Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep [2 volumes]

by Stephen LaBerge (Foreword by), Ryan Hurd (Editor), Kelly Bulkeley Ph.D. (Editor)

Overview

In this fascinating new collection, an all-star team of researchers explores lucid dreaming not only as consciousness during sleep but also as a powerful ability cultivated by artists, scientists, and shamans alike to achieve a variety of purposes and outcomes in the dream.

The first set of its kind, Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep provides a comprehensive showcase of the theories, research, and direct experience that serve to illuminate how certain people can maintain conscious awareness while dreaming. The text is organized into two sections, covering science, psychology, and education; and religious traditions, creativity, and culture. Contributors to this two-volume work include top dream experts across the globe—scholars sharing knowledge gained from deep personal explorations and cutting-edge scientific investigations.

Topics covered include the neuroscience of lucid dreaming, clinical uses of lucid dreaming in treating trauma, the secret history of lucid dreaming in English philosophy, and spiritual practices of lucid dreaming in Islam, Buddhism, and shamanic traditions. The work also addresses lucid dreaming in movies including The Matrix and literature such as the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and explains how modern video gaming enhances lucidity. This set serves as an ideal text and reference work for school libraries and academic courses in anthropology, psychology, religious studies, and cognitive science as well as for graduate-level study in holistic education—an increasingly popular specialization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216113065
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/29/2014
Series:	Practical and Applied Psychology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	736
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Ryan Hurd, MA, is the founder of Dream Studies Press, an online publishing platform dedicated to sleep, dreams, and imagination studies.

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.
Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is director of the Sleep and Dream Database. He is also senior editor of the journal Dreaming and a former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

Table of Contents

1 Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga and the Limits of Western Psychology Eleanor Rosch
2 Cultural Contingency and the Varieties of Lucid Dreaming Roger Ivar Lohmann and Shayne A.?P. Dahl
3 Magic, Meditation, and the Void: Creative Dimensions of Lucid Dreaming Clare R. Johnson
4 Dreamed Violence and Shamanic Transformation in Indigenous Nepal and Malaysia Diana Riboli
5 Forgotten Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming from the Enlightenment through the Early Twentieth Century Chris Olsen
6 Wings over Numenor: Lucid Dreaming in the Writings of J.?R. R. Tolkien Curtiss Hoffman
7 Lucid Dreaming in Film and Cinema Kelly Bulkeley and Bernard Welt
8 A Dervish's Sojourn in the Realm of Lucid Dreams Mehrdad Fakour
9 Pathogenic Dream Lucidity? A Warning from Native North America Shayne A.?P. Dahl
10 They Dream about Everything: The Last Dreamers of the Dane-zaa Robin Ridington
11 Hyperspace Lucidity and Creative Consciousness Fariba Bogzaran
12 Kundalini and Non-duality in the Lucid Dreaming State Ted Esser
13 Lucid Dreaming and the Sufis: Conflicts and Opportunities in the Modern West A. Muhammad Ma'ruf
14 A Pilgrimage into Dreamless Sleep George Gillespie
15 The Mystical Potential of Lucid Dreaming Kenneth Kelzer
About the Editors and Contributors
Index