What happens to the self when consciousness shifts? What does it mean to experience ourselves differently? To move beyond our ordinary state of awareness and encounter the world through movement, meditation, hypnosis, dreaming, or other altered states? Can changing our consciousness change our sense of identity, embodiment, or connection to others?
About Curiosity Collective
Step beyond the ordinary with Curiosity Collective, where adults gather for thoughtful conversations in venues across Denver—from bookstores and cafés to bars and cultural spaces. Each event brings together speakers from very different backgrounds to explore a single theme from unexpected perspectives. Talks are short, engaging, and rooted in personal experience or professional insight. After both talks, the audience submits questions, votes on what to explore further, and joins a collective conversation. See upcoming events in our calendar.
Explores how energy healing works through multilayered and interconnected fields of consciousness Illustrates the role of transpersonal fields of consciousness in healing a range of issues, from inherited family and ancestral problems, to past lives and womb trauma, to near-death experiences, merged identities, and spirit attachment Shares remarkable cases of healing and personal transformation from the author's more than 20 years of energy healing work, as well as experiences from other gifted healers, psychics, and shamans Provides diagrams of the human energy body, the spectrum of states of awareness, the multilayered fields of consciousness, and the psycho-energetic dynamics of the transformation process.
Sylvie Patterson joins scientist Adrian Keller and former flame Gabe on a quest to introduce people to lucid dreaming, but a mysterious couple inspire Sylvie to question the ethics of their work while she grapples with the shifting boundaries of reality.
Safely explore inner worlds through altered states of consciousness Investigates drumming-induced trance states through shamanic journeying. Provides advanced lucid dreaming training, sharing techniques for inducing lucidity and skillfully navigating our inner cosmos. Explores the mindful use of psychedelics, offering guidance on setting intention, navigating the experience, and integrating insights. Offering techniques from psychonauts ancient and modern, this guide helps to navigate consciously into altered states and the psyche. Psychonavigation is the art of mindfully exploring the realms of consciousness. It requires a map, a guide, and a clear intention, so one does not emerge overwhelmed and struggling with unexpected shadow material. Mapping the way as a step-by-step process, the authors take us through 3 pathways for entering altered states: lucid dreaming, shamanic trance journeys, and with psychedelics. With drumming--induced trance journeys, they explore the effect of shamanic drumming on brainwave frequencies alongside recently discovered consciousness teachings from ancient cultures like the Altai of Russia. Their advanced lucid dreaming training offers techniques to induce and maintain lucidity, honing inner navigational tools and integrating suppressed parts of oneself. Finally, they explore how the mindful use of psychedelics can be enhanced by these ancient mystical tools that offer a safe container for optimal integration and meaning making. Ancient psycho-spiritual techniques meet ultra-current science in these skillful methodologies that enable seekers to properly process their meaningful experience.
Why does a baby's cry instantaneously flood a mother's body with a myriad of stress hormones? How can a song on the radio stir up powerful emotions, from joy to anger, regret to desire? Why does sound itself evoke such primal and deeply felt emotions? A vibration that travels through air, water and solids, sound is produced by all matter, and is a fundamental part of every species' survival. But there is a hidden power within sound that has only just begun to be investigated. Sound Medicine takes readers on a journey through the structure of the mouth, ears, and brain to understand how sound is translated from acoustic vibrations into meaningful neurological impulses. Renowned neurologist and Ayurvedic expert Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary explains how different types of sound impact the human body and brain uniquely, and explores the physiological effects of sound vibration, from altering mood to healing disease.Blending ancient wisdom with modern science, Dr. Chaudhary traces the history of sound therapy and the use of specific mantras from previously unknown texts--traced back to the Siddhas, a group of enlightened yogis who created a healing tradition that served as the precursor to Ayurvedic medicine--to explain the therapeutic application of sounds for a wide range of conditions. Sound Medicine offers practical, step-by-step lessons for using music and mantras, whether you're a beginner or searching for a more advanced practice, to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit.
Unlock the power of your dreams to lead you on the ultimate journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
Vibrantly repackaged in a stunning new format, this classic science fiction novel offers 'a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion' ("The New York Times"). In the year 2002, George Orr discovers his dreams can--and do--change the world.
How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma-an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation.
Discover holistic approaches to psychiatric healing. ?Your previous experience with conventional psychiatry likely consisted of suppressing symptoms with pharmaceuticals without considering you as a whole person. It's probable that there was little exploration of the power of the sacred to promote healing, which is especially crucial in our current climate of widespread fear and disconnection. In Sacred Psychiatry, you will be introduced to a diverse range of holistic approaches to healing. This book offers invaluable guidance on how to develop a personal spiritual practice and highlights the profound significance of fulfilling the soul's purpose. It illustrates the usefulness of astrology, emphasizes how toxic relationships undermine healing, and showcases the remarkable healing power of food as medicine. Sacred Psychiatry also provides a holistic framework for weaning off of psychiatric pharmaceuticals and highlights treatable but frequently overlooked complex chronic conditions such as mold toxicity, mast cell activation syndrome, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
When Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen Buddhism echoed the sentiments of the Beat Generation, who found in Zen a way of life unencumbered by the limits of 'square' society. And it was the philosopher Alan Watts who first wrote and spoke about Zen and Eastern culture in terms accessible to mainstream Western audiences. Watts' teachings during an era of turmoil and political strife are as timely today as they were over 50 years ago. The fascinating essays in this collection include: 'The Beat Way of Life' How the Beats lived an uncomplicated Zen life and despite being denigrated as worthless slackers, like Eastern thinkers, they actively pursued 'an arduous course of spiritual and psychological discipline' "Return to the Forest' How the popular works of the writer Joseph Campbell influenced the earliest Beat traditions by advocating the internal search for individual truth over learned schools of thought 'The Democratization of Buddhism' How Buddhism is actually a 'religion of no-religion,' that conveys the spiritual through the everyday and the ordinary and recognizes no division between the two This book is an engaging introduction to Watts' fascinating and enduring Zen teachings.
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.