Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner's Guide Book on How to Become Conscious in Your Dream by Sam Siv Review

Dreams: Lucid Dreaming, Astral Projection, lucid Dreams, New Age Dreams: A Beginner's Guide Book on How To Become Conscious in Your Dreams. Out of Body ... and Better Sleep Book Series by Sam Siv 2)

I was very interested in reading this book, because I practice lucid dreaming and I tend to give dream interpretation readings to help others understand the meanings within their own dreams.

This book was referred to me by another professional and since I love to read new books regarding dream interpretation and history, I thought this was a definite for my reading list.

I was very impressed with how well written this book is and how it is laid out. The author delicately shares information that makes you think about dreams and what they may mean. This book is written in a very professional manner by someone who has detailed experience helping others in the dream world. Readers will learn about lucid dreaming and can follow exercises that teaches the reader how to engage in lucid dreaming. The opening of the book covers an in-depth history of dream research and the stages of sleep one reaches each night.

Readers can learn how to affect their dreams and how to remember them as well. The book is an easy read and the author has done a wonderful job of engaging the reader throughout the entire book.

The book speaks of the types of dreams one may have along with techniques to use to help readers remember their dreams. The author does a good job introducing and explaining how to dream and the different stages one will go through during dream state. Readers will learn how to control dreams and how to have out of body experiences.

She even covers the delicate issue of out of body experiences and how science interprets these types of experiences. For those interested in learning how to have out of body experiences, there is a section within the confines of this book that cover this area in depth.

The book contains a dream dictionary with dream interpretations. Readers will learn about dream recall and techniques on how to remember dreams once awoken from one. This book is very educational, and I really enjoyed reading it, and am excited to try some of the techniques listed in this book.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to change how they dream and or understand dream states and sleep cycles. If you are looking for more information about lucid dreaming and get the low down info about why we dream than this book is for you.

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Writing Horror and Avoiding Cliches

THE HORROR GENRE: ON WRITING HORROR AND AVOIDING CLICHÉS

 

October 25, 2013 | Cris Freese

 

 

“The three types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there …” — Stephen King

The horror genre is something that I’ve always been fascinated with. Luckily, I don’t think I’m the only one. People like to be frightened. If they didn’t, Stephen King wouldn’t have a thousand novels and you wouldn’t find every horror film ever made running on AMC at this time, every year. Seriously. Click over to AMC, I can almost guarantee Halloween, or one of its sequels, is on right now.

And horror has adapted. Yes, you can still find the slasher movies and those “gross-out” moments that King references. But it’s mental now. “Found footage” movies can be terrifying because it seems so normal, so everyday. The more real, the better. And the scarier. It’s the dark basement where the only thing you can hear is the beating of your own heart. That’s real horror. The kind of stuff that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, as if someone was standing inches behind you.

But writing horror isn’t so easy. With any type of fiction, it’s difficult to think of something that hasn’t already been done. With horror fiction, it’s especially true. Creepy basements, loud noises from the attic, hidden rooms, Indian burial grounds, old hotels, multiple personality disorder, etc.—it’s all been done before, and it’s all out there. These clichés shouldn’t restrain you, however. They’ve simply defined the space you’re working in. You know what’s there, now create your own story.

Below are Ramsey Campbell’s thoughts  on “Avoiding What’s Been Done to Death” in On Horror Writing, edited by Mort Castle. Be sure to read it all the way to the end. That last sentence is breathtakingly creepy.

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Some people . . . claim that there’s nothing new in horror. In a sense, that may be true. More than sixty years ago, H.P. Lovecraft drew up a list of the basic themes of weird fiction, and I can think of very little that the field has added to that list since then. But that’s by no means as defeatist as it sounds, because the truth is surely that many of the themes we’re dealing with are so large and powerful as to be essentially timeless.

For instance, the folk tale of the wish that comes true more fully and more terribly than the wisher could have dreamed is the basis not only of “The Monkey’s Paw,” but of Stephen King’s Pet Semetary and of my own novel, Obsesssion, yet the three stories have otherwise far more to do with their writers than with one another. That suggests . . . that one way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

That isn’t to say that imitation never has its uses. Here, as in any other of the arts, it’s a legitimate and useful way to serve your apprenticeship. . . . If you’re writing in a genre, it’s all the more important to read widely outside it in order to be aware what fiction is capable of. It’s less a matter of importing techniques into the field than of seeing the field as part of a larger art. Depending wholly on genre techniques can lend too easily to the secondhand and the second-rate. There’s only one Stephen King, but there are far too many writers trying to sound like him.

It’s no bad thing to follow the example of writers you admire, then, but only as a means to finding your own voice. You won’t find that, of course, unless you have something of your own to say. I did, once I stopped writing about Lovecraft’s horrors and began to deal with what disturbed me personally. I began to write about how things seemed to me, which was more important and, at first, more difficult than it may sound. I tried (and still do try) to take nothing on trust to describe things as they really are or would be.

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that the horror field is riddled with clichés. The house that’s for sale too cheaply, the guy who must be working nights because he sleeps during the day . . . , the attic room the landlady keeps locked, the place none of the topers in the village inn will visit after dark—we can all have fun recognizing these and many others, which is by no means to say that they haven’t been used effectively by masters of the craft. But I think there are more fundamental clichés in the field, and I think today’s writers may be the ones to overturn them.

Take the theme of evil, as the horror story often does. Writing about evil is a moral act, and it won’t do to recycle definitions of evil—to take them on trust. Horror fiction frequently presents the idea of evil in such a shorthand form as to be essentially meaningless—something vague out there that causes folk to commit terrible acts, something other than ourselves, nothing to do with us. That sounds to me more like an excuse than a definition, and I hope it’s had its day. If we’re going to write about evil, then let’s define it and how it relates to ourselves.

All good fiction consists of looking at things afresh, but horror fiction seems to have a built-in tendency to do the opposite. Ten years or so ago, many books had nothing more to say than “the devil made me do it.” Now, thanks to the influence of films like Friday the 13th, it seems enough for some writers to say that a character is psychotic; no further explanation is necessary. But it’s the job of writers to imagine how it would feel to be all their characters, however painful that may sometimes be. It may be a lack of that compassion that has led some writers to create children who are evil simply because they’re children, surely the most deplorable cliché of the field.

Some clichés are simply products of lazy writing. Tradition shouldn’t be used as an excuse to repeat what earlier writers have done; if you feel the need to write about the stock figures of the horror story, that’s all the more reason to imagine them anew. . . . It’s only fair to warn you that many readers and publishers would rather see imitations of whatever they liked last year than give new ideas a chance. But I’ve always tried to write what rings true to me, whether or not it makes the till ring. If you don’t feel involved with what you’re writing, it’s unlikely that anyone else will.

There’s another side to the field that is overdue for attack by a new generation—its reactionary quality. A horror writer I otherwise admire argued recently that “it has been a time-honored tradition in literature and film that you have a weak or helpless heroine”—implying, I assume, that we should go on doing so. Well, tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes (not that the author in question necessarily does); time-honored it may be, but that certainly doesn’t make it honorable. In fact, these days, so many horror stories (and especially films) gloat over the suffering of women that it seems clear the authors are getting their own back, consciously or not, on aspects of real life that they can’t cope with. Of course, that isn’t new in horror fiction, nor is using horror fiction to define as evil or diabolical whatever threatens the writer or the writer’s lifestyle. But, at the very least, one should be aware as soon as possible, that this is what one is doing, so as to be able to move on. I have my suspicions, too, about the argument that horror fiction defines what is normal by showing us what isn’t. I think it’s time for more of the field to acknowledge that, when we come face-to-face with the monsters, we may find ourselves looking not at a mask but at a mirror.

 

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/there-are-no-rules/the-horror-genre-on-writing-horror-and-avoiding-cliches

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You can read more from accomplished horror authors, such as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and more, in On Writing Horror, edited by Mort Castle. Also be sure to check out Mort Castle’s Dracula: The Annotated Classic, from Writer’s Digest Books, in Spring 2014!

Never Surrender Your Soul Review

Never Surrender Your Soul by Brian Michael Good

 

 

I recently came across this book and found it very inspirational and a very easy read. I don't always share my reviews, but thought you guys might like to give it a read yourself. Here is the review. By the way the book on kindle is only .99 on amazon.

 

I found this book to be very inspiring and profound. The author delicately shares information that makes you think about who you are and who you want to be. He shares some of his personal experiences and how these experiences have influenced who he is today. The book has much needed information that can help readers to unlock the doors to who they really want to be and reasons why they are who they are. There are parts of this book that I think could help many of our young teens these days. I believe teens would be able to relate to the author’s own experiences as a child and how he has changed to be more of the person he is today. “Surrender Your Soul” has made me think about what I need to do to be the person I want to be.

The book speaks of religions, spirituality, parenting, and God or whom the author calls “Weshemehe.” This book was an interesting read and I read this book within a matter of a few hours. I was influenced to spend some time reflecting on my own life and how I could use this new information to start moving towards the person I want to be. As a parent of two teen boys, I felt that this book might help both of them in understanding the world around them and that they do have choices about how they act and their own behavior and how these characteristics can cause certain reactions in others.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to make changes in their lives or if they have children that are feeling lost. I think this book can help others not only learn about religions and spirituality, but to open the door to learning about oneself.

Here is the link to get a copy

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I just wanted to take a moment to share a fundraising gig on fund me about a family needing help. All help is welcomed even if just a few dollars to help this family get the medical attention needed. Please check it out and share with on twitter and Facebook.

 

My name is Jerri and it’s been one heck of a year for my family. In 2011, I was in an accident that led to injuries in my low back, neck, both hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, and left hand that have left me handicapped. Being that the injury was a work injury, I no longer make any money from it, because worker’s comp only pays for the first two years of any claim. The insurance company delayed my treatment for almost two years and I had to go to court just to get seen. I am in a very severe and debilitating way now and unable to work. I cannot get social security as I am still being treated and am not permanently disabled yet, but cannot work. Last year my husband and I had to make the hardest decision for our family and let the bank take our home and move to the Midwest to find a better opportunity for employment for my husband and hopefully better medical treatment for my work injuries. We have been barely making it with only one person working in the household. Before my work injury I had went to school and gained my Master’s degree in counseling and was working out in the field with clients diagnosed with autism. Since my injury we have lost our home and most of our belongings.

I have put this together for our family’s medical needs, which are many. We haven’t qualified for insurance and we can’t afford to pay for it either. A friend of mine thought putting together a fund might allow people to help us gain some medical attention. We are in need of everything from the eye doctor and glasses to getting a regular checkup. My husband works hard to try to make enough money for our family but it’s just enough to keep a house over our heads. With my medical needs he has to take time off from work with no pay to take me to see specialists and have surgeries and treatments. It’s been a long hard road, but we are hopeful that others may help us raise the monies needed to for our medical needs so that we can be healthy for our family.

I thank you so much for anything that you may want to donate and God Bless you all for your help. Here is the link to the Fund Me site http://www.gofundme.com/jc7q3k

 

 

 

 

Brian Weiss: Past-Life Regression Session

Are Intimacy Issues Getting in the Way of Your Relationship?

Are Intimacy Issues Getting in the Way of Your Relationship?

Many people incorrectly think that being intimate with someone means to have sexual relations. This couldn't be further from the truth. Being intimate makes a person very vulnerable and for many this causes too many emotions to surface and for these people it can make them feel very uncomfortable. This can lead to issues in the bedroom. Sex is the highest level of intimacy two people can share, but when one partner suffers from intimacy issues this can lead to a very blah sexual session.

Intimacy leads to people knowing each other very deeply and leads to a strong relationship between couples. There are no secrets, and each person feels free to be who they are in front of their partner. Sex is just the sexual act that intimacy leads to and can be the most intimate act two people will share.

Being intimate means cuddling, touching, kissing, sexual relations, massaging and stroking, and communicating on a very deep level. In a strong relationship, you will visually see the intimacy between two people as they touch, hug, and often kiss in public or alone. These people are very open in their relationship and want to show their affections. This allows each to feel completed, happy and feeling loved by the other person. These acts of intimacy then lead to a complete act of intimacy in the bedroom where they are open with each other sexually.

Those who have a fear of intimacy have difficulties connecting with another person. As a therapist, I have often helped couples work on intimacy issues as opposed to sexual issues. Once the intimacy issues start to go away or are dealt with better, the sex gets good and more frequent among couples.

So, where does this fear of intimacy come from? Well, it can come from a variety of issues that started in childhood. For those people that have been molested or sexually abused are likely to have trouble trusting others, and, for this reason, keep a wall up between them and their partner. The fear of being taken advantage of again; leaving a feeling of betrayal leads to intimacy issues. In the therapy world, we consider people who experience this fear to suffer from an anxiety disorder. When a person has a fear of intimacy, he or she may feel anxious anytime he or she tries to get intimate and sexual with someone else.

How do you know if you have a fear of intimacy? Do you feel anxious before being intimate with someone else?

·         Secure people feel comfortable being intimate and sharing personal information with others.

·         Those who feel insecure and defensive about getting intimate or sharing intimate details of one's life may have a fear of intimacy.

·         Those who feel that they don't deserve to be loved or supported by others may suffer from this fear as well.

·         If the person has had many relationships that have broken up when it would have become serious may point to a fear of intimacy.

·         A person who avoids intimacy and doesn't show affection very often.

·         Lack of sexual relations also points toward intimacy issues.

·         People who suffer from depression and anxiety tend to suffer from this fear of intimacy.

·         Having many one night stands is a red flag.

·         Frequents arguments in relationships can point toward a lack of intimacy, which has increased stress levels (Sex is a natural stress reliever).

·         Lack, of trusting other people, is also a red flag.

A relationship needs to be intimate for each person to feel completed. Without this feeling of contentment, people will be searching other ways to feel better, this sometimes leads to addictive behaviors like substance abuse. A person with intimacy issues will have issues in all relationships including friendships. There are many people that suffer from intimacy issues, for this reason, have issues in their relationships with marriages ending in divorce or breakups. These people will continue to suffer a fear of intimacy until they deal with their intimacy issues.

Many will need to seek counseling to get to the source of the reason of their intimacy issues. If this sounds like you, then seek help because your relationships will not get better until you deal with these issues.

 

 

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