Melinda Powell
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Melinda Powell

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Melinda Powell co-founded the Dream Research Institute at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London, to promote the connection between dreams and wellbeing. She has served as past vice-president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and as director of HELP Counselling Centre, London. Formerly a psychotherapist, she now works as a dream specialist, teaching and writing about dreams and dream lucidity. She is author of 'The Hidden Lives of Dreams' (Bonnier Books UK, 2020), 'Lucid Surrender: The Alchemy of the Soul in Lucid Dreaming' (Archive Publishing, 2021), and 'Dreams My Mother Taught Me: Lessons in Lucid Dreaming From Beyond the Grave' (Archive Publishing, 2025). Melinda Powell approaches dreams and lucid dreaming as a means to soul-awakening, a path she calls ‘Lucid Surrender’™. Her writings on dreams derive from Powell’s first-hand experience as a lucid dreamer, her professional work as a psychotherapist and her researches into dreams and dream lucidity. Her application of Carl Jung’s alchemical model to Lucid Surrender brings new dimensions to our under- standing of alchemy, therapeutic practice and dream lucidity. She describes how stages similar to the alchemical process can also be consciously initiated in a lucid dream, with powerful therapeutic effect. Powell further develops Jung’s teachings on light, revisioning the reader’s understanding of darkness by illuminating the phenomenon of Black Light. She shows how lucid dreams can open us to the realm of the transpersonal. Other titles that include Melinda's writings on dreams: Dreams: Biology, Psychology and Culture, edited by Robert Hoss, Katja Valli and Robert Gongloff (ABC-CLIO, 2019) Dreams That Change Our Lives, edited by Robert Hoss and Robert Gongloff (Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications, 2016) Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep, edited by Kelly Bulkeley and Ryan Hurd (Praeger, 2014) Melinda adds: Thank you for visiting my author's page and for your reviews!
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