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WHY Do People Have Lucid Dreams? Study Questions the Limits of Consciousness

By Inverse

“Our experimental goal is akin to finding a way to talk with an astronaut who is on another world.”

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The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science, and Experience

Traces historical and modern scientific efforts to investigate and understand the supernatural world and psychic experiences and surveys contemporary theories, experiences, and personalities relating to parapsychology.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
1975
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The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination

A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence.

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Jean-Paul Sartre
2025
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Uses of Psychedelics in Shamanism and Psychotherapy—Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner will describe and compare the use of ayahuasca in Amazonian shamanic healing practices and contemporary contexts, the use of Psilocybe mushrooms in historical indigenous Mesoamerican culture for vision seeking and their contemporary applications (as psilocybin) in pre-death...

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Ralph Metzner
2013
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Ralph Metzner: CG Jung, Albert Hofmann, and the Philosophers’ Stone (at the Seattle Jung Society)

Shamanism, yoga and alchemy are historically the three great traditions of transformation - physical, psychological and spiritual - with shamanism, yoga and alchemy the Eastern and Western extensions.

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Ralph Metzner
2014
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The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

A classic and perennially relevant book, written by one of the world's foremost authorities in the field, The Unfolding Self examines in detail the transformations that an individual undergoes in the process of their expansion of consciousness.

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Ralph Metzner
2010
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50:12

Consciousness, Perception, and Controlled Hallucinations, with Anil Seth

This evening, Anil Seth will sketch the state-of-the-art in the new science of consciousness, with a focus on what neuroscience has to offer.

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Anil Seth
2018
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Anil Seth: The Neuroscience of Consciousness

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth looks at the neuroscience of consciousness and how our biology gives rise to the unique experience of being you. Anil provides an insight into the state-of-the-art research in the new science of consciousness.

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Anil Seth
2017
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Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience—and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it.

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Anil Seth
2017
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Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming

What if you could dream 24 hours a day, even while awake? According to innovative psychotherapist Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., we already do. The seeds of dreaming arise in every moment of the day, in body symptoms, problems, relationships, subtile feelings, interactions, random thoughts, and fantasies.

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Arnold Mindell
2002
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Judith Blackstone: Can We Embody Nonduality?

Judith Blackstone leads us in a guided meditation to approach nondual awareness. Judith will teach practices from the Realization Process, an embodied approach to nondual awakening. She will discuss how embodiment is an integral aspect of nondual realization.

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Judith Blackstone
2017
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