Brown David Jay (ed.) Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics

Park Street Press, 2016. — 422 p. — ISBN: 9781620554890.In this detailed guide to mastering the practice of lucid dreaming, David Jay Brown draws from his more than 20 years’ experience using these techniques and his interactions with dozens of experts on consciousness, physics, dreaming, and entheogens, such as Stanley Krippner, Rupert Sheldrake, Stephen LaBerge, Robert Waggoner, Dean Radin, Terence McKenna, and many others. He explores the intimate relationship between lucid dreaming, shamanic journeying, visionary plants, and psychedelic drugs and how they are used for healing and spiritual development. Offering methods for improving both lucid dreaming and shamanic journeying abilities, he explains how to enhance dreaming with oneirogens, supplements, herbs, and psychedelics and offers techniques for developing superpowers in the dream realm.Summarizing the scientific research on lucid dreaming, Brown explores the ability of lucid dreamers to communicate with people in the waking realm and the potential for dream telepathy, shared lucid dreaming, and access to the vast unconscious regions of our minds, opening up a path that takes us beyond dreaming and waking to dreaming wide awake.Exploring the Secret Realm of the Waking Dream
Shamanic Plants, Psychedelics, and Mind-Body Healing
The Psychology and Physiology of Dreaming
The Science of Lucid Dreaming
Improving Lucid Dreaming and Developing Superpowers in the Dream Realm
Enhancing Dreaming with Oneirogens, Nutritional Supplements, Herbs, and Drugs
Exploring the Potential of Electronic Technologies
Communicating with Dream Characters, Archetypes, Spirits, and Disembodied Entities
Dream Telepathy, Psychic Phenomena, Mutual Dreaming, and Shared Lucid Dreams
Out-of-Body Experiences, Parallel Universes, and Alternate Dimensions
Conscious Dreaming as a Path to Spiritual Awakening