On my thirty-eighth birthday, my mother, Margaret, died, crossing over with her now adult children at her bedside. Even now, years on, whenever I see mothers and daughters conversing intimately, my heart quietly grieves. Whoever first said, ""We're born alone, and we die alone"" misses the point - the woman who bore you knows that she was with you on the day you were born!
After my mother's death, I felt both bereft and fortunate to have been with her in the months before she died of cancer. Her death felt doubly hard because I had lived abroad for many years. When I left the United States for Europe at twenty-five, she cried, ""You will never come back!"" Her words proved prophetic, for although I returned home often for visits, I settled in England.
If you have loved and lost your mother, you will have a sense of grief personal to you, one that resurfaces when you suddenly have the urge to talk with her or give her a hug.
Like me, you may wish you had got on better with your mother and had known her more as a person in her own right. It can be all the harder to accept the loss if she has left without saying ""I love you"", or without your having the chance to say the same. There may not have been time to ask for mutual forgiveness and understanding, leaving you both with many unanswered ""Whys?"".
Whether or not your mother has passed to the ""other side"", I present you, the reader, with a hope - that love continues beyond the grave. Even when the human relationship has been fraught, the departed soul, free from the adversities of life, will so often seek to love and make amends.
I share here the story of how my relationship with my mother deepened after her death as she initiated me into lucid dreaming.
Some readers might say my visions of my mother are nothing more than a projection of my dreaming mind. Others might argue that from beyond the veil she truly appeared. But I sense both are true.
Either way, I hope that my own experience will speak to you in a personal way and that my sharing these dreams my mother taught me may reassure you that love never dies.
By:
Melinda Powell
Imprint: Archive Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781906289676
ISBN 10: 1906289670
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 20 June 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements 13; Foreword by Jeanne Van Bronkhurst, MA, MSW 15; Note to the Reader 17; Prologue: The End is in the Beginning 21; Part One;Lessons in Surrender Cutting the Cord 29; My Mother's Gifts 35; The Dark Womb of Creation 41; Back Home Again 47; Mirroring Soul 59; The Way to Blue 65; Part Two;Lessons in Light The Holy of Holies 73; Trust in Light and Love 79; The Body of Light 85; Celestial Cities 91; Gifts of the Spirit 97; Part Three;Lessons in Grace One More 105; New Light 117; Enveloped in Love 121; Where Heaven and Earth Touch 127; Coming Home 141; Part Four;Lessons in Life & Beyond The Eternal Well of Living Light 149; The Refining Fire of Spirit 153; Living Waters 159; The Healing Power of Lucidity 165; Wearing Soul on the Outside 171; List of Dreams 177; Treasured Family Memories 179; Notes 183
Melinda Powell co-founded the Dream Research Institute (DRI), London, at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education to promote research into dreams and wellbeing. Melinda has served as past vice-president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and as director of the DRI and of Help Counselling Centre. Formerly a psychotherapist, she now writes and teaches about dreams and dream lucidity. She is the author of The Hidden Lives of Dreams' (Bonnier Books UK, 2019), 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).
Reviews for Dreams My Mother Taught Me: Lessons In Lucid Dreaming From Beyond the Grave
Dreams My Mother Taught Me: Lessons in Lucid Dreaming from Beyond the Grave is a beautifully moving memoir by Melinda Powell, therapist, dream guide, author, and lucid dream specialist, that tells the story of a special connection between herself and her mother in Spirit.; Through her own lucid dreams Melinda is given a unique perspective and understanding of her mother's life, as well as that of her own, as they visit with each other across the veil. She finds answers to her questions about their lives and their relationship through dream interpretations that lead to spiritual resolutions within herself. Melinda shares her journey of self-discovery as she reflects upon deeper meanings behind her lucid dream visits with her mother.; This book is a tribute to the everlasting mother-daughter bond that endures across time and beyond earthbound limits. It has deeply touched my soul and opened my awareness of my own journey as a grieving daughter and mother. I feel sure that it will have a similar impact on everyone who reads it.; Camille Dan, author of Aaron's Energy: An Unexpected Journey Through Grief and the Afterlife with My Brilliant Son and Gathering at the Doorway: An Anthology of Signs, Visits, and Messages from the Afterlife, founder of 'The Book Club Across the Veil'
