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Monday, October 27th, 2008Hallucinogens in the Stone Age
I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to discuss the recent discovery of “prehistoric drug paraphernalia” found in a Caribbean island archaeological site dated to @ 400 BC. Bone tubes and ceramic bowls were found in a human occupation site, suggesting the use of a sniffed substance, most likely cohoba, a hallucinogen made from the [...]
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008New Feature on Dream Studies: Book Reviews
I just published my first book review on Dream Studies, hopefully the first of many more to come. This expands one of my primary goals on this site, to provide readers with access to excellent consciousness studies and dream studies material that can be otherwise hard to find on the web.
After all, when you [...]
Guardians at the Door
Anthropologist C. Riley Augé has announced her new web page about “exploring the role of thresholds in negotiating identity through archaeology, folklore and literature.” I presented her fascinating research a few months ago in my post about lucid dream reality checks. Now you don’t have to take my word for it, [...]
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Ancient humans were slackers
Nature is about to publish a fantastic archaeological discovery. A cave site in South Africa has been excavated by archaeologists, revealing an ancient human encampment complete with cooked mussel shells, small stone tools, and some red ocre.
What makes this ensemble so incredible is that it has been dated to @ 160,000 years ago [...]
Reality Check for Lucid Dreaming
This is cool and it really works. Moving across thresholds is crucial to our experience and construction of reality.
From Youtube filmmaker Adam St John:
This video is a supplement for training yourself to do reality checks whenever you walk through doorways. The goal is to habitually perform reality checks whenever you walk through doors or enter [...]
Eco-Dreaming and Quantum Leap
The International Dreams Conference has passed us by. It was a hot week in Sonoma, but the rooms were cool. Tempers were cool too, at least that’s what I gathered. Gentle dreamers from all walks of science: psychologists and psychiatrists, anthropologists, poets, shamans, and students all.
I somewhat remember wine, at some point, and [...]