I help folks play with their dreams (the sleeping kind) for self-knowledge, healing and spiritual growth. With a background in consciousness studies and archaeology, my expertise is in dreams at the intersections of culture, cosmos and ecology. Let's court the mysteries together!
How do you navigate the chaotic underworld of Lucid Dreaming?
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Hi Reader As a lifelong lucid dreamer with all its ups and downs, I know what it is like to struggle with working with lucid dreams. It can be difficult to call forth the wisdom of the dreaming mind to support your soulful goals. This could include dissolving a creative block, healing a nightmare wound, or exploring the non-dual spaces beyond your dream body. And learning how to navigate the dream world once you’re lucid is an emotional roller coaster. Truth is, navigating the lucid dream successfully means dancing with the powerful emotional traces that construct the dreamspace. This is the soulful side of lucid dreaming, and we run into it… whether or not we want to. If we don’t learn the dance of soulful lucidity, we have a host of issues, such as waking up too soon from excitement, or losing lucidity by becoming enmeshed in the dream drama again. A workshop that takes you beyond the first moments of lucidityStarting next week, I am leading a three week lucid dreaming course dedicated to giving you the most important competency for nagivating lucid dreams. It’s called: Lucid Dreamwork: The Alchemy of Lucidity Join hundreds who have transformed their relationship to fear, ecstasy and spiritual growth with my Lucid Dreamwork methodology. Learn how to navigate your lucid dreams with alignment, purpose and in grounded safety. You’ll wake up to your waking life too as you unlock old energy patterns, igniting confidence, creativity and vitality. Important: This course is not about “how to have lucid dreams” – but how to work with them, and achieve better outcomes. I call this process lucid dreamwork. We will especially focus on the emotional language of dreams and learn how to balance this realm with your soulful intentions. You’ll also learn how navigate a lucid dream when the going gets tough, including working with lucid nightmares, a term that I am credited for coining in the peer-reviewed dream literature (Stumbrys 2018, Schredl and Bulkeley 2020, Wong and Yu 2022, for starters). Click here to learn more – but be sure to copy the coupon code at the bottom of this newsletter that will save you 20% At the center of this exploration of lucid dreamwork is choice. By attending to how we make choices in our dreams, we naturally invite fresh dream outcomes, new solutions, and fresh air into our waking lives. Using the metaphor of alchemy, we will explore how we exert change in our environment, create space for emotional safety, invite autonomous creative expression, and ultimately, learn to dwell our own inner luminosity in times of darkness and uncertainty. In this way, this workshop addresses the sacred initiation that awaits you. Here’s everything you get when you enroll:
Is this the right time?The course is designed for busy folks (I know, trust me, we’re all too busy) with three live sessions that are recorded – and tons of support when you log in on your own time. But some deeper questions to ask yourself is: is this a good time to go deeper into your lucid dreaming practice? Do you have some energy and time to focus inward in a sacred way? I have found that those who can answer these question honestly with a YES will be able to get the most out of the Lucid Sanctuary I’ve put in place. Course Bonuses include:
This course starts September 11th The cart is open now for new students. And because you are a subscriber to this newsletter, I have a coupon to take 20% off the course – it’s a great deal! When you’re done, I’ll invite you fill out the exit survey and let me know how effective the course is for you, and what could be better. Here’s your coupon for 20% off: LUCID20 Just apply this in the cart and you’ll see the savings immediately. Click here to learn more and enroll Questions? Hit reply and I’ll address them. Yours in lucidity, Ryan |
Dream Studies Newsletter
I help folks play with their dreams (the sleeping kind) for self-knowledge, healing and spiritual growth. With a background in consciousness studies and archaeology, my expertise is in dreams at the intersections of culture, cosmos and ecology. Let's court the mysteries together!
This morning, I woke up from a dream and then closed my eyes. I felt the energetic rumbles take hold and "I" slipped through the mattress into a cool dark space. I was immersed in unseen water, and I felt the waters healing me. Relaxing into it, I then felt like I was drawn by a current of water, like drifting down a river. I woke up to the sound of morning world (honking horns) and despite my annoyance of the wake up -- I felt absolutely refreshed. Ok, time to get to kids to school. This is...
Hi Reader, How's your dreamlife? I was a guest on Coast to Coast radio last week, talking about sleep paralysis night-mares and visionary hypnagogia. The phones really lit up. Even after an hour of taking callers, we barely dented the requests and George Noory had to apologize to listeners that we were out of time. I heard some incredible first-hand accounts. I was blown away with how many people have had this experience -- and how many are just at a complete loss of how to interpret what...
It's dang cold here in Philadelphia. And it's also St Brigit's Eve, the day before the first day of mid-winter, as celebrated by my Irish and Scottish ancestors as Imbolc. There's an old story in Ireland that this is the time when the winter goddess the Cailleach gives her power over to Brigit and her warming ways. As the winter goddess, the Cailleach is a powerful being. She often is depicted as an old woman who lives in a small hut in the forest. Sometimes she is depicted in terrifying...