Ryan D Hurd

I guess I can’t unread that huh

had sleep paralysis but didn't even get a cool demon hallucination, just like a vague presence going "owowowowowowowowowowwo" in a sort of deep baritone, moving around the bed out of sight before slithering in and touching my arm

Two words my friends: faraday bag

Get out a piece of paper

We do things on paper from now on. Phones are tracked. Platforms are tracked, filled with bots and propaganda.

If you don’t have a pen and paper go buy some.

Write down things YOU can do. Things in YOUR power.

Make most of them small. Some of them big.

“Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up” - David Orr

Totally random

But sadly I never saw REM!

Athens GA in the 90s was lit

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Cocteau Twins
Swans
Morphine
Mazzy Star
Squirrel Nut Zippers

Please write it! (Assuming the eye of Mordor doesn’t intensify) I can’t keep up

Now THAT’s a Tolkien dad joke

Palantir: one database to rule us all

Image reads “Lucid Ignition: the shamanic edition” 4 week live training on lucid dreaming. Hosted by Ryan Hurd. We begin June 3rd

New course dreamstudies.org/lucidignitio...

Can we Decolonize Lucid Dreaming?

fresh newsletter: can we decolonize lucid dreaming? dream-studies-press.kit.com/posts/can-we...

Super cool!

Don’t taze me bro

Finally got approved for treatment at a long COVID center. I’m lucky my doc believes me enough to do all the insurance wrangling necessary so it’s in-network .

ID: all slides have a purple gradient from light to dark with gold and white words. The first slide has an illustration of the phases of the moon in shades of yellow and orange.

all slides have a purple gradient from light to dark with gold and white words.

all slides have a purple gradient from light to dark with gold and white words.

all slides have a purple gradient from light to dark with gold and white words.

Things are beyond intense out there. A lot of people are wondering how to build community, plug in, and make change. Not everyone is extroverted and comfortable being in crowds or talking on the phone or video, which are traditional modes of activism.

Dr. Jeff Kripal on UFOs, Precognition & Cosmic Gnosis Podcast Episode · Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio · 01/27/2025 · 57m

Enjoying Gnostic philosopher Miquel Conner interviewing Jeffrey Kripal about “thinking impossibly,” extraordinary experiences and the super humanities. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Ugh so sorry. It’s the same in NW Philly

I’m done with this timeline. Can someone go back to 1955 and kick old Biff in the shin?

Bless the librarians

Omg same. The babysitter was supposed to take us to
see ET in the theater but it eas
sold out. so Poltergeist was
also playing. I was six. nightmares for years!

Yellow blooms of the witch hazel tree set against a bright blue sky.

The witch hazel is blooming …. The embodiment of hope in hard times

Image from John Bauer’s folktales series 1913 with caption announcing New blog post titled “sleep paralysis and the weird” available at dreamstudies.org

I'm delighted by the mainstreaming of lucid dreaming and astral projection, but there’s a bump on the onramp to transcendence. I’m talking about how so many would-be lucid dreamers and out-of-body practitioners get trapped like flies in the web of sleep paralysis. dreamstudies.org/sleep-paraly...

really nice job Nikki -- Lucid dreaming for grown ups!

you summoned Odin???

Ughhhh

I had a dream that I should report this. Because it’s still true maybe? Also, month 7 of long COVID chronic fatigue sucks

Image of a chair arm with several tiny animal figures in a configuration of sociality

The mythological world of an 8 year old, who knows the drama that unfolded within this configuration on the arm of my recliner