Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep

When Joseph Campbell uttered his famous maxim, “Follow your bliss,” he was speaking a partial truth. It is important to follow your bliss, and it can take courage, but if that’s all you do, you’ll just get blissed out. From a spiritual perspective, it can be more valid to say, “Follow your fear.” But similarly, if that’s all you do, you’ll just get

You’re going to drop into the divinity of your being, into an essence that never dies, never changes, and is forever awake.

The Buddhist concept of the “middle way,” or “not too tight, not too loose,” is the ideal guide.

because this is when you feel them. Otherwise the material stays safely and aseptically tucked away in your head. The three wisdom tools take information from your head and deliver it down into your heart and guts. This is where you really feel things, and where you’re truly fed. This is where you transform cerebral data into somatic fiber.

was also reading a great deal, things like The Seth Material, Edgar Cayce, pop psychology, and quirky books about dreams.

Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in Your Dreams (1985)

Three Wisdom Tools To take this journey inward, we’re going to engage the three prajnas, or “wisdom tools,” of hearing, contemplating, and meditating.6 Hearing, or reading, about something leads to contemplating upon it, which leads to meditating on it. By reading and thinking about this material, you will be engaging the first two wisdom tools. In