John A. Sanford Books

By showing how Jesus' teachings relate to our inner depths, this book guides us toward a more conscious and creative life. The Kingdom Within explores the significance of Jesus' teachings for our interior life -- that inner reality that Jesus called "the kingdom of God." It is Sanford's conviction that contemporary Christianity has overlooked this inner dimension of Jesus' teachings and so has lost touch with the human soul. Illustrated with case histories and dream material drawn from the author's work as a psychotherapist, The Kingdom Within examines such characteristics as extroversion and introversion, masculinity and femininity, thinking and feeling, and sensation and intuition to show how Jesus met the criteria of wholeness or fullness of personhood. Step by step, Sanford helps us to shed the outer mask, to eschew sin, which "means living in enslavement to what we don't know about ourselves," and to follow the road of consciousness, which leads to "a great treasure waiting only to be discovered."

An examination of the feminine and masculine qualities in every person.

First published twenty years ago, this revised edition of John Sanford's classic exploration of the psychological and spiritual significance of dreams draws on the work of C.G. Jung to show how dreams can help us find healing and wholeness and reconnect us to a living spiritual world. Featuring a new preface by the author and using case histories from his own experience as a counselor, Dreams traces the role of dreams in the Bible, analyzing their nature and examining how Christians, through fear and the constraints of dogma, have come to reject the visions through which God speaks to humanity, making dreams -- in Sanford's words -- "God's forgotten language."

Stručný a živý výklad snů. Kniha může sloužit jako praktická pomůcka pro ty, kdo chtějí porozumět svým snům a využít je k osobnímu růstu.

John A. Sanford, episkopální pastor a analytický psycholog praktikující v San Diegu, vysvětluje, jaký význam mají sny pro prožití zdravého a plnohodnotného života. Přibližuje čtenářům metody práce se sny a výkladu snů, které mohou vést k pochopení jejich smyslu, k porozumění snům, snovým obrazům a symbolům. Teoretickou část autor doplňuje příklady dvou konkrétních snových sérií a jejich interpretací.