Since "reality" is merely perception based on input through the five senses, and thus merely a subjective experience dictated by the rules established over thousands of years of evolution, it seems that "reality" might shift along with perceptions.

Case in point: If you were a non-believer in psychic phenomenon, but were to experience such phenomenon with your own eyes (and somehow manage NOT to rationalize it away out of fear), would your perception shift to the point that your reality would begin to allow such phenomenon to occur on a regular basis? We're talking WITHOUT drugs here people.

We can all point to experiences of having thought of something that re-occurs back to us from some other source. A thought, idea, concept, creation, dream, or other seemingly personal thought experience that shows up on the public radar screen - pick your media: tv, radio, film, book, etc - as if we'd written it ourselves. Many point to these experiences as proof of Jung's Collective Unconscious, a vast pool of knowledge and inspiration that we all pull from.

Now consider Collective Dreaming. According to some dream guides, there are "primitive" tribes in South Pacific island nations that supposedly dream together. They awake and discuss what they all saw, and base a large part of their waking life on these dreams.

Could it be that modern, "civilized" society has managed to clamp a lid on our ability to create connection to eachother, or to dim the clarity to the point that the fleeting images and sensations of psychic connection we DO experience are downplayed as psychological anomolies? Have we relied so heavily on rational thought that we've effectively created a psychic block to these abilities which may be inherent - and perhaps essential - to human existence?

We look at other species and observe fascinating traits such as instinct. The way a whale knows where to migrate, the way a sheep dog knows how to herd, the way a bear knows how to fish - usually without instruction from a parent. Or how about the way birds fly in formation, shifting direction as if with one mind? There are many instances of collective thought in nature, but for some reason, it's discounted in our own.

Perhaps there's a vast, untapped potential of human existence that we are ignoring. And not just passively, either. Look at how things like dreaming, imagination, creativity, and deja vu are discounted as the whimsy of feeble or un-serious minds.

Lucid Dreaming may have important implications barely fathomable to most humans on the planet today. Through Collective or Lucid Dreaming, we may be able to time travel, to "remote view", to communicate faster and more completely than the Internet could even ever hope to come close to. The brain is an incredible device, severely underused and more often depleted of its power - by dumbed-down TV, mind-terror and control tactics dolled out by those seeking to keep power, mind-numbing drugs, and self-delusion. Escapism has hijacked the mind's ability to expand to new and enlightenened consciousness, and is fueled by those who would like to keep it that way.

Why?

Because a free mind can be a dangerous thing to those who want to exert control.

More to come...