John Herbert and Online Dream Work
Dream Sharing on the Internet - John Herbert
John Herbert
With a B.S.M.E from M.I.T, most of my professional life has been associated with aviation, but my introduction to group dream work started with an Edgar Cayce group in New York in the 1960's. I later attended one term at the C.G.Jung Institute in Zurich, which started my serious work with dreams. My desire to learn more about dreams and research led me to back to school, first at San Francisco State Univ. (M.A.Psychology, 1970) and recently to a Doctoral program in Psychology at Saybrook Institute (San Francisco), where I was introduced to Montague Ullman's "If it were my dream" approach by Stanley Krippner, who has been my major mentor.Progressively, I became more active in face-to-face group dreamwork; I have studied under Ullman and have moderated FTF groups for several years.
I became aware, however, of the changing modes of communication available to the electronic community and I wanted to find out if it might be possible to conduct group dream work on electronic BBSs. As part of the research for my dissertation, I have done test groups on the Internet (alt.dreams), Delphi, Compuserve, the WELL, and America OnLine. Group Dreamwork is currently being conducted on AOL in the Seniornet sector\Communities Message area\Group Dream Work topic. I have over 3500 of my own dreams stored in electronic format, and I have been able to use them for research, documenting how dream metaphors have commented on various life situations. jh
If you are interested in joining a Dream Group:
Easy! Just drop me a line saying you want to be in the next dream group
and I'll put you on the list and send your information when the next group
begins. jherbert@alum.mit.edu
If you are on America Online, you can view current dream postings by going to KEYWORD: Seniornet, Select the SeniorNet Forums icon, then Arts & Leisure, Arts & Leisure Board, Dreams & Dreaming,and open that folder.
Jeremy Taylor is no longer conducting a "Dream Show."
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Thanks to the AOL/America
Online SeniorNet, and the DG 16 Dream group dreamers and participants!
Thanks to DreamGate
for holding the Dream Work articles and creating these Web page.
Directory of online dream related sites via Electric
Dreams.
Art Work: Modification of Dali's Piano.
Modifications for WWW format with permission of all members and participants
of DreamGroup 16 and John Herbert, jherbert@alum.mit.edu
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