Dreaming While Awake : Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming

by MINDELL A

• ISBN13: 9781571741875
• ISBN10: 1571741879
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Summary

"Dreaming" is the basis of human consciousness; we do it all day, every day. Subtle signs or events of particular meaning that we tend to miss, ignore, or misinterpret during waking hours become the seeds of our night dreams. These dreams, then, are often elaborations of the subtle signs that we relegate to the fringes of our consciousness. How can we learn to control this cycle, and what can we learn from this process about ourselves?

Dr. Arnold Mindell asserts that in order to utilize the power of dreaming we must "catch the seeds of dreaming" while awake: we must "become aware of every moment" noticing subtle feelings before they unfold and become differentiated into the ideas and emotions that occur in night dreams, often manifesting later as symptoms of mental illness, Mindell gives dreaming new importance in the context of mystical traditions, quantum physics, and western psychology, and provides powerful dreaming applications for body work, chronic symptoms work, and relationship/group therapies.

Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments	viii
I. Not-Working on Yourself
24-Hour Lucid Dreaming	3	(14)
Dreaming, Mysticism, and Physics
Lucidity and Dreamwork	17	(13)
Dissociation, Pristine Consciousness, and Lucidity Training
Enlightenment, East and West	30	(15)
Multicultural Understanding of Enlightenment
Deep Purple Buddhism	45	(20)
The Teaching of the Abhidhamma and the Common Cold
Not-Working on Yourself	65	(14)
Different Realities, Examples of Sentient Healing
Reflection, Flirting, and Beeping	79	(19)
Beeping Diagrams, Psychology and Physics
Theory and Practice of Divination	98	(15)
Psychology, Advanced Physics, and Divination
II. Lucid Healing
Time Travel	113	(15)
Reincarnation and Stepping Out of Time
Lucid Healing, Preventive Medicine	128	(15)
The Nonlocal Origin of Body Symptoms
Touch and Entanglement	143	(19)
Nonlocality between the ``Healer'' and the ``Problem''
Addictions and Relationships	162	(11)
Changing the Atmosphere That Creates Addictions
Unbroken Wholeness in Relationships	173	(12)
We Are Very, Very Different and Also the Same
Dreaming As World Work	185	(14)
Lucidity and Consciousness in Large Groups
III. Lucid Living
Love Story, the Double	199	(11)
The Big You, the Double, and the Little You
Panacea for the Tragedy of Being a Person	210	(13)
The Meaning and Timing of Consciousness
Diamond Center of the Mandala	223	(9)
The Ancient Spiritual Practice of Becoming a Diamond
Reality as a Magic Symbol	232	(7)
The Political Incorrectness of Dreaming
Bibliography	239	(7)
Index	246