Global Dreaming News

February 2006

Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special address.


Online:
- Adventures in Consciousness
- The Dream Catcher
- Famous dream discoveries
- Beta testing the Dream Registry

Physical world:
- Hawaii: Stephen LaBerge and Alan Wallace
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- Copenhagen: Nordic Dream Conference
- Dreaming in Bridgewater / Art prizes

Books, movies, research:
- Robert Gongloff: Dream Exploration - A New Approach
- Bitsy Broughton: Dream survey

Recurring events:
- San Francisco: The Practice of Active Dreaming
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


Online

Adventures in Consciousness

The Adventures in Consciousness forum is a new NewWorldView forum moderated by Sean Foreman:

http://tinyurl.com/dg5be

Sean is a long time Seth reader who is working his way through the Seth material book by book with an emphasis on the material on dreams, lucid dreaming, and projections of consciousness. He began with Book 1 of The Early Sessions and is creating a self-guided course of study that anyone can follow.

How far you go is entirely up to you, but Sean will be sharing various tools, practices, and tips to assist in your own exploration of what Seth calls the "unknown" reality.

Read Sean's Welcome & Overview:
http://tinyurl.com/8f6vv


The Dream Catcher

The Dream Catcher is a forum to discuss and interpret dreams. It will also be a place for advice, discussing lucid dreams and other psychic or spiritual phenomena.

This group is intended for two types of people. Those who are talented at interpreting dreams and those who are looking for answers to their dreams.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Dream_Catcher

Thanks very much!
Sarita


Famous dream discoveries

Brilliant Dreams highlights twelve famous discoveries and creativity attributed to dreams. From Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", dreams have played a major role in human creativity, discovery and invention.

www.brilliantdreams.com/product/famous-dreams.htm

Brilliant Dreams produces and markets dream enhancement and sleep beneficial products.


Beta testing the Dream Registry

Dear dreamers!

You're invited to test the Dream Registry:

http://dreamunit.net/registry/

All comments on any aspect of the website will be seriously considered.

I think that the Dream Registry will eventually accept all kinds of dreams, but I have to start somewhere, so psi dreams and especially precognitive dreams is what I'd like to focus on first.

Early March I want to invite dreamers to join a few adventures in precognitive dreaming.

Best wishes,

Harry



Physical world:

Hawaii: Stephen LaBerge and Alan Wallace

DREAMING and AWAKENING
with STEPHEN LaBERGE and Alan Wallace
Wednesday May 10 - Friday, May 19, 2006
Kalani Oceanside Retreat, Hawaii

Using the most effective techniques and technology, derived from Western science and Tibetan Dream Yoga, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and Alan Wallace, Ph.D. will co-present instructions on methods of developing the mental skills that foster lucidity and on directing consciousness within both dreaming and waking states towards fulfillment of personal goals.

Participants in our past retreats have had great success with achieving lucidity, with most having had one or more lucid dreams during the program.

Details and online registration are available at:
http://lucidity.com/hawaii

If you have any questions about this program, please don't hesitate to contact

Sweet tropical dreams to all!
Stephen, Alan, Dominick, & Keelin


Berkeley: the Dream Institute

The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767

The Dream Institute offers the following during February 2006.

From the Dream Outward

Saturday, February 11, 2006, 2-4 PM
$30 & $20 Students
Vijali Hamilton, MA combines education, art and ritual to focus attention on resolving social and environmental problems and to activate our awareness of the interconnectedness of all life.

Indigenous Dreaming

Friday, February 24, 2006, 1-6PM
Barbara & Dennis Tedlock, PhDs, talk about their lifetime of dreams and anthropology
$100 & $50 Students

Art: From the Inside Out

Sunday, February 12, 2006, 1-4 PM
Vijali Hamilton, MA will lead a journey that addresses one's deepest inquires through the process of art-making.
$34 & $25 Students

Culture Dreaming - Window to the World

First Saturdays
Feb 4, Mar 4,
3-5 PM Social Hour Follows
$20 & $15 Students
With Richard Russo, MA and Meredith Sabini, PhD.

Culture Dreaming is an experimental ritual that gives a living sense of interconnection. First, dreams are told in Quaker fashion, with no comment. Then we explore together the composite dream just co-created. Dreams become a camera obscura or hologram showing surprising relevance to both individual and larger social concerns. Observers welcome. Come once, occasionally, or regularly.


Copenhagen: Nordic Dream Conference

Dreams and creativity
24-26 March, 2006

A spectacular program with among other Pia Skogeman, jungian analyst and writer (Denmark); Montague Ullman, MD and world reknown dream researcher (USA, via web-transmission); BrittMari Felke, teacher (Sweden); Eero-Tapio Vuori, artist, theatre director (Finland); Antti Revonsuo ph.d./Katja Valli (Finland); Michael Schredl, Ph.d. dream researcher (Germany) and many more. The program includes panels, workshops, presentations, performance and networking.

The conference is organised as a regional conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) by the Danish Association for the Study of Dreams (FFSD) in cooperation with the Swedish and Finnish Dream Forum. The conference will mainly take place in English language.

The fee of the conference is extra-ordinary low, so we hope this will make it possible for more people to attend. The fee is 750 Danish Kroner (approximately 100 EURO). Members of IASD receives a special discounted fee at 500 Danish Kroner (approximately 70 EURO).

For more information, please see:
www.ffsd.dk/ndk_2006.php


Dreaming in Bridgewater / Art prizes

23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams

June 20 - 24th, 2006
Bridgewater State College,
Bridgewater Massachusetts

Join dreamers, clinicians, researchers, educators and artists from all over the world for four days of workshops, lectures, exhibits, and events examining dreaming and dreamwork as presented through traditional and innovative theories and therapies, personal study, scientific research, cultural tradition and the arts. Over 100 workshops and events on all aspects of dreaming are planned, with topics and events of interest to the general public as well as professionals. Special events include an Opening Reception, a Dream Arts Exhibition and reception, a solstice visit to a Native American archaeoastronomical site, a Dream Telepathy Contest, various other social events and the ever popular closing costume "Dream Ball".

Special note for artists: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS in prizes will be awarded by an anonymous donor for the best Dream Art in June, '06. 1st prize: $l000, two 2nd prizes of $500 each. Any medium is acceptable including photography, videos or DVDs, computer art, book art, installation or any combination of the above. The dream or the significant part of the dream must be included. The criteria for selection will be originality, integrity, universality, and relevance to building bridges. The awards will be presented during the Art Reception in June, '06.

More information at the website of the IASD:
http://asdreams.org



Books, movies, research

Robert Gongloff: Dream Exploration - A New Approach

Dreams speak to us in a symbolic language. From night to night, those symbols and images can appear wildly different. But in truth, they are likely replaying an important theme in your life, a vital message from your dream world to your conscious mind.

While most dream books focus on symbolism, Dream Exploration helps readers go deeper by exploring the themes presented in dream life and their relationship to waking life. Written as a how-to guide, this first-of-its-kind book includes a twelve-step process that helps you identify core themes in your life and how best to grow with them. Also included is a theme matrix that offers practical actions readers can take to move beyond their dreams.

More information: www.heartofthedream.com

For press kit or to arrange an interview, please contact Brian Farrey at Llewellyn Publicity, email:


Bitsy Broughton: Dream survey

Bitsy Broughton invites you to fill out the dream survey on her website.

"The answers you provide will broaden our understanding of the dialogue between dreamer and dream, and how that information may reflect or influence our walking lives. I would be happy to email you a summary of my current research using this questionnaire, and if you like I can offer comments on the dreams you describe below."

www.graygoosedreams.com/survey.htm



Recurring events

San Francisco: The Practice of Active Dreaming

Based on Robert Moss' pioneer synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism.

Elizabeth Lombardo
email:
phone: 415-447-8552


Ritual DaFuMu for Peace

The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a monthly DaFuMu - a collective dream of good fortune - to support peace.

In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to dream towards the mandala of peace.

If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to:

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm

To join the World Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to .