Although definitions vary depending on your culture and the strength of your resistance towards the transpersonal, most call lucid dreaming the experience of dreaming with awareness, and sometimes dreaming with control, while the body sleeps. With … [Read more...] about Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Technology
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Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent
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 … [Read more...] about Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent
The Dark Side of Shamanic Tourism
This is the Anthropology of Consciousness Review - Part III. Shamanic tourism is gaining popularity every year. This segment of the ecotourism industry serves First Worlders who want to experience entheogens in a somewhat Indigenous context. Of … [Read more...] about The Dark Side of Shamanic Tourism