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Monday, March 31st, 2008The Dark Side of Shamanic Tourism
This is the Anthropology of Consciousness Review - Part III.
Shamanic tourism is gaining popularity every year. This segment of the ecotourism industry serves First Worlders who want to experience entheogens in a somewhat Indigenous context.
Of course, shamanic tourism is really a hybrid between cultures, mediated by a recognized shaman or group leader who […]
Anthropology of Consciousness Review: Part II
Two great presentations to cover tonight from two experts in shamanism.
Author Hillary Webb gave a spell-binding talk about her participatory research into Andean cosmology. When she asked a respected Andean shaman about the worldview of complementary dualism that is at the heart of his culture, he replied, “It’s best to download it from the […]
Anthropology of Consciousness Conference Review: Part I
I’m back from chilly New Haven, CT with a head full of ideas. The annual Anthropology of Consciousness conference was a blast, providing fascinating ethnographic reports, experiential research and some intriguing new perspectives of the role of consciousness in anthropology. Luckily there was a great Irish pub to help with the consolidation of […]
Monday, March 17th, 2008Consciousness, Spirit, and Amtrak
I’m getting on a train this evening, heading towards Yale Divinity for the 2008 conference for the Society of the Anthropology of Consciousness. Got my woolens and my soft brown shoes so I can blend in with the ivy scene.
Who am I kidding tho? I’m a southerner and to prove it I’ve […]
Psychogeography and Dreams
One of the most original dream-related sites on the web, urbandreamscape.com, has begun a blog detailing their dream incubation experiments: the Oneironauticum.
Jennifer Dumpert and associates discuss their participation in on-going group dreaming projects with an emphasis on how dreams and waking life meet through the perception of landscape and cityscape. It’s part slumber party, […]
Are Boring Dreams our Western Heritage?
Since I’m in the business of pointing out good dream research, today I thought I would point out the opposite. Unfortunately, this fluff piece on dreams from The Daily Advertiser in Arizona is pretty typical of mainstream journalism. It’s an entertaining read, but devoid of actual journalistic research.
The title of this article “Stuff […]
Geometric Imagery in Lucid Dreaming
I figured my first peer-reviewed dream research post should nod to the one of the unrecognized classics in the field of lucid dreaming phenomenology.
This is correlated with, but not necessarily caused by, the fact that my current academic journals are boxed away somewhere in the barn behind a ten foot wall of hay.
So, one of […]
Lucid Dreaming: Conquest and Wilderness
My proposed lecture has been officially accepted for this year’s annual conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams, located in Montreal from July 9-12, 2008.
The symposium is titled Ecopsychology, Cross Cultural Big Dreams, and Shamanic Lucid Dreams, also with Mark Schroll, Jorge Conesa-Sevilla, Curt Hoffman, with discussants Stanley Krippner and Judy Gardiner.
My […]