Every culture on earth, except for ours, accepts that dreams sometimes foretell future events or experiences. This reality has been excluded from Western science and scholarship since the Enlightenment, but the barriers around this taboo topic are beginning to erode, thanks to new scientific developments (e.g. in quantum physics) and to an informal “citizen science” facilitated by the internet—people sharing their precognitive dream experiences. Precognitive dreams are real, and they are not occasional or rare. Many of not all dreams bring information from our future, and that is readily discoverable through a few simple steps. It has startling implications for our understanding of time, consciousness, and the self.
In different ways, the depth psychological schools of Freud and Jung have both paved the way to an understanding of dream precognition, yet both have also contributed to some of the confusion and misunderstanding that still prevails around the topic. This course will look at the evidence for precognitive dreams, historical attempts to study them scientifically, and newer scientific approaches and theories that can shed light on how they work, as well as the implications of precognition for understanding the self biographically—the “long self.”
Wednesdays, April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, 2023
5:00 – 6:30 PM UTC-8
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