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« Previous Entries Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008My Lucid Dreaming Knol
Always experimenting with new online publishing venues, I just wrote my first knol. Knol is Google’s attempt to out-wikipedia Wikipedia. So far it has not attracted too much attention, but I found this newborn article directory site to be pretty user-friendly. I like that that the author can control how collaborative the knol can be, [...]
Monday, July 21st, 2008Head Shrinking and the Power of Dreaming
To start off my review of this year’s International Dreams conference in Montreal, here’s a fun factoid: head shrinking in the Amazon is alive and well.
Know to the West since the 1940s, head shrinking is an important ritual for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin (the Jivaro clans, especially the Shuar). The vengeful [...]
The Path is Clear
I’ve finally resettled. It’s been difficult to think about dreams and consciousness as my attention has been on the material needs. You know, Maslow’s sweet hierarchy dictates shelter and food first, dreamy blog updates second.
But there’s a lot going on in the consciousness studies community, and I am well poised now to share [...]
New Tibetan Dream Yoga Blog
Check out this new blog on Dream Yoga and Lucidity by Dannon Flynn. While still in its infancy, this blog is already publishing great original content about Tibetan Dream Yoga and lucid dreaming - and there’s a lot of relaxing music on the site as well.
Dream Yoga is an ancient lucid dreaming [...]
Lucid Dreaming and the Cosmic Serpent
I’ve been re-reading the Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby. A highly recommended narrative about an anthropologist’s journey into the realm of ayahuasca cultures in Amazonia. It blew me away and the second reading is just as good.
Narby is an ethnobotanist, and he makes the key observation that, while Western scientists have freely picked [...]
Two New Lucid Dreaming Resources
Just want to point out two new lucid dreaming articles, both dealing with the history of conscious dreaming.
The first is an article about the History of lucid dreaming from Ancient India to the Enlightment, and the second is a list of historic definitions of lucid dreaming that I dug up when writing my (still unpublished) [...]
Anthropology of Consciousness Review: Part II
Two great presentations to cover tonight from two experts in shamanism.
Author Hillary Webb gave a spell-binding talk about her participatory research into Andean cosmology. When she asked a respected Andean shaman about the worldview of complementary dualism that is at the heart of his culture, he replied, “It’s best to download it from the [...]
Geometric Imagery in Lucid Dreaming
I figured my first peer-reviewed dream research post should nod to the one of the unrecognized classics in the field of lucid dreaming phenomenology.
This is correlated with, but not necessarily caused by, the fact that my current academic journals are boxed away somewhere in the barn behind a ten foot wall of hay.
So, one of [...]
Lucid Dreaming: Conquest and Wilderness
My proposed lecture has been officially accepted for this year’s annual conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams, located in Montreal from July 9-12, 2008.
The symposium is titled Ecopsychology, Cross Cultural Big Dreams, and Shamanic Lucid Dreams, also with Mark Schroll, Jorge Conesa-Sevilla, Curt Hoffman, with discussants Stanley Krippner and Judy Gardiner.
My [...]
Lucidipedia Looking for Bloggers
Just discovered a new lucid dreaming wiki called Lucidipedia. They provide some great resources for lucid dreaming beginners, as well as an opportunity for more experienced dreamers to edit articles and become a part of the conversation. They also are looking for beginner lucid dreamers to blog for them while they take Lucidipedia’s training. If [...]
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