Ecopsychology, Cross-Cultural Big Dreams & Shamanic Lucid Dreams

"Ecopsychology, Cross-Cultural Big Dreams & Shamanic Lucid Dreams" Mark A. Schroll, Ph.D. Organizer/Chair, Ryan Hurd, MA & Jorge Conesa-Sevilla, Ph.D. Discussants: Judy Gardiner & Curtis Hoffman, Ph.D. July 10, 2008, 11am-1pm 25th International Association for the Study of Dreams Conference, Montreal, Canada. http://www.asdreams.org/2008/index.htm

General Group Abstract

Becoming lucid during dreaming is less about controlling image content and more about increasing the actors’ awareness in the drama of the dream. This is true in three separate but overlapping areas, cross-cultural big dreams, shamanic lucid dreams, and the phenomenological perspective of lucid dreaming. An expanded awareness toward comprehending and remembering these lessons increases the communicative ability of our dreams, whether this is experienced as a collective transpersonal archetypal unconscious, spirits of the landscape, or our own colonized/repressed multiplicity as persons’ being-in-the-world. Specific examples and practical applications of this expanded awareness toward understanding methodology and ecopsychology will be discussed.

Mark A. Schroll