Sleep Paralysis 2nd Edition now in Print
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...
View ArticleJourneys into the Deep: Lucid Dreaming and Lucid Surrender
In this short account of lucid dreaming, we start on the “surface,” beginning with a brief overview of how the lucid brain state has been evidenced by neuroscience, conceptualised and popularised. We...
View ArticleFar out! How to Explore Liminal Dreaming
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...
View ArticleThe Spiritual Science of Mirrors in Dreamwork
I invite you to explore with me the properties of light and symmetry in mirrors and how these appear in dreams and dreamwork. Through the ages, spiritual traditions have referred to the enigmatic...
View ArticleDreams, Liminal Objects and Magical Thinking
It may reek of new age sentimentality, but the ability of talisman to traverse the worlds is really effective. Using a talisman as a dream tool is an efficient strategy because the dreamworld is...
View ArticleLucidity is not the same as Dream Control
Despite the constant repetition in popular media that lucid dreaming is “controlling your dreams,” these two concepts are not the same. One can be lucid and not “in control” of either the dreambody or...
View ArticleDreaming of Fairies and Connecting to the Ecological Self
Not long ago, I was doing a nature meditation practice at my usual creek-side spot by the sycamore tree and became aware of the strong presence of a small spring that joins the creek. This mingling of...
View ArticleDickens’ 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...
View ArticleAbduction 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...
View ArticleHealing 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...
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