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Watch Your Dreams - in the Newspaper! Nancy Huseby Bloom has had a dream column in the Spokesman Review Newspaper in Spokane, WA for over 3 years. People send in their dreams through the paper and she calls the dreamers and together they work on possible meanings. She then writes a column based on their work and her knowledge of dreams. This work has been received very well and my column is now in six newspapers (in the Features section) including: Spokesman Review in Spokane, WA on Thursdays, The Albuquerque Tribune in Albuquerque, NM on Tuesdays , The Journal Inquirer in Manchester, CT on Mondays, The Gazette in Colorado Springs, CO on Saturdays, The Detroit News in Detroit, MI, and The Fresno Bee in Fresno, CA on Mondays. Nancy's purpose in creating this column is to promote dreamwork and get it in the mainstream to help raise the consciousness of our world. If you would like to see her weekly in your home town, please contact your local newspaper and give them her phone number and/or address and if contacted, she will send them a sample packet of her weekly columns. She can be contacted at: Nancy Huseby Bloom, P.O. Box 8739, Spokane, WA 99203. Phone: (509) 935-455-3450

ASD 1999 Conference in Santa Cruz -
Seeking Volunteers Each year the Association for the Studies of Dreams holds an annual conference for dreamers worldwide. In June, 1999, that conference will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The ASD and BADG (The Bay Area Dreamworkers Group) are seeking volunteers to help with a variety of committee assignments. If you think you'd like to get involved with members of the dream community during this exciting event by lending a helping hand behind the scenes, please contact Eric Snyder at (707) 824-9121 for more information.

Ione's Third Annual Dream Festival Coming in October
Ione's Dream Festival , a Kingston City and Hudson Valley wide celebration co- sponsored last year by the Pauline Oliveros Foundation and the City of Kingston has received an Arts and Healing Community Grant of $975 from the Institute of Noetic Sciences and The Fetzer Institute. The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a research, education and membership organization with over 50,000 members worldwide. The institute was founded by the Astronaut Edgar Mitchell. The Fetzer Institute supports research,education and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind and spirit. Ione is an author and psychotherapist and dream facilitator who resides in Kingston. Her new handbook on dreaming, Is This a Dream? is forthcoming in October. Ione has created Dream Festivals and Dream Workshops in New York City and in Europe over a period of twenty years, and is a strong proponent of the concept of Dream Community. The Mission Statement for Ione's Dream Festival is as follows. Ione's Dream Festival is a Celebration of Dreams and Dreaming. It is through paying attention to our dreams that a community holds together. Dreams are a common link among peoples of all cultures, ages and walks of life. Our Dreams have value. The idea is to honor them for what they are without demanding logical meaning. As we pay attention they begin to reveal more of their secrets to us. Dreams are a rich built- in source of self knowledge and as such are our deepest source of creativity.

This year's Dream Festival will feature colorful Dream Boxes created by children and adult artists and placed at public locations throughout the area termed Dream Depots. Dreams deposited in these boxes will be collected and some will be read, performed and published. On Saturday, October 24 there will be a Gala Opening of an invitational exhibit of dream related art featuring local and international artists. On Friday evening a concert will take place featuring Canadian composer and cellist Anne Bourne, Saturday's concert will feature electric guitarist Stephen Vitiello. Multi instrumentalist Pauline Oliveros, Trombonist Monique Buzzarte, and guitarist Lorah Yaccarino will be guest players on both nights. Saturday Afternoon will feature An experiential Dream Workshop facilitated by Dr. Naomi Schechter and her colleagues. The conclusion of Ione's Dream Festival will be a five hour marathon event featuring performances, readings and Happenings on Sunday from 1PM -6PM. Dreams may be sent to Ione's "Dream Sac" on the internet at Http://www.deeplistening.org/ione  These dreams should include the directive: "For the Dream Festival"

The Dream Festival is coming to the Hudson Valley October 23,24,25 http://www.deeplistening.org/ione  Iodreams@deeplistening.org 

Millennium Myth and Dream Tour to Egypt and Israel December-January 1999-2000
Join us as we welcome in the New Year in Egypt. We'll do dream work every day and Jeremy will provide the mythic stories of the places we visit. We're planning the trip now and it looks like we might be on a Nile cruise boat for the New Year with a sound and light show at Luxor Temple compound the evening of Jan 1. We will include a visit to Cairo, including the museum, see the pyramids, the Valley of the Kings and Queens, Karnak, Luxor, Abu Simbel and we hope for 3 days in Jerusalem. Hotels are booking for the Millennium now, so we need to know how many are interested. Please let us know if you think you'd like to join us. Approximate dates: Dec 20-Jan 4. Kathy and Jeremy Taylor, 415.454-2793 or ktaylor597@AOL.com 

Drumming A Dream: Music As A Soul Making Path
Robert Weathers

W O R K S H O P Saturday, August 8, 1998

C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles 10349 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90064 U.S.A.

$70 regular $60 students/seniors CE, CME, CN credit available

This workshop presents a fun and illuminating journey into the art and metaphor of drums and percussion. Archetypal images, created sounds and clinical dreams of drumming will be amplified in relation to the cultivating of one's life as art-form. Using drums and rhythmic exercises, participants will be invited to a day's meditation on: the chthonic nature underlying personal spiritual discipline; integrating one's inferior function as creative process; and numinous experience as mending ego-Self rupture. The focus throughout this workshop will be on engaging with art's integrative contributions toward the soul's individuation. Live drumming will be featured throughout, both to stimulate and to illustrate the activity of the psyche.

Suggested Reading: African Rhythm and African Sensibility by J.M. Chernoff; The Healing Drum by Y. Olallo and M. Hall; Through Music to the Self by P.M. Hamel. Participants are requested to bring a hand drum.

Robert Weathers, Ph.D., is in the Analyst Training Program at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and has studied popular and ethnic drumming over thirty years. He is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University.

http://home.earthlink.net/~junginla/


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  • Skilled Lucid Dreamers Wanted to Participate in Scientific Research
  • Lucidity Institute Experiment: Tibetan Dream Yoga Meets Western Power Napping

Skilled Lucid Dreamers Wanted to Participate in Scientific Research
What is happening in your brain when you realize you are dreaming? Dr. LaBerge is currently seeking volunteers to help answer this question in research at Stanford University. To qualify you should live in or visit the San Francisco bay area and be fairly confident that you could have a lucid dream in the laboratory. Call or email for details (+1-650-321-9969 or research@lucidity.com ).

Lucidity Institute Experiment: Tibetan Dream Yoga Meets Western Power Napping Sleep Posture, the Nasal Cycle, and Naps

For over 1,000 years, the Tibetan Buddhists have been practicing lucid dreaming as a means of approaching enlightenment. In this pursuit, they have developed elaborate techniques for inducing lucidity. Some of these are esoteric beyond the capacity of the uninitiated Western mind to conceive, let alone practice. However, others bear a striking resemblance to the techniques now employed by Western oneironauts, for example, frequent reflection throughout the day on the dreamlike nature of reality.

The Lucidity Institute is grateful to the Fetzer Institute, which has provided them with funding to investigate the value of ancient Tibetan lucid dreaming induction techniques in the West. One such avenue which has been little explored to date is that of posture during sleep. They have conducted a few NightLight experiments over the years in this area. However, the number of participants has been too small to allow reliable conclusions. Thus, they are once more offering an experiment investigating sleep posture and nasal laterality (an ancient Yogic technique for influencing states of mind), combined this time with the extraordinarily powerful napping technique of inducing lucid dreams.

Thus, this experiment has two goals. One is to further refine the nap technique, which we have found to be the most effective of all for inducing lucid dreams. This study will help establish whether 30 or 60 minutes of wakefulness inserted in the latter part of a night's sleep is more likely to lead to lucidity. Second, they wish to clarify the results of a previous NightLight experiment on nasal laterality, gender and lucid dreaming. Some Tibetan lore suggests that men and women should sleep on opposite sides, because their energy channels are reversed. They would like to find out if this is fact or superstition.

They have made this experiment as simple as possible so that more of you will participate. By using naps, they expect to collect a lot more lucid dreams than in previous attempts, and that's good news for participants as well! Please join in this endeavor and help bring Tibetan Dream Yoga to life in the West. If you are interested in participating, please email The Lucidity Institute with your postal address and we will send you a copy of the NightLight experiment. We will also make the experiment available online at our website ( http://www.lucidity.com   ) in Adobe pdf format.


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   WEBSITE & ONLINE  UPDATES

Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share with others? Or do you have updates to existing pages? Help spread the word by using the Electric Dreams DREAM-LINK page www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm . This is really a public projects board and requires that everyone keep up his or her own link URLs and information. Make a point to send changes to the links page to us.

Astrology, Dream Interpretation, Numerology and Online Tarot Readings
New Age Interactive, a web site offering a comprehensive line up of New Age practices and entertainment, has debuted on the Internet at http://www.newageinteractive.com/ . Visitors to New Age Interactive will find a wide variety of pursuits. The site's Online Tarot section gives the user complete control over the tarot deck and will help interpret what the cards have to say. Numerology Online allows one to explore the complicated and amazing revelations produced through the complex and historically relevant practice of the numerological system. The Online Dream Interpreter provides everything one needs to understand about the subconscious mind and the scenarios which dominate during the reign of rapid eye movement. Also available on New Age Interactive is a guide to the Chinese zodiac; a cyber-resource charting the moon's phases; a check on the Earth's current population; an exploration of superstitions, omens, rituals, talismans and urban legends; a section allowing one to calculate age down to the second; and a quick check of previous incarnations during past lifetimes. And for those who want to enhance their experience, there is a the Village Market featuring New Age products, as well as a link to the award-winning Interactive Health Food Store program which details natural and organic items. New Age Interactive will be updated continuously and new sections soon to be added will include a daily horoscope, interactive astrology, interactive I Ching, online fortune telling, interactive palm reading, and interactive self- hypnosis. For more information, visit New Age Interactive at http://www.newageinteractive.com/  

Dreamwork in Australia http://www.janeanderson.com.au 
Jane Anderson is a scientist, author, dream interpreter and ABC radio broadcaster working in Australia. Her site includes a Dream Interpretation Service, two Discussion Forums, extracts from her books and much more. While her first two books were strictly on dreams (based on my research), "The Shape of Things to Come" (to be published by Random House in July) is the result of three years research into precognition, taking in precognitive dreaming, synchronicity, modern physics and a ground breaking series of hypnosis. Visit her site to find out more!

Griebel's Dictionary of Dream Symbols http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8201/dreamsymbols.html   (new URL!) has been updated (300 new entries, a total of 1700).

The unique features of this dictionary are:

1) it is accessible via the World Wide Web
2) it is probably the most comprehensive of its kind
3) entries are linked to related entries
4) it is a collective project--you can submit new entries or suggestions for translations 5) it's free...

Kathleen Sullivan's Dreams and Dreamwork http://www.mbay.net/~dremwvr/  
In 1980, Kathleen Sullivan's focus was drawn inward by one life-altering dream. The complete story of that experience can be read in the first chapter of her book, Recurring Dreams: A Journey to Wholeness (Freedom, California: Crossing Press, 1998). Overwhelmed by the demands of the unconscious, by chronic illness and emotional distress, Sullivan surrendered to the dream and has followed it to an entirely new career as a full-time dreamworker, counselor, talk show host and author. Learn more about her philosophy and work at her website.

Year Long Dream Course Online
http://www.magicalblend.com/Dream/Dream.html.   Harvesting Dreamland: A Course in Self-Discovery and Self-Mastery by Craig Webb Take a year long course on the fascinating implications and applications of dreams. In each issue we'll offer techniques that facilitate awareness of and interaction with your dreams that can be practically applied. This first article describes dream incubation and suggests some enticing goals.

Future topics will cover dream interpretation techniques, dream skills as a springboard for creativity, precognitive and mutual dreams, nightmares and how to benefit from them, as well as an exploration of the intriguing realm of lucid (conscious) dreaming.

Readers are invited to become involved, send in questions and talk about your experiences with these lessons. They will answer your questions as best they can, and, if you give permission, will include your responses anonymously) in upcoming articles and in ongoing research at The D.R.E.A.M.S. (Dream Research and Experimental Approaches to the Mechanisms of Sleep) Foundation of Montreal, Canada. Instructions for responding by mail, fax, or e-mail are included at the end of this article.

From : Craig Webb, Executive Director of the D.R.E.A.M.S. Foundation, has been exploring, writing, speaking, and teaching about dreams for over ten years, and has worked with author and Stanford researcher Dr. Stephen LaBerge. The D.R.E.A.M.S. Foundation ( http://prelude.PSY.UMontreal.ca/dreams_foundation   ) is a non-profit organization that offers information and courses about dreams, nightmares, lucid dreams, and their practical applications. To receive a free pamphlet, reserve a copy of Craig's forthcoming book, Lucid Living in this Waking Dream: A Course in Applied Dreaming, or to find out about lucid living canoe-trip adventures, contact: The D.R.E.A.M.S. Foundation, Box 513 Snowdon,Montreal, QC H3X 3T7, 514-488-0347 (e-mail: lucid@magnet.ca  ).

 

Free DreamMap Program!

Thank you for your patience. I finally finished the Dream Map for Windows.

It is available for *free* download at: http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~windeatr/dreamMap.html   This is the main page for the Dream Map. The actual software is but one click away once you arrive at the main Dream Map page. The Dream Map application (.exe) is in zip format, and may be un-zipped using any commercial or shareware unzip program. If you don't have an unzip program you may find one at :

http://www.shareware.com 

Dream Map for Windoze has been a long time coming and I am sure you will enjoy what you find! Please send any critiques or feature requests to me at:

mailto:dMapWin95@polysense.com 

For those of you on WebTV, the DreamMap software will not run on WebTV, you need a Macintosh or Windows computer to use the Dream Map.

Yours,

Dan Cummings dMapWin95@polysense.com  

Commercial Dream Journal - Awake

Friendswood, Texas - June 17, 1998 - Awake Software today announced Awaken 98, dream journaling software for personal use. Awaken 98 contains many features that make dream journaling easier, faster and more enjoyable.

"We wanted to develop this program so that it would be easier to keep track of any of the issues involved in dream analysis - from feelings to background to dream incubation questions and so on, and at the same time make it as simple to use as possible.", explains Bill Kudrle, president of Awake Software. "We hope that this will be the beginning of a significant service to those interested in dreams and personal growth."

Using the metaphor of a two sided dream notebook, Awaken 98 contains up to seven pages for recording and analyzing dreams. Pages include those for describing the dream, recording the dream, searching for symbols, general questions as well as personal reflective questions about the dream, interpretation of the dream, and ways to honor the dream. Any page can be easily hidden or shown as desired so that the process can be simplified to any desired depth of analysis. Awaken 98 is highly configurable in many other ways.

Key features of Awaken 98 include:

Wizards for stepping through the entire dream analysis process or in just filling out one page.

A symbol dictionary which is fully editable and contains icons for each symbol.

Personal associations can be made to any symbol and are kept as part of the symbol dictionary.

Pages with extensive text editing use the Rich Text Format, which allows the setting of different fonts, colors, styles, paragraph indentation, borders and the embedding of pictures in a single page.

Password protection for every user and encryption of the files and database for privacy protection.

Super search capabilities allows for searches through all of the notebooks with the ability to target any or all pages and to use synonyms as well.

Browse through the notebooks by one of many factors, including feelings, categories, incubation questions, symbols, personal issues and of course date and title.

Drag and drop toolbars.

Master lists for questions, categories, feelings, and other items that can be easily edited.

98 is priced at US$34.95 for the floppy disk version. An electronic downloadable version will be available shortly for a price of US$29.95. Technical support via email is provided free with all orders.

Awake Software is a company whose mission statement is to help us to Live with Greater Consciousness. It was founded in 1994 and has been in development until the release of Awaken 98. More information is available from support@awake-software.com   or by visiting the website at www.awake-software.com .

SOURCE: Awake Software http://www.awake-software.com/  

Electric Dreams Backissues and MORE

So you need a back issue of Electric Dreams? We now have several sites carrying Archives. Low Bandwidth has just put up a complete 7MG Archive at http://www.disobey.com/low/listings/electric_dreams.htm  

If you are missing an issue, be sure to stop by and get a copy. They have many other interesting zones for you to enter besides dreams and dreaming.