September 2009

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Contact:
IASD Office
office@asdreams.org
209.724.0889

Dream-News Editor
jacquie@asdreams.org

IASD MEMBER EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD

WEB NEWS PLACE

The Institute for Dream Studies, headed by Justina Lasley can be viewed at www.DreamSynergy.org It offers articles, dream events and links to broadcasts.

NORTH CAROLINA TRIVIA

Did you know?

• North Carolina has the largest state-maintained highway system in the nation. The system has 77,400 miles of roads.
• The first miniature golf course in America, the Lilliputian Golf Course, was built in Pinehurst in 1916.
• At 6,684 feet, Mount Mitchell in western North Carolina is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River.
• At 5,505 feet, Beech Mountain in Watauga County (pop. 36,952) lays claim to being the highest incorporated community east of the Rockies.

There is much to see and do in North Carolina. So be sure to include Cullowhee, North Carolina -- the site of IASD's 27th Annual Conference -- in your travel plans next year. And plan to come early or stay longer and visit this beautiful state.

For more information on the conference, visit https://asdreams.org/2010 . We'll see you there!

DEAR IASD MEMBERS
AND FRIENDS

Time to begin thinking about IASD's 2010 conference and your submission of paper, workshop, or special event. For a complete look at the 2010 Call for Submissions go to asdreams.org/2010 where you will find a PDF file of the print version of the Call for Submissions which was mailed this week.

All submissions must be filed online: tinyurl.com/8onwop 
Please pass this invitation along to friends and colleagues.

See you soon in the mountains of North Carolina!

Robert Gongloff
2010 Conference Host

The Setting Western Carolina University lies in a scenic valley in the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina – just 30 miles from the Appalachian Trail. When you are not dreaming, enjoy award-winning hiking trails, world-class mountain biking trails, and nearby whitewater rafting and kayaking on the Nantahala and Ocoee rivers. Visit some of the many local potters, weavers, painters, and other artists and craftspeople who flourish in these mountains. Take advantage of The Great Smoky Mountain National Forest and Historic Downtown Asheville, home to the famous Biltmore House, America’s largest home. Only 25 minutes from the campus you can witness the 11,000 year-old indigenous Cherokee tradition. 

NEW BOOK INVESTIGATES PRODROMAL DREAMING

The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense. Authors Michael Jawer and Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD

The subject of prodromal dreaming – information about the body relayed to the conscious mind – is given a twist in a new book entitled The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense. Authors Michael Jawer and Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD hypothesize that prodromal dreaming might not only be operative within an individual (e.g., becoming aware of an imminent illness within one’s own body) but could operate between individuals – and across normal space/time boundaries – due to strong emotion on the part of a “sender” and a dissociated state on the part of a “receiver.” Numerous examples are provided of how this form of unconscious telepathy might (and presumably does) work. IASD members familiar with the work of Robert Van de Castle will appreciate the approach while perhaps apprehending something new in the emphasis on emotion and the bodymind energy it harnesses.

More generally, the book posits that a variety of anomalous perceptions as well as environmental sensitivities have a common basis in the way the body and brain process feeling. The neurobiology of emotion provides a framework for the exploration of these extraordinary sensitivities. The authors have previously documented an apparent overlap between anomalous perceptions and various physical sensitivities, e.g., allergies, migraine headache, chronic pain and fatigue, synesthesia, PTSD, and unusual sensitivity to light, sound and smell. The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion explains what the overlap might mean, i.e., how it sheds light on the development of the self and the foundational role of sentience in shaping our cognitions, memories, and dreams.

The book features a Foreword by Larry Dossey, MD and an endorsement by Stanley Krippner, PhD. IASD members may well find the subject matter intriguing – especially its treatment of psi dreams. More information is available at the book's website, www.emotiongateway.com . The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion can be obtained directly from the publisher, Park Street Press, or from a variety of online booksellers.

In This Issue:

PSIBERDREAMING ONLINE CONFERENCE:
9-27- 09 TO 10 11-09

IASD HISTORIC "FLY BY" PRESENTATION ONLINE IN PDF VERSION DURING PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE

CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERT DR. CHARLES TART TALKS ABOUT THE END OF MATERIALISM AT PSIBERDREAMING 2009

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – 2010 CONFERENCE

MEMBERSHIP NEWS SEPTEMBER 2009

Also in this issue: 

MEMBER EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD

WEB NEWS PLACE

IASD MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA

MORE TRIVIA FROM NORTH CAROLINA

DREAMS AND DREAMING IN THE MEDIA

AUGUST MEMBERSHIPS

PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE PROVIDES THE PERFECT INCENTIVE FOR JOINING IASD

Where can one find a conference totally focused on the most current theories about the nature of dreams? A conference which allows time for questions, and conversations with presenters? Where can one find mind-challenging dream contests with global participation? Or wander through a gallery of exquisite dream art?

And do it all in pajamas?

Dr. Charles Tart Stanley Krippner Robert Moss Deborah Koff-Chapin Rev. Jeremy Taylor Paco Mitchell

We want you to enjoy yourself! Register NOW for the International Association for the Study of Dreams 2009 PsiberDreaming Online Conference. Join Co-Hosts Jean Campbell and Rita Dwyer from Sunday, September 27 through Sunday, October 11, 2009 for Magical, Mythical Dreams of Transformation.

An international cast of experts, this year including Charles Tart, PhD; Stanley Krippner, PhD; Robert Moss; Deborah Koff-Chapin, Paco Mitchell and the Rev. Jeremy Taylor as Keynote Presenters, will provide papers and workshops for discussion.

And where can anyone find such a deal as a two-week intensive conference for only $40 for IASD Members; $45 for nonmembers; and $35 for students with valid ID?

Wouldn't you like to invite your friends?

All individuals who join IASD as members for the first time between August 15 and October 1, 2009 will receive a free pass to the PsiberDreaming Conference, and a firsthand look at why IASD is the most popular dream organization in the world. They'll also receive for a year's worth of IASD's publications and news, and reduced rates at other IASD events.

IASD HISTORIC "FLY BY" PRESENTATION ONLINE IN PDF VERSION DURING PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE

CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERT DR. CHARLES TART TALKS ABOUT THE END OF MATERIALISM AT PSIBERDREAMING 2009

My three days at the PsiberDreaming Conference will be devoted to a discussion of my new book, "The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together." I'm not going to present new material, but respond to questions and comments about that material. The discussion may be somewhat interesting if you haven't read the book but try to figure it out from the comments, but it will be an awful lot more sensible if you've read the book! You can order it from Amazon. In case you're wondering why I think so much of it - three years to write it, 50+ years to prepare to write it - it's basic theme is that the too widespread belief that science has somehow "proven" that all spirituality is inherent nonsense is bad science, it's a dogmatic philosophy of what I call Dismissive Materialism, masquerading as science. What the actual scientific research shows is that it's reasonable to be both scientific and spiritual in your outlook. Of course there's lots of nonsense scattered around, that's true of any area of human activity, so you need to keep discriminating, but it's not inherently stupid or neurotic to be interested in the spiritual or have spiritual experiences - like revelatory dreams, for example.

Wondering if the book will interest you? Here's a link to several pages from its introduction summarizing what it's about - although it's the details that get really interesting, of course.

This article is continued online by clicking here:
http://tinyurl.com/loa4w4 

Charles Tart's book The End of Materialism can be found on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN/1572246456/iasd-20

The future belongs to people who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 

IASD AND MEMBERS
IN THE MEDIA

IASD PRESIDENT, ROBERT WAGGONER INTERVIEWED ON IOWA RADIO

By "popular demand," Iowa Public Radio invited Robert Waggoner back for another one-hour presentation in August on lucid dreaming to talk about his new book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. The host of Iowa Public Radio's 'The Exchange,' Ben Kieffer, mentioned that in Robert's first visit in May, the switchboard lit up with people interested in telling their lucid dream stories or asking questions. Robert spent time promoting IASD, during his hour on the air.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – 2010 CONFERENCE

High quality proposals are invited, particularly those that explore the conference theme, “Bringing Dreams and Community Together.” We request that submissions fall into one of the following tracks: Research & Theory; Arts & Humanities; Culture & Anthropology; Education; Religion, Spirituality & Philosophy; Clinical Approaches; Dreamwork Practices; Extraordinary, PSI & Lucid Dreams, and the Conference Theme: “Bringing Dreams and Community Together.”

Submission Categories include the following: Paper Presentations, Symposia, Panels, Workshops, Special Events or Major Presentations, Hot-off-the-Press, Poster Presentations and Morning Dream Groups. Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2009. Note that the Hot-off-the-Press and Poster Presentations may be submitted until 1 March 2010. If you have questions, please send them to submissions2010@asdreams.org

The Call for Presentations can be found https://asdreams.org/2010/

Approximately 25 CE credits will be offered for selected presentations during the four day conference. IASD is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IASD maintains responsibility for the program.

AUGUST MEMBERSHIPS 

August Memberships
Total: 52

New Members: 23
Mrs. Juna Albert
Dr. Jose Luis Valero
Ms. Delia Puiatti
Ms. Maria Carla Cernuto
Ms. Krista Sallop
Ms. Cathy M. Dempsey
Ms. Carla Blowey
Mrs. Jeanne Miller
Ms. Teresa Roche
Mrs. Sandra G. Conlen
Ms. Nancy Poole
Ms. Mary McGee
Ms. Diane Dyann
Mrs. Tonnie Pernille Albertus
Dr. Julijan Naskov
Mrs. Mooncy Wu
Dr. Luccia Rogers
Dr. Cynthia Krey
Ms. Atava Swiecicki
Ms. Cynthia Peterson
Anonymous: 3


Renewing Members: 28
Dr. Scott & Ms. Kathy Sparrow
Dr. Harry Moody
Ms. Mimi Pettibone
Rev. Sven Hedenrud
Dr. Diane Jackson
Mr. Wolfgang Ronnefeldt
Mrs. Deborah Coupey
Mrs. April D. Woodward
Ms. Bambi Corso
Ms. Meg A. Pierce
Ms. Glenna Rossi
Mr. Don Middendorf
Mr. Chad Richard Kempel
Ms. Heather M. Peace
Dr. Charles Stewart
Ms. Mary S. Edwards
Dr. Fred J. Seligson
Mr. Ken Arenson
Ms. Colleen Majewski
Mr. Dean Clayton Edwards
Ms. Misa Tsuruta
Dr. Gillian Holloway
Ms. Lise Robillard
Dr. Jim Pagel
Ms. Jennifer Windt
Anonymous: 2

Affiliate Member: 1
Laboratorio del Sogno
Contact: Dr. Armando D’Agostino

MEMBERSHIP NEWS SEPTEMBER 2009
SPOTLIGHT on IASD AFFILIATES

This month we want to showcase our IASD Affiliates to acquaint you with them and take a look at this growing area of IASD. What are Affiliates? This question and related questions of why affiliate, who can become an Affiliate and what are the terms and benefits of affiliation are spelled out on our webpage under Membership: Affiliate Group Membership. For detailed answers to these questions browse this website page: www.asdreams.org

But our purpose here is to give you a broad picture of Affiliates and how they arose and function in our dream community. The IASD Board determined several years ago that pooling forces with other organizations sharing our interests, goals and ethics about dreams would strengthen IASD as well as the affiliated groups. While many in IASD worked on formulating and implementing this idea, strong leadership from the Danish and Dutch dream associations, especially by Tjitske Wijngaard, resulted in clear guidelines and a process for this development. The structure created by the Affiliates Committee was formally accepted by the IASD Board. The Dutch group, Vereniging voor de Studie van Dromen (VSD) and the Danish group Foreningen for Studiet af Drømme (FFSD, translated as Danish Association for the Study of Dreams) became our first Affiliate members.

Since the initiation of the Affiliate Membership in 2007 we have added four more Affiliates:
Israel: The Israeli Forum for the Study of Dreams & Dreaming, Tel Aviv, Israel
Italy: Laboratorio del Sogno ( Dream Laboratory), Milan, Italy
USA: School of Metaphysics, Windyville, Missouri, USA
USA: North of Eden, Montpelier, Vermont, USA

The recent uptick in IASD Affiliates reflects a growing interest by a number of groups and so it seems timely to share this growth with our whole community. Those approaching IASD to become Affiliates have decided that exchanging information and activities is mutually beneficial and have been realizing some of the “less tangible aspects of affiliation” as our website proposes. Here are a few of those benefits:

• A regional or national organization may gain status by being affiliated to IASD and as such may interest speakers and/or members they might otherwise not reach.
• IASD becomes aware of the expertise developed in other countries and regions than it has been in touch with so far.
• Research may be shared, articles exchanged and other information spread.
• IASD conference speakers may be invited to attend dream gatherings and conferences elsewhere.

Let’s look at a couple of recent activity reports on two of our newer Affiliates to illustrate how these possibilities are being realized.

Laurel Clark, contact for The School of Metaphysics in Windyville, MO, USA, met IASD Board Chair Jean Campbell at the 2009 Earth Dreaming Conference in Chicago and invited her to visit them and speak. So, on Saturday, September 5, Jean traveled to the School of Metaphysics community farm and retreat center where she met many dreamers associated with the school. She then presented a World Dreams Peace Bridge workshop at a Pre-Peace Parliament Day hosted by S.O.M. This exchange broadened the mutual exposure or our organizations and provided a showcase for speaking and educating about dreams.

Laboratorio del Sogno, meaning Dream Laboratory, is the name of a very new Affiliate organization represented by Dr. Armando D’Agostino of Milan, Italy. When asked to describe his organization in his application for Affiliate status Dr. D’Agostino answered:

 Under their supervision, the core of our research group is composed of myself, currently a resident in psychiatry, Ivan Limosani and Maria Laura Manzone, two clinical psychiatrists who work for the Department. Thus far we have opened many collaborations with other institutions and several students, clinicians and full researchers have been involved in our projects, so we can consider the enlarged group to be composed of 10 - 15 people across different lines of research involving dreams.

As of September 2009 we will have a large room in a new outpatient unit of our Department that will be used exclusively for dream research purposes. This will quite simply be called "Laboratorio del Sogno", which means "Dream Laboratory", so we can now communicate this name as official for our group: Dream Laboratory, Milan.”

It is notable that the initial exploration of affiliation with IASD was begun a year ago by this Italian dream group which only recently joined IASD. Some seeds take a long time to sprout! But in this case, as in many others, it is easy to see many past and future potential lines of exchange and development in the study of dreams. Harry Bosma and Barbara Roukema have written about the Dutch VSD in past E-News columns and we hope to hear from and about our other Affiliates in future ones.

Jody Grundy
IASD Membership Chair

Regional Representatives

To find the list of Regional Contact Reps go to the IASD Website. To become a Regional Contact, or participate in a Regional meet-up contact Jody Grundy, Membership Chair: grundyj@fuse.net 
Jody Grundy, Membership Chair

Membership Map

Take a look at the exciting membership map that Liz Diaz has created for all of us to enjoy and employ. It is a dream come true, something we envisioned and started working on during the Sonoma Conference of 2007. It shows the 35 countries in which our membership lives, where we have Regional Reps, and IASD sponsored events. Kudos and thanks to Liz for taking the initiative to literally put us on the map!

Here is the web address and the KEY:
Small blue pin = Member
Large Yellow pin = Regional Contact
Hover over yellow pin, get short descriptions info about that Regional Contact
Click on a yellow, get regional contact name(s) and email address
Green Large pin = IASD Sponsored events
Click on the NC graphic linked to the 2010 website

Translation Project: International Gateway to IASD

Watch for two new languages to be posted soon on the website: Finnish by Katya Valli; Dutch by Suzanne Wiltink.
We thank all the translators who have already given their time on this project. Go to the main IASD website homepage and follow the icons or this address: https://asdreams.org/languages/
 

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