Jeremy Taylor (dream worker) explained

Jeremy Taylor
Birth Date:	27 January 1943^[1]
Occupation:	Dream worker, author, Unitarian Universalist minister

Rev. Jeremy Taylor, DMin, (1943 – January 3, 2018^[2]) was an American dream worker, author and Unitarian Universalist minister.^[3] He was a co-founder and past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.^[4]

He was known as a proponent of Projective Dreamwork, according to which participants in a dream group should not attempt to directly interpret the dreams of another participant.^[5] Rather they should preface their thoughts about a dream with a phrase such as 'If it were my dream...', and discuss the dream as if it were their own, in doing so acknowledging the fact that the interpreter always projects their own associations and life experience onto the dreamer.^[6]

He is often associated with his theory that dreams come 'in the service of health and wholeness',^[7] rather than merely to reflect the dreamer's life and ambitions, or scare or mock the dreamer.^[8]

Publications

Books

• Dream Work (Paulist Press, 1983,)
• Where People Fly And Water Runs Uphill (Warner Books, 1992,)
• The Living Labyrinth (Paulist Press, 1998,)
• The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap Into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life (Penguin/Tarcher, 2009,)

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Grace . Nancy . Remembering Jeremy Taylor . DreamTime . 2018 . Spring . 6 . 25 January 2022 . International Association for the Study of Dreams.
2. Web site: In Loving Memory of Jeremy Taylor (1943 - 2018) . Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association . 27 March 2018 . 30 December 2020.
3. Web site: In Memoriam – Rev. Jeremy Taylor . International Association for the Study of Dreams . ASD International . 30 December 2020.
4. Book: Hoss . Robert . Dreams : understanding biology, psychology, and culture . 2019 . Greenwood . Santa Barbara, California . 978-1440856167.
5. Book: Hoss . Robert . Dreams : understanding biology, psychology, and culture . Greenwood . Santa Barbara, California . 978-1440856167 . Historical Perspective. 2019 .
6. Book: Hoss . Robert . Dreams : understanding biology, psychology, and culture . Greenwood . Santa Barbara, California . 978-1440856167 . Historical Perspective. 2019 .
7. Book: Bulkeley . K. . Kelly Bulkeley . Dreams : a Reader on Religious, Cultural and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming. . 2016 . Palgrave Macmillan . New York . 978-1-137-08545-0 . 198.
8. Web site: Bulkeley . Kelly . Kelly Bulkeley . DreamRev: The Many Contributions of Jeremy Taylor . kellybulkeley.org . 30 December 2020.