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Consciousness & Health

Dreams and Altered States of Consciousness: New Online Course

By Ryan Hurd

Dreams, meditation, psi, hypnosis, altered states... it's all up for discussion! I'm co-teaching a new course at the Rhine Education Center with my colleague Loyd Auerbach, author of (most recently) Psi Wars: East and West. The course is Dreams … [Read more...] about Dreams and Altered States of Consciousness: New Online Course

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health

Exploring Nootropics: Mind Supplements for Lucid Dreaming

By D L

This is a guest post by D.L. of TheLucidDreamSite.com. Ryan offered me the opportunity to share my perspectives on nootropic supplementation and its role in a lucid dream induction program. To begin with, I have a vested interest in this topic … [Read more...] about Exploring Nootropics: Mind Supplements for Lucid Dreaming

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Dream Herbs & Supplements, Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: dream supplements, Galantamine, lucid dreaming pill, Lucidimine, piracetam

Why Ghosts Won’t go Away

By Ryan Hurd

The veil is thin and once again the News Authorities are briefly letting in some discourse about spirits in the modern world for the next few weeks. There's all kinds of spectral goodness in the mainstream outlets, discussing reasons why ghosts and … [Read more...] about Why Ghosts Won’t go Away

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Visitation Dreams

5 Reasons Our Ancestors Slept Better Than We Do

By Ryan Hurd

So I'm still on my paleo kick. I even had to turn down an amazing wedding cake last weekend in order to stay pure to my gut. That was really hard. And it was worth it. I'm still experiencing excellent gastro-intestinal health. I'm still steadily … [Read more...] about 5 Reasons Our Ancestors Slept Better Than We Do

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Sleep Research Tagged With: paleo sleep diet, paleodiet, polyphasic

How Changing my Diet Just Doubled My Dream Recall

By Ryan Hurd

About six weeks ago, I stopped eating grains and dairy. I went Paleo, as in The Paleo Diet. It's basically about staying away from most of the fruits of the neolithic revolution—grains, legumes, and of course processed foods stuffed with corn syrup. … [Read more...] about How Changing my Diet Just Doubled My Dream Recall

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Dream Herbs & Supplements Tagged With: dream diet, dream foods, dreamaterian, Ed Kellogg, lucid dream diet, Nightmares & Dream Terrors, Paleo diet

Skullcap: this herb you probably haven’t heard of can help you sleep

By Atava Swiecicki

 A guest post by Atava Garcia Swiecicki. This is the first in a series of articles that will go in depth about all the ways herbs interact with sleep and dreams. But to be able to dream, we first must be able to fall asleep.  Insomnia and other … [Read more...] about Skullcap: this herb you probably haven’t heard of can help you sleep

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Dream Herbs & Supplements Tagged With: blue skullcap, herbal sleep remedies, herbs for sleeping, nervines

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