Hi Reader, You survived my Sleep Paralysis course launch and didn't unsubscribe... Thanks for still reading ! Here's some dreamy goodness for you this weekend: If you suffer from doomscrolling, try this on: As you may know, it's difficult to be mystically inclined and engaged in world politics without fritzing out or spiritually bypassing completely. It's a tough balance and I have not figured this out at all. In fact, in 2017, I became addicted to my smartphone which was constantly serving...
26 days ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, I just published a new article: Sleep Paralysis and the Weird side of Spiritual Experience. While I'm delighted by the mainstreaming of lucid dreaming and astral projection, there’s a missing piece, a bump on the onramp to bliss and transcendence. I’m talking about how so many would-be lucid dreamers and out-of-body practitioners get trapped like flies in the web of sleep paralysis. This is the initiation we didn’t ask for. But that doesn’t matter. We must go through. Isolated...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! If you ever have woken up and been unable to move, you have experienced awareness during sleep paralysis. While not harmful, SP comes with feelings of terror and often visions of behind held down by a stranger in the room. Sleep paralysis and its visions are creepy. It tests you. Sometimes there's ghostly people. Or worse. And honestly, even after all these years, sometimes, I don't want to deal; I just want to eject and go back to sleep unmolested. That's OK: It takes time,...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, In times of change and uncertainty, one thing is certain: sleeplessness and anxiety are on the rise, and with them come sleep paralysis night-mares. What is sleep paralysis? If you ever have woken up and been unable to move, you have experienced awareness during sleep paralysis. While not harmful, isolated sleep paralysis comes with feelings of terror. And sometimes: visions of being held down by a stranger in the room, the dreaded incubus. The uncanny experience is the inspiration...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, I have been quietly working on a new project, and now's the time to see if you want to join me. It's called the Archaeology of Consciousness, a new newsletter I have launched over on Substack. I am curating a new space there with a focus on how dreams and the imaginal intersect with cultural and material realities. Not so much in a neurosciency kind of way, but more of a mystical existentialismy kind of way. The archaeology of consciousness is a theme I’ve been thinking about for...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader! Tomorrow is the solstice -- the precise time is Saturday December 21 at 4:21AM Eastern Time. I love this earth-honoring holiday but I have to admit one of my pet peeves is the way the solstices are often approached. In the summer solstice, we celebrate the longest day and all the various sun gods and goddesses. It's the light in its fullness! Huzzah! And then for the winter solstice, we celebrate... wait for it .... the return of the light! Huzzah! Really? As Carl Jung wrote, “One...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader Today's the last day for my Dream studies sale! I know your inbox is crowded, so I'll get right to it. As it's CyberMonday, I am offering four super deals for my single biggest sale day of the year: 20% + OFF for all Lucid Talisman I designed these dream amulets with my friend Lee Adams who is a professional coin maker. They make for incredible stocking stuffers and cherished gifts for the dreamers in your life. The necklace versions are 33% off too! Free shipping if you're in the...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader! Have you ever wondered what really makes a big dream truly big? Is it completely subjective? After all, all cultures that pay attention to dreams make a cut between what’s a Big dream and what’s an ordinary dream. But the cut is not always the same. Different cultures play with different ideas and elevate them or stomp them out, depending on the culture and their particular stressors. Here in the west, Carl Jung is really the one who mainstreamed this idea that there’s a big dream...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader It’s been a week now since the waters have mostly receded from the twin hurricanes of Helene and Milton. A lot of my family live in Florida: they escaped with some water damage and a few hours of power outage. My peoples in the mountains of North Carolina, however, lost entire communities. “It’s like a bomb went off in our neighborhood,” one of my friends said to me yesterday. So much death and destruction, and the fragility of the American infastructure was revealed, again. There’s...
6 months ago • 3 min read