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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Peer-Reviewed Dream Studies Coming Right Up
This is just a heads-up about a new feature of this blog. I just signed up with Bloggers for Peer Reviewed Research Reporting. What this means is that when I blog about some peer-reviewed research article, I’ll have a flashy icon embedded in the post. The real benefit of this system [...]
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Dream Interpretation and its Discontents
I just uploaded a new essay titled the Trouble with Dream Studies, which is meant to contextualize my perspective about dream research and its place - or misplace - within Western science. The essay also introduces a series of further thoughts about the mysteries of dreaming which explore how our beliefs can construct - and [...]
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Laying the groundwork for conversation
My comrade-in-consciousness Kevin Kovelant wrote a post recently about how easily discussions about said consciousness can suffer from miscommunication. This is relevant here as we argue about the terms “lucidity” and “consciousness” in regards to dreams, but are often talking about different things altogether, such as awareness of one’s external environment, awareness that one [...]
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Humanists and Transpersonalists make out in the alleyway of the Academy
I was lucky enough to attend a historic meeting San Francisco last weekend at CIIS, where the Association for Humanistic Pychology and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology formally held hands and promised to play nice in the sandbox again. Even though these two associations (representing the third and forth forces in American psychology) [...]