New Tibetan Dream Yoga Blog

Check out this new blog on Dream Yoga and Lucidity by Dannon Flynn. While still in its infancy, this blog is already publishing great original content about Tibetan Dream Yoga and lucid dreaming - and there’s a lot of relaxing music on the site as well.

Dream Yoga is an ancient lucid dreaming practice that views dreaming as a meditative path. In Tibet, this practice arose several thousand years ago as the Indigenous B npo culture blended with the Buddhist colonizers from India.

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Annual Dreams Conference in Montreal

Hey ya’ll, just a reminder that the Annual Conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams is fast approaching: July 8-12, 2008.

The conference is, as always, open to the public. Click on the shiny dreamy logo for more information.

Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent

I”ve been re-reading the Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby. A highly recommended narrative about an anthropologist’s journey into the realm of ayahuasca cultures in Amazonia. It blew me away and the second reading is just as good.

Narby is an ethnobotanist, and he makes the key observation that, while Western scientists have freely picked from the fruits of indigenous plant knowledge, these same scientists do not believe the indigenous claim about how they received their staggering encylopedic understanding of the most diverse ecosystem in the world.

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Guide to Nature Observation

Here’s a new article about Reconnecting with Nature. This is a quick beginner’s guide to nature observation that I try to practice several times a week close to home. This practice is the dayworld side of my dreamwork.

The guide is a synthesis of different practices developed by psychologist Eugene Gendlin, naturalist Jon Young, and archaeologist Paul Devereux. I brought the practices together when studying the perceptual effects of ancient rock art in Nicaragua. It really works well for me so I want to share it.

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Mugwort Helps with Remembering Dreams

Mugwort has been known for ages as a reliable dream enhancing plant. I have also had good results with this mild herb that is a close relative of wormwood and has a long history of medicinal use.

In the West, mugwort was historically associated with the Greek goddess Artemis and the moon, perhaps because it stimulates blood circulation and was used chiefly to aid painful and irregular menstruation.

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Angel Dreams? Submit Them Here

Noted dream researcher Robert Van de Castle is collecting dream reports about angels from the public. Angels and other figures composed of light have been making their appearance in Western dreams for several thousand years, yet their dream mythology has scarcely been explored except from a strictly theistic perspective. Van de Castle hopes to change that with his upcoming scholarly book Angels in the Night.

Whether you are a believer or not, it is undeniable that angels have been influential dream figures for millions of people, guiding actions, imparting wisdom, and even playing roles in military campaigns and revolutions. Angels, be them celestial guides or archetypal components of the mind, are a psychological reality.

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Two New Lucid Dreaming Resources

Just want to point out two new lucid dreaming articles, both dealing with the history of conscious dreaming.

The first is an article about the History of lucid dreaming from Ancient India to the Enlightment, and the second is a list of historic definitions of lucid dreaming that I dug up when writing my (still unpublished) MA thesis on lucid dreams. Enjoy!