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Friday, November 14th, 2008

Big Dreams & Archetypal Visions

Big Dreams are usually discussed in the popular media as dreams we remember for the rest of our lives.  These could include emotionally intense dreams, powerful dream journeys, and visitation dreams.
However, the “dreams we remember for the rest of our life” are not the Big Dreams that contemporary dream researchers have demarked, but rather a [...]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Track Dreams with the Moon

Everytime the moon is full, I get dozens of visitors who are looking for information on the connection between the full moon and dreams. It’s like clock-work. Oh, it is clock-work.
So, here’s a great way to research how the moon’s cycles effect our dreams. Check out Erin Langley’s site: dream-people.net. This [...]

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Does the Full Moon Effect your Dreams?

Tomorrow is the full moon, depending on your ancestral tradition it is known as the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon or the Hay Moon. In all traditions, it’s gonna be big and round. But more pertinently, will this rising stone of Artemis effect your dreams?
Studies on this subject are hard to find, but [...]

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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 [...]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

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, [...]

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Nature Awareness as a Field Technique for Anthropologists

Great news! My proposal has been accepted by the Anthropology of Consciousness for this year’s annual SAC meeting at Yale Divinity School. The conference is March 19-23, 2008 for anybody in the area who is interested in this year’s research focus on shamanism, spiritual crises, spirit possession, and the interface [...]

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Lost in transition

I’m in the middle of a move so my life has been a bit frazzled lately. Transitions are rough times, but they also have a very magical quality to them. I’d like to submit, quite seriously, that moving is an altered state of consciousness.
This does put U-Haul in a rather awkward position, but [...]

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Ecopsychology and Dreams Open Forum

I’ll be joining Kelly Bulkeley and some other core California dreamers next week in a stimulating discussion on eco-dreaming. The talk is open to the public. Here’s the announcement from the Dream Institute:
“Open Forum in Dream Studies,” hosted by the Dream Institute will focus on “Ecopsychology and Dreaming: Exploring the Depths of Deep Ecology.” [...]