Dreams for Peace

About the Book

When Godzilla comes into your bedroom at night making you get up and run for your life even though your body is not moving, you may wonder how you are going to get to some level of peace and tranquility. Why has Godzilla come, you may ask, and how can a dream be so strong as to make you feel completely frightened even though you are in a safe room with very little chance of being harmed? Godzilla does not come by accident nor by chance. He is designed for you at that moment, and when we begin to understand that dreams are wonderful treasures especially designed for our development, Godzilla can become a door that leads to a great unfolding of new potentialities. Dreams are metaphors designed to lead us to become the best of who we were meant to be, and when we become those persons, the world benefits from our actions and attitudes and becomes a more peaceful place. In this book there are 19 dreams analyzed to show how the world of dreams can lead us to a more peaceful world. The world from which dreams come forth is a unified one where all things are connected. Whether the dream be positive or negative, it is perfect communication and we can be open to it.

About the Author

Richard Hastings has been working in public and private schools for the last 27 years in various capacities including teacher, curriculum developer, supervisor of residential life, and school administrator. He has work with children from nearly every age group from severely multiply-handicapped to gifted students. During the 8 years he lived with adolescents in a residential school he had the habit of listening to 5 or 6 dreams everyday from students and staff which allowed him to hear over 5000 dreams. It was during this time that he developed his own methodology for interpreting and finding solutions to dreams, but also came to understand that the dreams that we are all having are helping us to move toward world peace. He has written many articles and done extensive curriculum work in the area of encouragement, transformation, conflict resolution, and understanding the messages in myths. He is currently working in an international bilingual school in Brasilia, Brazil and is planning to publish a book exclusively on the dreams of children as a guide for parents in their understanding of who their children are.