Linda authored the ground-breaking book, Mutual
Dreaming (Pocket Books, 1997). She served as editor and publisher
of the principal magazine in the dream field, Dream Network. Having
written articles for such magazines as FATE, American Psychic
Magazine and the OMNI newsletter, she most recently wrote "Dream
Trek," a column in the Internet E-zine Electric Dreams.
Active in the dreamwork community since 1984, Linda was a founding board
member and wrote the first mission statement of the multidisciplinary (and
highly academic) Association For the
Study of Dreams (ASD). She has presented papers and hosted panels at
several of ASD's annual conferences. In 2001, she helped design the conference
web site, the Computer
Café, and created the four picture targets for the Dream Telepathy
Contest.
With Fred Olsen, she co-founded the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group (BADG),
to provide support for her dreamwork peers in the San Francisco area. There,
she practiced dream sharing, perfected dreamwork techniques and uncovered
the basic values of the Partnership Paradigm. After BADG presented her
with an honorary "Doctoral Degree in Social Dreamology," Linda
graduated from dreamworker to dreamplayer.
The observer-participant brand of research has required that Linda dream
along with the other members of her dreaming team. Searching for active
participants in a sleepy field like dreams is not an easy task, whether
on-line or off. To help find such dreamers for her half a hundred group
dreaming projects and dream telepathy experiments, Linda served as coordinator
of the Seth Dream Network and dipped into the lucid dream community before
founding the Fly-By-Night Club
research group.
Linda's goal has been to encourage the emergence of the Super Self through
dreams. Her research has lead her to experiment with such flying and floating
variations as virtual reality games, scuba diving, ballooning, gliding,
hang gliding and flying a Piper Tomahawk. She has found flying dreams to
be both extremely practical (resolving nightmares) and highly inspirational
(launching further extraordinary dreams). She believes flying dreams to
be at the hub of dream understanding and appreciation.
Linda lives with her family in California's Silicon Valley.