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	<title>Nabble - Astral Travel &amp; Lucid Dreaming</title>
	<updated>2008-09-19T23:02:15Z</updated>
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	<id>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-19582899</id>
	<title>My Travels in the Spirit World - Caroline D Larsen</title>
	<published>2008-09-19T23:02:15Z</published>
	<updated>2008-09-19T23:02:15Z</updated>
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		<name>avarim</name>
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	<content type="html">PDF download - click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nabble.com/file/p19582899/TravelsSpiritWorldLarson.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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	<id>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-19009636</id>
	<title>William Buhlman OBE Newsletter – August 2008</title>
	<published>2008-08-16T01:19:11Z</published>
	<updated>2008-08-16T01:19:11Z</updated>
	<author>
		<name>avarim</name>
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	<content type="html">It is well known that self-initiated OBEs open us to unseen realities and give us a new perspective on life. Here are a few of the things I've learned from my thirty-five years of OBEs. These are personal perceptions so please accept or reject as you may feel fit.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1) We are not physical beings. We are not human. Consciousness is inherently formless but can assume any form it requires in its quest to evolve.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2) Our entire perception of reality is based upon grossly incomplete information. Our concept of reality as a three dimensional construct is false. Our form based perception is an invalid basis to compare and gauge the nature of the entire universe or the truth of our existence.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3) I have found it imperative to confront and erase all of my personal beliefs, concepts and form based perceptions. They are all flawed for they are based upon physical perceptions and man made conclusions. I base my life on my experiences and insights gained during my OBEs.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4) The map is not the territory. All books are maps and they are all slanted by the writer's beliefs and state of consciousness. I must become an active explorer beyond matter and form to enter the territory and discover the truth.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5) We have all been seriously manipulated by many powerful organizations and are immersed in a sea of false propaganda and falsehoods. My task is to recognize and transcend the countless illusions that dominate the physical and astral dimensions.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;6) Building my life on man made beliefs is a serious error and creates major blocks in my progress. I have found many popular beliefs, such as crop circles, walk-ins, the devil, hell fire, damnation, ascension and rapture, have no objective evidence to support them. My primary task is to experience the reality of my spiritual existence.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;7) All of our current self-identities are false. We severely limit ourselves when we link our self-identify to any physical form, role, man made institution, belief or concept. Our form based self identity creates serious limits now and in the afterlife.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;8) The afterlife does not provide the answers, as many have been lead to believe. I have found the dead are just as indoctrinated as the living. Most people will continue to cling to their flawed beliefs even after their death. The astral dimension is overflowing with false beliefs, religions and misinformation.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;9) We create the limits, challenges and dramas we experience now and during our OBEs.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All my best,
&lt;br&gt;William Buhlman
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	<title>The William Buhlman Techniques</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T19:02:38Z</published>
	<updated>2008-07-03T19:02:38Z</updated>
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		<name>avarim</name>
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	<title>Peter Siedlecki's Experiments with Dreams</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T19:01:35Z</published>
	<updated>2008-07-03T19:01:35Z</updated>
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		<name>avarim</name>
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	<content type="html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angelfire.com/magic2/luciddreamer26/siedlecki.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;My Experiments With Dreams - Peter Siedlecki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</content>
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	<title>Spirit Quest: Good overview of different techniques - download</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T19:00:34Z</published>
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	<title>Don de Gracia - download</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:58:38Z</published>
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		<name>avarim</name>
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	<content type="html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.astralsociety.com/Files/do_obe.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donald J de Gracia's do_obe.pdf - comprehensive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</content>
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	<title>Flakes's Teachings - pdf download</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:57:09Z</published>
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	<content type="html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.astralsociety.com/Files/flakes_book.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flake's Teachings -by 17 y/o Fin Kristian Kaikkonen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</content>
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	<title>J Danosky - Spiritual Travel (good basics)</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:55:09Z</published>
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	<title>Dream Yoga</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:53:44Z</published>
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	<title>Bob Peterson's OBE Book</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:52:16Z</published>
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	<title>Robert Bruce - download the online works</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:50:57Z</published>
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	<title>Lucidity Institute (la Berge)</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:48:21Z</published>
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	<title>William Bulhman's Personal Reality Precepts</title>
	<published>2008-07-03T18:44:57Z</published>
	<updated>2008-07-03T18:44:57Z</updated>
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		<name>avarim</name>
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	<content type="html">1) I am pure consciousness. I possess no form or three-dimensional 
&lt;br&gt;structure. I have the ability to manifest and use countless different 
&lt;br&gt;energy forms for my expression and education. I realize I am not 
&lt;br&gt;humanoid or any other crude form-based concept. My self-concept is 
&lt;br&gt;formless, however, I can manifest any outer vehicle of form that I 
&lt;br&gt;focus upon.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2) I am immortal, creative and powerful; nothing seen or unseen can 
&lt;br&gt;harm me or block my path.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3) I shape, mold and interpret all realities. I create my reality 
&lt;br&gt;both in and out of body. I accept complete personal responsibility 
&lt;br&gt;for my energy creations.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4) I am the creative writer, director and actor in every reality. 
&lt;br&gt;Consciousness uses form like a master puppeteer.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5) I possess no eyes and perceive with my mind. The form-based 
&lt;br&gt;realities I encounter are interpreted by my mind. I actively color, 
&lt;br&gt;shape and mold my perceptions of reality. My consciousness is highly 
&lt;br&gt;interactive with all energies and my natural perception is 360 
&lt;br&gt;degrees.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;6) I can only truly know something based upon my personal experience. 
&lt;br&gt;The key to self-knowledge is to expand my experiences, not my beliefs.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;7) I possess no limits; I can move, expand and express my conscious 
&lt;br&gt;awareness without limit. I realize that I create the limits or blocks 
&lt;br&gt;that I experience, so I have the power to confront and dissolve them 
&lt;br&gt;now.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;8) I allow, encourage and expect accelerated spiritual growth and 
&lt;br&gt;inner cleansing. I am completely open to extreme and intense inner 
&lt;br&gt;experiences. There are no limits. To the best of my ability I remain 
&lt;br&gt;open to experience radical, rapid change and growth. Mental 
&lt;br&gt;stagnation, beliefs and rigid thought are not an option.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;9) I demand to experience my Higher Self whenever possible. I expect 
&lt;br&gt;immediate results and clear answers now! As much as possible I 
&lt;br&gt;surrender to my Higher Self, my inner guidance. I trust my Higher 
&lt;br&gt;Self for I am my guide.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;10) I experience and navigate the entire multidimensional universe 
&lt;br&gt;within myself. External motion and forms are unnecessary. The 
&lt;br&gt;expressway to self-knowledge and self-realization is within me.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;11) To the best of my ability I remain detached and neutral to all 
&lt;br&gt;the energies I encounter, mold and create. I remain an objective, 
&lt;br&gt;dispassionate observer of the unfolding imagery, concepts, forms and 
&lt;br&gt;dramas that I experience.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;12) All of my perception and mobility issues, challenges and blocks 
&lt;br&gt;are self-created. I am the creative force in all my experiences and I 
&lt;br&gt;enhance/upgrade my state of consciousness regularly and 
&lt;br&gt;often; &amp;quot;Awareness Now!&amp;quot; is my inner mantra.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;13) I have found all man-made beliefs to be seriously flawed and 
&lt;br&gt;distorted. I reject them all. I either know something or I don't, I 
&lt;br&gt;have no need for more mental baggage. I guard the gates of my mind 
&lt;br&gt;with extreme care.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;14) All form-based realities are temporary energy structures. Form is 
&lt;br&gt;created and shaped by consciousness and act as vehicles, tools and 
&lt;br&gt;expressions of consciousness. I look within and past the outer shell 
&lt;br&gt;of form for answers. All form is a shell game of consciousness.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;15) OBEs are natural and essential for my spiritual growth. My 
&lt;br&gt;conscious OBEs dramatically accelerate my personal spiritual growth. 
&lt;br&gt;I expect spiritual, mind-expanding OBEs!
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;16) I accept and encourage all inner cleansing experiences no matter 
&lt;br&gt;what the energy manifestation or interpretation; water, fire, heat, 
&lt;br&gt;light, vacuum, incineration.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;17) I remain open and flexible between conscious mental control and 
&lt;br&gt;my inner spiritual autopilot. I surrender to the guidance of my 
&lt;br&gt;Higher Self when I know it is right for me.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;18) I seek the answers deep inside myself and not within the external 
&lt;br&gt;astral and physical worlds or any form-based façade of reality.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;19) The key to initiating conscious OBEs is my daily persistent 
&lt;br&gt;focused positive intention. I am open and expect new and enlightening 
&lt;br&gt;experiences both in and out of body. I expect fully conscious and 
&lt;br&gt;insightful OBEs now.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;20) Attempting to comprehend and navigate the multidimensional 
&lt;br&gt;universe using any man-made conclusion, belief system, book or 
&lt;br&gt;assumption as a guide leads only to extreme self-delusion, blocks and 
&lt;br&gt;deception.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;21) True reality and answers exist beyond the existence of crude 
&lt;br&gt;three dimensional energy forms. I seek the truth - not the dense 
&lt;br&gt;reflection of it. To uncover the truth of my existence beyond the 
&lt;br&gt;facade of form, I must enter the higher realities deep within me.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;22) The key to accurate perception and answers is to clean my lens/ 
&lt;br&gt;my mind so it is free and clean from distorted belief induced imagery 
&lt;br&gt;and self-deception.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;23) The answers are always present; it is I that creates and 
&lt;br&gt;maintains my blocks. I take full responsibility for my life and my 
&lt;br&gt;experiences both in and out of my body.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;24) I accept, embrace and enjoy the vibrational state and all the 
&lt;br&gt;associated OBE related energy phenomena. I court it; I allow it to 
&lt;br&gt;expand through every layer of my being. I love it.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;25) The external worlds both in and out of body provide dramas 
&lt;br&gt;designed for my education. I always dig for the reason and purpose 
&lt;br&gt;behind my experience.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;26) The lighter I am, the faster and farther I travel. I realize that 
&lt;br&gt;I create and maintain the blocks I experience. I jettison everything, 
&lt;br&gt;all unconfirmed ideas, beliefs and conclusions. I refuse to be a 
&lt;br&gt;mental slave to others people's crap.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;27) I demand &amp;quot;Awareness Now!&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Clarity Now!&amp;quot; often and I expect 
&lt;br&gt;immediate results. I consciously magnify and intensify my intentions. 
&lt;br&gt;I know I possess unlimited creative power and expect instant results 
&lt;br&gt;and clear answers. Every request and demand I make is focused in the 
&lt;br&gt;now.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;28) I can easily avoid disruptive issues, entities or any 
&lt;br&gt;manifestation of energy by moving inward within myself, &amp;quot;Inward Now!&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;I am the inner highway for my consciousness.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;29) Now is the focal point of all creation. My access to immense 
&lt;br&gt;creative power dwells within me now. I focus on the now for I create 
&lt;br&gt;and manipulate my reality in the present conscious moment. I have the 
&lt;br&gt;ability to navigate, explore and observe the entire timeline; 
&lt;br&gt;however, the present moment is the only valid reality.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;30) I confront and confirm the authenticity of all life forms and all 
&lt;br&gt;realities I encounter; I assume nothing and question everything.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;31) I realize I must jettison all my mental judgments; this includes 
&lt;br&gt;all the human concepts I take for granted including good and evil, 
&lt;br&gt;ugly and beautiful, right and wrong. True reality contains no 
&lt;br&gt;opposites, no judgments.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;32) I aggressively examine and purge all non-confirmed conclusions, 
&lt;br&gt;concepts, ideas, and beliefs from my mind. I have deleted every 
&lt;br&gt;belief I used to embrace.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;33) I recognize the importance of transcending all external modes and 
&lt;br&gt;methods of perception and this includes the powerful perception tool 
&lt;br&gt;of my mind. This is essential in order to truly experience objective 
&lt;br&gt;reality and my Higher Self.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;34) I have found it helpful to maintain a detailed OBE and dream 
&lt;br&gt;journal. It helps to condition and open my mind to accept and 
&lt;br&gt;experience multiple realities.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;35) I accept and embrace non-form-based realities. I accept 
&lt;br&gt;consciousness/spirit without form as reality.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;36) Confronting and dissolving the energy manifestations of my own 
&lt;br&gt;fears, limits and blocks is an essential element of my spiritual 
&lt;br&gt;growth. There are no bad or negative out-of-body experiences, only 
&lt;br&gt;energy manifestations I don't currently comprehend.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;37) I do not waste my energy or time promoting my perceptions of 
&lt;br&gt;reality. I change the world when I change me. My perceptions of 
&lt;br&gt;reality will change with my state of consciousness. I realize that 
&lt;br&gt;only those of us that know from personal experience will see and 
&lt;br&gt;understand.
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<entry>
	<id>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-15651774</id>
	<title>Lucid Dream - Fr Justificiatus</title>
	<published>2008-02-23T04:57:57Z</published>
	<updated>2008-02-23T04:57:57Z</updated>
	<author>
		<name>avarim</name>
	</author>
	<content type="html">Original at ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beyondweird.com/Astral-Workings/Lucid_Dreaming_-_by_VH_Frater_Justificatus.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.beyondweird.com/Astral-Workings/Lucid_Dreaming_-_by_VH_Frater_Justificatus.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LUCID DREAMING 
&lt;br&gt;By VH Frater Justificatus 
&lt;br&gt;Table of Contents 
&lt;br&gt;Introduction 
&lt;br&gt;l Lucid Dreaming
&lt;br&gt;– 
&lt;br&gt;Basic Terminology 
&lt;br&gt;l Lucid Dreaming
&lt;br&gt;– 
&lt;br&gt;The Technique 
&lt;br&gt;Instructions for Attaining Lucid Dreaming
&lt;br&gt;: 
&lt;br&gt;l Step One: Dream Recall 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Two: An Introduction to Coueism
&lt;br&gt;. 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Three: Directed Dreaming
&lt;br&gt;– 
&lt;br&gt;Three methods. 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Four: Sammaspati 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Five: Discernment 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Six: Active Imagination 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Seven: Achieving Lucidity 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Eight: The Lucid Lifestyle. 
&lt;br&gt;l Step Nine: General Advice for Lucid Dreaming. 
&lt;br&gt;Projects for the Advanced Lucid Dreamer. 
&lt;br&gt;l Clairvoyant Dreams 
&lt;br&gt;l Precognitive Dreams 
&lt;br&gt;l Telepathic Dreams 
&lt;br&gt;l Alternatives to &amp;quot;Coueism&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;l Theurgic Dreams 
&lt;br&gt;l The Astral Plane 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreaming Protocols of the Hermetic Order of Sol Ascendans 
&lt;br&gt;Epilogue: Hymn to Morpheus 
&lt;br&gt;Bibliography 
&lt;br&gt;Appendices 
&lt;br&gt;l Appendix One: My Very First Lucid Dream 
&lt;br&gt;l Appendix Two: A Typical Lucid Dream 
&lt;br&gt;l Appendix Three : Satan 
&lt;br&gt;l Appendix Four: Dream Healing 
&lt;br&gt;l Appendix Five: A Clairvoyant Dream 
&lt;br&gt;Introduction
&lt;br&gt;In ancient Greece, it was the custom to ascribe almost all phenomena to the action of divine 
&lt;br&gt;beings. We have all heard about the most famous of these gods – Zeus, Ares, Apollo, 
&lt;br&gt;Aphrodite, Hermes, etc – because their folklore has been passed down to us directly in the 
&lt;br&gt;present day, not just through the telling and retelling of mythology, but also in a practical 
&lt;br&gt;sense in the field of Astrology. 
&lt;br&gt;And yet, we often do not hear about many of the other gods, who presided over functions 
&lt;br&gt;which are important in their own right, but who have escaped the attention of history 
&lt;br&gt;through a failure on the part of the general populace to guess their significance. 
&lt;br&gt;One such god is Morpheus, the God of Dreams. 
&lt;br&gt;I find it truly surprising that the worship of Morpheus is not widely known nowadays, as 
&lt;br&gt;dreams have such a powerful hold on the imagination. They have an endless fascination, 
&lt;br&gt;whether it be to present images from everyday life, or scenes which are utterly fantastic – 
&lt;br&gt;whether they transmit messages of great psychic import, or just give expression to fairly 
&lt;br&gt;ordinary unconscious desires. 
&lt;br&gt;It is not surprising that to the ancient Greek mind, dreams were classed as being under the 
&lt;br&gt;presidency of a god, owing to their inherently intriguing nature. 
&lt;br&gt;It occurred to me, not long ago, that if Morpheus was known as a god, then he must have 
&lt;br&gt;been worshipped, even if his cult was small. But what, then, were the rites enacted by the 
&lt;br&gt;priests and followers of Morpheus? I realised that I already had the key: Lucid Dreaming. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreaming – the phenomenon whereby one becomes conscious that one is dreaming 
&lt;br&gt;but without waking up –was (and is) the perfect expression for Morpheus’ worship, in that 
&lt;br&gt;it combines dreaming, which is in any case sacred to him, with a psychic skill of great 
&lt;br&gt;power, which can well be used to participate in the mysteries. That an ancient Greek 
&lt;br&gt;experiencing it would believe it to be Morpheus’special boon seems obvious. 
&lt;br&gt;Nowadays, Lucid dreaming is becoming an increasingly well-known subject. More people 
&lt;br&gt;are experiencing it, because it is a little piece of the occult in which almost everyone can 
&lt;br&gt;share. Indeed, I myself first became aware of Lucid dreaming even before I knew anything 
&lt;br&gt;else about the Mysteries. And yet few people are fully aware of the enormous potential that 
&lt;br&gt;is to be gained from a full mastery of this art, and even fewer have any idea of its place in 
&lt;br&gt;an ongoing system of spirituality – the Western Mystery Tradition. 
&lt;br&gt;Therefore I write this essay in an attempt to show two things: first, the means whereby even 
&lt;br&gt;a complete beginner can learn to master the art of Lucid dreaming – not merely to dream 
&lt;br&gt;lucidly, but also to use his faculty for just about any purpose he chooses; and second, to 
&lt;br&gt;bring back to public awareness thatLucid Dreaming is a Rite sacred to the God Morpheus. 
&lt;br&gt;The following is a description of a method for attaining this ability, and even how to make 
&lt;br&gt;use of this faculty for magickal purposes. It is the author’s personal testimony that this 
&lt;br&gt;method is guaranteed to work–so long as it is carried out properly. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreaming is an incredibly useful skill, in that it enables one to work on the astral 
&lt;br&gt;plane even before one has mastered the art of Astral projection. I myself have experienced 
&lt;br&gt;both Lucid Dreams and astral projection as well, and I can verify that in fact, both are a
&lt;br&gt;form of one another. I have been able to carry out certain magickal acts whilst in the lucid 
&lt;br&gt;dream state and then later performed the same whilst astrally projecting: I have experienced 
&lt;br&gt;similar effects on both occasions. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreams are especially useful to a practitioner in the Western Mystery Tradition, who, 
&lt;br&gt;perhaps holding down a nine-to-five job, finds him- or herself pressed for time to perform 
&lt;br&gt;the morning rituals such as the Middle Pillar Ritual, or the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram: 
&lt;br&gt;one is able to do them whilst one is still asleep! This is an intriguing area of research, for if 
&lt;br&gt;we are able to manage it, we will be collectively taking a real step forward towards the goal 
&lt;br&gt;of integrating Spirit and Matter. 
&lt;br&gt;In Lucid Dreams, by consciously affecting the content of ones dream vision, we begin to 
&lt;br&gt;understand something of the infinite wonder of which our imagination is capable: yet we 
&lt;br&gt;remain constantly fascinated, because we realise that we can never exhaust that capacity. 
&lt;br&gt;It has been my personal experience that Lucid dreams may be used for: Clairvoyance and 
&lt;br&gt;skrying; dream divination; invoking ones Holy Guardian Angel; performing certain rituals 
&lt;br&gt;like the Middle Pillar, Pentagram and Hexagram; stimulating ones Intuition to provide 
&lt;br&gt;answers to questions with which one is concerned; penetrating into the secrets of ones 
&lt;br&gt;unconscious; and even Precognition – though whether one has the wisdom to act on that 
&lt;br&gt;precognition is another matter. Generally speaking, anything that can be done on the astral 
&lt;br&gt;plane can be done in a Lucid Dream: the dreamer will find that the only limit on ones ability 
&lt;br&gt;to control the dream-state is how much effort one is prepared to put in to perfect ones Lucid 
&lt;br&gt;Dreaming faculty. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreams may, of course, also be used for non-magickal purposes, i.e. for pure self- 
&lt;br&gt;indulgence. Indeed, complete beginners should start developing their faculty by first 
&lt;br&gt;learning to induce non-magickal dreams, as the ability to put Lucid Dreams to use is 
&lt;br&gt;advanced work, and only for those who are confident in their practice. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreams: Basic Concepts 
&lt;br&gt;A &amp;quot;Lucid Dream&amp;quot; is a dream, occurring within what will usually be REM-sleep, in which 
&lt;br&gt;the dreamer becomes aware that he (she) is dreaming – and then continuing to remain in 
&lt;br&gt;that dream-state without waking up. The peculiar awareness is referred to as &amp;quot;lucidity&amp;quot; or 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;being lucid&amp;quot;. 
&lt;br&gt;Apart from this quality of lucidity, differences between Lucid and ordinary dreams can 
&lt;br&gt;include the following (this is a non-exhaustive list): 
&lt;br&gt;l The subsequent dream is far more memorable than a non-lucid dream; 
&lt;br&gt;l It appears to be more vivid; 
&lt;br&gt;l The dreamer has the conviction that he or she is an active participator in the dream, 
&lt;br&gt;instead of being a passive spectator; 
&lt;br&gt;l The dreamer is able to perform actions at his (her) own volition; 
&lt;br&gt;l The dreamer is able to affect the scenery and content of the dream through a feat of 
&lt;br&gt;concentration; 
&lt;br&gt;l The dreamer is also able to affect the manner in which he or she interacts with the 
&lt;br&gt;dream – this includes acting in way that would not normally be possible in real-life 
&lt;br&gt;such as changing the shape of ones body, passing through solid objects, levitating,
&lt;br&gt;flying through space, teleporting to distant locations, travelling through time, etc* 
&lt;br&gt;*Hmm, well it may be possible to do all this in real life, but I’m not that advanced an adept! 
&lt;br&gt;However, I should emphasise that it may very well be that the dreamer finds it is not 
&lt;br&gt;possible to do all or indeed any of the above in the list of differences on each and every 
&lt;br&gt;occasion – the only way he (she) can tell it was a lucid dream is the bare fact that he knew it 
&lt;br&gt;was a dream at the time. 
&lt;br&gt;It is also possible that a dreamer may have a moment of Lucidity, but lapse back into non- 
&lt;br&gt;lucidity later on – in that on waking up he realises that he didn’t react to phenomena in the 
&lt;br&gt;dream as he would have done if he had been Lucid. 
&lt;br&gt;And yet these abilities – to become lucid and remain lucid throughout the dream, to act and 
&lt;br&gt;re-act with at least some of the same intelligence that one has when one is awake, to affect 
&lt;br&gt;oneself and the content of the dream through concentration – these are all desirable abilities 
&lt;br&gt;for the seasoned Lucid dreamer to have. 
&lt;br&gt;The main reasons why any lucid dream might fall short of the expectations one has for it 
&lt;br&gt;include: 
&lt;br&gt;l Lack of experience in Lucid dreaming; 
&lt;br&gt;l Lack of practice; 
&lt;br&gt;l Failure to observe one or more basic rules or principles; 
&lt;br&gt;l There is something in your unconscious which is affecting the content of your 
&lt;br&gt;dreams. 
&lt;br&gt;The solution to the first is simple: practice makes perfect. A beginner might see an 
&lt;br&gt;improvement in the quality of his or her dreams in a few days, but Lucid dreaming is not 
&lt;br&gt;something which happens straightaway: it should be developed over time. I have seen a 
&lt;br&gt;certain book which said one could develop the faculty of an adept in just a month –but this 
&lt;br&gt;is unhelpful, because for many this is too short a time period. So long as you practice 
&lt;br&gt;constantly, you need only be concerned that you are making gradual progress, even if it is 
&lt;br&gt;just little by little. 
&lt;br&gt;The solution to the second can be said simply, but might be more difficult to achieve in 
&lt;br&gt;reality: &amp;quot;shore up your resolve&amp;quot;. The only way to maintain the ability of Lucid Dreaming to 
&lt;br&gt;practice constantly. Even if you do not have any particular reason for dreaming lucidly, one 
&lt;br&gt;should still do so to keep ones hand in. If you don’t happen to dream lucidly on a given 
&lt;br&gt;occasion, you should still follow the procedure as best you can, for doing so increases the 
&lt;br&gt;probability of you being successful on a subsequent occasion: but failure to practice 
&lt;br&gt;decreases that possibility. If you go without practice for too long a period, you may have to 
&lt;br&gt;bite the bullet and re-start as if you were a complete beginner. Lucid Dreaming is an 
&lt;br&gt;extremely valuable faculty to have, and if you decide to attain it, you should be prepared to 
&lt;br&gt;put yourself to some effort –as indeed you would for anything sufficiently valuable. 
&lt;br&gt;The solution to the third is to treat your lucid dreaming like a scientist treats his experiment: 
&lt;br&gt;see if you can identify what went wrong, make a note of it, and then repeat but this time 
&lt;br&gt;rectifying your mistake. It is here that the Dream Diary, of which I will talk more later, is 
&lt;br&gt;essential, because using it you can use it to examine your practice in the cold light of day.
&lt;br&gt;The solution to the fourth is more delicate – sometimes it is obvious what is wrong, because 
&lt;br&gt;it crops up in the dream itself, however at other times it remains hidden. Sometimes it is 
&lt;br&gt;something relatively trivial, sometimes it is a long repressed memory. I advise the reader to 
&lt;br&gt;familiarise him- or herself with standard works on psychoanalysis and psychology. In 
&lt;br&gt;Alchemy, the prima materia is putrefied before any attempt is made to transmute it into a 
&lt;br&gt;precious metal. Similarly, having ones repressions brought to consciousness will feel like 
&lt;br&gt;putrefaction of the soul. It is never pleasant to discover you have been harbouring an 
&lt;br&gt;emotion which is repugnant to your own reason – so unpleasant that at first you will be not 
&lt;br&gt;believe the information when presented to you. And yet repressions, because they have a 
&lt;br&gt;powerful effect on the unconscious, are bound therefore to also affect the quality of your 
&lt;br&gt;lucid dreaming. Ideally, in order to be master of lucid dreaming, one should also master 
&lt;br&gt;ones unconscious… 
&lt;br&gt;In fact, both Freud and Jung recognised the importance of dreams in the context of 
&lt;br&gt;psychoanalysis. It is possible that the ability to control or at least affect the content of ones 
&lt;br&gt;dreams may itself be of benefit in psychotherapy, though this is outside the scope of this 
&lt;br&gt;essay. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreaming: The Technique 
&lt;br&gt;The Technique of Lucid Dreaming actually consists of three basic disciplines which must 
&lt;br&gt;be learnt. They are, in the order one would typically learn them: 
&lt;br&gt;l Dream Recall; 
&lt;br&gt;l Directed Dreaming (or Dream Incubation); 
&lt;br&gt;l Lucidity itself (i.e. the achieving and maintaining of the Lucid state). 
&lt;br&gt;These three are fundamental pre-requisites. Even if you choose not to develop you practice 
&lt;br&gt;of Lucid dreaming for occult purposes, you should still learn these three. 
&lt;br&gt;Dream Recall is a method for raising your awareness and memory of your dreams. People 
&lt;br&gt;who wake up each morning only to forget what they had just been dreaming do not make 
&lt;br&gt;good Lucid Dreamers. The same goes for people who are convinced that they never have 
&lt;br&gt;dreams. It is therefore necessary to discipline your mind to become more aware of your own 
&lt;br&gt;dreams. The process of recalling ones dreams in as much detail as possible is such a 
&lt;br&gt;discipline and dreamers often notice that their memory of their dreams radically improves 
&lt;br&gt;after just a few nights of practice. 
&lt;br&gt;Directed Dreaming is the process of successfully deciding the subject matter for your 
&lt;br&gt;dream, whilst you are still awake. In an episode of &amp;quot;Star Trek: Voyager&amp;quot; Chakotay manages 
&lt;br&gt;this in a fairly straightforward manner, though what was not explicitly said that he would 
&lt;br&gt;have had to have spent years being mindful of his psychic condition in order to possess this 
&lt;br&gt;kind of mastery. In real life, most of us can get to the point where we decide the content of 
&lt;br&gt;our dreams, though the process is more convoluted than what can be shown in a 45 minute 
&lt;br&gt;TV show (nevertheless, it is fair to assume that the scriptwriters for that episode didknow 
&lt;br&gt;what they were talking about). Suffice to say, Directed Dreaming is vital to everyone who 
&lt;br&gt;wants to use their faculty for a subject of their own choosing. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucidity –I have already talked about what the quality of Lucidity is in the section on Basic 
&lt;br&gt;terminology. As an actual technique, it is fairly easy to become Lucid: it is very difficult to
&lt;br&gt;remain Lucid or to avoid waking up. For this reason the dreamer must take into 
&lt;br&gt;consideration a number of practices which will help maintain the Lucid state – and, once 
&lt;br&gt;established in these, further practices to improve its quality. I will now set out a practical 
&lt;br&gt;study course, giving explicit instructions for attaining the faculty of Lucid Dreaming. In the 
&lt;br&gt;same way that Franz Bardon emphasises mastery of every stage of his magickal course 
&lt;br&gt;before moving onto the next, so the dreamer should not attempt a later step before he or she 
&lt;br&gt;is confident with all the preceding ones. 
&lt;br&gt;Instructions for Attaining Lucid 
&lt;br&gt;Dreaming. 
&lt;br&gt;Step One: Dream Recall 
&lt;br&gt;For this you will need a Dream Diary. This is very important and will be referred to in 
&lt;br&gt;most of the subsequent steps. Obtain for yourself the following: A large pad of A4 
&lt;br&gt;(foolscap) paper; a new pen; a bedside lamp, penlight or torch, if you don’t have one 
&lt;br&gt;already. It is often convenient to have a ring binder into which to load the paper: this will be 
&lt;br&gt;the Dream Diary itself. Also a nightstand. Arrange everything around your bed so that it is 
&lt;br&gt;all within arm’s reach from the position in which you normally sleep. 
&lt;br&gt;Now, go to sleep normally, save with this important thought in your mind: whenever you 
&lt;br&gt;wake up, immediately write down what you were just dreaming about. Note the emphasis. 
&lt;br&gt;You might wake up for just a short while in the middle of the night, or a few hours before 
&lt;br&gt;when you would normally do so, and you may feel tempted, on account of being too sleepy, 
&lt;br&gt;to lie still. DON’T. You must get into the habit of rousing yourself at this point to write 
&lt;br&gt;down, in your dream diary, what was just going through your mind whilst you were asleep. 
&lt;br&gt;Your natural inclination will at first be to resist going to this trouble, but forcing yourself to 
&lt;br&gt;record all your dreams at the earliest opportunity is exactly the kind of discipline that you 
&lt;br&gt;will need to master to become a successful Lucid Dreamer. 
&lt;br&gt;Even if you can only remember hazy details, you should still write as much as you can 
&lt;br&gt;about those hazy details. If however, you do not manage to remember anything, write down 
&lt;br&gt;the following: &amp;quot;I chose not to remember my dreams&amp;quot;. Note carefully the way this is 
&lt;br&gt;worded: you are affirming that it is your own responsibility to recall your dreams, and 
&lt;br&gt;setting yourself the suggestion that the power to recall your dreams is within your free will 
&lt;br&gt;–which, as it happens, is true. 
&lt;br&gt;On the subsequent night, repeat the procedure. Always use a fresh page in your dream diary 
&lt;br&gt;for a new night, and make sure the date is clearly marked. 
&lt;br&gt;Repeat this for at least a week. At first, you will barely be able to write down one sentence 
&lt;br&gt;about the contents of your dreams. On subsequent nights you will be able to write in more 
&lt;br&gt;and more detail. Always try to write as much detail as possible – ideally you should be 
&lt;br&gt;able to read your diary later, e.g. after you come home from work that evening, and 
&lt;br&gt;remember exactly how the dream occurred.
&lt;br&gt;Step Two: An Introduction to Coueism 
&lt;br&gt;This is a technique which can be used for improving the quality of your practice: it can even 
&lt;br&gt;be used to improve the quality of your life generally, by setting yourself a beneficial 
&lt;br&gt;affirmation. Readers of Bardon’s &amp;quot;Initiation into Hermetics&amp;quot; will recall that he himself 
&lt;br&gt;suggests a similar technique. 
&lt;br&gt;Let us imagine that you want to achieve a certain goal – one that would be within your 
&lt;br&gt;sphere of capability if you had motivation from your unconscious– e.g.: 
&lt;br&gt;I want to be happy 
&lt;br&gt;I want to be healthy 
&lt;br&gt;I want to be confident 
&lt;br&gt;I want to remember my dreams in detail 
&lt;br&gt;I want to be a Lucid Dreamer etc 
&lt;br&gt;Coueism is a method of converting these wishes into unconscious suggestions. Emile Coue, 
&lt;br&gt;who originally devised this method, laid down these basic principles: first, re-word the wish 
&lt;br&gt;as if you were describing a positive situation in the present, e.g.: 
&lt;br&gt;I want to be healthybecomes I am healthy 
&lt;br&gt;I want to be happybecomes I am happy 
&lt;br&gt;Etc, but not&amp;quot;I am not anxious&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I am not a failure&amp;quot;. These should be changed into 
&lt;br&gt;positive statements like &amp;quot;I am calm and relaxed&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;I am successful.&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;It was Coué himself who first invented the phrase &amp;quot;Every day in every way I am getting 
&lt;br&gt;better, better, and better!&amp;quot; He had come to the conclusion that this is the perfect all-purpose 
&lt;br&gt;wish (or &amp;quot;affirmation&amp;quot;), given that it is memorable, it fulfils his own criteria, it is specific 
&lt;br&gt;enough to have meaning, but vague enough to allow the unconscious itself to decide on the 
&lt;br&gt;best method of carrying out the affirmation. 
&lt;br&gt;The second step after deciding the Affirmation, is, just as one is about to fall asleep at night, 
&lt;br&gt;repeat it to yourself twenty times. Coue decided on the number twenty simply because from 
&lt;br&gt;experiments he was conducting it seemed like the most appropriate number. The affirmation 
&lt;br&gt;should be repeated when one is one the point of dozing off – and again on waking up, when 
&lt;br&gt;one is still feeling sleepy. 
&lt;br&gt;The reason why Coueism works at all is that it is in fact a form of hypnosis. The moment of 
&lt;br&gt;feeling sleepy is akin to being in a hypnotic trance – when the critical faculties of the 
&lt;br&gt;conscious mind are suspended, the unconscious is particularly receptive to suggestions. 
&lt;br&gt;A word of warning. When deciding on an Affirmation, do not include words which have 
&lt;br&gt;double meanings. The reason being that your unconscious, contrary to what people like 
&lt;br&gt;Jacques Lacan say, does not work like a language – it is only the conscious mind that does 
&lt;br&gt;that. What will usually happen is that rather it will select words apparently at random from 
&lt;br&gt;your Affirmation, and link them with images and ideas in your memory with which the 
&lt;br&gt;individual words are associated. 
&lt;br&gt;For example, if you were to Affirm: &amp;quot;I will dream about my Holy Guardian Angel,&amp;quot; you 
&lt;br&gt;unconscious might just pick up on the word &amp;quot;angel&amp;quot; and instead of being blessed by the 
&lt;br&gt;appearance of a divine being sent by God, you might dream about eating Angel Delight, 
&lt;br&gt;Angel Cakes, getting high on Angel Dust, visiting the &amp;quot;Angel of the North&amp;quot; sculpture in
&lt;br&gt;Tyneside, meeting someone you know called Angel (reading a copy of The Guardian at the 
&lt;br&gt;time) etc. 
&lt;br&gt;I shall go on to more reliable methods of dream direction below. And by the way, there isa 
&lt;br&gt;method for contacting ones Holy Guardian Angel whilst in the middle of a lucid dream – I 
&lt;br&gt;have written about it in &amp;quot;The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel&amp;quot;. 
&lt;br&gt;Practice this for a week, continuing as ever with your dream recall. 
&lt;br&gt;Step Three: Directed Dreaming–Three methods. 
&lt;br&gt;Once you can recall your dreams in detail, and are happy with the use of Coueism, you can 
&lt;br&gt;move onto deciding the content for your dream before you go to sleep. Here are three 
&lt;br&gt;methods to use: spend at least one week practising each of them. Afterwards, when you are 
&lt;br&gt;more experienced, you can decide yourself which you prefer, though for maximum 
&lt;br&gt;versatility you should be confident with all three. 
&lt;br&gt;Method One - The Basic Method 
&lt;br&gt;Pick a topic for your dream – something that can be described in one sentence. Or better 
&lt;br&gt;still, one word. Whilst you are still a beginner, pick a topic in which you are not normally 
&lt;br&gt;emotionally involved, or which it never occurs to you to think about (only try 
&lt;br&gt;experimenting with subjects with which you are personally concerned when you are more 
&lt;br&gt;experienced). Nevertheless, this should leave you with plenty of choice about what to pick: 
&lt;br&gt;e.g. going to somewhere far away, meeting a celebrity or character from history, performing 
&lt;br&gt;an activity which you don’t normally do, etc. 
&lt;br&gt;It is good practice for both beginners and more experienced to treat their dream-work purely 
&lt;br&gt;as scientists treat their experiments, i.e. with objectivity and detachment. What I mean is 
&lt;br&gt;that we should treat our dream-work in the same way as we would like scientists to treat 
&lt;br&gt;their experiments – most actual researchers are lured by the wonga of Patent rights and 
&lt;br&gt;kudos of PhDs. 
&lt;br&gt;In any event, having decided on the topic of your dream, on retiring to go to sleep, take your 
&lt;br&gt;Dream Diary, and on the page on which you will be recording that night’s dreams 
&lt;br&gt;(remember: a new page for a new night), write at the top in large capital letters &amp;quot;I WILL 
&lt;br&gt;DREAM ABOUT …&amp;quot;(here insert the chosen subject of your dream). Underline &amp;quot;Will&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;about two or three times, and concentrate hard on the sentence as if you mean it in deadly 
&lt;br&gt;earnest. Then put your Dream Diary aside, turn out the light and settle down to sleep – as 
&lt;br&gt;you have been doing over the past few weeks already. 
&lt;br&gt;Coueism may also be of use, but you should only use a general affirmation like &amp;quot;I can direct 
&lt;br&gt;my dreams.&amp;quot; Do not say, if you want to dream about e.g. Ayer’s Rock in Australia, say &amp;quot;I 
&lt;br&gt;am going to Ayer’s Rock&amp;quot; or you might find yourself waking up with a strong urge to 
&lt;br&gt;actually go there in real life. Not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but defeats the object of 
&lt;br&gt;learning how to dream Lucidly. 
&lt;br&gt;If you wake up at any time, again write down as much detail as you can remember of your 
&lt;br&gt;dreams – and use some kind of marking like underlining or asterisks or marginal notes etc 
&lt;br&gt;to indicate any part of your dream which agrees with your subject.
&lt;br&gt;If you find you have dreamed about exactly what you wanted, you may consider this stage 
&lt;br&gt;successful. If however you did not, and there is still time before you would normally get up, 
&lt;br&gt;re-write the phrase &amp;quot;I WILL 
&lt;br&gt;…&amp;quot; etc underneath what you have just written, and go back to 
&lt;br&gt;sleep again. 
&lt;br&gt;If you go through the whole night without dreaming about your chosen topic, write 
&lt;br&gt;underneath your entry for that night in large capitals: &amp;quot;I Chose not to dream about my 
&lt;br&gt;selected topic.&amp;quot; i.e. you are acknowledging that the responsibility and ability to direct your 
&lt;br&gt;dreams lies within your own free will. 
&lt;br&gt;However, there is conceivably another problem, and this is the same one as I mentioned in 
&lt;br&gt;Section Two, on Coueism. That is, your chosen topic might have been too vague. E.g. If 
&lt;br&gt;you write &amp;quot;I WILL DREAM ABOUT THE TAJ MAHAL&amp;quot; you may find yourself dreaming 
&lt;br&gt;about Taj Mahal the blues guitarist, or even the Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant at the end of 
&lt;br&gt;the road. Should you find that your dream only partly agrees with your intention, you 
&lt;br&gt;should look again at what you wrote and see if it can’t be re-worded. If it can, do so: if it 
&lt;br&gt;can’t you will either have to try again but this time concentrating not just on what you write, 
&lt;br&gt;but on the meaning of what you write; or else you will have to abandon this one attempt and 
&lt;br&gt;pick another subject, but not before writing out, as described above, &amp;quot;I Chose not to dream 
&lt;br&gt;about my selected topic.&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;Nevertheless, it may be that some topics about which cannot be dreamed under this first 
&lt;br&gt;method may still work with methods two and three below. 
&lt;br&gt;Practice the first method for a week, or if you find you are successful before then, continue 
&lt;br&gt;to the end of the week but with a different dream subject (or even subjects). 
&lt;br&gt;Method Two - The Picture Method 
&lt;br&gt;This is similar to method one, but with one important difference – you need a photograph or 
&lt;br&gt;picture of your dream subject. The picture should be small enough so that you can set it up 
&lt;br&gt;on your nightstand, but large enough so you can see it clearly from your normal sleeping 
&lt;br&gt;position when you have the bedside lamp on. 
&lt;br&gt;Follow the procedure in Method One, but when you come to write out &amp;quot;I WILL 
&lt;br&gt;DREAM 
&lt;br&gt;ABOUT…&amp;quot;etc, you should then spend some time staring at the picture. It should be the sort 
&lt;br&gt;of picture which you can remember in detail with you eyes shut. After staring at the picture 
&lt;br&gt;for some time, put it aside, turn out the light and go to sleep, trying to remember the mental 
&lt;br&gt;image of the picture. 
&lt;br&gt;Do not when imagining this mental image, run through a mental dialogue of thoughts which 
&lt;br&gt;occur to you in connection with the picture. Rather, try to hold the picture in your mind’s 
&lt;br&gt;eye, whilst keeping verbal thoughts silent. Repeat this same procedure each time you wake 
&lt;br&gt;up during the night. 
&lt;br&gt;You should be able to tell when you are successful, as you will find yourself dreaming 
&lt;br&gt;about the content of the picture. Always be sure to carry out what was said about success, 
&lt;br&gt;failure, and recording your dreams in method one. 
&lt;br&gt;I myself have also used this method with Tarot cards and tattva symbols, to great effect.
&lt;br&gt;Method Three - The Visualisation Method 
&lt;br&gt;This is slightly difficult in comparison to the previous two, but can be the most powerful of 
&lt;br&gt;all of them. Start off as you did for Method One. You may incorporate the use of a picture 
&lt;br&gt;as in Method Two if you wish. Turn off the light and settle down… 
&lt;br&gt;…It is here that the work of Method Three begins. Consciously relax, by bringing 
&lt;br&gt;awareness to each part of your body in turn, and making sure that all muscle tensions 
&lt;br&gt;release. Maintain slow, unforced breathing. 
&lt;br&gt;Now visualise the subject of your dream as a moving scene, such as a film or television 
&lt;br&gt;program, or as an incident in which you are participating. Note well: the visualisation 
&lt;br&gt;should be one continuous sequence: do not allow it to become a series of unconnected 
&lt;br&gt;images. 
&lt;br&gt;As with Method Two, only allow your visualisation to remain in your head: silence any 
&lt;br&gt;verbal thoughts. 
&lt;br&gt;Success comes in two forms: firstly, you may find that a dream later in the night 
&lt;br&gt;corresponds to what you were visualising. Secondly, you may well find that you fall asleep 
&lt;br&gt;and start dreaming about your desired topic whilst you are still visualising! 
&lt;br&gt;As with methods one and two, repeat the procedure every time you wake up during the 
&lt;br&gt;night, and remember to record your dreams and note down your successes and failures. 
&lt;br&gt;Step Four: Sammaspati 
&lt;br&gt;This is a technique which will help increase your success rate in dreaming about exactly 
&lt;br&gt;what you intend. It is in fact a Buddhist meditation technique, and comes on the highest 
&lt;br&gt;authority for use by practitioners of the Western Mystery Tradition, having been 
&lt;br&gt;recommended by, inter alia, Dion Fortune, Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley amongst 
&lt;br&gt;others. 
&lt;br&gt;The procedure is as follows: before getting into bed for the night, take up a comfortable 
&lt;br&gt;meditation posture, in which the spine should be straight and upright. You should not lock 
&lt;br&gt;your muscles in any way, you should maintain the posture anyway without effort. You 
&lt;br&gt;should sit on a firm service e.g. the floor or a chair – I do not recommend your bed itself. If 
&lt;br&gt;you are not a seasoned yoga practitioner, you should avoid the difficult &amp;quot;asanas&amp;quot;, and sit in 
&lt;br&gt;the &amp;quot;Easy Posture&amp;quot; i.e. simple cross-legs. Alternatively, you may take a chair or stool and sit 
&lt;br&gt;in the so-called &amp;quot;Egyptian Position&amp;quot;, also known as the &amp;quot;God-position&amp;quot; in Thelema and in 
&lt;br&gt;the Aurum Solis: i.e. sit upright with the legs together (uncrossed), hands resting on thighs. 
&lt;br&gt;Allow the back of the neck to lengthen and the chin to drop down. Take some moments to 
&lt;br&gt;consciously relax, by bringing your awareness to each part of your body in turn and 
&lt;br&gt;allowing your muscles to release. Breathe naturally. Once you feel that you have relaxed 
&lt;br&gt;you can proceed to the next step. 
&lt;br&gt;Starting with the present moment visualise your entire day backwards. E.g., if the last three 
&lt;br&gt;things you have done are to walk upstairs, go to the bathroom and then go into your 
&lt;br&gt;bedroom, you will visualise yourself getting up from your seated position and walking
&lt;br&gt;backwards into the bathroom, and from there walking backwards out of the bathroom and 
&lt;br&gt;down the stairs facing the wrong way. It is as if you have filmed your daily activities and 
&lt;br&gt;you are watching it with the film threaded the wrong way through the projector, or with the 
&lt;br&gt;Rewind and Play buttons on your Video are depressed at once. 
&lt;br&gt;Continue with this backward-visualisation throughout the events of that day. You should 
&lt;br&gt;aim to observe these mental pictures with detachment, as if they had in fact happened to 
&lt;br&gt;someone else. Moreover, your visualisation should be a complete sequence, and not a series 
&lt;br&gt;of disconnected images. Your visualisation should go back as far as you can remember, 
&lt;br&gt;which includes the contents of your previous night’s dreams – or even the events of the 
&lt;br&gt;previous day or days as well. 
&lt;br&gt;It has been said, though I cannot say whether this is true or not, that if it were possible to 
&lt;br&gt;remember in this way ones entire life, one might even recall ones previous existences. 
&lt;br&gt;The effects of this process, i.e. Sammaspati, are two-fold: firstly, you will find yourself 
&lt;br&gt;passing into a deep meditative state or trance, in which it is fruitful to concentrate on 
&lt;br&gt;Affirmations and the like in a similar way to which you did with Coueism. 
&lt;br&gt;Secondly, because you have recalled the images of the day to full consciousness during 
&lt;br&gt;your meditation, they are less likely to affect the content of your dreams. You may well find 
&lt;br&gt;that you discover emotions which you felt about a given event about which you forgot but 
&lt;br&gt;nevertheless left their impression on your unconscious. Hence, what is left for your dreams 
&lt;br&gt;will be the subject upon which you have decided, and nothing which has entered your mind 
&lt;br&gt;by accident. 
&lt;br&gt;Spend a week incorporating Sammaspati with all the foregoing practices. Sammaspati is an 
&lt;br&gt;extremely important exercise: ideally you should perform it every night for the rest of your 
&lt;br&gt;life. 
&lt;br&gt;Step Five: Discernment 
&lt;br&gt;With Discernment you are now dealing with techniques which will lead you directly into 
&lt;br&gt;actual Lucidity. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucidity is caused by reacting to an event in your dream which makes you realise that you 
&lt;br&gt;are dreaming. The event in question is essentially arbitrary – it could be the sight of your 
&lt;br&gt;hands, or of any other visual cue, or the occurrence of an event such as finding yourself 
&lt;br&gt;floating or flying, or indeed anything. However, none of these lucidity-causing events will 
&lt;br&gt;do you any good unless you train yourself to become sensitive to what is going on in your 
&lt;br&gt;dream, even more so than you are at the moment. The best method I have found in my 
&lt;br&gt;experience is to develop the quality of Discernment. 
&lt;br&gt;Discernment is the ability to detect whether an occurrence within your dream is in any way 
&lt;br&gt;realistic. For example, (this happened to me recently), let us suppose you dream of walking 
&lt;br&gt;into a darkened room, and you naturally try the light switch by the door. The light comes 
&lt;br&gt;on, and then immediately goes out again. You try the switch again and the same happens. 
&lt;br&gt;Now, ideally you should be able to Discern that this is not how light-switches work in real 
&lt;br&gt;life: thus you now have a strong clue or prompt that you are in fact dreaming.
&lt;br&gt;Once you have got into the habit of being alert to inconsistencies within your dreams, you 
&lt;br&gt;will be able to go on to train yourself to become Lucid whenever you Discern that 
&lt;br&gt;something is out of place. 
&lt;br&gt;Begin the practice of Discernment by re-reading your dream diary up to this point, and 
&lt;br&gt;highlighting or underlining any detail, which examined in the cold light of day, is obviously 
&lt;br&gt;inconsistent with waking life. 
&lt;br&gt;When doing Sammaspati from now, become aware when reviewing the previous night’s 
&lt;br&gt;dreams which parts were inconsistent with real life. 
&lt;br&gt;When settling down for the night, write at the top of the new page in your Dream Diary &amp;quot;I 
&lt;br&gt;CAN DISCERN REALITY&amp;quot;. You may also try making this an Affirmation. 
&lt;br&gt;Whenever you wake up during the night, or even the next morning, and you record your 
&lt;br&gt;dreams, note down any detail which which you successfully spotted as out of place or 
&lt;br&gt;illogical in the manner: &amp;quot;I DISCERNED that…&amp;quot;(etc). However, should you find that your 
&lt;br&gt;dream contained a detail which you only realised was unrealistic now you are awake, note it 
&lt;br&gt;down thus: &amp;quot;I CHOSE NOT TO DISCERN that…&amp;quot;(etc). By this very choice of words 
&lt;br&gt;you are asserting that you already have the power of Discernment – you are now trying to 
&lt;br&gt;shame yourself into making use of it! 
&lt;br&gt;Repeat the above procedure every time you subsequently go back to sleep. You will find 
&lt;br&gt;that at first you are using the phrase I CHOSE NOT TO DISCERN that… an 
&lt;br&gt;embarassingly large number of times – you may even want to devise an abbreviation or a 
&lt;br&gt;certain symbol as a kind of stereotype to replace it, and thus save time in writing up your 
&lt;br&gt;dream diary. However it is vitally important that you do not forget the significance of the 
&lt;br&gt;abbreviation or symbol as it is only by subjecting yourself and your dream practice to this 
&lt;br&gt;level of criticism that you will gain the sensitivity required for full lucidity. 
&lt;br&gt;It has often been the case in my own dreams that I have noted half a dozen (or even more) 
&lt;br&gt;inconsistencies of which the first five I Chose not to Discern – but the sixth I did Discern 
&lt;br&gt;and that sixth one was the one that caused me to become Lucid. 
&lt;br&gt;Practice the art of Discernment for at least a week. If you find that you are able to 
&lt;br&gt;successfully Discern inconsistencies, all well and good. In any event, you should be 
&lt;br&gt;thoroughly established in the practice of subjecting your Dream Diary – and yourself 
&lt;br&gt;thereby – to the kind of criticism that I have outlined below. If it so happens that you do not 
&lt;br&gt;find yourself experiencing proper lucidity yet, or that you are not Discerning inconsistencies 
&lt;br&gt;as they happen, there is nevertheless a way of using what you have learnt of Discernment to 
&lt;br&gt;achieve your goal – I will describe this in detail later on. 
&lt;br&gt;Before I leave the subject of achieving Discernment, I should mention a practice which may 
&lt;br&gt;speed up your mastery thereof: the Reality Check. I have already told you in the section on 
&lt;br&gt;basic terminology that a desirable skill for a lucid dreamer to have is that &amp;quot;The dreamer is 
&lt;br&gt;able to affect the scenery and content of the dream through a feat of concentration.&amp;quot; The 
&lt;br&gt;rationale of the Reality Check is therefore to regularly, throughout the day, attempt to 
&lt;br&gt;change your environs simply by concentrating, just to make sure you haven’t drifted off to 
&lt;br&gt;sleep without knowing. Stick to something simple – like trying to make a passing car 
&lt;br&gt;suddenly float into the sky, or anything of your own devising.
&lt;br&gt;Repeat this regularly, e.g. every half an hour. Obviously you will not succeed if you are 
&lt;br&gt;awake, and it may seem pointless – but the habit of regularly checking whether you are 
&lt;br&gt;awake or dreaming will eventually make you check your own dreams to see if you are 
&lt;br&gt;dreaming or not. The Reality Check thus develops your powers of Discernment, by making 
&lt;br&gt;you concentrate on it throughout the day. 
&lt;br&gt;However, do not be tempted, if you are at work, to try turning your boss into a toad, if at 
&lt;br&gt;school making your teacher fall through the Earth’s crust, or at college making that member 
&lt;br&gt;of the opposite sex whom you fancy who sits a few seats a way do a striptease, etc etc. You 
&lt;br&gt;may find that this does not improve your Discernment at all, but causes you to fall into a 
&lt;br&gt;day-dream! 
&lt;br&gt;Step Six: Active Imagination 
&lt;br&gt;I will now write some details of a certain technique which will be of interest to beginners 
&lt;br&gt;who are having difficulty achieving lucidity, to enable them to get some idea about what it 
&lt;br&gt;is they are aiming for. It should also be of interest to those more experienced, as it is also a 
&lt;br&gt;method for developing Clairvoyance, Skrying, and stimulating ones intuition. 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Active Imagination&amp;quot; is a term coined by the founder of Analytical Psychology, C.G. Jung. 
&lt;br&gt;It is a particular method of visualisation which he developed as an alternative to the free- 
&lt;br&gt;association type of psychoanalysis invented by Freud. 
&lt;br&gt;Unlike the other exercises in this essay, Active imagination is only indirectly connected 
&lt;br&gt;with Lucid Dreaming – it can and sometimes should be done whilst one is fairly awake. 
&lt;br&gt;I mention Active Imagination here as ideally, a Lucid Dreamer should have as much 
&lt;br&gt;mastery over his dreams as he would in the visions he would see in this method. 
&lt;br&gt;To begin Active Imagination, sit in a comfortable position – e.g. the same posture in which 
&lt;br&gt;you sit for sammaspati. It may help to have pen and paper handy. 
&lt;br&gt;Select a topic for your experiment. This would be like the topic you would choose for a 
&lt;br&gt;directed dream, but with one important qualification – it should simplified to one key-word. 
&lt;br&gt;If you have a particular question on your mind, you should decide upon a key-word which 
&lt;br&gt;sums up the subject of your question. E.g. For &amp;quot;How do I earn lots of money?&amp;quot; your key 
&lt;br&gt;word might be &amp;quot;Money.&amp;quot; For &amp;quot;I want to know what it’s like in the Bahamas,&amp;quot; your key word 
&lt;br&gt;would probably be &amp;quot;Bahamas.&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;Having selected your topic, allow yourself to become relaxed, and try to make your mind a 
&lt;br&gt;complete blank. Now think about the key-word once, and then try to keep your mind as still 
&lt;br&gt;as possible. 
&lt;br&gt;Carefully observe the first thought that pops into your head immediately after you have 
&lt;br&gt;thought about the key-word. This is very critical – a second or third thought is likely pop in 
&lt;br&gt;almost immediately afterwards but these do not count, because they are almost certainly 
&lt;br&gt;generated by your conscious mind reacting to the first thought. It is only the first one, 
&lt;br&gt;arising spontaneously before you have time to react that we are interested in here. Write this 
&lt;br&gt;very first thought down – or, if it is not a word itself (e.g. a picture or sound) write a very 
&lt;br&gt;brief description of it.
&lt;br&gt;This is where the process starts to differ from Freudian free-association. Repeat the 
&lt;br&gt;procedure of the two preceding paragraphs, re-starting with the key-word, not whatever you 
&lt;br&gt;have just noted down on your piece of paper. Repeat this around half a dozen times, so that 
&lt;br&gt;you end up with a list of thoughts, all of which arose completely spontaneously as a result 
&lt;br&gt;of thinking about the key-word. Take some time to examine the list, so that you can 
&lt;br&gt;remember its contents without having to look at it. 
&lt;br&gt;The next stage is to begin the visualisation proper. At this point Jung himself said some 
&lt;br&gt;people needed a kind of ritual before settling down to their visualisation. What this is 
&lt;br&gt;should be left to the individual – it should be a definite act which signifies your will to 
&lt;br&gt;concentrate on your inner vision, and ignore all external influences. Those familiar with the 
&lt;br&gt;G.’.D.’.might consider the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram at this point. 
&lt;br&gt;Re-settle yourself in your seated position and close your eyes. It should go without saying 
&lt;br&gt;that this exercise should be conducted in privacy, when you are not likely to be disturbed. 
&lt;br&gt;Before your mind’s eye, construct a scene whose elements include all of the thoughts you 
&lt;br&gt;have just written down. You should not torture yourself into trying to create a real-life scene 
&lt;br&gt;– a fantasy scene will do just as well and indeed may be necessary if the elements are 
&lt;br&gt;sufficiently incongruous. However, it should be fully developed: you should have the 
&lt;br&gt;impression that you are looking at an actual place full of the thought-elements. Your vision 
&lt;br&gt;should not be a succession of random images. 
&lt;br&gt;Remaining calm at all times, concentrate on the vision, so that as you lend it your full 
&lt;br&gt;awareness, it becomes as clear as a television image, or an actual three-dimensional 
&lt;br&gt;situation. Maintain regular breathing. Avoid the temptation to tense any muscles. 
&lt;br&gt;As with other types of visualisation, this active imagination should be continuous, 
&lt;br&gt;unbroken. However you may find distracting thoughts cropping up which threaten to break 
&lt;br&gt;up your vision.It is here that you must learn the particular way of concentrating which will 
&lt;br&gt;ensure success in your vision. Do not think you can get rid of the distracting thoughts by 
&lt;br&gt;willing them to go away, for in doing so you are still paying them some attention, which is 
&lt;br&gt;more than they deserve. Do not try even to force these thoughts from your mind. Instead, 
&lt;br&gt;you should concentrate on your intended vision with all the carethat you would if you were 
&lt;br&gt;trying to listen out for a particular sound across a crowded room. I emphasise the word 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;care&amp;quot;: for you should be completely calm in the manner in which you concentrate upon 
&lt;br&gt;your active imagination. 
&lt;br&gt;Another example: take a tight-rope walker for instance. You can bet that he does not allow 
&lt;br&gt;stray thoughts to enter his mind when on the middle of a tight-rope.You can also bet that he 
&lt;br&gt;does not allow himself to be distracted by fear – and this includes the kind of physical 
&lt;br&gt;reactions that occur to frightened people such as unnatural breathing, tensed muscles, etc. 
&lt;br&gt;Instead, the way in which he takes great care is to keep his mind still and body relaxed 
&lt;br&gt;while he concentrates on the rope. 
&lt;br&gt;Therefore, meditate on your vision with complete calmness and with the greatest possible 
&lt;br&gt;care – as if the slightest perturbation from your mind will shatter your vision completely. 
&lt;br&gt;Yes, this is difficult! However, you are also learning a key to maintaining the quality of 
&lt;br&gt;your lucid dreams, so it is thoroughly worthwhile you learning this.
&lt;br&gt;Assuming you can maintain this active imagination with any degree of success, you should 
&lt;br&gt;start off by looking around and simply observing what is happening. Are people talking? 
&lt;br&gt;Are they interacting with each other? Gradually turn around observing everything that there 
&lt;br&gt;is to be seen, and look up and down. 
&lt;br&gt;To begin with, this should be the extent of your experiments: however, once you have got 
&lt;br&gt;used to Active Imagination, and are able to maintain the integrity of the vision, with the 
&lt;br&gt;required state of mind, you may go further. If you see people in your vision, you may 
&lt;br&gt;attempt to talk to them, that is, by imagining that you are doing so. Suitable questions 
&lt;br&gt;include asking the significance of what you can see, asking them to explain their actions – 
&lt;br&gt;and if your original intention in making use of Active Imagination was to find the answer to 
&lt;br&gt;a question, then obviously that question itself. 
&lt;br&gt;It is of the utmost importance when asking such a question to keep the mind as still as 
&lt;br&gt;possible, so you can detect the first thought that occurs spontaneously thereafter – compare 
&lt;br&gt;this with what you did when you generating a list of words associated with the Key-word. 
&lt;br&gt;The reason being that you want to know what your Unconscious really thinks on the matter. 
&lt;br&gt;However, if you are sloppy in your concentration, or you allow yourself to pay attention to 
&lt;br&gt;the second or third thought occurring (or even a later one!) you run the risk of finding out 
&lt;br&gt;not what your Unconscious really thinks but what you wish your Unconscious really 
&lt;br&gt;thought. From the point of view of someone who wants to use Active Imagination as a 
&lt;br&gt;means of stimulating their intuition, or even practising Clairvoyancy and Skrying – or 
&lt;br&gt;someone who wants to eventually enjoy a really good quality Lucid Dream – this would be 
&lt;br&gt;less than useless. 
&lt;br&gt;To further practice your powers of imagination, once you have the ability to concentrate on 
&lt;br&gt;your vision, attempt to change one aspect of it at Will, without the integrity of the vision 
&lt;br&gt;breaking up. E.g. make one object appear or disappear. How do the characters and events in 
&lt;br&gt;the vision react to the things which you are causing to happen? Concentrate on causing one 
&lt;br&gt;change, until you are confident with maintaining your inward vision– then go on to practice 
&lt;br&gt;with a completely different change, and so forth. This should be done over the course of 
&lt;br&gt;many Active Imagination sessions. 
&lt;br&gt;To end your Active Imagination session on any one given occasion, you should open your 
&lt;br&gt;eyes and make another definite symbolic act, this time signifying your firm intention to end 
&lt;br&gt;your vision and return to normal consciousness. Again, those who know their G.’.D.’.might 
&lt;br&gt;consider making the Sign of Silence (also known as the Sign of Harpocrates) at this point. 
&lt;br&gt;Once finished, write a full account of how you fared, in a similar manner to the way you 
&lt;br&gt;record things in your Dream Diary. 
&lt;br&gt;You should practice the Active Imagination for at least a week, and not move onto the next 
&lt;br&gt;step until you have achieved the kind of concentration, and control over your inward vision 
&lt;br&gt;as I have indicated. You will find, when you are more experienced practising, that instead of 
&lt;br&gt;basing your Active Imagination around a Key-word, you can also base it around a key- 
&lt;br&gt;picture. Generate the list of words on which you base your active imagination by stilling 
&lt;br&gt;your mind and staring at the picture in question – noting down the very first thought which 
&lt;br&gt;occurs each time. 
&lt;br&gt;NB It is best to avoid contemplating magical symbols in this way unless you are familiar 
&lt;br&gt;with the principle of clairvoyance 
&lt;br&gt;– 
&lt;br&gt;I will give a brief explanation in a later section.
&lt;br&gt;Step Seven: Achieving Lucidity 
&lt;br&gt;First I shall recap about all you should have achieved so-far: you should be recording your 
&lt;br&gt;dreams assiduously in your Dream Diary. You can dream about topics of your own 
&lt;br&gt;choosing when you so desire. You have learnt how guide your unconscious into following 
&lt;br&gt;your willed desires through affirmation. You have learnt how to improve the quality of your 
&lt;br&gt;dreams by performing Sammaspati before retiring. You have become used to visualisation, 
&lt;br&gt;and what is more important, the level of concentration required to sustain it through Active 
&lt;br&gt;imagination. Most importantly, you are practising the habit of Discernment, and actively 
&lt;br&gt;looking out for inconsistencies in your dreams. 
&lt;br&gt;You should not go onto the next step until you are confident in your practice of everything 
&lt;br&gt;in the above paragraph. Now I am going to deal directly with achieving lucidity in practice 
&lt;br&gt;–and to do this I shall be referring back to everything about which I talked in the foregoing 
&lt;br&gt;sections. 
&lt;br&gt;Read the following definition several times until it is committed to memory: the quality of 
&lt;br&gt;Lucidity means exercising as much control over your dreams as you do over Active 
&lt;br&gt;Imagination. In other words, remember how I wrote at some length about the care you 
&lt;br&gt;need to show in concentration? About your ability to cause Willed changes to your vision? 
&lt;br&gt;About carefully observing your surroundings, and interacting with the characters that you 
&lt;br&gt;see? In Lucid Dreaming you are going to do all that whilst asleep. Readers might be 
&lt;br&gt;wondering why I bothered with Active Imagination instead of going straight to Lucidity 
&lt;br&gt;itself – the answer now presents itself: by using the metaphor of Active imagination I am 
&lt;br&gt;giving the beginner some idea of what Lucidity is actually like, so that he or she will 
&lt;br&gt;recognise it when it occurs to them. 
&lt;br&gt;There are several particular methods of achieving lucidity: I advise the dreamer to practice 
&lt;br&gt;all of them until you can decide for yourself which you prefer. When selecting a method 
&lt;br&gt;only do one-at-a-time; do not try one method one night and another the following –or even 
&lt;br&gt;different methods on the same night. 
&lt;br&gt;For the moment, whenever you attain lucidity by whichever method, do not do anything at 
&lt;br&gt;first apart from repeating &amp;quot;I am Lucid&amp;quot; quietly to yourself. If you become overly excited at 
&lt;br&gt;becoming lucid you may cause yourself to wake up. Therefore you should initially try to 
&lt;br&gt;remain as calm as possible. 
&lt;br&gt;The Discernment Method – version one. 
&lt;br&gt;Set yourself an affirmation along the lines of &amp;quot;I become Lucid when I Discern an 
&lt;br&gt;inconsistency in my dreams.&amp;quot; Assuming you are well established in Discernment this is the 
&lt;br&gt;most straightforward –the additional practice of the Reality Check is recommended. 
&lt;br&gt;Although this is the most straightforward, it may be that many of your dreams are filled 
&lt;br&gt;with inconsistencies which You Chose Not to Discern. If you find this to be the case, do not 
&lt;br&gt;despair, rather try the following: 
&lt;br&gt;The Discernment Method – version two
&lt;br&gt;Let us assume that you have woken up in the small hours, having already had one non-lucid 
&lt;br&gt;dream. You have recorded it in your Dream Diary, and on review you realise that there are a 
&lt;br&gt;number of inconsistencies which you Chose Not to Discern. Now you are going to attempt a 
&lt;br&gt;feat of visualisation similar to the third method of Dream Direction in Step 3 above. 
&lt;br&gt;Settle down to sleep, and consciously relax by bringing your attention to each part of your 
&lt;br&gt;body in turn, allowing the muscles to untense and become still. Maintain unforced regular 
&lt;br&gt;breathing. Now, replay the contents of your dream before your mind’s eye – but this time 
&lt;br&gt;allow yourself the commentary along the lines of &amp;quot;I am lucid. I am lucid. That’s not realistic 
&lt;br&gt;– I must be dreaming. I am lucid. I am lucid etc&amp;quot;. In other words, acting out what you 
&lt;br&gt;should have done in you dream, in your visualisation. 
&lt;br&gt;This can be a very effective method indeed. Success comes in two forms: first, you may slip 
&lt;br&gt;into a lucid dream directly from your visualisation, without ever becoming aware that you 
&lt;br&gt;fell asleep. Secondly, even if the first does not occur, you are increasing the probability that 
&lt;br&gt;you will have a proper lucid dream later in the night. 
&lt;br&gt;The Visual Cue method 
&lt;br&gt;Select something for a visual cue – set yourself an affirmation – &amp;quot;When I see &amp;quot;[name of 
&lt;br&gt;Visual cue]&amp;quot; I become Lucid.&amp;quot; The visual cue can be anything, for example: your own 
&lt;br&gt;hands, an object, person or place, an animal, etc. To decide something really effective, you 
&lt;br&gt;can go over your dream diary entries of the past few days and identify something that crops 
&lt;br&gt;up in your dreams regularly. You can also combine this method with the idea of the Reality 
&lt;br&gt;Check, by e.g. making your Reality Check the task of looking out for a specific cue. 
&lt;br&gt;It is helpful to get a good look at your chosen visual cue immediately before going to sleep. 
&lt;br&gt;This is why it is often most convenient to use your own hands as the cue, as anything more 
&lt;br&gt;ostentatious will mean you have to hunt around for a decent picture, or setting up the object 
&lt;br&gt;on your nightstand, etc. 
&lt;br&gt;Both this and the various methods of Discernment work by prompting the critical faculties 
&lt;br&gt;of your conscious mind to come into operation, instead of just lying dormant (literally!) as 
&lt;br&gt;they do in a non-lucid dream. 
&lt;br&gt;The &amp;quot;Dream Yoga&amp;quot; Method 
&lt;br&gt;This is something of a curiosity, although I myself have tried it in the past and have 
&lt;br&gt;achieved remarkable results with it. It was originally described by Namkhai Norbu 
&lt;br&gt;Rinpoche, a Tibetan spiritual master in the Dzogchen tradition. 
&lt;br&gt;In order to carry it out, one should be well versed in the technique of meditation. Recourse 
&lt;br&gt;to a good book on Yoga is recommended for explanation of basic terms, e.g. Light on Yoga 
&lt;br&gt;or Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, both by BKS Iyengar – the former is a practical 
&lt;br&gt;guide and the latter is an erudite study of yoga philosophy. 
&lt;br&gt;The procedure is as follows: when meditating, listen to the sound of your breath, and decide 
&lt;br&gt;how best to describe that sound, e.g. &amp;quot;Aaaaaaaa…&amp;quot;. Now visualise this sound as a glowing 
&lt;br&gt;white symbol e.g. the Tibetan letter &amp;quot;ah&amp;quot;:
&lt;br&gt;or simply the English letter &amp;quot;A&amp;quot;, located in your heart. Meditate on this symbol in your 
&lt;br&gt;heart, until you have attained samadhi – or deepest state which it is possible for you to 
&lt;br&gt;achieve, as it is very difficult to achieve samadhi per se. 
&lt;br&gt;Remember that success in meditation rests in keeping the mind perfectly still. It is not about 
&lt;br&gt;generating a train of thought, but making the mind rest on a single point. In Yogic terms, 
&lt;br&gt;meditation may be characterised like this: 
&lt;br&gt;First, the outside world disappears–this is pratyahara or Sense withdrawal. 
&lt;br&gt;Second, ones own body disappears. The object of meditation is hanging in empty space. 
&lt;br&gt;This is dharana or concentration. 
&lt;br&gt;Third, all other thoughts which are competing with the meditation object disappear. It is as 
&lt;br&gt;if dharana has become effortless: though one does not realise this at the time – if one did 
&lt;br&gt;this would constiute a break in concentration. This third phase is dhyana, or meditation. 
&lt;br&gt;Fourthly, ones own Ego itself disappears. This is a very strange phenomenon indeed. The 
&lt;br&gt;mind becomes locked still, as if it couldn’t move even if it wanted to. Meditators who look 
&lt;br&gt;back on this afterward (it is not possible to do this at the time – if it were, the mind would 
&lt;br&gt;not be still) report: an explosion of energy (known as agni or kundalini); a sense of 
&lt;br&gt;overwhelming peace and tranquility; an impression that one has transformed into the actual 
&lt;br&gt;object of meditation. However, the key quality is the perfect stillness of the mind – so still 
&lt;br&gt;in fact that it is really impossible to describe with complete accuracy. It is not the most 
&lt;br&gt;perfect stillness imaginable – it is a stillness so perfect it is beyond imagination. This fourth 
&lt;br&gt;phase is samadhi, which means &amp;quot;divine consciousness&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;being at one with God&amp;quot;. 
&lt;br&gt;Note well that none of the four phases described above by willing the effects described, but 
&lt;br&gt;by concentrating on the process itself. Therefore, in the Dream Yoga meditation, do not try 
&lt;br&gt;to will the outside world to disappear and thereby cause pratyahara. Instead meditate purely 
&lt;br&gt;on the 
&lt;br&gt;or &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; itself, and let the outside world disappear of its own accord. Similarly, do not keep 
&lt;br&gt;wondering &amp;quot;Am I in Dharana yet? Am I in Dhyana yet?&amp;quot; etc – if you have to ask, then the 
&lt;br&gt;answer is &amp;quot;No,&amp;quot; because the very fact that you have to ask means you are not concentrating 
&lt;br&gt;on the object. 
&lt;br&gt;Once you have finished meditating for the evening, retire to bed in the normal way. 
&lt;br&gt;Namkhai Norbu recommends sleeping on the right hand side, blocking off the right ear and 
&lt;br&gt;nostril, for vivid dreams – or doing the same, mutatis mutandur, on the left for dreaming of 
&lt;br&gt;the Void. Furthermore, on waking up, meditating on the same symbol but at the throat helps 
&lt;br&gt;in dream recall. 
&lt;br&gt;In explaining this method, Namkhai Norbu said that its main purpose is to enable the 
&lt;br&gt;practitioner to receive &amp;quot;transmission&amp;quot;: i.e. of teachings, spiritual advice, and most 
&lt;br&gt;importantly of the non-dual state which is both the starting point and the objective in 
&lt;br&gt;Dzogchen practice. In his autobiography, Namkhai Norbu relates that he often used this 
&lt;br&gt;Dream Yoga to visit his own master to receive further teaching 
&lt;br&gt;– 
&lt;br&gt;even though the master
&lt;br&gt;was otherwise incommunicado in Tibet, and Namkhai Norbu had long since gone to live in 
&lt;br&gt;the west to escape the Chinese persecution. 
&lt;br&gt;Step Eight: The Lucid Lifestyle. 
&lt;br&gt;At this point I shall include some advice on how best to organise your life so as to maximise 
&lt;br&gt;your success at Lucid Dreaming. 
&lt;br&gt;Lucidity is not for those who don’t get a full night’s sleep. Going to bed early is 
&lt;br&gt;recommended, at least no later than midnight. Curiously however, I have found that it is not 
&lt;br&gt;necessarily helpful to go to bed especially late and have a lie-in the following morning. 
&lt;br&gt;This is not to say &amp;quot;Don’t go out to pubs and night-clubs&amp;quot; etc – however, if you do, you 
&lt;br&gt;should resign yourself to the fact that you are not going to have a lucid dream each and 
&lt;br&gt;every night. Nevertheless, you should still carry out the practise as best you can – recording 
&lt;br&gt;your dreams in your dream diary, noting inconsistencies which you Chose not to Discern, 
&lt;br&gt;practising sammaspati as often as possible, etc. 
&lt;br&gt;Don’t eat indigestible foods in the evening. You have probably heard the saying &amp;quot;Eating 
&lt;br&gt;cheese at night gives you nightmares.&amp;quot; There is actually some sense to this, as cheese, being 
&lt;br&gt;slow to digest, will keep your digestive system at work during the night. Hence your 
&lt;br&gt;unconscious mind will be receiving troublesome signals from your body whilst you are 
&lt;br&gt;sleeping. 
&lt;br&gt;For similar reasons, only go to bed after you have emptied your bladder and voided your 
&lt;br&gt;bowels. Moreover, you should take care to mind your physical health. Exercise regularly, 
&lt;br&gt;avoid doing anything obviously unhealthy, such as risking injury or disease. You are not 
&lt;br&gt;going to have trouble-free nights – and therefore have dreams which you can control – if 
&lt;br&gt;you are disturbed by illness. 
&lt;br&gt;Avoid taking drugs. Generally they are never necessary for Lucid Dreaming – all of the 
&lt;br&gt;practices in this essay can be achieved whilst totally drug-free. Lucid Dreaming is a 
&lt;br&gt;perfectly healthy way of accessing unusual states of consciousness. It is safe, and not only 
&lt;br&gt;does it not damage your health it can even be good for you. Conversely, everyone should 
&lt;br&gt;know by now what kind of damage to physical or mental health drugs can cause. There is 
&lt;br&gt;really no point in risking your well-being or your sanity to go on a drug-induced trip, when 
&lt;br&gt;it is possible through Lucid Dreaming to experience what is essentially a &amp;quot;trip&amp;quot; that is risk- 
&lt;br&gt;free. 
&lt;br&gt;There is a scurrilous plot-detail in Dion Fortune’s novel &amp;quot;The Sea Priestess&amp;quot;, in which the 
&lt;br&gt;hero experiences dream visions whilst dosed up to his eyeballs on (prescribed) morphine. 
&lt;br&gt;This is by no means recommended. As far as I can tell, Dion used this as a literary device to 
&lt;br&gt;get the hero to start experiencing visions within a few days – it would have taken up an 
&lt;br&gt;overlong part of the book if she had described him going to the trouble of actually learning 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreaming. It is entirely possible, by adhering to the discipline which I have outlined 
&lt;br&gt;in this essay, to experience visions as astounding as those which occurred the hero of &amp;quot;The 
&lt;br&gt;Sea Priestess&amp;quot; – without having to become a drug addict. 
&lt;br&gt;There are no special rules for diet. Vegetarianism, veganism, eating only certain foods for 
&lt;br&gt;religious or ideological reasons: all of these are in fact irrelevant to success in Lucid
&lt;br&gt;Dreaming. So too is tee-totalling, but this does not mean it is a good idea to go out and get 
&lt;br&gt;hog-whimperingly drunk. However, if you do follow a certain dietary practice for religious, 
&lt;br&gt;moral or ethical reasons, you should carry on as before, as the emotional upset you will 
&lt;br&gt;receive from interrupting your diet probably will interfere with your ability to dream 
&lt;br&gt;lucidly, even though the food itselfdoes not. Therefore, when it comes to diet, one should 
&lt;br&gt;simply remember the advice about indigestible foods late at night, and avoid anything 
&lt;br&gt;which is obviously unhealthy – and of course, don’t disobey your doctor’s instructions if 
&lt;br&gt;your diet is medically prescribed for you. 
&lt;br&gt;When you travel away from home, for whatever reason, take your Dream Diary with you, 
&lt;br&gt;so you can carry on your practice. It is preferable to take your actual dream diary –trying to 
&lt;br&gt;use scraps of paper which you will copy into your real diary later is often unsatisfactory. If 
&lt;br&gt;you go without practising Dream Recall, which is the first and most important skill of a 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid Dreamer, for any length of time, you will only waste time trying to get back into the 
&lt;br&gt;hang of remembering your dreams. Practice continually – even if you are unable to dream 
&lt;br&gt;lucidly every night or at all, stick as close to the procedure as is possible. 
&lt;br&gt;There is no particular rules for sex – this is purely for the judgement of the individual (I 
&lt;br&gt;have already mentioned the considerations of getting enough sleep and not doing anything 
&lt;br&gt;unhealthy). Ideally you should explain to your partner what it is you are trying to achieve 
&lt;br&gt;with Lucid Dreaming – so that not only do they tolerate your nocturnal activities, but they 
&lt;br&gt;lend you their active support. In a later section I will describe how you can experiment with 
&lt;br&gt;lucid dreaming together. 
&lt;br&gt;Avoid doing anything that will cause you emotional upset. Guilt, frustration, fear, anger, 
&lt;br&gt;hatred – not only are these bad in themselves, they do not make for good sleep (and 
&lt;br&gt;therefore Dream) patterns. Sammaspati can help alleviate some emotional problems to an 
&lt;br&gt;extent, but it is far better to avoid them at the outset – and this may mean modifying your 
&lt;br&gt;behaviour in everyday life. Hence, here is at least one argument in favour of observing 
&lt;br&gt;morality – if you don’t, you risk preventing the success of your lucid dream practice, in 
&lt;br&gt;addition to any aspiration you have to mystical attainment. 
&lt;br&gt;Periodically re-read your dream diary, to compare your present practice with the past. If you 
&lt;br&gt;have difficulties, you may be able to discover the both the problem and the cure by 
&lt;br&gt;examining how you coped on previous occasions. As I encourage you to experiment with a 
&lt;br&gt;number of different techniques in this essay, you should make a careful note of what 
&lt;br&gt;technique or technique you are using at a given time, so you can correlate them with your 
&lt;br&gt;successes –and failures. 
&lt;br&gt;Similarly, later on I suggest a number of ways you can make use of your Lucid Dreaming 
&lt;br&gt;faculty once you are confident in it. In each case you should always note down what you are 
&lt;br&gt;trying to achieve, and how you are going about achieving it. The same goes if you decide to 
&lt;br&gt;use Lucid Dreaming to explore a completely new area of either your own or someone else’s 
&lt;br&gt;devising. 
&lt;br&gt;Step Nine: General Advice for Lucid Dreaming. 
&lt;br&gt;You should only move on to this step once you are able to achieve lucidity in your dreams 
&lt;br&gt;on a regular basis.
&lt;br&gt;As you begin your adventures in lucid dreaming you will probably come across three main 
&lt;br&gt;problems: first, not being able to control your actions; second, lapsing into non-lucidity; and 
&lt;br&gt;third, waking up suddenly. 
&lt;br&gt;The first problem is solved through both preparation and practice. You should realise, I 
&lt;br&gt;hope, that having mastered both dream direction and achieving lucidity, how it is possible 
&lt;br&gt;to combine the two and have a lucid dream about the topic of your choice. However, it 
&lt;br&gt;happens to the best of us that if we set ourselves a given task to accomplish in our Lucid 
&lt;br&gt;dreaming, we may not be able to achieve it first time. Try, try and try again. Lucid dreaming 
&lt;br&gt;is a talent for life: given that your only responsibility for success is to yourself, you should 
&lt;br&gt;concentrate primarily on the quality of your experience, not on achieving it in a given time- 
&lt;br&gt;frame. Therefore never be afraid to repeat your efforts on a succeeding night if what you 
&lt;br&gt;desire does not occur immediately. 
&lt;br&gt;I have found that dream direction is more likely to happen first time if the topic is 
&lt;br&gt;something you needto do, or you would find it genuinely useful – as opposed to mere wish- 
&lt;br&gt;fulfilment. Trying to use Lucid Dreaming unselfishly –e.g. to give you an idea how to help 
&lt;br&gt;others – also works well: but not if the only reason is to win glory for yourself and inflate 
&lt;br&gt;your own ego. 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Not being able to control your actions&amp;quot; is solved quite simply by identifying with which 
&lt;br&gt;part of the dream you are unsatisfied, and then firmly resolving that in the future you arein 
&lt;br&gt;fact able to control it as you wish. This is quite simply because dreams are ultimately the 
&lt;br&gt;product of your imagination, and your imagination can be controlled through Concentration. 
&lt;br&gt;The use of Affirmation might be considered – but you will find that sometimes all that is 
&lt;br&gt;necessary is to simply remember you have the power to control your dreams before you go 
&lt;br&gt;to sleep. To give an example, I remember one of my own dreams where I found I could not 
&lt;br&gt;pass through solid objects. It occurred to me that this was absurd when I woke up, as I was 
&lt;br&gt;allowing my Waking sense of what is possible and impossible to impinge upon my dreams. 
&lt;br&gt;Once I realised this, I found that I rectified the problem soon after, and I was happily 
&lt;br&gt;phasing through walls and plate-glass windows and the like. 
&lt;br&gt;Albert Einstein himself said that &amp;quot;the Imagination is more important that the Intellect. For 
&lt;br&gt;the Intellect is limited by what is known at the time – but the Imagination is infinite.&amp;quot; When 
&lt;br&gt;Einstein said the Intellect was limited, he of course was referring to extents of human 
&lt;br&gt;knowledge of which ordinary people who are not Nobel Prize-winning scientists are not 
&lt;br&gt;aware – yet even he was conscious that the sum total of human knowledge if finite. With 
&lt;br&gt;Lucid dreaming you yourself are able to explore the Infinite Imagination in full vividness. 
&lt;br&gt;The only limits on your imagination are ones which you yourself are allowing to exist, for 
&lt;br&gt;every fantastic idea (including ones not yet imagined) can be explored within your mind. 
&lt;br&gt;Therefore, free your imagination by the power of your Will: concentration, perseverance, 
&lt;br&gt;and the knowledge of the true extent of your abilities. 
&lt;br&gt;If you want to have a lucid dream about a specific topic, as opposed to a more general one, 
&lt;br&gt;it is wise to prepare yourself whilst awake by reading or revising everything you are likely 
&lt;br&gt;to need to know before going to sleep. There is a certain phenomenon when you become 
&lt;br&gt;aware that you are dreaming, but you find it strangely difficult to remember certain things. 
&lt;br&gt;This can be quite a bind if you are aiming to use your lucid dream for a quite detailed 
&lt;br&gt;purpose. As to why this sudden amnesia occurs, I have heard numerous explanations, 
&lt;br&gt;mostly of an occult variety e.g. in a lucid dream, the Nephesh is separated from the Ruach, 
&lt;br&gt;or (in other words) the Astral body is separated from the Mental Body. I will not go into this
&lt;br&gt;in detail as a full discussion of Occult anatomy is outside the scope of this essay, and in any 
&lt;br&gt;event is not strictly necessary in order to overcome the problem. I merely mention it here so 
&lt;br&gt;that people who are familiar with e.g. the Qabalah can carry out research on their own. 
&lt;br&gt;Suffice to say, most problems of this kind can be overcome by making a specific effort to 
&lt;br&gt;remember all information that you are likely to require before you go to sleep. 
&lt;br&gt;Alternatively, it is sometimes possible to sustain the dream-state long enough through 
&lt;br&gt;remaining calm, concentrating, and guarding against non-lucidity (see below) until you 
&lt;br&gt;actually remember the desired fact. This second method is very difficult in practice and is 
&lt;br&gt;far inferior compared to that of prior revision, as outlined above. 
&lt;br&gt;The second problem, that of &amp;quot;lapsing into non-lucidity&amp;quot;, can be an insidious problem at first, 
&lt;br&gt;because you don’t realise it happens until after you wake up. The solution is simple. Repeat 
&lt;br&gt;the same test you used to achieve lucidity periodically throughout your dream, so as to keep 
&lt;br&gt;yourself on your guard. For example, if you look at your hands to achieve lucidity, do the 
&lt;br&gt;same throughout your dream. If you have been practising Reality Checks, continue to do so 
&lt;br&gt;after you have achieved lucidity –and likewise for Discernment. If you do not remember to 
&lt;br&gt;do this, again, think about using Affirmations, or simply form a firm resolution to remember 
&lt;br&gt;before going to sleep. 
&lt;br&gt;The third problem, &amp;quot;waking up suddenly&amp;quot;, is one of the trickiest pitfalls faced by beginners. 
&lt;br&gt;One of the main causes is to be suddenly confronted by a surprising experience: hence the 
&lt;br&gt;less experienced lucid dreamer is most susceptible because he or she will be discovering 
&lt;br&gt;new phenomena in their practice as a matter of course. 
&lt;br&gt;However – &amp;quot;forewarned is fore-armed.&amp;quot; You will find that the mere act of knowing that a 
&lt;br&gt;given event has a surprising effect will prepare you for the next time. Hence by repeating 
&lt;br&gt;the lucid dream you will be able to retain your composure, and thereby stay asleep and stay 
&lt;br&gt;lucid. 
&lt;br&gt;For example, in another essay, which can be downloaded from my web-site as &amp;quot;The Vision 
&lt;br&gt;of the Holy Guardian Angel&amp;quot;, I describe how I attempted to contact an angelic being during 
&lt;br&gt;a lucid dream. I was successful, yet I was unprepared for the fruits that success would bring. 
&lt;br&gt;Hence the (literally) &amp;quot;heavenly ecstasies&amp;quot; caused me to awake rather sooner than I would 
&lt;br&gt;have wished! However, on subsequent occasions I repeated the same procedure, and 
&lt;br&gt;experienced the same effects whilst remaining in my lucid dream. 
&lt;br&gt;Thus, if you find yourself waking up in the middle of a lucid dream, always remember that 
&lt;br&gt;you can repeat the same lucid dream later with the benefit of experience. Re-examine the 
&lt;br&gt;third method of Dream Direction, in step three above – you may find that you can re-enter 
&lt;br&gt;the lucid state immediately by employing your powers of visualisation. What is more, if 
&lt;br&gt;your Will to have a lucid dream about a particular subject is especially strong, you will find 
&lt;br&gt;that you can re-enter the lucid state almost automatically, the moment you begin to feel it 
&lt;br&gt;breaking up. 
&lt;br&gt;Being able to achieve Lucidity is a significant achievement – if you are able to manage it 
&lt;br&gt;you can feel rightly proud that you have successfully trained yourself to experience a 
&lt;br&gt;genuine example of &amp;quot;the Paranormal&amp;quot;. As a Lucid Dreamer you are able to access a mode of 
&lt;br&gt;consciousness of which the vast majority of people on this planet have no appreciation. 
&lt;br&gt;Indeed, some do not realise it exists, some do but have not (for one reason or another)
&lt;br&gt;experienced it, whilst some are even afraid of it. 
&lt;br&gt;However, before you are tempted to rest on your laurels, you should bear in mind that in 
&lt;br&gt;order to maintain your abilities as a lucid dreamer requires as much work if not more from 
&lt;br&gt;now on as you have done up to this point. All of the skills presented to you should be 
&lt;br&gt;practised regularly. If you relapse, you will find you may well have to start again from the 
&lt;br&gt;beginning in order to get back to your former level of competence. 
&lt;br&gt;Projects for the Advanced Lucid Dreamer 
&lt;br&gt;The foregoing was the essential basics of Lucid dreaming, and to be regarded as the basic 
&lt;br&gt;tools in the dreamer’s toolbox. However from here on what I present is to be regarded as 
&lt;br&gt;purely optional. It is meant to demonstrate some of the unusual purposes to which Lucid 
&lt;br&gt;dreaming can be applied, and may be regarded either as challenges to be undertaken by 
&lt;br&gt;those who are experienced, or simply just as an intellectual curiosity. 
&lt;br&gt;Clairvoyant Dreams 
&lt;br&gt;Note first of all the difference between Clairvoyance and Remote viewing. Remote Viewing 
&lt;br&gt;consists of obtaining a vision of a real-life place or event: in fact it is what most people 
&lt;br&gt;usually believe &amp;quot;clairvoyance&amp;quot; to be. However, real Clairvoyance really means obtaining a 
&lt;br&gt;vision from an occult source –it need not have anything to do with real-life events at all. 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Occult&amp;quot; may seem like a sinister word to some, but in fact it does not pose a danger to 
&lt;br&gt;those who approach the subject in a sensible manner, and following a number of guidelines 
&lt;br&gt;which I will describe below. However, just as it is not logical to be afraid of the occult, 
&lt;br&gt;there are a worrying number of people who are willing to put too great a reliance on its use. 
&lt;br&gt;These are the sort of people who think &amp;quot;The Craft&amp;quot; was a realistic film … 
&lt;br&gt;To prepare for a clairvoyant dream, you need to do three things: 
&lt;br&gt;1. First, select a magickal symbol –this will be the &amp;quot;topic&amp;quot; of your dream; 
&lt;br&gt;2. Second, you should do some research on this symbol – are there any magic words, 
&lt;br&gt;prayers, mantras, divine names, names of angelic beings etc associated with it? 
&lt;br&gt;3. Third, you need to devise a test to make sure what you experience in your dream is to 
&lt;br&gt;be trusted. 
&lt;br&gt;I will now go into each of these three in detail: 
&lt;br&gt;A Magickal Symbol could be any kind or pictorial or diagrammatic device which is 
&lt;br&gt;associated with magic. There is a wide variety of choice – e.g. one of the sixteen figures of 
&lt;br&gt;Geomancy, a Tarot card, a symbol used in alchemy, astrology, or some other part of the 
&lt;br&gt;Western Mystery Tradition – or even something from the Middle-east or orient. It is best to 
&lt;br&gt;start off with something simple, before moving on to anything complex. 
&lt;br&gt;For example, in tantric yoga, the elements of Spirit (or Ether), Air, Fire, Water and Earth 
&lt;br&gt;are represented by certain geometric shapes. Spirit is a black egg or oval, Air is a blue circle 
&lt;br&gt;or hexagon, Fire a red triangle, Water a silver crescent and Earth a yellow square. These 
&lt;br&gt;elements (or &amp;quot;tattvas&amp;quot;) also occur in combination 
&lt;br&gt;– 
&lt;br&gt;a picture, &amp;quot;tattva.jpg&amp;quot; can be
&lt;br&gt;downloaded from my web-site. Let us suppose, for a moment that you choose the simple 
&lt;br&gt;Fire tattva, the plain red triangle. 
&lt;br&gt;The next stage, Research, has a two-fold purpose: you will use what you learn to help you 
&lt;br&gt;test the reliability of your vision; but you are also going to use it to enable you to invoke the 
&lt;br&gt;force that the symbol represents. Note that it is not in fact necessary to believe in this force, 
&lt;br&gt;because you are going test everything you experience, even against common sense. In fact it 
&lt;br&gt;is better not to believe in anything in particular, as this might be a preconception which will 
&lt;br&gt;colour your judgement. The only warning I will make is that you should also try not to 
&lt;br&gt;disbelieve anything –because this is just as much a preconception as belief itself. 
&lt;br&gt;To continue our example: you delve into the topic of tattvas, to find out what is said about 
&lt;br&gt;the red triangle of Fire. It so happens that an occult order like the Golden Dawn has their 
&lt;br&gt;own set of attributions for the various tattvas, which would take too long to go into here: 
&lt;br&gt;although these might be of relevance to someone initiated in the Golden Dawn tradition, 
&lt;br&gt;they are not necessarily connected with tantric yoga itself. As it happens, one Swami 
&lt;br&gt;Pragyamurti of the Bihar School of Yoga told me the actual yogic mantras connected with 
&lt;br&gt;the tattvas: Ham (Spirit), Yam (Air), Ram (Fire), Vam (Water) and Lam (Earth). Hence, 
&lt;br&gt;Ram is the mantra in which you are interested for the moment. (To those who are familiar 
&lt;br&gt;with the subject, you could compare these mantras to those associated with the chakras). 
&lt;br&gt;The third stage, the Test, is necessary because in the course of your dream you will 
&lt;br&gt;encounter various characters or creatures from whom you want information. You would 
&lt;br&gt;therefore demand that these beings undertake a test to demonstrate their sincerity. Do not 
&lt;br&gt;heed anything said by a being who does not test well. What the Test is can depend on both 
&lt;br&gt;the subject of the dream, and the religious persuasion of the dreamer (or lack thereof). 
&lt;br&gt;It is good practice to ask the being to repeat the appropriate word or words which you 
&lt;br&gt;researched in stage two. Also, if there are symbolic gestures associated with the subject, 
&lt;br&gt;make the being perform these. Furthermore, the Christian clairvoyant should ask something 
&lt;br&gt;like &amp;quot;Do you accept the Death and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ?&amp;quot; To which the 
&lt;br&gt;being should say yes. The Muslim can demand that the being proclaim the Shabadah; The 
&lt;br&gt;Jew can make it recite the Shema or otherwise demand it recognise the authority of the 
&lt;br&gt;ineffable Name of God. In short, depending on your religion you should demand that the 
&lt;br&gt;being recognise the authority of what you yourself hold sacred. The adept can demand it 
&lt;br&gt;recognise the authority of his Holy Guardian Angel. However, if you are not particularly 
&lt;br&gt;religious you should leave this consideration out altogether. 
&lt;br&gt;Now, onto the actual clairvoyant dream itself. Refer to the second method of dream 
&lt;br&gt;direction which I wrote about in Step Three above. Use a copy of the symbol as the picture 
&lt;br&gt;you would use as the subject of your dream. When you become lucid, Will that this symbol 
&lt;br&gt;appear in front of you – then project yourself through it as if it is a &amp;quot;magic doorway&amp;quot; (NB in 
&lt;br&gt;the Golden Dawn one would actually project through a negative of the symbol: i.e. if the 
&lt;br&gt;original is in black &amp; white, the negative will be white &amp; black, etc). 
&lt;br&gt;Once through, do not move about, but concentrate on the words, gestures etc which are 
&lt;br&gt;connected with the Symbol. To take our example of the Fire Tattva, now would be an 
&lt;br&gt;appropriate time to chant Ram. At first you might not see anything, but continue for a while 
&lt;br&gt;and you should soon find yourself in a scene of some description.
&lt;br&gt;Do not move about by yourself: rather, Will that a guide come and meet you. When such a 
&lt;br&gt;guide appears, Test it –in the manner indicated above. If it tests well, you can go onto the 
&lt;br&gt;next stage, but if it does not, you should continue concentrating on the correspondences of 
&lt;br&gt;the Symbol as you had before, until a guide appears who does test well. Note that &amp;quot;testing 
&lt;br&gt;badly&amp;quot; doesn’t just include giving a wrong answer, but also giving the right answer in a 
&lt;br&gt;hesitant or untrustworthy manner. 
&lt;br&gt;Assuming that a guide appears who does Test well, you should ask it its name. Note that if a 
&lt;br&gt;being is really connected with the symbol you are exploring, it will not have an 
&lt;br&gt;inappropriate name – if it does, you can guess something is not aright. However, if 
&lt;br&gt;everything still checks out, you can now go with your guide to explore the scene or 
&lt;br&gt;landscape. 
&lt;br&gt;Ask the guide to explain what everything means –all the contents of your vision have some 
&lt;br&gt;relevance. Some of it might seem obvious – e.g. in the Fire tattva you might see a lot of 
&lt;br&gt;flames about –but what kind are they? Volcanic? Solar? Or just ordinary? What is burning? 
&lt;br&gt;A particular fuel? Or even an object? Some of it might not seem obvious at all. Why for 
&lt;br&gt;example do you see particular scenery? Particular creatures? You should try to find out as 
&lt;br&gt;much as possible as about what you see and experience. 
&lt;br&gt;If you meet other beings, Test these as well. Do not go off without your guide at any time. It 
&lt;br&gt;may be that you change guides in the course of your dream, in which case thank the last 
&lt;br&gt;one. You should not go with a new guide who does not Test well. 
&lt;br&gt;To end your clairvoyant dream, return with your guide back to the doorway through which 
&lt;br&gt;you came, and thanking your guide, exit. Do not attempt to wake up before exiting: it is not 
&lt;br&gt;necessarily dangerous but it may well disrupt your ability to have clairvoyant dreams in the 
&lt;br&gt;future. If you find yourself waking up inadvertantly, you should very firmly visualise 
&lt;br&gt;yourself leaving the landscape in the proper manner - in a similar fashion to the active 
&lt;br&gt;imagination. 
&lt;br&gt;It is salutary to learn something about psychic protection, in case you meet a frightening or 
&lt;br&gt;menacing being in your dream. You will find when looking in reference books where 
&lt;br&gt;magickal symbols are listed that there are a number which are associated with protection – 
&lt;br&gt;e.g. the Pentagram, or the Sign of the Cross. The simplest method of psychic protection is to 
&lt;br&gt;memorise such a protective symbol– the one with which you most identify – and imagine it 
&lt;br&gt;in the air between you and the troublesome being. For those who know the Golden Dawn 
&lt;br&gt;style of magick, one can also use the Pentagram Ritual, the Banner of the West, the Formula 
&lt;br&gt;of AGLA, the Sign of Silence or god-form of Harpocrates, etc. 
&lt;br&gt;As usual with all dreams, make a full record of everything that occurred. Examine this 
&lt;br&gt;carefully to see if you discovered any meaningful message – or if there was a flaw in your 
&lt;br&gt;working which you failed to spot. Finally, note how it is also possible to combine this 
&lt;br&gt;Clairvoyant method with the Active Imagination, which I have already described: it is 
&lt;br&gt;possible to develop ones faculty in this way, without falling asleep first. 
&lt;br&gt;Precognitive Dreams 
&lt;br&gt;What I am about to write will not reveal the method for discovering next week’s lottery 
&lt;br&gt;numbers. Unfortunately. It will reveal however a means of judging the outcome of some
&lt;br&gt;event in which you yourself are personally involved, and therefore have an opportunity of 
&lt;br&gt;affecting the outcome. It may even be a way of predicting the outcome of something in 
&lt;br&gt;which you have personal knowledge, but you have no conscious way of knowing what will 
&lt;br&gt;occur. 
&lt;br&gt;This is far more useful than it sounds –for example, what is going to happen when you next 
&lt;br&gt;go to that important job interview? Meet up with someone socially? What is going to 
&lt;br&gt;happen in relation to something happening at your place of work? Etc, etc. 
&lt;br&gt;The reason why this works at all is that your Unconscious mind takes in considerably more 
&lt;br&gt;information than you realise Consciously. Hence you may be pondering some thorny 
&lt;br&gt;problem with no joy, whilst your unconscious already has enough information to work out 
&lt;br&gt;the solution – but you don’t know it. The way to access the answer is through Lucid 
&lt;br&gt;Dreaming. 
&lt;br&gt;Let us assume that you want to know what is going to happen when you go to meet 
&lt;br&gt;someone. The principle is as follows: using any method of dream direction which you feel 
&lt;br&gt;appropriate, induce a Lucid Dream about the event in question. On becoming lucid, take 
&lt;br&gt;some to collect your thoughts and calm your emotions. Then, taking infinite care and not 
&lt;br&gt;rushing, will yourself to travel in your dream to the geographical location of the meeting, 
&lt;br&gt;and forward in time to when it is to occur. You should see the person or people you expect 
&lt;br&gt;to meet there. Carefully observe their behaviour, in particular their emotions and general 
&lt;br&gt;behaviour. All the while, you should be careful to maintain your lucidity – this could take 
&lt;br&gt;quite some nerve, as you may find yourself having to sustain your lucid state for a long 
&lt;br&gt;time. 
&lt;br&gt;The important thing to remember is that what you observe is likely to show a general 
&lt;br&gt;indication of what will happen – though an accurate one. Thus, if the people you meet in 
&lt;br&gt;your dream are angry, it is likely that they will be angry in waking life when you go to the 
&lt;br&gt;meeting. However, if you hear them say specific words, it is less likely you will be able to 
&lt;br&gt;predict these correctly. 
&lt;br&gt;The key to this method depends on the quantity of data stored in your unconscious, so your 
&lt;br&gt;chances of success are likely to be greatest for a matter in which you are already keenly 
&lt;br&gt;interested. Those familiar with Golden Dawn magick can perform the Lesser Ritual of the 
&lt;br&gt;Pentagram and the Middle Pillar Ritual on becoming lucid, as done properly this can fortify 
&lt;br&gt;your mental processes and make accuracy in your prediction more likely. 
&lt;br&gt;David Fontana tells an amusing story of a man who was able to get tips for the horses from 
&lt;br&gt;his dreams with surprising success. The tips would come in the form of cryptic collections 
&lt;br&gt;of words and images which would make no sense until he looked at the race-card the next 
&lt;br&gt;day, when the clues from his dream would all fall into place. Unfortunately, this only ever 
&lt;br&gt;worked as long as he gave away all his winnings to charity – Poseidon, the god of horses, 
&lt;br&gt;deserted him if he ever thought of betting for himself. I found this story somewhat 
&lt;br&gt;incredulous, until I experienced precognitive dreams for myself. And of course when I 
&lt;br&gt;found out from an old hand that while steeple-chases are a lottery, the flats can apparently 
&lt;br&gt;be worked out if you apply enough to concentration to the horses’ track records. 
&lt;br&gt;Telepathic Dreams
&lt;br&gt;As psychic powers go, telepathy is one of the more fantastic, as it presumes reliance not on 
&lt;br&gt;the contents of your Unconscious mind – but someone else’s. However, I will offer two 
&lt;br&gt;suggestions which the interested might choose to investigate. 
&lt;br&gt;There is a theory dating back at least to the French occultist Eliphas Levi, that the Astral 
&lt;br&gt;plane is not confined to the mind of individuals, but has a collective existence –an objective 
&lt;br&gt;existence if you will. Levi states that everything that exists on the Astral plane is made of a 
&lt;br&gt;substance called &amp;quot;astral light&amp;quot; or AUR. In other words, everything you see in an astral 
&lt;br&gt;vision is in fact composed of this substance. Levi goes on to assert that Astral Light is an 
&lt;br&gt;exceedingly responsive medium, which can be affected by the power of fixed thought. 
&lt;br&gt;Where this leaves us, is that I have already said that in lucid dreams you are in fact 
&lt;br&gt;accessing that very astral plane – rather like the way you would with astral projection. 
&lt;br&gt;Hence, we now have a theory which tells us we might be able to effect phenomena like 
&lt;br&gt;telepathy. The way to proceed is as follows: 
&lt;br&gt;Induce a lucid dream, and Will that the person to whom you wish to communicate 
&lt;br&gt;materialises in front of you – you should see them quite clearly. Now simply tell them your 
&lt;br&gt;message, whilst concentrating on the idea that they are hearing your words in reality. 
&lt;br&gt;This is all well and good, but in order to find out whether it worked we immediately run up 
&lt;br&gt;against some of the problems of psychic research. For example, doubtless one of your 
&lt;br&gt;friends wouldn’t mind receiving a telepathic message from you, but if you tell them before 
&lt;br&gt;hand about what you are going to do, an independent observer could rightly claim that the 
&lt;br&gt;act of telling them might have caused them to dream about you anyway. 
&lt;br&gt;On the other hand, if you don’t tell them, you run the risk of sounding somewhat stupid if 
&lt;br&gt;you ring them up the next day to find out if they dreamt about you – unless of course you 
&lt;br&gt;have a very trusting relationship. 
&lt;br&gt;Therefore, the only real way you can really test out a telepathic dream is to try it on a 
&lt;br&gt;relative stranger. The only ethical telepathic messages I can think of in these circumstances 
&lt;br&gt;is if you try to get in contact with a teacher of the mysteries in a sincere effort to learn from 
&lt;br&gt;him or her. Or you could get a warmongering dictator to stop his evil ways. However, for 
&lt;br&gt;those of you who don’t have so many scruples, I leave it to your imagination about what 
&lt;br&gt;can be attempted. But it is not necessary to go to such trouble to test your telepathic faculty 
&lt;br&gt;if you free yourself from any idea that you are going to use it for a selfish motive from the 
&lt;br&gt;outset. 
&lt;br&gt;A second method of telepathic dreams can be put into practice as follows: you will need the 
&lt;br&gt;participation of a friend what has also studied the art of Lucid Dreaming. Agree between 
&lt;br&gt;yourselves to both dream about a certain topic on the same night. Thereafter, meet your 
&lt;br&gt;friend in the middle of your lucid dream. Be sure to make a very accurate note about 
&lt;br&gt;everything that occurs. 
&lt;br&gt;Three things are likely to occur as a result of this way of working: first, you will find that 
&lt;br&gt;either you or your friend are in fact better able to control your respective dream-states, in 
&lt;br&gt;which case you can then go on to act as each other’s yardstick as you both develop your 
&lt;br&gt;faculty.
&lt;br&gt;Second, your relationship with your friend will inevitably grow more intimate, as in 
&lt;br&gt;comparing your records you will come to know the secret workings of their mind. For this 
&lt;br&gt;reason, this method can be profitably used by partners and lovers: however, whatever your 
&lt;br&gt;relationship, you must realise that you owe your friend the highest possible level of 
&lt;br&gt;discretion – as much as you would want your friend to have given that he or she will be 
&lt;br&gt;privy to your secrets. 
&lt;br&gt;Third, you might experience genuine telepathy – or at least a phenomenon which is hard to 
&lt;br&gt;explain by other means. Bear in mind, however, that while this method is suitable for 
&lt;br&gt;deepening your relationship with someone to the psychic, it will be very difficult to stand 
&lt;br&gt;up to the criteria of parapsychological research – though as I say, this will not be a problem 
&lt;br&gt;if you have freed yourself of all selfish desires in relation to your psychic abilities. 
&lt;br&gt;Alternatives to &amp;quot;Coueism&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;Whilst I recommend Coueism as it fits best in with the lifestyle of the typical lucid dreamer, 
&lt;br&gt;you should be aware that it is not the only method for impressing affirmations on the 
&lt;br&gt;unconscious. For those who want to pursue this subject in detail, one should search for 
&lt;br&gt;topics like self-hypnosis, or yoga nidra. 
&lt;br&gt;I would like to briefly mention a category of methods which although they have the same 
&lt;br&gt;effect as Coueism, they are markedly different. They have to do with the control of 
&lt;br&gt;emotions. In her book &amp;quot;The Mystical Qabalah&amp;quot; Dion Fortune closes by saying: 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;It is concerning the power of the visual imagination that we are so lamentably 
&lt;br&gt;ignorant in the West. Coué just missed the turning when he sought in prolonged 
&lt;br&gt;attention a substitute for spontaneous emotion.&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;Dion Fortune was constrained by vows she took to a magickal order not to reveal the secrets 
&lt;br&gt;of practical magic: and yet in this remark she suggest the basis for a system of controlling 
&lt;br&gt;the unconscious which is very close to the methods of the occult. The two key ingredients 
&lt;br&gt;are: a visualised object; and an act of spontaneous emotion. 
&lt;br&gt;Fortune was writing more than sixty years ago, and in the intervening time we have learnt a 
&lt;br&gt;great deal more about the structure of the brain – and the mind. As a result one can surmise 
&lt;br&gt;that she was ahead of her time. Both visualised images and strong emotions are dealt with 
&lt;br&gt;by the right brain – whilst verbal and numerical thoughts are dealt with by the left. From 
&lt;br&gt;this, it will be seen that modern education makes great emphasis of left-brain skills, but 
&lt;br&gt;those who want to rely on their right-brain (e.g. artists) are in a precarious position. Hence, 
&lt;br&gt;by using Visualisation and Emotions, we are making use of parts of the brain not normally 
&lt;br&gt;exercised by ordinary life. 
&lt;br&gt;Therefore, one can fashion an alternative to Coueism by taking these two principles – and 
&lt;br&gt;get a glimpse into the rationale of magick thereby. For example, it might be possible to 
&lt;br&gt;rouse the emotions associated with music and dancing – as is done in Shamanism. One 
&lt;br&gt;could call upon the emotion of lust, or sensual desire, as is done in various forms of sexual 
&lt;br&gt;magick. Theoretically, one could also call upon unpleasant emotions, or stimulate them in 
&lt;br&gt;less than desirable means: however, I shall not deal with these as to do so is unconscionable 
&lt;br&gt;and the basis of black magic.
&lt;br&gt;Quasi-shamanism 
&lt;br&gt;For this you will need to select – or even compose yourself, it you are a musician – some 
&lt;br&gt;music with the following criteria: it should be loud; it should have heavy percussion; it 
&lt;br&gt;should be fairly fast, e.g. 200 bpm, (or you could try experimenting with polyrhythmia); it 
&lt;br&gt;should be quite long, longer than 5 minutes though there is probably no need for it to last 
&lt;br&gt;longer than half-an-hour; it should not have any key-changes or musical devices which 
&lt;br&gt;require intellectual appreciation; it should end on a sudden climax. Actually some of the 
&lt;br&gt;music to be heard in modern night-clubs could theoretically fit this description. The Quasi- 
&lt;br&gt;shaman beforehand decides on a visualised image which fits his or her willed intent. Then, 
&lt;br&gt;one should get seriously into the selected music, until the sense of wild abandon actually 
&lt;br&gt;clears the mind of all thoughts. At the climax, with a massive burst of emotions, allow the 
&lt;br&gt;visualised image to explode in vividity before the mind’s eye – exactly coinciding with the 
&lt;br&gt;last beat of the music. Immediately retire to the Chill-Out Zone – or bed, if you were 
&lt;br&gt;conducting this in your bedroom – and relax completely, making absolutely no effort to 
&lt;br&gt;think about anything in particular. 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;The Seal of Action.&amp;quot; 
&lt;br&gt;For this I shall assume you are happily married, in a full state of health, and your spouse is 
&lt;br&gt;not only sympathetic to your will to dream lucidly, but he or she is willing to actively assist. 
&lt;br&gt;Even if not happily married, this may still work if you are in a long term relationship, but 
&lt;br&gt;probably not if you don’t have a regular partner or are promiscuous. 
&lt;br&gt;It should be fairly obvious that orgasm is an example of &amp;quot;an act of spontaneous emotion&amp;quot;, 
&lt;br&gt;and it is for this reason that there are methods of making use of sex to achieve control of the 
&lt;br&gt;mind and states of mysticism. However, every method which I know demands that before 
&lt;br&gt;attempting to control their minds, partners should learn to control their bodies by refining 
&lt;br&gt;their technique. Specifically, one should learn to prolong intercourse so that, not including 
&lt;br&gt;foreplay, it lasts for around half an hour. &amp;quot;Half an hour&amp;quot; is based on the approximate time 
&lt;br&gt;according to one yoga source that it takes of meditation to achieve samadhi. 
&lt;br&gt;Recourse to a good book, like the Kama Sutra, is recommended – not only for men, but also 
&lt;br&gt;for women, as if they want to use this method to control their mind they should be in a 
&lt;br&gt;position to know what their partners are supposed to be doing. 
&lt;br&gt;The sexual gymnastics envisioned may sound like hard work, but the point is that the 
&lt;br&gt;discipline required to prolong sex for that length of time – coupled with the sustained pre- 
&lt;br&gt;orgasmic ecstasy – serves to concentrate the mind wonderfully, and heightens the 
&lt;br&gt;appreciation of the climax when it finally arrives. 
&lt;br&gt;Therefore, to put this into practice, decide upon a simple visualised image which will be the 
&lt;br&gt;subject of your affirmation. Then, make love as indicated above: do not think about the 
&lt;br&gt;visualised image at the time, but rather become absorbed in the act itself. At the moment of 
&lt;br&gt;orgasm, allow the image to blaze in vividness before your mind’s eye … and then put it out 
&lt;br&gt;of your thoughts completely. 
&lt;br&gt;A pleasant side-effect of &amp;quot;the Seal of Action&amp;quot; is that you will inevitably become more 
&lt;br&gt;intimate with your partner, and your relationship will deepen, as this technique often needs 
&lt;br&gt;to be developed over time.
&lt;br&gt;More to the point, it is fun to practice.
&lt;br&gt;You will notice that in the methods &amp;quot;Quasi-shamanism&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Seal of Action&amp;quot; I say: 
&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Do not think about the object.&amp;quot;. The reason being that the process is complete at the 
&lt;br&gt;moment of climax: any further mentation on the subject would be interfering with the 
&lt;br&gt;integrity of the procedure. Imagine your affirmation is a nail – you are in effect attempting 
&lt;br&gt;to use a burst of emotion to &amp;quot;hammer&amp;quot; that nail into your unco