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The Path is Clear

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 3, 2008 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Guide to Nature Observation

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Psychogeography and Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment

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, [...]

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Lucid Dreaming, Shamanism and the Paleolithic

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments

I just uploaded a new essay about the deep history of lucid dreaming and its potential role in Paleolithic rock art.
There’s always a danger of projecting our ideas about dreams into the past, especially the deep past, but as archaeologist David Lewis-Williams has reminded, humans cannot refrain from dreaming. I take this a [...]

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Lost in transition

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Ecopsychology and Dreams Open Forum

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 5, 2007 | No Comments

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.” [...]

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