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3 Ways to Find Your Ground and Make your Home More Sacred

Posted by Ryan Hurd on May 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

Making your house into a home takes more than a knitted afhgan lying alongside the couch. What makes a domestic structure into a nest is not just about coziness, but alignment.
The ancient Chinese tradition of Feng shui has perfected this art, but the roots for finding your center and aligning it with the landscape are [...]

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DreamStudies is 3 Years Old

Posted by Ryan Hurd on June 20, 2010 | 11 Comments

I realized yesterday that DreamStudies is now 3 years old! This blog has stayed with me as I’ve moved all over the U.S.: from California, to Florida, back to California and now onwards to Pennsylvania later this summer. Also, in that time, I finished my thesis on lucid dreaming, got married, became a freelance [...]

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Waking Life: A Lucid Dreamer’s Review

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 22, 2009 | 10 Comments

Waking Life is an animated feature film released in 2002, directed by Richard Linklater, the guy who brought us Dazed and Confused and Slacker. This movie is a must-see for anyone interested in dreams, consciousness and how our visionary states play out in modern life.

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Towards an Integral Science of Consciousness

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

I received this gracious email a few days ago:
Hi Ryan, Here is a quote I read from your bio: “Principally, I am interested in pursuing a more radical materialism for both the sciences and the arts.” Would you say more about what you mean by this? I’ve studied material religion & theology, but [...]

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India’s Courts Convict on Untested Brain Scan Technique

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 15, 2008 | No Comments

According the New York Times, India’s courts have blasted into new territory this week by admitting brain imagery data to convict a suspect of a crime. The only problem is the method has not been verified by any scientific journal on the planet.
As a modern update to the lie detector test, The Brain Electrical [...]

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