An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being

Acknowledgments Foreword · Bernie Siegel, MD Preface · Larry Burk, MD, CEHP, and Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-KanavosIntroduction - The History of Healing Dreams Larry Burk, MD, CEHP PART ONE - Breast Cancer Warning Dreams 1 Origins of the Breast Cancer Dreams Project Larry Burk, MD, CEHP 2 A Feather for Your Dreams · Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos 3 Warning Dreams Preceding the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Research Results 4 The Rise of the Dreaming E-Patient Basic Dream Categories PART TWO - True Stories of the Breast Cancer Research Team Introduction · Suzanne Maria De Gregorio, Triple Positive Breast Cancer Survivor 6 “It’s Your Time to Get Cancer!” · Suzanne Maria De Gregorio 7 Our Bleeding Breasts? A Mother-Daughter Dream Team Amparo Trujillo and Rocio Aguirre 8 “Your Mother Has Cancer.” Another Mother-Daughter Dream Team · Paulette Wyssbrod-Goltz 9 “I Had a Dream.” · Diane Long 10 The Nightmare/Dream Began on a Beautiful Fall Day Sunni Ingalls 11 My Dream Doctor is Real · Denise 12 Transcending Breast Cancer: Reconstructing One’s Self Carolyn K. Kinney, PhD, RN 13 She Who Dreams the Dance of the Dead · Wanda Burch 14 Three Crabs, Three Pearls, and a Physician-Within Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos Divorce 15 Dream and Breast Cancer · Mary PART THREE - True Dream Stories of Other Types of Cancers Basal Cell Carcinoma: Medical Introduction 16 The Awakening · Lorraine 17 My Dream Voice · Angelika Hartmann 18 Saving Face · Dana Walden Benign and Malignant Brain Tumors: Medical Introduction (Featuring Mark Ruffalo’s Dream Cancer Story) 19 Into the Panther’s Cage · Deb Dutilh Colon Cancer: Medical Introduction 20 The Bloody Toilet · Aislinn 21 Feces Everywhere! · Aisha Umar Lung Cancer: Medical Introduction 22 “Go For An X-ray!” · Carl O. Helvie, RN, DrPH Melanoma Dreams: Medical Introduction 23 The “What If?” Nightmare · Diane Powell, MD 24 The House with Bloody Walls · Linda Ellerker Ovarian Cancer: Medical Introduction 25 The Ugly Doctor · Jill Yankee Prostate Cancer: Medical Introduction 26 The Rape · Lou Hagood Testicular Cancer: Medical Introduction 27 The Playground of Life and Death · Dr. Jay Troutman Tongue Cancer: Medical Introduction 28 Dead Sucking Insects · Pali Delevitt Uterine Cancer: Medical Introduction 29 Giving Birth · Ann Charles PART FOUR - Developing Your Own Dream Skills 30 Ways to Remember Your Dreams · Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos 31 Reentering Your Dreams to Retrieve Information Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos PART FIVE - True Dreams of Other Non-Cancer Illnesses 32 Bike Injury Warning Dream · Larry Burk, MD, CEHP 33 Whose Broken Bones? · Patricia Rose Upczak 34 Deadly Sweet Dreams of Type II Diabetes · Maria Mars 35 Warning! Do Not Have Sex · Athena Kolinski 36 “I Sprang a Leak” and “I Blew a Fuse” · Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH PART SIX - Healing Guidance Dreams for All Illnesses 37 Dream Imagery for Healing · Wanda Burch 38 Tiny Bubbles and Fishy Chakras · Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos 39 The Raw Food Diet Dream · Diane 40 Silver Spaceship Aliens Saved My Life · Dana Anderson 41 Bliss behind the Mask of Addiction · Deborah O’Brien 42 Cystic Fibrosis/Organ Transplant: Life from the Edge of Death Inka Nisinbaum PART SEVEN - Children’s Dreams 43 “Up, Up, Up!” · Kathi Kemper MD, MPH 44 Psyche, Soma, Healing, and Collective Consciousness Bernie Siegel, MD PART EIGHT - Dreams for Diagnosis of Other People’s Cancers and Illnesses - Dreaming with and for Others 45 Kidney and Lung Cancers · Larry Burk, MD, CEHP 46 Cancer or Not Cancer? · Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos and Priscilla Willard 47 My Son’s Tethered Cord and Epilepsy Treatment Suzanne M. De Gregorio 48 Deadly Heart Attack · Jane Katra, PhD 49 The X-rays · Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH 50 Ovarian Cancer - Mary’s Client’s Story PART NINE - Conclusion and Vision for the Future, with Prevention, Intuitive Guidance, and Spiritual Implications 51 “Your Cables Are Twisted” · Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos 52 “The Hero’s Journey into the Underworld” Larry Burk, MD, CEHP 53 If I Knew Then What I Know Now - Words of Wisdom and Encouragement for You Carolyn K Kinney, PhD, RN · Wanda Burch · Suzanne De Gregorio · Sunni Ingalls · Sonia Lee-Shield · Amparo Trujillo and Rocio Aguirre · Paulette Wyssbrod-Goltz · Diane Long · Denise · Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos · Larry Burk, MD, CEHP Appendix 1 · Frequently Asked Dream Questions Appendix 2 · Glossary of Dream TerminologyAppendix 3 · Glossary of Medical Terminology Endnotes Additional Reading Biographies of Contributors Enhance Your Book Club