Neoyork - I have learned so much from receiving enormous number of dreams I see that many people need, as I did, an upgrade in understanding. So in case you haven’t already seen it, please read
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#SummingVirtually every image and scene in a dream is an expression in symbolical form of aspects of your own mind, feelings and fears. So the dead body is almost certainly an aspect of you. Probably a part that was hurt at some time or was never given a chance to live in your daily life. If you doubt that please see
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonThe black coffin suggests that you were completely unconscious of the part that died, that is why you say you did not known the person in the coffin. You needed to take the coffin home because you needed to ‘bring it home’ to yourself, because in our dream world - inner world - things do not die, and often need to be resurrected from nearly being forgotten altogether.
It is interesting that you want to have that gift of God again. That is such a powerful plea in our dream that it explains the dream even more. To know god as you did as a child you have accept the whole you - even the parts that have been left for dead. The reason is that you are a living child of God. As it says, “whatsoever you do unto one of these you do unto Me”. That means that we are all God incarnate. So allowing a part of you/God to die means you have lost your relationship with the Highest.
So your dream was an answer to that plea, and of course it also includes any plans you have about work - for Life/God/Creator is the very core of you and so is interested/fascninated/intimately a part of whatever you do.
What can you do about it? Well you could see the following. I know I have quoted it before, but it is an excellent example of how we become and find a dead body and what you can do.
Example: “It was something like a semi detached house and sited on a slope. I was outdoors and I think felt or knew that we had just taken over this house. But I felt uneasy as if something from the past was linked with it.
Then I was at the back of the house, on the part sloping down from the back wall of the house. I noticed things covering what turned out to be a big hole dug against the back wall, deep into the soil. This was where I felt most ill at ease about the place. The hole had been covered with bits of board and other odd pieces of junk. I lifted these at the left of the hole and looked in. Sticking out from the side of the hole, about three feet down was the dead body of a young man. I could see the back of his skull had been smashed in. But although he had obviously been under the soil for some time, and had now been uncovered, the body was still in good condition, being slightly dried out or mummified.
I felt really guilty and connected with the body, as if I had been part of his murder, and was wondering frantically what I could do to hide or get rid of the body. Part of the problem was that pulling it out risked being seen with it.
In ‘being’ the body and exploring the dream the man said, “But it wasn’t until I got into the role of the dead body that any depth of feelings emerged. Almost as soon as I was in the role of the dead body I began to think about and feel things connected with the way I had killed my sexuality as a teenager. Gradually these feelings deepened and I was describing my feeling hatred in regard to sexuality and how the masses were pulled along by their genitals into some sort of conformity and performance. I felt anger and loathing for what I felt at the time were the cattle human beings were. At the time I despised and hated them. I also felt repugnance at the way people talked about sex or appeared to enjoy it. It has to be understood that in that period in history in the UK, most of sex was depicted in terms of smut, dirt, animal desire, hidden pornography, or loveless fucking. I wept deeply, at times hardly able to breathe, with the pain of seeing what I had done to myself. I said sorry over and over. I saw that I need not have killed my love and sexuality, but could have expressed it in a tender and loving way.”
If that doesn’t work for you could try
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/clicking-on/ or
http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/methods-of-awakening/Tony