This book recounts how psychiatrist Montague Ullman and psychologist Stanley Krippner conducted experiments to determine whether persons acting as senders can transfer their thoughts to the minds of sleeping receivers, thereby altering their dreams. Their results were astonishing: the researchers were able to verify several instances of telepathic communication between participants. Participants often gave uncannily accurate descriptions of images that the senders attempted to project to them – apparently confirming the reality of extrasensory perception during the dream state.

This study makes a thorough examination of the phenomenology of mystical luminosity experience, and how it may relate to religious and mystical concepts of divine or transcendent light. A phenomenologically grounded model is introduced, and early mixed methods investigations summarized.

This book is a philosophical experiment in thinking, feeling, and willing beyond the transcendental threshold of Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy. The key to this reconnection is found in imagination, which if consciously cultivated can grant the process philosopher direct experience of the cosmic creativity expressing itself in both the depths of the soul and throughout the physical world. 

(jmishlove@newthinkingallowed.com)