Reconnecting with Nature

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

Reconnecting with nature is not as hard as people make it out to be. It doesn’t take pristine wilderness, a week hunting feral pigs with spears, or even an encyclopedic knowledge of all the birds in your area.
All it takes is a little time every week to go outside, close to home, and re-tune [...]

Lucid Dreaming Lunacy

Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 19, 2008  |  2 Comments

From the recent press release by the Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment:
What effect does the moon have on our dreams? A team of researchers at the College of Metaphysics are seeking to find the answer in the next two months as the positioning of the earth, moon, and the sun move through a sequence rarely [...]

The turning point

Posted by Ryan Hurd on December 21, 2007  |  2 Comments

Darkness is now turning towards the light. I”m spending the weekend in seclusion, with high hopes to get out the first draft of my thesis on lucid dreaming before the new year.

Feral Kevin wrote a great post about what the solstice means for him. This really resonates with me:

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 [...]

Eco-Dreaming and Quantum Leap

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 14, 2007  |  1 Comment

The International Dreams Conference has passed us by. It was a hot week in Sonoma, but the rooms were cool. Tempers were cool too, at least that’s what I gathered. Gentle dreamers from all walks of science: psychologists and psychiatrists, anthropologists, poets, shamans, and students all.
I somewhat remember wine, at some point, and [...]