Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book owes much to the many persons in the dream education community who filled out surveys, granted us interviews, responded to our questions, provided course materials, and generally impressed us with their creativity and innovation in dream education. Our collective thanks go to Kate Adams, Sheila Asato, Deirdre Barrett, Paula Berggren, Barbara Bishop, Fariba Bogzaran, Bob Coalson, Betsy Davids, Mary Dombeck, Bill Domhoff, Christopher Dreisbach, Rita Dwyer, Michele Ferrante, Nicole Gratton, Mike Grady, Jody Grundy, Olaf Hansen, Michael Hewett, Iris Maria Heller, Deborah Hickey, Clara Hill, Robert Hoss, Don Houston, Tracey Kahan, Johanna King, Roger Knudson, Cynthia Kuhn, Don Kuiken, Stanley Krippner, Justina Lasley, Ruth Lingford, Susan Locke, Athena Lou, Tom Maddox, Laurel McCabe, Don Middendorf, Jim Pagel, Victoria Rabinowe, Henry Reed, Sara Ridberg, Stephen David Ross, Michael Schredl, Maxine Skuba, Carl C. Smith, Charles Stewart, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Peter Struck, Jeremy Taylor, Jason Tougaw, and Richard Wilkerson. Thanks to Jane Bunker, Nancy Ellegate, and Eileen Meehan of SUNY Press, and to Robert Van de Castle, editor of the SUNY series in Dream Studies, all of whom were most helpful in shepherding the book from its inception through the publication process. We are grateful to Laura Lamp of Harvard Divinity School, whose dream inspired a walking labyrinth in the back courtyard of the campus in Cambridge , Massachusetts, which is featured on our book’s cover in a photograph by Justin Knight. Phil King thanks Hawaii Pacific University for funding his attendance at numerous professional dream conferences, and for hosting a regional conference on dreams and holistic health. He also thanks his students and colleagues, and family and friends for their support and for sharing their dreams with him. Kelly Bulkeley would like to acknowledge his colleagues and students at the Graduate Theological Union, Santa Clara University, John F. Kennedy University, the University of Chicago, and the other schools where he has had the opportunity to engage in dream education. He also thanks his family, both human (Hilary, Dylan, Maya, Conor) and feline (Lightning, Thunder, Levi, Strauss), for their support and companionship. ix x Acknowledgments Bernard Welt wishes to acknowledge with gratitude the Corcoran College of Art and Design and Dean Kirk Pillow for a faculty-development course release for research, and the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland for residencies during which he wrote some of the text of this book. He thanks his students at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and colleagues in faculty, administration, and library staff, including Jennifer Cognard-Black, Nan Fry, Michael S. Glaser, Andrew Hudson, Sue Johnson, Beth Baruch Joselow, Doug Lang, Joe Lucchesi, Martha McWilliams, and Casey Smith; and Colby Caldwell, Dr. Michael S. Hammond, Dr. Timothy Price, Dr. Thomas Qualey, and always, most of all, Arthur. Kelly Bulkeley and Bernard Welt would like to acknowledge Phil King’s leadership, initiative, patience, and sage advice throughout the development, writing, and editing of this book. ...