and life.

Distinctively, this book is not about dreams, it is a book of dreams. It is about awakening to dreams (not only from them). Through example, we show how to cultivate the practice of deeply listening to our dreams of the day and of the night and the emotional truths they harbor. In turn, we reveal our own longings, inquiries, reveries and discoveries as we apprentice the grace of dreaming, individually and in collaboration.

Dreamlife—no longer relegated to the shadows—becomes an honored guest, an invited companion, welcomed into the light of awareness. Our hope is that this book may, in turn, inspire you, the reader, to apprentice your own dream life, opening you further to the mysteries and liberations of your own soul and our collective soul.