Deborah DeNicola
M.F.A., Theta Healing, Vision Program
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Deborah DeNicola Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- dream image work and writing, poetry and prose
- Best Sellers
- The Future That Brought Her Here; Memoir of a Call to Awaken
- Career Focus
- Writing Mentor/Editor, Author, Dream Image Worker
- Affiliation
- Women's Prosperity Network
Deborah DeNicola’s most recent publication is her spiritual memoir The Future That Brought Her Here, ffrom Nikolas Hays /Ibis Press, June 2009. A full collection of poetry, Original Human, is also scheduled for publication in 2010 from Custom Words Press. In 2007 Finishing Line Press published Inside Light her chapbook of poetry. Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, from The University Press of New England. She was awarded a Poetry Fellowship in 1997 from the National Endowment for the Arts, received The Packingtown Review Award for Critical Writing, The William T. Foley Award in 2000 from America, The Barbara Bradley Award in 1996 from The New England Poetry Club, “Best of Net Anthology 2008,” The Briar Cliff Poetry Award 2007 and a Special Mention from The Pushcart Prizes 1992. She is the author of Where Divinity Begins (Alice James Press)and three chapbooks, Harmony of the Next (forthcoming November 2005) which won the Riverstone Chapbook Award, Psyche Revisited (1992), which won the Embers Magazine Chapbook Contest, and Rainmakers (Coyote Love Press ). A Bread Loaf Scholar (1993), a recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony (1994), The Centrum Foundation (1995), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1997), and The Vermont Studios (1999). Deborah DeNicola was trained by the Dutch Jungian Analyst Robert Bosnak who coined the term "Embodied" dream work. She teaches poetry and dream image workshops in South Florida and reviews poetry for The Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel. Her web site offers writing consultations, as well as dream image work, my poems and essays on dreamwork. Please take a few minutes to visit! http://www.intuitivegateways.com/
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The Homeless Graduation; On Compensatory Dreams
Sometimes a dream may appear negative when you first express what you’ve experienced such as:" I am in a gymnasium with homeless people . . . "exactly the words I spoke into my recorder the other morning. But as I continued to listen to the recording I was able to accept the dream as encouraging rather than telling me yet again my raging issue is my finances.
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Singing My Way to My Stolen Car; A Prospective Dream
Over many years I have had and heard of numerous dreams about cars, taking place in cars, around cars and parking lots, cars with flat tires, cars going too fast or backwards, flying cars, wrecked cars, and on and on. Because so much of contemporary life depends on cars as the major means of transportations, it isn’t surprising that we frequently dream of them. In some cases they can even stand for the condition of the body, but often they allude to our movement, our modus operandi or particularly established method of getting around in life.
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Emily & Isable: Literary Heroines in Dreams
Emily and Isabel : Literary Heroines in Dreams Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. — Jane Roberts Emily Many women writers I know, and not just those of my generation, still struggle with giving themselves permission to write, which is tantamount to permission to believe in themselves. It’s true those of us who came of age in the sixties and seventies with all the motifs of liberation, still looked for men to complete them, And we wondered if we could really speak our truth.
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Cookie's Doves; On Birthing The Feminine in Dream Image Work
COOKIE’S DOVES; ON BIRTHING THE FEMININE What your unconscious wants you to know is not often discovered from the perspective of the personal ego. The entire dream is our creation but often we don’t relate to the “bad guy” or the “monster” or the “beautiful tree” from deep inside these figures. Through a slowly evoked visualization, I lead dreamers into discovering an “Ah Ha!” moment, which has not been available to their conscious mind.
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Banal Dreams, Beneficent Messages: . . . Or Don’t Delete Your Day Residue: An Essay on Dream Image Work
As I see it, the real function of the arts is to permeate the environment of the world with a metaphysical reality so that man is not alone with the ego. –Cecil Collins (Or “woman,” I might add, in the case of this story . . . ) So often we wake from a dream thinking, Oh I just dreamt that because that’s what I did yesterday–what a dumb dream! And we forget it in a moment. But even those banal dreams can have beneficent messages. Messages that sometimes may make a difference in a decision or choice our conscious mind is considering.
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The Eagle & The Vulture; Two Archetypal Bird Dreams
Deborah DeNicola www.intuitivegateways.com When a person is too deeply embedded in the collective, outer reality of everyday life, the discovery in his or her own dreams of universal, archetypal images ... can be a freeing experience. (Jungian Dream Interpretation Hall, 114) In the world of archetypal symbolism birds in our dreams often indicate a spiritual endeavor. After all, they fly above us, closer to the heavens than we normally find ourselves.
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Pagsus & Tiny People: A Dream Group Experience
Pegasus & Tiny People: An Essay on a Dream Group Experience by Deborah DeNicola www/intuitivegateways.com I first encountered Robert Bosnak’s dream methods at the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston and was later invited in to a private dream group that met in his home in the western suburbs of Boston. I must say that this group went deeper into the unconscious lives of the group members.
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Embodied Dreamwork in Groups
Much creativity is contained in the unconscious. By freeing our dreams from the prison of our ego’s perspective, we realize more creative power through the healing faculty of imagination. Dutch Jungian Analyst, Robert Bosnak has developed "Embodied Dreaming," a technique for working with dreams imaginatively in groups. We sit with eyes closed in a low lit room and are led back into a dream, sinking into a consciousness where active imagination awakens naturally.
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Coming in December 2010, Deborah's newest poetry collection, Original Human for WordTech Press.