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New CG Jung Page Launched – a Message from Don Williams
The new JungPage is now live at www.cgjungpage.org ! For this, my thanks go
out to Matthew Clapp in southern California for selecting the "Mambo Open
Source" software for the JungPage and for designing, installing, and
crafting the site and to Edwardson Tan of Manila (The Philippines) who
prepared the content for the new site. We've got a great team, and I look
forward to ongoing work together. I also want to thank all of the people who
have found the JungPage and continued to come back and all of the authors
who have contributed such fine work. My gratitude also goes to the people
who have donated money to the JungPage in the past and to the Inter-Regional
Society of Jungian Analysts for it's support.
The number of articles and book chapters has grown to over 400; the number
includes some new articles that Matthew carried over from the Nautis Project
( www.nautis.com ). An article/author index with links will be installed soon
but for now you can probably find what you are looking for by using search
engine in the left column.
When you view the list of articles, notice that you can select the number
you want displayed by using a dropdown menu in the upper right corner. Also,
following an article's brief introduction, you can see the number of times
the article has been viewed--it's stunning to realize that some of articles
have been viewed over 50 times in the 1 week that the site has been online.
Finally, when you click on an article that you want to read or print, notice
that you have a choice in the upper right corner to view the article in the
default or a larger font! Special thanks go to Matthew for including this
feature.
We're inviting some groups to post their scheduled events at the JungPage.
The Event Calendar will grow as more societies (internationally) take
advantage of the ability to announce their seminars, workshops, and
lectures.
Most of the Jungian Resources will be familiar to you from the former
JungPage though now they are better organized and more easily accessible.
The Photo Gallery is new and will be a great resource. If any of you have
archival photographs you would like to submit, please send them as e-mail
attachments and include the accompanying text in the body of the e-mail.
If you haven't seen the Forum in awhile, be sure to see its new look and
vitality--I think there have now been over 37,000 posts to the Forum since
it was launched a couple of years ago.
There are some other features you can expect to see soon: a weblog, the
author/title index with a rating system for articles, site registration with
a mailing list subscription, visitor polls, a module for submitting
weblinks, and more.
There's a PayPal donation button in the lower left corner of the page. While
we are grateful for large donations ($50, $100, and beyond), we hope you'll
also consider donating small amounts (50 cents or a dollar, for example) when you find something personally valuable.
We hope you enjoy what you find at the JungPage. Send us your comments and
your suggestions about anything you think we need or may have missed.
Best wishes for 2004!
Lucid Dreaming Retreat in March
DREAMING & AWAKENING: Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, and Dream Yoga. Ten
days of awareness enhancement and fun at the beautiful Kalani Retreat Center
on the Big Island of Hawaii, with Stephen LaBerge and friends, March 5-13,
2004.
Sunny Secluded Retreat
for Body and Mind
Rejuvenate body and mind. Awaken to your inner life. Stop sleeping through
your dreams. Join us in exploring the boundless frontiers of the dream world
in a setting of glorious natural beauty. Nurtured by the paradisical,
dream-like environment on the sunny secluded Puna Coast of the island of
Hawaii , we will cast off our blinders, drop the shackles of our ordinary
routines, and take a fresh look at what is real and what is dream.
A Dreamer's Dozen
Reasons to Come
1. Participants in our past retreats have found it a wonderful combination
of work and play, with 95% evaluating it as "very" or "extremely
satisfying." They have also enjoyed phenomenal success at lucid dreaming,
with most having at least one during the program.
2. Nine days, eight nights at the 113 acre Kalani Oceanside Resort, surrounded by tropical forest, edged by rugged lava coastline, with all amenities close at hand.
3. Instruction by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. world renowned expert on lucid dreaming. Dr. LaBerge is author of Lucid Dreaming, and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, and has had thousands of lucid dreams.
4. Daily exercises to develop the skills of lucid dreaming and mindfulness, and application of the principles of lucidity to all aspects of life.
5. Special sleep schedules tailored to promote lucid dreaming.
6. Opportunities to work with both technological aids and natural substances to stimulate dream lucidity and mindfulness.
7. Discussions on the nature of dreaming and reality, the importance of lucidity, the role of control, obstacles to practice, overcoming nightmares and self-imposed limitations, and more.
8. For those who wish, a chance to participate in research into lucid dreaming and the mind.
9. Group outings including an evening session in a hot-spring, a hike through the Kilauea caldera, and-if Pele wills-a close-up look at the fiery lava entering the sea (the scene shown above at right).
10. Free afternoons to explore and group excursions to inspirational sites on the island: the volcano, beaches, gardens, ocean, or?
11. Thought provoking conversation and memorable fun with new friends who share your passion for lucid dream exploration.
12. And ... The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing ...
Stebbins at Asilomar
Unitarian Universalists and friends gather in a Californian coastal setting
in July to learn, grow, rest, be restored, laugh, play together, worship and
reaffirm values. Enjoy the traditional Stebbins experience plus Jeremy Taylor's dream workshop and tours of the Monterey Bay Area. For more information or to request a registration form: 510-234-3524 www.serve.com/stebbins djleblanc212@aol.com
Visit The Dream Tree's "Research & Request" page for lots more dream projects!
Dreams and Sleep Positions
I am beginning to collect data for a research project on dreams and sleep positions. I'm looking for people who may be interested in participating. Participants will be given very little information about the study to limit influence on data collected. However, you will receive a chart of 21 sleep positions, each numbered.
Criteria for participation:
Record your dreams on a fairly regular basis.
Each night when you go to sleep write down the number of the sleep position that most closely matches your position when you fall asleep.
When record your dreams, record the number of the sleep position that most closely matches the position you were in when you awoke.
Submit your dreams to me in an electronic file.
Submit as many dreams as you are willing to, once a month, for as long as you are willing. I will likely conclude data collection after two years.
If you have read anything about the psychology of sleep positions I will ask that you honestly exclude yourself from this study to minimize bias. If someone is knowledgeable about the psychology of sleep positions then they are probably also familiar with the 21 positions as previously published by a researcher from John Hopkins. I have simply, with his permission, organized them into an easy to use chart that identifies them by number rather than by the names he has given them. I am purposely not including the name of the researcher, the names he gave the positions, or other details for numerous reasons that I believe could influence or impact this study. I am a doctoral student - ABD - though this is not my dissertation research. Besides having worked as a sleep scientist for a local sleep wake research institute where I have designed and carried out various types of research protocols dealing with both medical and psychological aspects of sleep, I have also designed and carried out numerous research protocols in fulfillment of academic requirements.
As is a common desire for any serious researcher it is my desire to have research results that are accepted for publication. Results of the study will be provided to any participant interested in receiving them.
If you are interested or have any questions please contact me here or via email - annefrey@ameritech.net . Thank you.
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-links page . This is really a public projects board and requires that everyone keep up his or her own link URLs and information.
Magikimages – Dream Paintings by Helene Bied
http://magikimage.lenagraph.com
Helene is a French artist living in Santa Cruz , California . Her artwork is a lot about dreams and about the unconscious dressed in colors and emotions painted in all kind of shapes talking back to her.
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