Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 29, 2009 | 17 Comments
With Halloween on its way, it’s high time to take a look at visitation dreams, or dreams we have of the departed.
Tags:bereavement visions, day of the dead, dead grandmother dreams, dreams of the dead, dreams of the departed, halloween dream, Kevin Kovelant, lucretius, Robert Moss, samhain dreams, Visitation Dreams
Filed Under: Visitation Dreams
Posted by Christine Garvin on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Listening to Carrie Fisher’s encapsulated biography, “Wishful Drinking” on audiobook recently, I thought about how the Baby Boomers, and their Greatest Generation parents, had no choices when it came to depression, mental illness, homosexuality, or pain and grief.
Tags:atkins, Christine Garvin, chronic fatigue treatment, fad diets, herxheiner's reaction, holistic health, NAET allergy elimination, raw food, spirituality
Filed Under: Consciousness & Health
Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 22, 2009 | 10 Comments
Waking Life is an animated feature film released in 2002, directed by Richard Linklater, the guy who brought us Dazed and Confused and Slacker. This movie is a must-see for anyone interested in dreams, consciousness and how our visionary states play out in modern life.
Tags:consciousness studies, Dreamy Movies, ethan hawke, julie delpy, lucid dreaming movies, richard linklater, waking life, waking life movie review
Filed Under: Dreamy Movies
Posted by Dr.Muhammad on October 14, 2009 | 6 Comments
The reliance that Sufis place on dreams in their paths of spiritual progress is illustrated in a dream reported from the life of Imaam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzaalii (1058-1111). In Duncan B. Macdonald’s 19th century biography, it is said that Al-Ghazzaalii was beset by many personal struggles of a spiritual nature during certain phases of his [...]
Tags:Abu Hamid al-Ghazzaalii, Muhammad Ma`ruf, Rumi, sufi dream interpretation, sufism, William James
Filed Under: Dream Interpretation
Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 8, 2009 | 10 Comments
The loudest voices of the lucid dreaming movement cite pleasure, power, and fulfilling fantasies as among the benefits of becoming more aware in our dreams. Unfortunately this popular expression has added fuel to the smoldering and historic distrust of dreams by many contemporary Christians, who are told that dreams can only be temptations of the [...]
Tags:bible dreams, Christian dream interpretation, christian dreams, christian lucid dreams, george gillespie, James Hall, John Sanford, Kenneth Kelzer, Louis Savary, Morton Kelsey, Patricia Berne, saint augustine dreams, Scott Sparrow, transpersonal psychology
Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming
