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...
17 days ago • 3 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, How's your dream life? Here's the info on my winter quarter workshops in the Dream Portal. Members in the Inner Sanctum level get access to all three of these courses; it's a killer deal. And because you're a subscriber to my newsletter, you can use a 15% coupon off on membership. that coupon is: NEWSLETTER Starting January 27th, I'll be leading a three week exploration into ancestral dreams. This workshop series focuses on inviting ancestral wisdom through our imaginal portals of...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, If you are getting on the road for Thanksgiving like 82 million other Americans, you might appreciate this talk on how how harvest feasts invite big dreams.... especially grown-up slumber parties involving carb loading and alcohol. In fact, it's relevant for my friends across the pond too because we are entering into the harvest feast cycle that comes with the end of the year. These are often complicated holidays made more complicated by stress, travel and -- I'll just say it outl...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader Today's the last chance to get 25% off enrollment in my course Extraordinary Dreams -- my annual training on working with the insights of big dreams, including precognitive dreams, mystical lucid dreams and visitations. Extraordinary dreams rattles the cage of our comfort zones. They shake up the Cosmos as we see it by definition. What’s more, their transformative effects on our lives are palpable. The research on this point is clear; I could load you down with peer reviewed...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader Ever had a dream that changed the way you see the world? A dream that refuses to be rationally debunked, put on a shelf and forgotten? A few years ago, I dreamed that I was in the attic of my house, and a pipe burst in the wall. The water was flowing out like a faucet. In the dream, I went downstairs to look for help, and on my way down, ran into my brother-in-law. That same morning, my brother-in-law (who at that time shared a house with my wife and I) told me over coffee he had...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader Happy Halloween! The veil is thin, wafer thin. Seems like a good time to ask if you have ever slipped into the world between worlds, and had an out of body experience (OBE)? I mean where you shed your perceptual body either directly from waking, from sleep paralysis or in the middle of a lucid dream, and entered into a new uncanny place, or an ephemeral version of your current scene seen from above? These experiences are timeless, and cross-cultural. Talking to a friend recently who...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader How’s your dreamlife? There’s a lot going on with the Dream Portal -- our Fall quarter is open now for enrollment with the theme of Calibration - how we can apply dream studies skills to our own lives for creativity, intuition, spiritual discernment, and community justice work. And at the bottom of this newsletter is the coupon code for saving 15% off all enrollments. Here’s a quick run down of our upcoming offerings - Dream Calibration This workshop with me is a series of three...
5 months ago • 3 min read
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...
6 months ago • 3 min read