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Tombstones beyond time: A precognitive encounter in the pines

By Ryan Hurd

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 shirts layered with camouflage pants. We walked in … [Read more...] about Tombstones beyond time: A precognitive encounter in the pines

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Eco-Dreaming Tagged With: communication beyond the grave, Cultural resource management, David Abram, earth dreaming, eco dreaming, Eric Wargo, hypnagogia, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, precognitive, psychic vision, real archaeology

Breaking the Silence about Sleep Paralysis

By Sheila Pryce Brooks

Since the 1970s autoethnographies have been used by researchers to explore and reflect upon different aspects of a personal experience. As more people are today aware of the sleep paralysis phenomena, I write in autoethnographic style, feeling no … [Read more...] about Breaking the Silence about Sleep Paralysis

Filed Under: sleep paralysis Tagged With: hypnagogia, incubus, sleep paralysis

Cultivating your Dream-based Wellness Practice

By Kim Mascaro

During the current pandemic, the subject of dreams has quickly entered contemporary Western mainstream consciousness. Dreamwork is actually becoming popular! Evidence for this claim can be found in recent articles published in magazines and … [Read more...] about Cultivating your Dream-based Wellness Practice

Filed Under: Consciousness & Health, Working with Dreams Tagged With: cancer dreams, dream medicine, dream wellness, hypnagogia, Kim Mascaro, liminal dreams, meditation

Far out! How to Explore Liminal Dreaming 

By Jennifer Dumpert

In the space between waking and sleep lies the liminal dream. This easily cultivated dream state offers some of the most remarkable and unusual experiences you’ll ever have. You can learn to liminal dream purely for the wild ride it offers, or you … [Read more...] about Far out! How to Explore Liminal Dreaming 

Filed Under: Visionary Dreams Tagged With: hypnagogia, hypnapompia, liminal dreaming, Lucid Dreaming, mantras, Tibetan Buddhism

Sleep Paralysis 2nd Edition now in Print

By Ryan Hurd

It's been ten years since Sleep Paralysis was published.  A lot has changed in a decade so I'm happy to announce the Updated and Revised 2nd edition of Sleep Paralysis: A guide to hypnagogic visions and visitors of the night.  Sleep paralysis, at its … [Read more...] about Sleep Paralysis 2nd Edition now in Print

Filed Under: Dreams & Media, sleep paralysis, Visitation Dreams Tagged With: held down can't move, hypnagogia, Lucid Dreaming, out of body experience, sleep paralysis, sleep paralysis book, supernatural assault

The terrifying variety of sleep paralysis creatures seen around the world

By Ryan Hurd

As the days grow shorter here in the Northern hemisphere, and pumpkin spice is forever wafting through the air, we are once again allowed to speak of the ghosts, monsters and demons that haunt our collective imagination. When the veil is gets … [Read more...] about The terrifying variety of sleep paralysis creatures seen around the world

Filed Under: sleep paralysis Tagged With: entities, hat man, hypnagogia, Kanashibari, real ghost stories, sleep paralysis

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