#david jay brown

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Not only does Western culture tend to dismiss the importance, and any possible reality, of dreaming, the whole notion of a dream being a noun or a “thing” is completely deceptive. We routinely say that we “had a dream” and ask what “it” was about. But what we really experienced was a dreaming process while we slept, which we then try to piece together upon awakening—in our bed afterward, or within the dreaming process itself when dreaming lucidly.

David Jay Brown, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics

[thesocialpsychic]

Authors David Jay Brown and Rebecca Ann Hill Discuss Women in Visionary Art

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Dreaming Wide Awake, by David Jay Brown

Dreaming Wide Awake is a unique book discussing altered states of consciousness, including lucid dreaming and psychedelic use. David Jay Brown achieves a balance in providing credible research and anecdotal evidence, while making room for speculation about the significance of these psychic events.

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Dreaming Wide Awake, by David Jay Brown

Dreaming Wide Awake, by David Jay Brown

Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics, by David Jay Brown Park Street Press, 9781620554890, 416 pp. 2016 Dreaming Wide Awake is a unique book discussing altered states of consciousness, including lucid dreaming and psychedelic use. David Jay Brown achieves a balance in providing credible research and anecdotal evidence, while making room for speculation about the…

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Our whole legal system is based on the idea of suffering. If you cause suffering to someone by assaulting them, that’s a serious crime. If you end their consciousness by murdering them, that’s a serious crime. It’s okay to destroy property if it belongs to you, provided society doesn’t have some interest in it, like it’s not a historical house or something. But I can’t go and destroy your property—not because of the suffering I’m causing the property—because of the suffering I’m causing you, as the owner of that property. But it’s all based on there being a conscious entity who has the potential for suffering, and if the entity’s conscious experience is affected by these actions, there’ll come a point where that question will arise with regard to machines. It’s arising already with regard to animals.

“Designing Higher Intelligence - An Interview with Ray Kurzweil”, from Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, by David Jay Brown

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DAVID: A few scientists that I’ve spoken with told me that they don’t think that the HIV virus is responsible for causing AIDS. What do you think about this idea? CANDACE: I can be a lot more definitive on this than I can on some of the other questions you asked me. These people are nuts. The evidence is clear, and it’s the most elegant scientific story. There was a movement against HIV research, and the main champion was Peter Duesberg. There was some personal animosities against the power and the money that the early AIDS researchers got, and there’s a lot of political aspects to this. But beyond a shadow of a doubt — and I’m speaking as somebody who studies data in the lab — there is just no doubt about the fact that HIV is the cause of AIDS. There’s just so much elegant science behind it. Just let me site one little tidbit that tells you how clean the whole thing is. There’s two primary receptors that the AIDS virus uses to enter and infect cells. One of them, which I mentioned earlier, is called CCR-5. It turns out that a small percentage Caucasian Europeans don’t have that receptor. They have a genetic mutation where the receptor should be, and it’s missing a major chunk of it in the middle. Now, those people who have that mutation, no matter what risky behavior they indulge in, they do not get HIV disease. Isn’t that interesting? DAVID: Extremely. I didn’t know that. CANDACE: Then, of course, you can show clearly in the test tube that you can artificially make cells that have this receptor and they will become readily infected with the viruses that use this receptor. And if the cells don’t have the receptor, then they don’t. That’s summarizing like hundreds and hundreds of papers that elegantly address this, so there’s no doubt that HIV causes AIDS. Duesberg may not like some of the HIV virologists, and their style and all, but it’s just so silly. And it’s sad, because they’ve created a movement that’s been very destructive. My understanding is that out in California some of these people are like Luddites. Some of the activists — not all of them, but some small percentage — have gotten this into their head, and have stormed research labs. They’ve gotten very angry and very crazy, and it’s complete rubbish. I have no doubt in my mind. I’m a 100 percent sure about this.

Molecules of Mind and Body, David Jay Brown’s interview with Candace B. Pert, quoted from Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse by David Jay Brown

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DAVID: You mention Aldous Huxley’s book Doors of Perception in Molecules of Emotion. I’m curious — have you ever had a psychedelic experience, and if so, how has it influenced your perspective on science and life? CANDACE: I can say that I’ve had some unusual experiences. I basically missed the ’60s, and even the ’70s in terms of experimenting with drugs at the normal time, because I was a young mother, and I was always in a very responsible authority figure role from a very young age. But later on I experimented with marijuana and some of the psychedelics. I think the biggest influence was marijuana, which I didn’t even try until I was like thirty-five years old. I think that had an impact on me, because it erases boundaries and gets you into interesting altered states. I’ve experimented with that, and less with some of the psychedelics. Has this influenced me? Sure. Spending time in an alternative reality, which is noncompetitive and loving, must have taken away my East Coast competitive nature. Of course, now I am convinced that marijuana should be avoided since it wreaks havoc with one’s endocannabinoids. DAVID: What type of potential do you see for new types of psychoactive drugs in the future? CANDACE: I’m never moving in that direction. In my book I talked about not using drugs with an almost puritanical insistence. This is at least where I am now — that we’re at our best when we have our natural drugs. It’s like our own natural chemicals, unadulterated, are just totally amazing. But this a great ideal. I mean, I’m a major user of supplements, vitamins and things like that. DAVID: I thought the primary point that you were making in your book was that using any type of psychoactive drug on a regular basis will cause the brain to compensate for the drug’s continued presence by reducing the number of receptors that bind to it.  CANDACE: Exactly. Anything you take changes your brain, because there’s a law that a natural system will always compensate when you perturb it. So in some very romantic idealized way I see our perfection is like, let it all hang out. Let it be what it is. But yet that’s an ideal. I smashed my arm playing on the ski slopes four weeks ago, and I’m now taking Vicodin for my broken arm. I’m trying not to take it. But, heck, it helped me, and it’s okay.

Molecules of Mind and Body, David Jay Brown’s interview with Candace B. Pert, quoted from Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse by David Jay Brown