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Lucid Dreaming and Creativity
No full textThe most important qualification for my presenting this paper is my extensive direct experience of lucid dreaming. I have been dreaming lucidly since childhood. In my teens, until discovering Celia Green\u27s book Lucid Dreams in 1968, I called these experiences "conscious dreams".Among these lucid dreams are hundreds in which I have done an experiment or made some observations. Fifty signal-verified lucid dreams and even two-way communication have occurred while asleep in sleep laboratories. Lucid dreaming makes it possible for me to alter the physiological characteristics of REM sleep, in particular the frequency and distribution of rapid eye movements
Reflections on 20 Years of \u27Conscious\u27 Sleep Experiences
No full textOver the past several years, Father "X" (who prefers to remain anonymous) has written a series of letters to Charles Tart (with copies to Lucidity Letter senior editor, Jayne Gackenbach) together with copies of dream diary entries in which he detailed his extensive experiences with lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences. Father "X" has kindly shared his correspondence and diaries with us, and in a previous issue of Lucidity Letter, we published excerpts. Recently, he sent us copies of his latest letter to Charles Tart and [the accompanying] diaries. What follows are two lightly edited representative diary entries describing his experiences, and an excerpt from his letter in which he summarizes his thoughts about these phenomena. Where our editing involves addition of or substitution of clarifying words, we have added brackets ([])
"Lady of the Lotus" by William E. Barrett
No full textOriginally Published in 1975, Lady of the Lotushas recent|y been reissued by "The Library of SpiritualAdventure", a division of Tarcher Press which republishes "classic novels of the quest for human growth, the evolution of consciousness, and the transformation of the spirit".In this historical novel, William E. Barrett writes about Prince Siddhartha Gautama\u27s quest for truth and final enlightenment, but the author\u27s stated focus is on Yadohara, Siddhartha\u27s wife and the mother of his child. According to Barrett, hundreds of books have been written about Siddhartha/ the Buddha, but this book is the only work about Yadohara
Differences Between Lucid and Nonlucid Ecstatic Dreaming
No full textIn 1976, after a few years of occasionally dreaming lucid dreams which I did not differentiate from other dreams, there came a lengthy dream that announced itself as distinctive while I was dreaming it. Not only did I appear to myself to be distinctly "conscious" but the character of this consciousness was permeated with an ecstatic feeling of balance which changed my conception of what I could be in waking life, as well as in dreaming. Even though this dream was not the first one in which I made comments that made me appear to be aware that I was dreaming, it was the first one in which my dreaming "I" was initiated into a sharp awareness of a new state, and new possibilities for conscious development
Conversation Between Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey, July, 1989
No full textThis interview took place at the 1989 Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) conference in London. LaBerge and Tholey were already familiar with each other’s work, but met for the first time in person at this conference. Their conversations focused on the concept of the consciousness of dream characters and Tholey’s “mirror technique” for inducing OBE’s. We enter as they are discussing what a polygraph record would show if dream figures other than the dream ego were capable of signalling
Letter from the Editor
No full textAs I sit looking out over Edmonton\u27s snow-covered river valley, after having just caught up on the latest war news, the peace of my view stands in stark contrast to the realities of today\u27s world. So too the fulfillment I have felt the last 10 years editing Lucidity Letter stands in stark contrast to the financial realities of a very small organization trying to keep a very small journal on a very esoteric topic alive. A topic which I deeply believe is critical to our growth as individuals and ultimately as a civilization. As one of the original consciousness researchers, R. Keith Wallace, recently wrote: "The process of growing to the highest state of consciousness -traditionally known as \u27enlightenment\u27 -is referred to as a process of becoming more and more fully awake inside, awake to the inner dynamics of consciousness." I believe that Lucidity Letter has played, and hopefully will continue to play, a key role in supporting this perspective
Mindlessness and Mindfulness in Daytime and Nighttime Dreaming
No full textI have been interested in dreams since I was a young child and discovered for myself that I could become lucid in nightmares and so cure myself of them. Professionally, I was fascinated by lucid dreams when almost no scientists knew that they were "real." Lucid dreamersm, of course, knew they were real, and usually did not need any support forom scientific authorities for the fact that their experience was what it was! I say "usually," as we must not underestimate the power of authority to sometimes talk us out of the reality of our own experience
"Personal Mythology" by David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner
No full textHow would you like to read a book that would hopefully provide for you the experience of taking a transformational workshop, without actually leaving your house? David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner have provided such a manual for you, replete with suggestions for guided visualizations, journal writing, for the construction of ritual objects, and a theory about your own personal and family mythology as the overall framework for your inner journey. It\u27s effectiveness may vary, depending on one\u27s given personal myths and their "severity."I would not recommend this technique to be followed without ongoing therapy, especially for people who are undergoing extreme distress or have borderline symptoms. If utilized as a suggestive device for personal growth, and especially by people well worn on the beaten path of workshops and similar transformational growth experience, it can be an excellent ancillary tool. The style of writing is accessible to any who want to pursue the "written form" of self-actualizing through rigorous exercises
A Look at Mystic Light
No full textUnusual experiences of light are occasionally mentioned in accounts of lucid dreams in which the dreamer knows that he or she is dreaming. Garfield (1979) mentions experiencing lines and cracks of light, a sparkling globe, light emerging from a room, sunlight, and light shining on water. I have reported (Gillespie, 1987) points of light, small lines of light, cracks of light, disks of light, and other forms of light. I do not suggest that these minor forms of light are mystical
Letter from the Editor
No full textOf all the issues of Lucidity LetterI had the least to do with putting this one out! Aware of the last minute pressures I would be facing mounting the Lucidity Associations Higher States of Consciousness conference in Chicago, readers, friends, and colleagues came to my rescue. As in past issues, Canadians Kathy Belicki and her secretary Joanne Gazzola edited and typeset, respectively, about half of this issue. Two women new to our team really made a difference between working hard on the issue and gliding home with it. Shelagh Robinson, from Edmonton, volunteered many hours to typesetting and list maintenance. The work that will have the greatest impact on the reader comes from that of Elinor Gebremedhin of Philadelphia. Her professional copy editing of the entire issue has ended the many small errors which have plagued Lucidity Letter. A heartfelt thanks to all four women for making this the easiest Lucidity Letterever to produce