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Doom dreaming: Dreams in the Age of Apocalypse
It’s been a week now since the waters have mostly receded from the twin hurricanes of Helene and Milton. A lot of my family live in Florida: they escaped with some water damage and a few hours of power outage. My peoples in the mountains of North Carolina, however, lost entire … [Read More...] about Doom dreaming: Dreams in the Age of Apocalypse
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Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters
This morning, Christmas Eve day, I noticed a holiday card on the coffee table. It was slightly crumpled and curled around the bottom as if it has been discarded for a while. I opened the card and … [Read More...] about Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters
Tombstones beyond time: A precognitive encounter in the pines
One winter morning in rural Alabama, our crew was surveying a pinewoods for a proposed highway. The weather was frosty and I was wearing my usual archaeologist's uniform of several clashing flannel … [Read More...] about Tombstones beyond time: A precognitive encounter in the pines
Healing our Cognitive Domestication with Lucid Living
Are you interested in lucid dreaming but frustrated about not having them often, or at all? I’ve got good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad news: as the continuity hypothesis of dreaming predicts, our nighttime dreaming mirrors our daily scheming. We can’t expect fantastic self-aware adventures and peak experiences in our dreams […]
Abduction encounters, sleep paralysis and the extraordinary
As I was recently cited in D.W. Pasulka’s book Encounters: Experiences with nonhuman intelligences for my work with sleep paralysis, it’s time for me to clarify my current position on the overlap between altered states of consciousness and UAP/abduction encounters. Pasulka’s book is brilliant (although best read after her first work on the topic, American Cosmic) and as a […]
The Blessing of the Groundhog
This is a story about a magical, shapeshifting Goddess currently embodying an overgrown squirrel, and how you can harness her celestial powers for your dreamlife. Today, February 2, is Groundhog Day. I live in Pennsylvania, and Groundhog Day is big deal here. This morning, all eyes were on the little town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where an […]