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WANTED: New Mapmakers of the Mind
No full textIt was with great pleasure that I was made somewhat aware of the scope of exploration taking place under the label of lucid dreaming. The dictionary definition is certainly less than adequate: LUCID, bright, clear, transparent, sane, easily understood; DREAM, sensations, thoughts, images passing through a sleeping person’s mind, fanciful vision of the conscious mind, a fond hope or aspiration, to imagine as possible, anything so lovely, transitory and charming as to seem “dreamlike”. The very little I know of lucid dreaming indicates it is apparently far removed from conventional Webster
Olivier Clerc (1984). Vivre Ses Reves (Living One’s Dreams), Geneve: Jean-Luc de Rougemont.
No full textThe purpose of this book, states the author, is practical; to help the reader make the most efficacious use of his dreams, a goal which can be achieved by interpretation, programming and expertise in dream lucidity
Comments on “The Selling of the Senoi”
No full textIt is always pleasing to me to get the ethnographic record straight, albeit of course disconcerting that it need be gotten straight in the first place! Thus I applaud the work of Faraday and Wren—Lewis. I am sure that their work will join De Mille’s in revealing Castaneda or Carneiro’s exposure of Cordova—Rios and Lamb Wizard of the Upper Amazon. But I do have a question concerning methodology. Please understand that in regard to the Senoi and dreams, I am neutral. I’ve taken no “Senoi workshops,” nor have I read Stewart’s dissertation nor the offshoot literature
The Phenomenon of Light In Lucid Dreams: Personal Observations
No full textAll visual images in a dream consist of light. We do not, as when awake, see objects onto which light shines from elsewhere making them visible. In dreams, whether we see a ‘source’ of light, such as a lamp, or ‘reflected’ light making an object visible, we are experiencing only images made of light. At any moment, there is only what is sensed. There is nothing out of view
The Selling of the Senoi
No full textIt has been said that when religions are faced with new discoveries challenging their authority, they react in three predictable stages: first, “It’s not true;” second, “It’s wicked;” and third, “We knew it all along so why make a fuss about it?” A remarkably similar process is currently taking place amongst True Believers in the religion of so—called “Senoi dream control.
A Response to Giesier
No full textWe have never pretended to be anthropologists carrying out an in—depth study of Senoi culture. We are psychologist/authors who had frequently, and in good faith, quoted Kilton Stewart’s Ph.D. thesis on Senoi dream control practices. Our first doubts about its authenticity arose at our meeting with Peter Bloch in 1977, and were later confirmed by extensive correspondence with anthropologists formerly and currently in the field. So when we dropped into Malaysia in 1982 on our way from India to Australia, our intention was merely to spend a couple of months tying up loose ends by rummaging in the archives for Pat Noone’s missing papers, interviewing some of his old friends, and generally gathering clues as to why Kilton Stewart had invented this extraordinary story
Can We Distinguish Between Lucid Dreams and Dreaming——Awareness Dreams?
No full textCharles T. Tart, in the March, 1984 issue of Lucidity Letter, proposes that we make a distinction between lucid dreams and dreaming—awareness dreams. Under the term “lucid dream” are to be included those dreams “in which the dreamer is aware that he is dreaming, clearly recalls his waking life, and considers himself to be in full command of his intellectual and motivational abilities.” It is “an altered d—SoC (discrete state of consciousness)” in which the dreamer is “experiencing the overall quality of his consciousness as having clarity, the lucidity of his ordinary waking d—SoC.” On the other hand, he proposes the new term “dreaming—awareness dreams” to describe “ordinary dreams that include some concurrent awareness that one is dreaming, but where this awareness is not accompanied by a shift in consciousness to the altered state of lucid dreaming.” In the November, 1983 issue of Lucidity LetterI had described my lucid dreams as being without my normal intellectual faculties, for I do not have the memory or reasoning ability that I have while awake, even at my best moments. Tart believes that such lucid dreams as mine should be called “dreaming—awareness dreams” and the term “lucid dreams” kept for those in which the dreamer has the lucidity of his or her waking state
Statistical Description of My Lucid Dreams
No full textI have compiled statistics on the lucid dreams I had through July 25, 1981
