{"product_id":"dream-journey-breaking-the-dream-barriers-paperback","title":"Dream Journey, Breaking the Dream Barriers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorgia Lee Arts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when the identity that carried you through one world can no longer carry you into the next?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe imaginative roots of \u003cem\u003eDream Journey\u003c\/em\u003e reach back to Arts's 2006 theatrical manuscript, \u003cem\u003eJourney to Elysium(TM)\u003c\/em\u003e, a blissful, peaceful realm associated with heroic passage after struggle. The metaphor became a fitting destination for a book concerned with identity, liminality, the hero's journey, polarity, and the search for peace-and part of the creative lineage from which Elysian Dream(R) would later emerge. Drawing upon personal experience, military and civilian leadership, mythology, archetype, mythopoetic imagination, and the emerging world of Elysian Dream(R), the book is an exploration of the \u003cstrong\u003eIdentity Gap\u003c\/strong\u003e and follows a heroic journey through identity disruption, transition, liminality, language, story, adaptation, polarity, and the search for meaning-and ultimately, peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIdentity, in these pages, does not exist in isolation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is shaped through language, story, roles, relationships, culture, social expectations, lived experience, and the structures surrounding human life. Through career disruption, burnout, occupational identity, workplace adversity, identity loss, and transition, \u003cem\u003eDream Journey\u003c\/em\u003e asks what happens when the environments we inhabit shape-or destabilize-our understanding of who we are. Blending personal narrative, mythopoetic imagination, reflection, and inquiry, the book moves between individual experience and the forces surrounding it: the identities we inhabit, stories we inherit, language through which we understand ourselves, and structures that can reward particular ways of being or place human beings into competition, conflict, and disconnection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the journey is \u003cstrong\u003eliminality\u003c\/strong\u003e: the threshold between what was and what will be. Here opposing forces appear-order and chaos, fear and hope, old identity and new identity, stagnation and transformation. \u003cem\u003eDream Journey\u003c\/em\u003e explores what becomes possible when these polarities are not simply defeated or erased, but encountered, understood, and integrated. This is also the territory of the \u003cstrong\u003eheroic journey\u003c\/strong\u003e. The hero or heroine crosses a threshold, encounters disruption, confronts what has been lost or fragmented, and travels toward a different relationship with identity and the world. Victory is not simply conquest. The deeper journey reaches toward integration, harmony, and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the questions become larger than the individual. What happens when roles become fused with identity? When structures influence who people believe they must become? When systems place people into conflict with themselves or one another? What becomes visible when we look differently at the forces shaping human experience?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThroughout the journey is the possibility of peace \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecoming is imagined as a peaceful paradise reached after a lengthy battle to reclaim lost pieces of identity and find peace-a mythopoetic destination from which questions of identity, meaning, difference, transformation, and the worlds humans create can be explored. Worldbuilding becomes more than fantasy. It becomes a way of asking what kind of world we inhabit, what shaped it, what we inherited, what we carry forward, and what else might be possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMapping the Journey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book in Georgia Lee Arts's evolving inquiry into language, identity, narrative, liminality, polarity, occupational experience, human systems, structures, worldbuilding, and peace. It is a journey through identity. A hero's journey through the landscapes of becoming. An inquiry into what shapes us. And an early map of a world that would continue to unfold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery journey changes the traveler. Some journeys also change the map.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45944427315335,"sku":"9798218534295","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ph71R_yz269798218534295.webp?v=1790412627","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dream-journey-breaking-the-dream-barriers-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}