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Roger N. Walsh
Irvine, California
Frances Vaughan
Mill Valley, California
DREAMS
Copyright 1992TranspersonalInstitute
For most of us such lucid dreams are rare and beyond our ability to
induce. Is there any way of cultivating our abilityto awaken in our
dreams at will? A variety of contemplative traditions and dream
explorerssay yes. In the fourth century,the classical yoga sutras of
Patanjali recommended "witnessing the process of dreaming or
dreamless sleep" (Shearer, 1989). Four centuries later Tibetan
Buddhists devised a sophisticateddream yoga. In the 12thcentury
the Sufi mystic Ibn El-Arabi, a religious and philosophicalgenius
known to the Arab world as "the greatest master," claimed that "a
Since then, with the aid of eye movement signaling and electro-
physiological measures, much progress has been made, such as in
studies of the frequency and duration of lucid dreams, their physi-
ological effects on brain and body, the psychological characteris-
tics of those who have them, the means for inducing them more
reliably, and their potential for healing and transpersonal explora-
tion.
IMPLICATIONS OF LUCIDITY
The final step leadsto the Great Realization, that nothing within the
Sangsara(realmsof existence)is or can be other than unreal like
dreams. The Universal Creation, with its many mansions of existence
fromthelowest tothehighest Buddha paradise ,and every phenomenal
thing there in, organic and inorganic m, atter or form, in its innumerable
physical aspects, as gases,solids,heat,cold,radiations , colours,ener-
gies,electronic elements, are but the contentof the Supreme Dream.
Withthe dawning of this DivineWisdom, the microcosmic aspect of
the Macrocosm becomes fully awakened; thedew-drop slips back into
the Shining Sea,in Nirvanic Blissfulness andAt-one-ment , possessed
of All Possessions, Knowerof the All-Knowledge C , reatorof All
Creations-the OneMind,Reality Itself(Evans-Wentz,1958).
NOTE
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