Jennifer Dumpert on Reality Sandwich

Meeting in the Dream World: Oneironauticum
Jennifer Dumpert

On the last Saturday of the month, Oneironauticum participants enter dream space together. We do this by sharing things that induce vivid dreams – often substances but sometimes practices or sensory triggers. Whether it's garlic, Galantamine, or Tibetan Buddhist lucid dream practices, if it promotes dreams and dream recall, we'll try it.

Urban Dreamscape
Jennifer Dumpert

The best way to live in a sacred place is to make the place where you live sacred. I lived at the corner of Avenue A and 5th Street in New York, as urban as it gets. Borrowing heavily from ancient Art of Memory practices and traditions of Australian aboriginal Dreamtime traditions, I began to mentally superimpose my dreams onto the architectural features I'd just noticed.

"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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Jennifer Dumpert

About Me

Bio

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and avid dreamer. Her publications and lectures about the Urban Dreamscape practice can be viewed at www.urbandreamscape.com. Her other publications have focused primarily on religion, particularly spontaneous shrines, sacred space in Japanese Shinto, and the emergence of a feminist American Buddhist tradition.