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Book Review: Communing with the Gods by Charles Laughlin

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

Whenever I have had a spare moment for the past three months, I’ve been sneaking peaks at Charles Laughlin’s new book Communing with the gods: Consciousness, culture and the dreaming brain. It’s a tome, over 500 pages long, and because of its girth I have approached the volume each time with some hesitancy… and a [...]

Video Chat about Lucid Immersion with Anne Hill of DreamTalk Radio

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 19, 2012 | 8 Comments

Anne Hill from DreamTalk Radio just posted our talk about lucid dreaming on the youtubes. It’s a lively 20 minute discussion about my new book project Lucid Immersion Blueprint. Anne is a veteran in the dream studies community and an author herself of the book What to do when dreams go bad: a practical guide [...]

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Sleep Paralysis Makes Great Art

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

Awareness during sleep paralysis often includes the terrifying and realistic sensation of being held down while waking up or going to sleep. Sometimes, it’s accompanied by grotesque visions that seem to threaten our most prized possession: our sanity. But I have found for myself that sleep paralysis can lead to creative states of mind (such [...]

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Lucid Dreaming and Non-Duality

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 14, 2011 | No Comments

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, check out the annual Science and Nonduality Conference in San Rafael, CA on October 19-23.
This is a special year, as several founding lucid dream researchers—including Stephen LaBerge—are kicking off the event with a one day pre-conference workshop “Lucid dreaming, Consciousness and Non-duality.” This workshop is really a once-in-a-lifetime [...]

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Book review: Lucid dreaming: accessing your inner virtual realities

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 15, 2011 | 6 Comments

I just finished reading Paul and Charla Devereux’s updated classic Lucid dreaming. Originally published in 1998, this new edition by DailyGrail Press has additional content for a new generation of readers.
In two words: highly recommended.

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Bearing down on Active Dreaming by Robert Moss: A Review

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

If you haven’t read a book by Robert Moss yet, you’re in for a treat. His latest title, Active Dreaming: journeying beyond self-limitation to a life of wild freedom, is a welcome distillation of his approach to dreamwork. At once useful, playful and threaded with captivating storytelling, Active Dreaming is a guide for rediscovering your [...]

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