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« Previous Entries Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Meditating Slows Down HIV Virus
In case you missed it, Science Daily reports that mindfulness meditation slows immune degradation in AIDS patients by lowering stress.
“Mindfulness meditation is the practice of bringing an open and receptive awareness of the present moment to experiences, avoiding thinking of the past or worrying about the future. It is thought to reduce stress and improve [...]
House Cleaning
I’m prepping for the trip to Montreal tomorrow, and thought this is the perfect time for a little dream studies house cleaning.
First, I neglected to mention that the Dream Studies Portal is now a year old! Check out the very first post that describes my dream research perspective. This is just the beginning [...]
Beloved Dream Researcher Montague Ullman Passes
Montague Ullman passed away on June 7, 2008. He was 92. I had the chance to see him speak two years ago in Boston, and was delighted to see how engaged Ullman still was with the dream studies community - a community that he is largely responsible for building.
Teacher of notable psi researcher Stanley Krippner, [...]
Journey West
The journey West - No, I’m not talking about death. I mean the move back to California. I’ll be on the road for the next two weeks, making my way across the US, my dreamy little caravan of one.
So may these next two weeks treat you well, and may your dreams haunt you [...]
How to Deal with World Calamity
I’m having a hard time watching the news about the calamities in China and Myanmar. As of right now, there are 12000 people buried alive in the Sichuan Province, awaiting rescue. The numbers dead in both countries are impossible to comprehend. How can we, as consumers of news, deal with this information [...]
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008College Students and Sleep Deprivation
Continuing with the theme of sleep deprivation, here’s a new article from Science Daily about the collegiate rites of passage into our sleepless culture. College kids are lampooned as being slackers, but they are actually one of the most sleep deprived segments of Western culture.
Ha - I’m amused that I’m writing this post at 11pm, [...]
IONS opens its doors
I just learned that the Institute of Noetic Sciences has opened its virtual library of consciousness studies to the public until December 24th.
Included in this promotion are video interviews from Deepak Chopra and other luminaries, as well as access to dozens of articles and audio broadcasts on subjects ranging from spirituality, the paranormal, the [...]
Anthropology of Conscience
The American Anthropological Association just drafted a statement against the US military’s Human Terrain System project. The HTS hires anthropologists to consult with military ground units to better understand the foreign cultures where they are stationed. So they can dispose of them more efficiently.
While I am being slightly tongue-in-cheek, I agree with the [...]
Ancient 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 [...]
The Dreamers’ Resistance
It’s Columbus Day here in the US, the day the banks and post office close their doors to commemorate Christopher Columbus’s colonial exploits in the New World. As Wikipedia neatly summarizes:
“Columbus directly brought about the demise of many Taino (Arawak) Indians on the island of Hispaniola and the arrival of the Europeans indirectly slew [...]