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Experiencing the Divine in the Lucid Dream State
No full textHaving personally experienced numerous lucid dreams following incubation tasks centered around wanting to be in the presence of the Divine, I realized that in every lucid dream I experienced the Divine differently. If I were looking for the Divine, my dream ego was actively searching, and usually found a Divine presence; however, if I let go of the control, a Divine presence appeared to me. Since I didn\u27t have any expectation as to the form of the Divine, when I incubated the Divine in my lucid dreams, the outcome of my experiences were often unexpected. Thus I became very curious how other people experienced the Divine in their lucid dreams
Neurophysiological Order in the REM Sleep of Participants of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program
No full textPrevious research into the sleep patterns of new-born human beings of different gestational ages has revealed that, in the course of ontogenesis, the randomly occurring, isolated, low frequency Rapid Eye Movements (REMs) of the undifferentiated sleep of the premature are gradually ordered in groups of REMs or high frequency REMs, characteristic of mature REM sleep (Petre-Quadens, 1967; 1969; 1978; 1980; Petre-Quadens & De Lee, 1974; Petre-Quadens, De Lee & Remy, 1971). This observation has led to the hypothesis that there exist two functionally different types of REMs in REM sleep: the high frequency (HF) REMs with an interval of less than one second, reflecting the "maturity" or "order" of brain functioning; and the low frequency (LF) REMs with an interval of more than one second, reflecting "random noise" in the brain
Panel Discussion: Should You Control Your Dreams?
No full textThis panel discussion took place at the June 1990 Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) conference in Chicago. After the panelists presented their views, a lively interchange took place
"Control Your Dreams", By Jayne I. Gackenbach and Jane Bosveld, New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
No full textOver the past ten to fifteen years a staggering number of popular books have been written about dreams. Despite this fact --or perhaps because of it --new titles continue to sell well. People seem especially interested in a phenomenon of which they have first hand experience. They are curious about what goes on "in the mind" or "in the brain" when we dream
The Phenomenological Use of Dreams in Psychotherapy
No full textThis paper focuses on the application of phenomenological perspectives, principles and methods for the use of dreams in the psychotherapeutic situation. Upholding the appeal of the European philosopher and "founder" of phenomenology Edmund Husserl "to return to the things themselves," existentially oriented psychotherapists (e.g., Binswanger, 1963; Boss, 1958, 1963, 1977; Craig 1987a, 1987b, 1988; Stern, 1972) seek to illuminate the meaningfulness of dreams by inviting patients to explicate in detail the concrete episodes of their manifest dreamt existence. As the two partners of inquiry, the therapist and the patient, continue open‑mindedly to observe the specific events and elements of a particular manifest dream, the once obscure meaningful forms and structures of that dreamt existence gradually reveal themselves directly. Such an "unambitious reading" of what dreams themselves disclose does not require symbolic interpretations which rely more on the authority of the clinician\u27s theory than on the authorship of the dreamer him or herself. Indeed, for phenomenologically oriented clinicians theoretical‑symbolic interpretations are in general highly suspect with reference to their existential validity for the patient
A.H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Transpersonal and Psychoanalytic Psychologies
No full textHow do I convey the potential importance of this material? First, then, how is this extraordinarily original integration of psychoanalytic object relations theory with a discipline of transpersonal self realization (closet to the fourth way tradition of Gurdjieff/Ouspensky) relevant to our "new science" of lucid dreaming
CODE BLUE: A New Beginning
No full textMy story begins on the warm, star-lit night of August 3, 1986--a night destined to stand alone from all the others that preceded it as suddenly it became isolated in time. The night was calm and tranquil, yet it held within it the power to change my life forever. Prior to this time, during my college years, I had begun a period of my life in which I progressively abandoned everything that had previously served to structure my life and instill it with direction and purpose. I found myself wandering aimlessly through those years as I desperately sought to regain the direction and contentment I had once known. I became more dissatisfied with my life as I drifted from one interest to another, draining the excitement and enthusiasm from each before moving on to the next. I exhausted my options one by one as I closed door after door behind me, each taking me one phase farther away from my true self. I felt lost, no longer knowing who I was or where to turn, as I prayed for an answer that would turn my life around and once again structure it with the proper meaning I was then missing
Dream Walker
No full textThe first part of this article describes an event experienced by the husband of the author when he was a teenager. Although the author has chosen a 3rd person format to recount the event, she notes that this is not a fictional account. The second part of the article gives contextualizing material about this individual
Errors in Saint-Denys Historical Article
No full textCarolus M. den Blanken\u27s notification of printing errors in the article, “An Historical View of Dreams and the Ways to Direct Them: Practical Observations by Marie-Jean-Leon-Lecog, le Marquis d’Hervey-Saint-Denys,” by CM. den Blanken and E.J.G. Miejer in Lucidity Letter, 7(2), 67-78)
Clinical Applications for Consciousness in Sleep
No full textA bit more than ten years ago a new wave of systematic research began into dream "consciousness". The experience of knowing one is dreaming while the dream is ongoing left the quagmire of parapsychology and gained scientific respectability. Interest in "lucid dreaming" has since mushroomed beyond the few dissertations of the late 1970\u27s to a body of work most recently organized and presented in Gackenbach and LaBerge\u27s Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain(1988). From a sleep researchers perspective several key lines of inquiry have been pursued in investigations of dream lucidity. These include, its psychophysiological bases, the content of the dream experience, who spontaneously experiences these dreams, how to induce lucidity while asleep, and clinical applications of dreaming lucidly. It should be noted that other disciplines also take this dream experience seriously with lines of discussion emerging in philosophy, religion, and anthropology