Kenneth Kelzer's "Sun and Shadow": A New Classic on Lucid Dreaming

Many publishers send me galley proofs of books they are about to release in the hope that I will read them and say something about the book that they can use in promotion. This is one of the areas of regret in my life, because so many of these books look like they will be of great interest to me and I want to read the galleys: but I seldom have time. There is still a set of proofs on my desk of a forthcoming book by Robin Robertson, for example, that I know I will be fascinated by, yet I haven't been able to look at them at all. I miss too much

On Morita equivalence of partially ordered semigroups with local units

We show that for two partially ordered semigroups S and T with common local units, there exists a unitary Morita context with surjective maps if and only if the categories of closed right S- and T-posets are equivalent

THEORETICAL AND PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS: Terminology in Lucid Dream Research

George Gillespie, writing in the November 1983 issue of the Lucidity Letter, describes his “lucid dreaming” as including the knowledge that he is dreaming while he is dreaming, but without his consciousness being more like his ordinary waking state than like his ordinary dreaming state (Gillespie, 1983). He asks the question whether his dreaming is lucid by my definition of lucid dreaming: “Lucid dreams are those in which the dreamer is aware that he is dreaming, clearly recalls his waking life and considers himself to be in full command of his intellectual and motivational abilities.

FEARS OF THE PARANORMAL IN OURSELVES AND OUR COLLEAGUES: RECOGNIZING THEM, DEALING WITH THEM

Ostensibly objective scientists frequently show quite irrational and unethical behavior when presented with data about psi (psychic phenomena), the paranormal, subtle energies, and the like. Observations and some research suggests that, in addition to ignorance, semi-consciousness and unacknowledged fears of psi affect their thought and behaviors. Even researchers who advocate the importance of psi sometimes show similar distorted behavior, especially when effect size goes beyond statistically-significant-but-practically-trivial effects and become strong. Such unrecognized and unacknowledged resistance can sabotage both research and application. The researcher is not independent of the research in these areas. This paper focuses on recognizing and dealing with these widespread ambivalences and fears about psi phenomena