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Eugene N. Kovalenko Ph.D. is the director of the CREEI Institute and creater of the CREEI dream analysis process. 

In the 1950's Eugene worked as a military intelligence agent, then a nuclear scientist in the 1960's.  However in the mid 1970's, Eugene (pictured left) turned his creative abilities to the question of dreaming as an avenue to solve personal and community problems. The result of this transformation led to the process of creative dreaming, the CREEI process.

 

Ceative dreaming has been Eugene's passion ever since.

But to really get to know Eugene, lets start earlier.  Eugene says that his conscious life began in early 1953 at age 19 when he was involved in a motorcycle accident in the desert just north of Phoenix, Arizona. It was the height of the Korean War and he had impulsively quit college after a year at BYU to marry his high school sweetheart. Because of physical injuries suffered in the accident he thought he was now safe from the draft, since he hadn't realized before that he had unwittingly given up his college deferment.  

One day in April 1953, Eugene went to the Phoenix draft board to verify his draft status in order to proceed with marriage plans, only to discover to his horror that not only was he not 4F (medically deferred), but 1A (fully acceptable) and that his draft papers were to be sent out that same day. “Oh, my god!, he thought to himself, I don't want to go to Korea and get my (you know what) shot off”.   He thought to himself “Maybe there's something I can learn. If I had my wildest dream come true what would I study?” Well, Eugene had always wanted to learn his dad's mother tongue. Without another thought he found himself blurting out "Is there any way I could learn Russian in the Army?" (Knowing perfectly well that this was impossible).  The recruiting sergeant looked at him with a startled expression and exclaimed, "We have just today received a letter from Washington, D.C. for a quota of one for the month of April for the state of Arizona for the Army Language School in Russian. If you can qualify, you're it!"  Having had one quarter of Russian at BYU was enough for the recruiter.  Eugene immediately accepted the assignment with a relieved, "Where do I sign?"  

For Eugene, that was the new beginning of becoming: soldier, interpreter, singer, spook, student, engineer, scientist, seeker, poet, crazy person, writer, reader, inventor, manager, entrepreneur, teacher, sinner, fool, missionary, revolutionary, critic, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, conversationalist, lover, liar, traveler, actor, visionary, pretender, hero, villain, friend, wanderer, wonderer, believer, skeptic, dreamer and dream worker. In becoming a more conscious human being, Eugene has discovered:  acting, contemplating, introspecting, retrospecting, resolving, concluding, deciding, suffering, rejoicing, declaiming, questioning, asserting, negating, affirming, and living.