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Lucid Dreaming And The Evolution Of Human Consciousness
No full textAs soon as we start talking about dreams and lucid dreams mainly, the problem arises to know what we mean by consciousness. As we know now in psychology and in spirituality there are many different states of consciousness, and different names are being given to those various states. We can talk, for example, of unconsciousness, of subconsciousness, consciousness, self-consciousness and supra-consciousness. All those different states we can find in the same human being in different parts of his total being
A Discussion Between Charles Tart and Lucidity Letter Editor, Jayne Gackenbach, Examining Similarities Between Dream Lucidity, Witnessing and Self-Remembering
No full textA discussion between Charles Tart and Lucidity Letter Editor, Jayne Gackenbach
Clinical and Spiritual Implications of Lucid Dreaming: A Panel Discussion
No full textToday we are dealing with clinical and ethical implications of lucid dreaming, along with any possible contra-indications for lucidity. Our panelists are Alan Moffitt, Jayne Gackenbach, Eric Craig, StephenLaBergeand KenKelzer. I will function as chair. We will keep everybody to an initial five minute basic statement, and then we can have discussions among ourselves and also input from the floor. By way of introduction, it seems that one can take lucidity in somewhat different directions. Certainly it can be taken as an experimental tool for the systematic observation of dreaming while it goes on, and has been so developed by StephenLaBerge. We have seen that lucid dreaming can be a process pursued in its own right, one that may overlap with various meditative traditions. It is especially in the latter context that the question arises, whether there are clinical, dynamic, ethical complications or dilemmas that can develop in the context of highly intensified lucid dreaming? Can lucid dreaming to some extent go wrong for certain individuals
In Pursuit of the Goal of Science: Through a Synthesis of Phenomenology and Lucid Dreaming
No full textScience evolves when its understanding of "reality" is discovered to be too limiting to account for some newly observed or hypothesized phenomenon. This discovery exposes certain hidden assumptions responsible for the limitation, and thereby suggests a less limited understanding which provides a matrix to include the new phenomenon. The continual shedding of limits in this way is the aim of science, in its endeavor to find an ultimate understanding that gives a completely unified and consistent account of all possible phenomena
On Constructing Our Own Reality
No full textBetween November 1928 and June 1930, at the Zurich Psychological Club, Jung gave a series of weekly seminars on dream analysis, covering thirty dreams during the course of the seminars. Over fifty of his patients and colleagues attended one or another of these seminars. Happily, a number of those attending transcribed the seminars; these have now been edited and are available as Dream Analysis(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). As always, Jung\u27s extemporaneous remarks are filled with insights not found in the more formal works. To give just a tiny sample, first on the shadow: The collective unconscious is not a psychological function in your head, it is the shadow side of the object itself. As our conscious personality is a part of the visible world, so our shadow side is a body in the collective unconscious, it is the unknown in things. So everything that possibly can gets at you through the shadow
Reply to Bulkley: "A thoroughly confused picture of what ethics is all about ...utterly antithetical to any sort of valid ethical position"
No full textKelly Buckley (1988) claims that the ethical significance of lucid dreaming is foremost among the questions that face us in the field today. Outside the confines of Divinity School, I cannot see how this can be so. Although some have felt that there exist significant ethical problems regarding lucid dreaming (e.g., Gackenbach, 1987), I agree with others who have doubted that ethics are relevant to the private behavior of lucid dreaming (e.g., Schatzman, 1987). Ethical issues could become relevant, if for example, it were ever shown that lucid dreaming is potentially more harmful than non-lucid dreaming. Then it we might be ethically bound to inform people of these hypothetical dangers. Since no one has shown this, I do not, at present, consider ethical issues paramount. In my view, the most important questions for the field today are how lucid dreaming can be made more accessible and how it can be used most beneficially. However, I have a few comments in response to Buckley\u27s piece. Ethics refers to"the specific moral choices to be made by the individual in his relationship with others" (American Heritage Dictionary). The word moral derives from the Latin word for custom, which should remind us that the concepts of ethics and morality essentially refer to notions of behavior currently in vogue in a given culture. Of course, these moral standards of good and evil vary wildly with time, people, and place