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Techniques and Antecedents: A Response to Giesler
No full textIn this validation of Faraday and Wren-Lewis by an anthropologist and ethnographer, Dentan refers to "Comments on ‘The Selling of the Senoi’" by Patric V. Giesler. Giesler wanted to know if Faraday and Wren-Lewis were cognizant of certain fieldwork pitfalls, since they were not ethnographers. He gives as an example a difficulty he himself had when studying Jurema shamans’ beliefs about psychokinesis. When interviewing them about tales he had heard on a previous trip, he kept getting nothing but "No" answers to the question, "Have you ever seen an object move by itself?"—until he realized he had to reframe the question because of conflicting cultural assumptions. His informants didn’t believe objects moved "by themselves"—spirits moved them
Alan Worsley’s Work on Lucid Dreaming
No full textI have had lucid dreams since I was a child and first carried out experiments in lucid dreams in my early teens. I did not have access to an EEG machine operator to obtain hard evidence of my findings until, in 1975, I persuaded Keith Hearne that we should use his expertise with the EEG machine at Hull University to investigate some of the more accessible physiological correlates of lucid dream activity. By this time I had a first degree in psychology and six years’ post-graduate research as a student and member of staff at Hull University
Clinical and Transpersonal Concerns With Lucid Dreaming Voiced
No full textBecause the phenomenon of dream lucidity has become a field of inquiry for scientists, clinicians, philosophers, and dreamers, I would like to highlight a few concerns which have been mounting in my mind with regard to widespread access to lucid dreaming. We so often experience the lucid dream as pleasant and so seldom hear about "bad" experiences. Therefore it is easy for those interested in dream lucidity to gloss over potential problems. During my sabbatical year from the University of Northern Iowa, I have had the opportunity to talk to many people both in the United States and abroad about lucidity. Although there is much excitement about its potential, those who voice concern about its abuse are also being heard. This excitement is normal and often accompanies the "discovery" (in this case rediscovery) of any new state of consciousness. However, it is incumbent on the leaders of this emerging field to also voice concerns. My concerns with this field include clinical or personal experiential applications of working with parts of the self in the dream, as well as issues regarding the transpersonal nature of the experience
Some Relations Between Clinical and Transpersonal Approaches to Dreams
No full textThe complex relations between clinical (more or less psychoanalytic) and "transpersonal" approaches to dreams can be clarified by the notion that there are natural varieties in dreaming experience and that these may suggest appropriate ways of using dreams. In other words we can use and/or interpret dreams with or against their own natural grain
INTELLIGENCE AND HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
No full textWhen William James (1890) introduced the concept of consciousness into American psychology, he argued that beyond the range of normal waking consciousness there is the possibility of exceptional states of consciousness that are completely "discontinuous" with discursive thought. He argued that these heightened states of awareness could be induced under specifiable conditions, could influence thought and behavior profoundly, and could be adaptive for the individual. He challenged psychology to investigate these states scientifically
EEG Correlates of Consciousness During Sleep: A Pilot Study
No full textThe following is an abstract of a pilot study posted in the corollary sessions at the Lucidity Association\u27s Conference on Higher States of Consciousness, in Chicago in July, 1990
Mind and Body in Medicine and Transcendental Meditation
No full textThere is a growing body of literature on the effect of mental states on health. Anxiety, depression, anger, hostility, aggression, and introversion are the characteristics of the disease prone personality. Coronary heart disease, asthma, and ulcers are some of the diseases that have been linked to them (Friedman & Booth-Kewley, 1987). Many different treatments have been utilized to change these undesirable personality characteristics. In a review of 375 studies Ferguson (1981) found the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program to be especially effective in producing improvements in self-esteem and decreases in anxiety. This is one of the ways that TM influences health. By removing depression (Bloomfield, 1975), anxiety, anger and hostility (Subrahmanyam & Porkodi, 1980) and the negative characteristics of introversion (Wood, 1981) TM can remove the source of some of the problems that may damage health
Conscious Mental Stillness in Dreams: Two Different Effects
No full textOne of the advantages of being an isolated spontaneous lucid dreamer without any other lucid dreamers around to compare notes with, is that you may weather some very weird experiences years before someone else tells you their traditional names (if there are any). While this may not feel like an advantage while you are trying to integrate what happened without much in the way of verbal tools, it does make the reality more authentic, because no one had ever suggested that such a thing could be
Applications of Lucid Dreaming in Sports
No full textThe following article has above all a practical orientation. The various possibilities for the application of lucid dreaming in sports training are presented and briefly illustrated. These theses are based on findings from experiments with experienced lucid dreamers who were instructed to carry out various routine and sport-related actions while lucid-dreaming, with the object of observing the effects on both dreaming and waking states (Tholey, 1981a). Additionally, I report here on numerous spontaneous accounts of athletes who have mastered lucid dreaming, as well as my own years of experience as a lucid dreamer and as an active competitor in different types of sports.
With regard to theoretical principles I have relied on the gestalt theory of sports as it was first systematically presented by Kohl after numerous phenomenological and objective experiments (Kohl, 1956), and as it was further developed in my own work (Tholey, 1981b). The latter explored the significance of lucid dreaming to sports. Due to space limitations, only the most important theoretical conceptions concerning the application of lucid dreaming to sports training will be discussed here
Jacob\u27s Ladder: Dreams and Consciousness, Hollywood-style
No full textThe Tibetan Book of the Dead is considered one of the most profound works ever written on the mysteries of consciousness, dreams, lucidity, spirituality, and the subtle relations between life and death. This ancient Buddhist treatise has fascinated people for centuries, prompting the meditations of monks the speculations of philosophers, the verses of poets --and now, a big-budget movie from Hollywood