Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the destructive
nihilism of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who believe that
there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of
science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern
indigenous peoples as evidence of alternative ways of understanding
reality, informed by thinkers such as American Indian writer Jack
Forbes, theologian and American Indian rights activist Vine Deloria,
Shaman Martin Prechtel, Dakota activist and scholar Waziyatawin, and
Okanagan Indian writer Jeannette Armstrong. He draws on the wisdom of
Dr. Paul Staments, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help
Save the World, sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, who discusses science's
lack of accountability to the earth, and many more. As in his other
books, Jensen draws heavily from his own life experience living
alongside the frogs, redwoods, snails, birds and bears of the upper
northwest, about which he writes with exquisite tenderness.
Having taken on the daunting task of understanding one's dreams as a
source of knowledge, Jensen achieves the near-impossible in this
breathtakingly brave and ambitious new work.