“I have purchased 10-12 dream dictionaries over the years, and this one is the best that I have encountered” From "outwood" “Without fail, this book has brought me to a greater understanding of my dreams. It's easy to say this is the best, but if you are interested in understanding and int... More

Because of the mention in the Bible of live branch and the fruit of the olive, it has the associations of peace and immortality. Certainly with healing. So olives in a dream may represent the resolution […]... More

This is a little known way of using your intuition A section quoted from Neal Criscuolo and Tony Crisp’s The Hand Book A middle aged Gypsy woman rang my doorbell one day selling heather. She […]... More

In previous generations, and in most older cultures, a great deal of folklore surrounded animals in their relationship with humans. The unusual behaviour of black birds such as crows, that often feed on dead carcasses, was thought to be a sign of someone’s death. The American Indian peoples often... More

This is a very important figure in dreams. As much as we would like to think of ourselves as civilised and refined humans, we are still governed by patterns of behaviour obvious in animals. We […]... More

We all take part in creating the world. This creativity or devastation arises out of our attitudes, our emotions, our love or anger. Lynton K. Caldwell, in the book Environmental Science, writes, ‘The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. There could be n... More

This is the simplest of the methods. It requires you to play with your imagination a little and go along with a fantasy, the sort of talent we all develop as children. If you have a sympathetic audience it helps, but only if you feel okay in front of others. It is fine alone as well. Stand with you... More

Many of us are quite well informed about the results of research in sleep laboratories. Most of us know what rapid-eye-movement sleep refers to. However, long before Kleitman and Aserinsky’s discover of REM sleep in […]... More

Jung, Carl 1875-1961 Son of a pastor; his paternal grandfather and great grandfather were physicians. Took a degree in medicine at University of Basle, then specialised in psychiatry. In early papers he pioneered the use […]... More

A person trying to describe their experience of wider awareness Now it seemed as if my awareness went beyond the frontier. This was a very visual experience. I was seeing a vast desert and I knew this […]... More

By Tony Crisp As a skinny, sunken chested and spotty thirteen year old, I started walking the mile to school instead of riding the bus. A beautiful blonde Swedish pen friend had dumped me, and […]... More

Lucidity Part 7 Intro: Lucidity is more than Dreaming – knowing the difference In 1968, Dr. Charles Tart, author and faculty member of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, attached an EEG machine to a young […]... More

Example: This is not a dream, but is a powerful example of how the unconscious can produce very real sense of experiencing something as physically true, that is a mental phenomena. The account is by […]... More

Lucidity Part 3 Your body and mind are the most amazing instruments, and there is so much more music for you to play as you move to a fuller life. And a first step in […]... More

Adolescence is the time of your greatest sexual growth, and development of new ranges of emotion, intellect, and sensitivity. So any adolescent in your dream often points to yourself at that age, and the things […]... More

Your stance or position in life; the way you are relating to what is depicted in the rest of the dream – or the way you feel you are relating to it. above What is […]... More