dreams

Dreams, my favorite portal into the imaginal, reveal it with startling precision. Every night, an interior landscape rises up with its own geography, characters, and convoluted logic. It holds together long enough to teach, challenge, or astonish. It disappears when the psyche lets go of it, yet it is compelling enough to spark-plug our waking... See more

Jak pisał Michael Wilson, "sen jest metaforą procesu twórczego, archiwum zaś jest dosłowną manifestacją artystycznych wpływów".

Lucid dreaming may be our most intrinsic and precise tool for self-exploration. It’s not just a curiosity—it’s a built-in interface to the unconscious, a direct and interactive gateway to our personal psyche, which is itself a microcosm of the cosmos. Within a lucid dream, we have the ability to interactively walk through and explore our... See more

One of the most advanced systems built around this principle is Tibetan Dream Yoga, which teaches that dream awareness can lead to liberation from the cycle of samsara. It’s not just about lucid dreaming—it’s about training your awareness within the dream, and learning to treat waking life as part of the dream continuum.

In The Out-of-Body Experience I suggested a perceptual model of reality whereby human beings, and probably all conscious animals, exist in two states of awareness. There is the “waking state” – that is, the perceptual world shared by other consciousnesses and proven to be consistent and real by the simple fact that other consciousnesses seem to

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sleep isn't simply a shutdown — it’s a different state of consciousness .