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Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments

I’ve been re-reading the Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby. A highly recommended narrative about an anthropologist’s journey into the realm of ayahuasca cultures in Amazonia. It blew me away and the second reading is just as good.
Narby is an ethnobotanist, and he makes the key observation that, while Western scientists have freely picked [...]

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Two New Lucid Dreaming Resources

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments

Just want to point out two new lucid dreaming articles, both dealing with the history of conscious dreaming.
The first is an article about the History of lucid dreaming from Ancient India to the Enlightment, and the second is a list of historic definitions of lucid dreaming that I dug up when writing my (still unpublished) [...]

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Lucid Dreaming Definitions Throughout History

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 3, 2008 | Comments Off

Over the ages, scholars have described conscious or lucid dreaming in different ways, attributing various elements to the state such as self-awareness, control over dream content, emergence of shamanic consciousness, and even feeling like a God in a private universe.
Aristotle, 4th century BCE, Treatise on dreams
“If the sleeper perceives he is asleep, and is [...]

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Geometric Imagery in Lucid Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

I figured my first peer-reviewed dream research post should nod to the one of the unrecognized classics in the field of lucid dreaming phenomenology.
This is correlated with, but not necessarily caused by, the fact that my current academic journals are boxed away somewhere in the barn behind a ten foot wall of hay.

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Lucid Dreaming: Conquest and Wilderness

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 1, 2008 | No Comments

My proposed lecture has been officially accepted for this year’s annual conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams, located in Montreal from July 9-12, 2008.
The symposium is titled Ecopsychology, Cross Cultural Big Dreams, and Shamanic Lucid Dreams, also with Mark Schroll, Jorge Conesa-Sevilla, Curt Hoffman, with discussants Stanley Krippner and Judy Gardiner.

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Dream Research and Lucid Dreaming Links

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 27, 2008 | No Comments

The blogroll was getting a little long in the tooth so I moved all of my links over to this dream resources page. My analytics are telling me that few people are clicking away from the blogroll anyways, which confirms the opinions of many experts that blogrolls are not effective when clumped into a [...]

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