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The Healing Power of Lucid Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 11, 2011 | 4 Comments

Can lucid dreaming quicken physical healing? Can you use your dreams to scan for illness in the body? And what are the best ways to apply the skill of self-awareness in dreams for facing your fears and revitalizing your spirit?
These are the questions we’ll be addressing next Wednesday, March 16, during a free teleseminar with [...]

How Dreams of Bereavement Reach Out to Us

Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 5, 2009 | 10 Comments

In my last article about dreams of the dead, I gave short shrift to dreams of bereavement, which is a subset of dreams where we are visited by the deceased. Often, all visitation dreams are interpreted to be grief dreams, despite the wide range of characteristics shown in these bizarre experiences. So, now let’s take [...]

Dreams that Warn of Illness

Posted by Ryan Hurd on August 6, 2009 | 28 Comments

This is the sixth post on ways to work with dreams, continuing the discussion about the role of the body in dream formation. One of the most important reasons to invite dreams back into your life is their role in warning of illness and sickness. The accounts of this phenomenon have been documented for thousands [...]