Quote Originally Posted by TheSilverWolf View Post
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Why is it, that the more civilized we humans get, the more close minded we become? Do you really think it is just coincidence that for the most part, it's only our "modern" age that we've stopped paying attention to dreams? There are a wide variety of cultures and civilizations that have in the past (many that still do) hold dreams in high importance. But the more "civilized" we get, the less we believe in the more mysterious nature of things, and we just disregard dreams entirely, passing them off as something random that happens when we sleep, and belittle those (or think them crazy, or stupid, etc. etc.), who claim to have prophetic dreams or visions.

Let's put it another way. Remote viewing, something that has arguably been verified many times by many different people (let's not forget the US government FUNDED a remote-viewing project and actually used that info to get some scarily detailed plans of different buildings and things), is possible. If we can see places we've never been with enough effort/practice, why should we not also be able to either induce accurate visions/precognitive dreams?

When did we humans become so close-minded about things?
I agree, I would also like to see more openness towards mysticism and/or phenomena out of the 'ordinary', same goes for the psychedelic experience. In all of history we never had such great potential for finding answers (or at least clarity) to the 'real/ancient' questions in life, sucks when this is not accompanied by an open minded and honest scientific approach. Why not use it in the fields where human curiosity demands it instead of disregarding investigations right away and even forbidding them? It seems to me that exploring dreams is a good place to start and fortunately we all can do that.

@HoldOrFold: please teach us how to bring money from your LD....