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Book Review: Dark Intrusions by Louis Proud

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 23, 2010 | 8 Comments

Dark Intrusions by Louis Proud is a much needed investigation into the paranormal aspects of sleep paralysis visions. Proud digs deep and views SP within the philosophical and literary traditions of spiritualism, mediumship, ghost hauntings and channeling. Hands down, it’s pretty much the spookiest book I’ve read this year.

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Lucid Dreaming and Christianity: Entering the Light

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 8, 2009 | 10 Comments

The loudest voices of the lucid dreaming movement cite pleasure, power, and fulfilling fantasies as among the benefits of becoming more aware in our dreams. Unfortunately this popular expression has added fuel to the smoldering and historic distrust of dreams by many contemporary Christians, who are told that dreams can only be temptations of the [...]

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Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

Posted by Ryan Hurd on September 18, 2009 | 6 Comments

A study accepted in the journal Sleep last month (but not yet published) claims that lucid dreaming should be not be considered a REM dreaming phenomenon but rather a unique state of consciousness (Voss, et al., 2009). Poetically, the assertion that lucid dreaming has elements of waking consciousness and dreaming has been made for [...]

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New lucid dreaming blogs

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

A couple quick blog recommendations today:
The first is a new blog about dreams and consciousness: Oneirology +.
The focus is on lucid dreaming and science of sleep. They post articles, images, and original blogs that explore the interconnection of mind and brain as well as cognition and consciousness in dreams and sleep states.
And for an [...]

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Book Review: Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner

Posted by Ryan Hurd on February 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

My recent poll showed that you want more book reviews about dreams and consciousness – lovely! With so much information in the world, it is helpful to have a guide. With that in mind, I highly recommend Robert Waggoner’s new book: Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self.

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Humanists and Transpersonalists make out in the alleyway of the Academy

Posted by Ryan Hurd on August 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

I was lucky enough to attend a historic meeting San Francisco last weekend at CIIS, where the Association for Humanistic Pychology and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology formally held hands and promised to play nice in the sandbox again. Even though these two associations (representing the third and forth forces in American psychology) [...]

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