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Help Me Create a New Website on Calea Zacatechichi - Experience Reports needed!

I am opening a new website dedicated solely to Calea Zacatechichi!

I want to create the internet’s best resource on Calea Z, including history, preperation, methods of ingesting it, cultivation, and more.

I especially want to create a resource that documents the relationship between Calea Zacetechichi and dreams.

And this is what I need your help with the most!

If you have taken the dream herb, I need to hear your story. I am looking to publish user reports / experience reports about peoples experience with Calea Z. The “reports” need not be formal or especially polished - just a simple reflection of the facts and the ensuing experience works best.

For example, a basic report would document how much was taken, how it was taken, and what happened. It doesn’t matter if you had crazy dreams, lucid dreams, and no dreams at all, I want to hear about it and put it online so people have a thorough resource on Calea Zacatechichi.

Also, if you have experience cultivating the plant, I would also like to hear from you!

For more info, please send me an email at consciousdreaming@gmail.com. You can also leave your email address by filling out the comment form below (your email is only shown to me, not website visitors) and I will contact you.

I am really excited about putting this site online. If you want to be involved in any way or have any questions, leave a comment or send me an email.

My goal is to have the site up and running in 4-12 weeks.

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Hey everybody, I’m back!

Hey everybody! I’m back from my trip to Belarus!

My wife and I made it home safe after a grueling 24 hours of security checkpoints, layovers, and 3 flights covering many thousands of miles.

The flights themselves offered one brilliant experience: that of watching the world that exists up in the sky, there in between the cities of clouds. The landscapes created by clouds was utterly beautiful and surreal and reminded me of a dream. I made a mental note to myself to come back to this wonderful world in a lucid dream and fly through all this beauty.

Traveling for 3 weeks definitely shook up the dream-maker inside my head!

I repeatedly had bizarre and complex dreams.

I also experienced 3 lucid dreams during these 3 weeks and many “semi-lucid” episodes.

Because I was sleeping in different and often uncomfortable beds, couches, or floors, I woke up more than usual throughout the night. Every time I fell back asleep, I used the opportunity to achieve lucidity by guiding my thoughts towards dreams and situations I intended to have. This method was successful in generating many small dream sequences with a certain amount of conscious awareness that I was dreaming, beyond the 3 “full-blown” lucid dreams I mentioned above.

Very cool stuff!

I often struggle with implementing induction methods but this one is so easy and straight forward, I’m psyched about where it will take my dreams.

One last bit in the “I’m back” post:

I read The Self-Aware Universe while traveling. This book is totally awesome and I highly recommend it for anyone with an interest in both science and spirituality.

A good summary of the book can be found here:

A Synopsis of Amit Goswami’s Theory of Physics and Psychic Phenomena.

For those interested in psychic phenomena, take note that his theory leaves room for a scientific explanation of experiences such as out of body experiences and for capabilities such as remote viewing and telepathy.By the way, if you’ve seen the movie What the Bleep, remember the older Indian scientist in the film talking about consciousness and physics? That’s him, the author of The Self Aware Universe, quantum physicist Amit Goswami.

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I will be gone for the next 3 weeks…

As much as I hate doing this, I will hardly be doing any blogging until October!!

Why?

Well…

Tomorrow I leave for a 3 week to visit family in Belarus. My access to the internet will be sporadic at best, and even then it will be with an 28k modem connection.
I will make it up for you all when I get back with all sorts of goodies, but until then…

Happy Dreaming.

-Ben

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If you have a blog…

…then check out the latest blog carnival I set up:

Carnival of Dreams, Lucid Dreaming….and even OBE and NDE.

Description: “Submit your posts on dreams, lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, even near death experiences. Posts can be personal stories, criticisms/skeptical, video blogs, how-to, or whatever really. ”

Click Here to Submit A Blog Post To This Carnival

First edition comes out in about 8 weeks!

PS. Am I the only one who gets confused and lost trying to navigate the horrible un-intuitive content navigation design of Blog Carnival? Call me crazy, but maybe the search function should allow you to search for open carnivals? And what about a nice clear link that takes you to all the open carnivals? (Oh its there, but don’t expect it to jump out at at you.)

PSS. It only gets worse once you register and attempt to start a new carnival.

PSSS. On a similiar note of annoyance with Blog Carnival, they deleted the Inner Exploration Carnival! I guess too much time had passed since the first and now only edition.

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Inner Exploration Carnival: 1st Edition for June 2007

Welcome to the first edition of my Inner Exploration carnival!

This carnival is dedicated to sharing blog posts related to dreaming, lucid dreaming, spirituality, and exploring the mind, body, and soul.

2 months and 33 submissions later, we’re ready to roll!

(33 submissions? Where’d the rest go? Truth is I had to weed out some whackness, including a bunch of spammish bloggers who think that seeing The Secret means they should start a blog and get rich. Blah!)

Note: When you see this graphic, it means this post comes to you highly recommended and that you should check it out.

Click here to continue this post…

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Updates, News, Myspace, Carnival Info, Free Lucid Dreaming Software Programs, and Other Tidbits

THANK YOU

It’s been 2 1/2 months since the launch of DreamingLife.org! I’ve met some really neat people since then and I can’t wait to meet more of you. I love doing this blog!

A huge Thank You to the people out there who continually comment and come back to check things out. This means everything to me! And a special thanks to Hatter and ZATAOD, my blog friends from the very beginning. I might not have gotten this far without your feedback and support.

To all the stumblers, thanks for dropping by and giving me the thumbs up! After Google, Stumbling is the second largest referral bringing people to Dreaming Life. Personally, I love Stumbling the web. Everyone reading this should try it out - it’s one of the neatest ways to find awesome websites. Trust me, you will love it. In fact, I bet you will go freakin’ nuts with it the first few weeks you have it. It’s addictive.

SITE NEWS

I will soon be interviewing the director of the film ENTHEOGEN: Awakening the Divine Within. I am super excited about this! Look for it later this month.

BLOG CARNIVAL

Don’t forget to submit to Dreaming life’s INNER EXPLORATION carnival.

The carnival comes out in about 2 weeks.

If you have a blog on dreams, entheogens, mind-stuff, brain tinkering, consciousness, shamanism, meditation, etc. please…SUBMIT one of your posts!

(Pssstt…What’s a Carnival, you ask?)

BTW here’s some carnivals that I’ve been a part of recently. Check’em out!

Living a Real Life

Carnival of All Substances

Carnival of Cinema

MYSPACE

Dreaming Life is now also representin’ with the masses on Myspace.

Click here to see me on Myspace!

If you’re on myspace (and you know you are!), then look me up & give me a friend request!

I especially want to use myspace connections as a means of getting user input into future posts - such as asking people for their experiences with Salvia Divinorum and Out of Body experiences, as I did recently, (receiving a few damn interesting responses too - soon to be posted online here.)

DREAMPORT

I’m really impressed by this new lucid dreaming website out there called DreamPort.

It’s got a slick design, a promising user forum, and most awesome of all, all sort of FREE LUCID DREAMING SOFTWARE PROGRAMS.

In a survey of over 150 people who used their Infinity software for lucid dreaming, ALL of them reported having a lucid dream. Amazing!

I’ve yet to talk to any of the DreamPort people, but I’ve registered for the forum & hope to touch base with them soon. Maybe I will see you there too, eh?

AND ONE LAST THING…

Check out this neat dream image!

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