Welcome to The Portal of Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 1, 2007

This portal was created because there are few outlets in the blogosphere that address dream studies from multiple perspectives. While I have lots of opinions about dreaming and the realm of consciousness studies in general, my intention here is not to defend a camp but explore the terrain.

Further, I am not here to conquer the terrain, but to take notes in a tiny leather journal like a gentle 19th century naturalist who has a quick eye and a slight limp. As depth psychologist Craig Chalquist likes to remind me, “we are cosmographers, not conquistadors.”

I say that dreaming is a portal because of its uncanny ability to take us into new realms of thinking, being and identity. Over the next few posts I’ll describe the landscape of dreaming, a landscape which is known primarily by its unknowns.

Over time, with your help, I hope we can build an interdisciplinary portal for dream studies that respects diversity, but also knows how to have a good clean throw-down in the name of embodied truth.

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