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Many people have had lucid dreaming experiences — recognizing that you are dreaming while you are still asleep. And while this personal “virtual reality” can be leveraged for all kinds of creative explorations, one of the most potentially powerful uses is to support health and healing. Both scientific research and anecdotal evidence point to the ability to use this unique state of consciousness to influence body and mind, and indicate that it may be possible to use the lucid dreaming state to reduce symptoms, foster rapid healing, and even (in some cases) fully resolve health issues — both physical and mental.

From the Earth Ancients podcast with Cliff Dunning, hear IONS Director of Research, Dr. Helané Wahbeh, talk about her new book — a  groundbreaking guide that explores the cutting-edge science behind channeling, and offers powerful tools to help you hone your own abilities.

In this webinar, IONS Director of Research, Dr. Helané Wahbeh, gave a us a peek into her new book The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition and Embrace the Force That Connects Us All.

Susan is stricken with grief. Her husband of 25 years died suddenly. There were so many unresolved questions that she only wishes she had asked him. There were the practical things, but there were also some core questions about what he believed would happen when he died? Is there a way to connect with him? Or even the experience of him, whether he is actually there, or not. And can it help her in her process of bereavement?

What does COVID mean?

Lucid dreaming is a paradoxical state in which you know you are dreaming while you are dreaming, which can be used as a tool for inner knowledge and problem solving, to support the experiences of waking reality, to direct healing intent to physical ailments, and so much more!

A few weeks ago, I had a much-anticipated dinner with a longtime colleague whom I had not seen since before the pandemic. What should have been a joyful reunion turned into an awkward and uncomfortable evening. I was completely caught off guard by my colleague’s visible fear, anger, and paralysis resulting from the pandemic’s continued impact on what had been our normal lives. Her coping skills were clearly depleted and her prior “leadership energy” was long gone. I was thrown off by her negative state of mind and felt a twinge of guilt for my more constructive — even optimistic — state of mind. While I have known for a while that we have experienced the pandemic in very different ways, I had no idea how profoundly different our experiences have actually been.

Since inception, IONS has set out with an understanding that everything is interconnected. We are all connected to each other, to the world, and to information beyond time and space. This hypothesis is what has driven us to conduct ground-breaking research on meditation, energy healing, presentiment, and more. In recent years, we have begun to investigate channeling abilities. Our Channeling Research Program is spearheaded by Dr. Helané Wahbeh who is our Director of Research, as well as a trance channeler, hailing from a long line of trance channelers.

It has long been said that psychic abilities may be hereditary. One study in Scotland looked at family trees of people with Second Sight and found that psychic abilities appear to run in families.¹ There have also been several other research studies on the heritability of psychic abilities. “Second Sight” implies that there are two types of sight — our ordinary eyesight and a second type of sight that allows an individual to have prophetic visions. These visions may happen spontaneously and not usually “on-demand.”

Every night around the world, hundreds of thousands of people try to induce a lucid dream. Some succeed. Many fail. But either way, the quest continues to experience that extraordinary Zen-like moment of suddenly realizing, “This is a dream!”