"Life is a sacred text, to be unlocked through the key of metaphoric knowing. Thus understood, life events yield information about our personality, our karma, and even our future potentials, pointing the way toward greater levels of awakening."
—Ray Grasse

For the men and women of traditional cultures, enormous importance was accorded the seemingly accidental or random events of ordinary life, from the passage of birds through the sky to chance remarks overheard in passing. Are such beliefs merely superstitions, or do they reflect a deeper intuition into the hidden order of the universe?

A groundbreaking study of symbolism and synchronicity, The Waking Dream investigates the subtle workings of fate, coincidence and destiny in our lives. Learn how synchronicity pervades our world, and how we can begin to unlock the subtle messages encoded within everyday experience. Explore how societies throughout history have attempted to understand the language of symbols, and what perennial symbolist ideas have to offer contemporary science.

Paperback: $16.00
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Reviews and Comments

"A masterpiece."
—Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, From Atlantis to the Sphinx

"This book bulges with wisdom. The Waking Dream is CPR for the soul!"
—Dr. Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words

"Ray Grasse has produced a work which is extraordinary in scope.
It explores such an extensive area of everyday existence and spiritual thinking that at the end of the book the reader is left with a profound sense of the deeper meaning of life. Grasse is an eloquent writer who takes us on a compelling journey. His humanity and understanding pervade the book, stretching our own awareness of the meaning of life."
—Theosophy in Australia

"This book represents the best, most comprehensive, exposition of the symbolist world view in a single volume. In fact, if I wanted to truly understand the deep, fundamental roots of mysticism or occultism, this ?is the book that I would read first. Symbolism stands in contrast to stark materialism in that it assigns inherent meaning to the world. Symbolism holds that this physical, material world is the lowest level of reality and not it's totality, as "science" would have us believe. The lower levels merely reflect the archetypical currents, patterns, and laws of the higher: "As above, so below." To personally validate this mode of thinking in one's own life is to experience permanent mind shift. You never see creation as dead, sterile, and meaningless again. What more can one ask of a book or a teaching?"
—Amazon.com Reviewer: S.C. Curtis (Gwinn, MI United States)




		The Waking Dream Unlocking the Symbolic Language of our Lives By Ray Grasse "Life is a sacred text, to be unlocked through the key of metaphoric knowing. Thus understood, life events yield information about our personality, our karma, and even our future potentials, pointing the way toward greater levels of awakening." —Ray Grasse For the men and women of traditional cultures, enormous importance was accorded the seemingly accidental or random events of ordinary life, from the passage of birds through the sky to chance remarks overheard in passing. Are such beliefs merely superstitions, or do they reflect a deeper intuition into the hidden order of the universe? A groundbreaking study of symbolism and synchronicity, The Waking Dream investigates the subtle workings of fate, coincidence and destiny in our lives. Learn how synchronicity pervades our world, and how we can begin to unlock the subtle messages encoded within everyday experience. Explore how societies throughout history have attempted to understand the language of symbols, and what perennial symbolist ideas have to offer contemporary science. Paperback: $16.00 Available at bookstores, or order from Quest Books: 800-669-9425 Reviews and Comments "A masterpiece." —Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, From Atlantis to the Sphinx "This book bulges with wisdom. The Waking Dream is CPR for the soul!" —Dr. Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words "Ray Grasse has produced a work which is extraordinary in scope. It explores such an extensive area of everyday existence and spiritual thinking that at the end of the book the reader is left with a profound sense of the deeper meaning of life. Grasse is an eloquent writer who takes us on a compelling journey. His humanity and understanding pervade the book, stretching our own awareness of the meaning of life." —Theosophy in Australia "This book represents the best, most comprehensive, exposition of the symbolist world view in a single volume. In fact, if I wanted to truly understand the deep, fundamental roots of mysticism or occultism, this ?is the book that I would read first. Symbolism stands in contrast to stark materialism in that it assigns inherent meaning to the world. Symbolism holds that this physical, material world is the lowest level of reality and not it's totality, as "science" would have us believe. The lower levels merely reflect the archetypical currents, patterns, and laws of the higher: "As above, so below." To personally validate this mode of thinking in one's own life is to experience permanent mind shift. You never see creation as dead, sterile, and meaningless again. What more can one ask of a book or a teaching?" —Amazon.com Reviewer: S.C. Curtis (Gwinn, MI United States)

		Signs of the Times Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events by Ray Grasse We live in complex times, but not completely incomprehensible ones. In his latest book Ray Grasse looks at modern history in light of astrology, and the shift from the Age of Pisces to that of Aquarius. What does the "Aquarian Age" truly mean? And when does it start? Drawing on sources ranging from religion and politics to cinema, Grasse constructs a portrait of modern society that shows how our world is already being transformed by the emerging Aquarian archetype in countless ways. Paperback, $15.95 Hampton Roads Publishing, Charlottesville, VA, 2002. Available at Amazon.com Reviews and Comments "This book is a masterpiece carefully crafted gathering data over decades. Reading it I said again and again 'aha' and 'of course,' as I was led through history to contemporary events in a brilliant view of what the Aquarian Age really is about. This book is profound, prolific, and prophetic." — Laurence Hillman, co-author of Alignments: How to Live in Harmony with the Universe "Joseph Campbell used to say we could no more know what our future mythologies would be than know what we will dream tonight. This books suggests that in studying the signs of the times, we can more effectively both discover and co-create our future stories going beyond the unconscious myth-making of the Piscean Age. It is in Grasse's powerful projections of our future development as a species that this work is unique." —Maureen Cleary, Parabola magazine "Fifty years ago, Carl Jung's book Aion showed a similar form of symbolic insight as it traced the development of the Piscean Age from Christ to the Twentieth Century. Grasse's courageous and holoscopic picture of the vast changes ahead for our planet deserves the same consideration as Jung's classic." —Anton Lysy, Ph.D. Dean of Studies, The Olcott Institute "Signs of the Times explains the Age of Aquarius better than any astrologer, as he shows by many examples how we are collectively on the cusp between the great ages, leaving Pisces behind. Learn to read the signs of the Age of Aquarius as they are used to define our current culture." —Michael Wolfstar, StarIQ.com "Ray Grasse is an astute observer of human culture, past and present. His eyes firmly fixed on the symbolic content of events, he uses a combination of astro-symbolism, the principle of synchronicity, and mythology to examine a wide range of cultural expressions. Signs of the Times is an attempt, firmly anchored in the age-old tradition of spiritual symbology, to make sense of what often strikes us as utterly chaotic, arbitrary, and senseless. Grasse makes fascinating and sometimes surprising links that reveal the deeper structure of our lives. Both this and his previous book furnish us with important clues for shaping our individual and collective life more consciously and wisely." —Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D, author of over 20 books, and founder-president of Yoga Research and Education Center