dreaming life: exploring the mind through lucid dreaming

The Biological Basis of Mysticism? | A review of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman

March 12, 2007 on 9:43 pm | In Book Reviews, Consciousness, Drugs | 10 Comments

DMT: The Spirit Molecule As you’re well aware of, I’m a geek for questions about consciousness. I love to think about issues such as understanding and defining experience, the nature of reality, the essence of the spiritual experience from both a physical and mental standpoint, and so on.

So when I stumbled upon a book with the title of “DMT: The Spirit Molecule – A Doctors Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences,” you can imagine that I nearly wet myself with excitement.

I didn’t think anyone was allowed to do research like this anymore. And if they were, I’d fear the culture of the scientific establishment would prohibit any conclusions not ordained by skepticism.

But someone did. And thankfully, they published the results for the world to see.

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Exploring The Dreaming Universe with Fred Alan Wolf

October 28, 2006 on 5:55 pm | In Book Reviews | No Comments

This book is one hell of a ride. I kept scratching my head, wondering to myself just what the hell this book is ultimately about. Wolfs writing is expansive and wide-reaching, and he is not scared to venture into speculative conclusions as he speaks about near death experiences, lucid dreams, God, quantum physics, the Aboriginal concept of the dreamtime, UFO’s, consciousness, the imaginal-realm, Jung, Freud, Libet, an odd foray into Russian art and architecture, and quite a lot more.