Biography

Ed Kellogg earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University, did his postdoctoral work at U.C. Berkeley, where he later directed the program of the Air Ion Laboratory. He has authored over 150 papers in fields as diverse as the biochemistry of aging, bioelectricity, general semantics, lucid dreaming, parapsychology, voluntary controls, and the phenomenology of consciousness. He has published his scientific work in peer reviewed journals such as the J. Neurochemistry, the J. Biological Chemistry, the J. Gerontology, Nature, Photochemistry and Photobiology, Toxicology Letters, the J. Bioelectricity, and the International Journal of Biometeorology.

From 2002 to 2005 he created, organized, and hosted the International Association for the Study of Dreams online PsiberDreaming Conferences, and from 2020–2024 co-hosted IASD’s Many Worlds of Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner. He currently serves on the Lucid Dreaming Foundation’s Board of Directors.

An adept lucid dreamer, as a child Ed had both lucid dreams and OBEs (though at that point he could not tell the difference!), abilities he regained in his early twenties after he decided to explore both in depth. Ed has experienced lucid dreaming and many of its permutations from the "inside-out" in hundreds of FULLY lucid dreams, doing pioneering work on dream healing, mutual dreaming, psychopompic dreaming, psi-dreaming, the lucidity continuum, and on the phenomenology of consciousness, and has recorded and indexed tens of thousands of dreams, including some in the SUPER lucid category.

For example, in 2024 a month before IASD’s 4th Many Worlds of Lucid Dreaming Conference he had two of the most extraordinary experiences of his life. The first occurred on September 29th, a month before his workshop began, during which he had what he called a “Zero Point Experience” (ZPE), that exceeded the Yoga Sutras description of Samadhi (3 ॥3॥), of “When intention only shines forth, as if empty of one’s form,” during which, in his judgment, his “I” literally went “Beyond the Matrix,” and which unexpectedly accomplished a major life-goal. The second occurred 18 days later, after using a slightly different incubation intent than the one followed by the ZPE, and resulted in an extraordinary LUCID dream, and the most positive emotional experience of his life, that he titled “Child of God – a Peak Experience.”

In respect to his own work, he writes: "I take a phenomenological approach to dreaming, in which I try to explore and to describe dreaming experience with a minimum of presuppositions as to its nature." Ed has done pioneering work in the areas of lucid dream healing, mutual dreaming, psychopompic dreaming, psi-dreaming, and the lucidity continuum, much of which Robert Waggoner featured in his groundbreaking book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self.

A frequent contributor to The Lucid Dream Experience, Ed has made most of his work freely available online. In 2016 he also contributed a chapter on "Out-of-Body Experiences and Lucid Dreams: A Phenomenological Approach,” in the book Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections, edited by Alex Defoe.

For more information about Ed’s background and uniquely phenomenological approach to lucid dreaming, check out Robert Waggoner’s LDE interview with him, “DreamSpeak: An Interview With Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.” To check out his work, go to: https://duke.academia.edu/EdKellogg.