Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 23, 2008 | No Comments
I just published my first book review on Dream Studies, hopefully the first of many more to come. This expands one of my primary goals on this site, to provide readers with access to excellent consciousness studies and dream studies material that can be otherwise hard to find on the web.
After all, when you [...]
Tags:cognitive archaeology, rock art, shamanism
Filed Under: Dreamy Book Reviews
Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
Just found an interesting article by Dr. Ron Masa about his practice of shamanic dreamwork. He tells a story about a women who discovered through her dreams a generations-old trauma that has been passed down through her father’s lineage.
Many psychologists have suggested that deep family-of-origin issues can be seen to manifest in our dreams, [...]
Tags:ancestral dreams, shamanism
Filed Under: Visionary Dreams
Posted by Ryan Hurd on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments
I just uploaded a new essay about the deep history of lucid dreaming and its potential role in Paleolithic rock art.
There’s always a danger of projecting our ideas about dreams into the past, especially the deep past, but as archaeologist David Lewis-Williams has reminded, humans cannot refrain from dreaming. I take this a [...]
Tags:cognitive archaeology, lucid dreams, rock art, shamanism
Filed Under: Eco-Dreaming
