Hi Reader How’s your dreamlife? It's the dog days of summer here in the eastern woodlands of the US. The Perseids meteor shower just peaked but sadly I haven’t been able to see them. Why? because I live in Philadelphia where the night sky is occluded with light pollution. If I’m lucky, I can see half a dozen of the brightest stars in the sky. I’m thirsty for star light and dark skies. It really feels like an unmet need, a yearning. Have you ever felt this? There’s a word for this feeling:...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader How’s your dreamlife? There’s a lot going on with the Dream Portal -- our summer quarter is open now for enrollment with the theme of Cosmic Communication. And at the bottom of this newsletter is the coupon code for saving 15% off all enrollments. Here’s a quick run down of current and upcoming offerings - Mystical Dreams and Cosmic Light This workshop with me is a series of three live interactive events starting July 24th where we will explore dreams from the perspective of...
2 months ago • 2 min read
HI Reader, I’m writing this note in my “forest office,” a spot by the creek while my kiddos are at summer camp. This is no ordinary creek though: it’s my ancestral creek. In the 1660s, my grandfather- to-the-12th power Thomas Dungan immigrated to the American colonies with his family. They were fleeing England, where Baptists were harshly persecuted and not allowed to even freely gather. After Thomas trained as a minister in Rhode Island, he relocated to the colony of Pennsylvania, attracted...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, I want to tell you about something that sort of blew my mind. Last summer, I was in Southern France, as part of a research team of both indigenous and western scientists. Our research zone: the famed Paleolithic painted caves of the Dordogne. We were conducting ceremony in the ancient caves, using our voices and ancient instrument to pray and to commune. As the resident phenomenologist, I was charged with cataloguing participants’ moods and experiences. While this research is still...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Hope you're having a dreamy week! Lucid dreaming is a shamanic skill, a method of heightened awareness in the dream that allows healers and voyagers access to information, insight and energetic powers. But this is a far cry from how we as Westerners are taught about lucid dreaming. More often than not, lucid dreaming is discussed as a fantasy realm where we can indulge our private fantasies, seeking entertainment and pleasure. Not that there’s anything wrong with this perspective,...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, I had an amazing time yesterday talking to a group of NASA-affiliated astrophysicists and engineers. Why? To discuss how lucid dreaming is an unrealized skillset for space travel. From designing experiments and staying open to intuitive ideas, to working with fear and other difficult emotions under stressful conditions - it's clear that lucidity is a valuable and powerful skill for space explorers and the scientists who support them. If astrophysicists could get a lot out of lucid...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, It's been a while since I've updated you about my latest publishing project: I'm working with the dream engineers at Elsewhere.to to create the world's first smart dream journal. This is a physical dream journal that allows you to record your dreams analogue style (pen and paper) in an attractive stay-flat premium journal. And this is where it gets interesting: from there, you can snap a pic with your smartphone and upload your dream text and images to the Elsewhere app. The app...
6 months ago • 4 min read
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...
6 months 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...
6 months ago • 2 min read
