It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.