Photo by geralt via Pixabay by Maria Isabel Pita © 2018 “We can do nothing better than abandon ourselves to God.” i Saint Theresa of Avila called the Christian mystical practice of Contemplation the Prayer of Quiet. If you feel you are called to learn more about it, I wholeheartedly recommend The Cloud of Unknowing, With…
Photo by AdinaVoicu via Pixabay by Daniel Oldis © 2018 In 1964, at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco, Dr. Joe Kamiya was able to train sleeping subjects to recognize they were in REM dreaming and indicate this by pressing micro switches on their thumbs (other research has shown…
Photo by Vivolino via Pixabay by Jan Van Ysslestyne © 2018 Before I begin this article, I need to define the parameters of a “shamanic journey.” There are two competing views of how shamanism is defined in the field of anthropology. The first defines a shaman as a healer from indigenous animistic tribes. The other approach…
Photo by pixel2013 via Pixabay Dear Robert, I often dream about family that passed away, which I guess many people do. Some people say that it’s our own minds projecting those people. Some might even say that we’re interacting with their spirit. I don’t know. I have an open mind. But a thing I wanted…
Dear Robert, Thank you for all your amazing books. I have them all and they have changed my life. Many times in different lucid dreams, I want to ask a question to the dream awareness but I cannot speak or breathe, or I can say some words but not others. For example, in one dream,…
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Photo by LeandroDeCarvalho via Pixabay Author, lucid dreamer, and consciousness explorer Emma Toynbee shares how she uses lucid dreaming for insight into future probabilities, developing creativity, personal growth, and healing. When did you first learn about lucid dreaming? My first proper introduction to lucid dreaming was in London when I attended one of…
Photo by geralt via Pixabay by Steve Racicot © 2018 In many of my lucid dreams I reach out to experience union with Spirit. As a result, several of my lucid dreams have been some of the most awe-inspiring experiences of my life. These dreams have actually brought about a change of consciousness in my…
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by Daniel Allen Kelley © 2018 It was a hot August afternoon. The year was 1998. Having just arrived home from a brutal 13-hour workday of hanging sheetrock, I was looking forward to my first lesson with Dr. John Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati). I was going to be taught the true purpose of the Savasana…
by Melinda Powell © 2018 The stars are the greatest thing you’ve ever seen And they’re there for you For you alone, you are the everything. — R.E.M. “You Are The Everything” The moment we pause and look up in wonderment at the night sky, we enter the mystery of gifts freely given and openly…
Photo by kellepics via Pixabay By Laura Gibson © 2018 My first lucid dream was not the typical first lucid dream a lot of people have, when you realise you are awake within the dream and get so incredibly excited you wake up straight away. No, my first lucid dream was very different. I was…