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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 [...]

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The Rise of Lucid Dreaming

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

Recent polls conducted by dream researchers indicate that more people are having lucid dreams than ever before. The increase may be “between 10 and 40 per cent since the 1980s,” reports Mark Blagrove, a psychologist and dream researcher at the University of Swansea.

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Avatar: A Dreamer’s Review

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 4, 2010 | 7 Comments

Avatar is the movie James Cameron has been dreaming about for over 20 years. It took that long for the technology to catch up with his vision. Worth it? Yeah, worth it. I usually only see movies in the theater if something is guaranteed to blow up. Avatar met this requirement, and if you wear [...]

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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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Anthropology of Consciousness Review: Part II

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

Two great presentations to cover tonight from two experts in shamanism.
Author Hillary Webb gave a spell-binding talk about her participatory research into Andean cosmology. When she asked a respected Andean shaman about the worldview of complementary dualism that is at the heart of his culture, he replied, “It’s best to download it from the [...]

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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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