Dreaming up SHADOW: An Interview with Designer Hunter Lee Soik
A Reality Sandwich interview with Ryan Hurd and Hunter Lee Soik.
How Dreams Can Reveal Your Personal Myths
Dreams allow us to see our personal stories—those beliefs about the
world and our place in the cosmos—that operate throughout our lives.
Learning how to recognize and work with the dominant stories in your
dreams can have a profound effect on self-growth, decision making
skills, and our own private investigations into the meaning of the
cosmos.
Dream Perception: An Encounter with the Oracle at Delphi
Explore a personal journey to Greece, where ancient myths and the oracle at Delphi come alive through vivid dreams and the pursuit of the mythical.
Lucid Dream Healing Experiences: Firsthand Accounts
Lucid dream healing has reportedly worked in cases of pain,
infections, inflammation, and chronic bronchitis. Although anecdotal
evidence has limited value within a scientific paradigm, it can
point the way towards more rigorous investigations.
Lucid Dreaming and Mental Illness
What’s the connection between lucid dreaming and mental illness? Millions of people have lucid dreams, but surely not all are mentally ill.
Reclaiming Shamanic Dreaming From the Roots of Western Culture
Dreams can be called. Known as Dream incubation, this skill is about mindfully and ritualistically inviting a dream into your life for problem-solving, healing, or a renewal of life force.
Awake Within a Dream
When you incubate a dream, plan to do something specific in it, and tell
yourself that this will trigger lucidity for you. Flying often leads automatically to lucidity in a
dream. As part of the induction procedure, spend some time observing
birds in flight, read about birds, aircraft, levitating yogis, anything
that carries the message.
Three Modes of Active Dreaming
Active Dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining
constant contact with the world-behind-the-world, where the
deeper logic and purpose of our lives are to be found.
Taoist Shamanism and Dream Yoga
Taoism can be
traced back to shamanic practices at the origins of Chinese culture. In
the historical documents, the wu (shamans) are masters
of exorcism, healing, and divination who journey in the spirit world, employing a vine that allowed one to see spirits. With
the rise of Confucianism and Buddhism, the wu practices fell out of
favor, but persisted in Taoist practices such as dream yoga.
Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Consciousness
Lucid dreaming is an act of shamanic consciousness, a skill honed, an energetic power released. What if lucid dreaming itself was the technology?
