Lucidity Letter

Vol. 8, No. 2

December 1989

 

Cover

 

Table of Contents

 

Letter from the Editor                                                                             

 

Lucidity Association Symposium Proceedings

      Overview of the Development of Lucid Dream Research in Germany – Paul Tholey

      Mental Models in Sleep: Why Do We Feel More Conscious in Lucid Dreams? ‑ Susan Blackmore 

      A Buddhist Perspective on Lucid Dreaming ‑ Tarab Tulku XI            

 

Eastern Psychological Association Dream Symposium Proceedings

      Dream Recall and Content as a Function of Defensiveness ‑ Deirdre Barrett           

      The Phenomenological Use of Dreams in Psychotherapy ‑ P. Erik Craig     

      Clinical Applications for Consciousness in Sleep ‑ Jayne Gackenbach

      Some Relations Between Clinical and Transpersonal Approaches to Dreams ‑ Harry Hunt  

 

Articles

      Problems in the Historical Research of Lucid Dreaming ‑ Robert Rooksby  

      Mapping Territories: A Phenomenology of Lucid Dream Reality – E.W. Kellogg III

      What is Possible in a Lucid Dream? Results of the April, 1987 OMNI Experiment ‑ Jayne Gackenbach and Stephen LaBerge                                                                                                 

 

Interview

      Interview With Englishwoman Celia Green, Author of the 1968 Classic, "Lucid Dreams"     

 

Book Reviews

      A.H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Transpersonal and Psychoanalytic Psychologies ‑ Review Essay by Harry Hunt   

      "Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain: Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming", Edited by Jayne Gackenbach and Stephen LaBerge, New York, Plenum, 1988 ‑ Reviewed by Deirdre Barrett        

       John Layard's "The Lady of the Hare: A Study in the Healing Power of Dreams", Originally Published in London in 1944 and Recently Reprinted by Shambhala Press" ‑ Reviewed by Jane White Lewis   

 

Letter to the Editor

      Reflections on Gackenbach's Conception of Pure Consciousness as Related to OBE's and NDE's ‑ Judy Palen       

 

News and Notes

      Lucidity Association's "Higher States of Consciousness Conference" Is Taking Shape         

      New West German Consciousness Organization and Journal             

      Lucid Dreaming Bibliographic Updates                                              

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Lucidity Letter Staff: Senior Editor: Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.; Associate Editor: Kathy Belicki, Ph.D.; Typesetting: Kathy Belicki, Jayne Gackenbach, Joanne Gazzola; List Maintence: Jayne Gackenbach; Printer: Waberly Publishing, Waverly, Iowa

 

1988‑1989 Lucidity Association Steering Committee: Harry Hunt, Ph.D. (Chair); Andrew Brylowski, M.D.; Fariba Bogzaran; Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.; Gita Holzinger; Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D.

 

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