Do you feel like something in your life is missing? Maybe you’re not getting what you want out of your personal relationships or job. You may feel like you’re meant to do something else with your life—something less mundane and more meaningful. Today, people in their 20s report feeling more…

Joseph Campbell, perhaps the world’s best known navigator of mythology and dream spaces, famously said that “Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths.” You can extend this idea to understand why there are so many symbols and themes that frequently appear in dreams. Dreams, like myths of creation and…

The mind can be observed from two perspectives: first as a material object, or the brain, and second as subjective awareness. This duality leads to two modes of inquiry: psychological and neuropsychological.  To quote Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull1, “there is everything to gain and nothing to lose from integrating…

Lucid dreaming—there’s an allure and mystery about the phrase that makes it seem otherworldly and arcane, a specialized talent or ability that only a few people possess. Earlier research into lucid dreaming has suggested incredible possibilities. In the 1970s and 1980s, dream researchers experimented with sending messages to others during…