{"id":16554,"date":"2018-03-01T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=17214"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:12:22","slug":"book-review-lucid-dreaming-plain-and-simple-tips-and-techniques-for-insight-creativity-and-personal-growth-by-robert-waggoner-and-caroline-mccready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2018\/03\/01\/book-review-lucid-dreaming-plain-and-simple-tips-and-techniques-for-insight-creativity-and-personal-growth-by-robert-waggoner-and-caroline-mccready\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review – Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple: Tips and Techniques for Insight, Creativity and Personal Growth By Robert Waggoner and Caroline McCready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Review – <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Tips and Techniques for Insight, Creativity and Personal Growth <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

By Robert Waggoner and Caroline McCready<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo sailor controls the sea\u2026Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream. Like a sailor on the sea, we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of dreaming.\u201d \u2013 Robert Waggoner.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t consciously create our dreams; we only ride their waves and direct our experience.\u201d Caroline McCready.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I love dreaming. As a child, I woke up from dreams feeling like I had visited another world \u2013 a world that is as real as the \u201cevery day\u201d world we move around in. I still feel that way. I love having a \u201cbig dream\u201d \u2013 one the feels like a communication from another realm or includes visits from the Beloved Dead. These dreams feel so real, sometimes more real than what happens while I am awake! I have spent years recording my dreams, tracking patterns of dreaming by the moon and by astrological sign. I have participated in dream circles listening to the dreams of others, marveling at how we often had similar dreams or walked in each other\u2019s dreaming on the same night. I often wondered how those connections come into being. <\/span><\/p>\n

But, after all these years, I have had little experience with lucid dreaming. Other than listening to how easily it comes for some of my friends, that is. And wondering why I haven\u2019t had a sustained lucid dreaming experience. In case you are not familiar with the concept, lucid dreaming occurs when dreamers \u201cwake up\u201d inside a nighttime dream, realize they are dreaming and can direct activity in the dream. Oh, I have so wanted to do this for such a long time. I\u2019ve read lots of books, taken courses, explored all kinds of approaches to lucid dreaming, but have never been able to do more than realize that I am dreaming and shock myself awake with excitement! So, I was truly excited to read \u201cLucid Dreaming-Plain and Simple<\/i>.\u201d Authors Robert Waggoner and Caroline McCready are lifetime dream explorers, like I am. They\u2019ve not only experienced lucid dreaming, they\u2019ve studied it. Their research started with the works of Stephen LaBerge, Patricia Garfield, Ann Faraday and Carlos Castaneda, among the better-known early pioneer writers on the topic. I, too, poured over these authors\u2019 works, studying and practicing techniques for lucidity.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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(Original Painting by Susan Rossi)<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/a> Waggoner and McCready are much better students than I! They have dreamed lucidly with great success and now offer us a doorway into dream deepening that is a synthesis of the lucidity pioneers and their own experience. And this book is more than a dreaming technique guide. It is a manual about consciousness and perception.<\/span><\/p>\n

I devoured this book. It is well written and engaging, full of the authors\u2019 experiences in the dream time and well sourced in independent dream research. I have tried several of the techniques for lucid dream entry the authors present. It still hasn\u2019t happened for me. However, I am filled with new optimism. Because Waggoner and McCready broaden the approach to lucidity way beyond simply achieving it. They present lucidity not as the result of techniques or the ability to fly when you want to in a dream. Rather, they raise with the reader an inquiry into of the awareness of consciousness and its role in \u201cwaking\u201d and \u201cdreaming\u201d reality. As a longtime meditator, I realized I can go through this doorway to get to lucidity and that truly, dreaming is about playing with the web of consciousness and its interrelatedness with all that is! Waggoner writes that through his practice of lucid dreaming, he discovered a \u201cconsistent framework of rules and principles beneath lucid dreaming events\u201d and that this \u201chidden framework suggested that dreaming and the unconscious actually followed rules and had structure.\u201d Dreaming is not just \u201crandom firing of neurons.\u201d In fact, he explores the idea that there is an intelligent awareness that exists behind our dreams and that this awareness will respond to questions posed to it. For those of us who read PaganPagesOrg, this feels quite familiar, I\u2019m sure. All that is has an awareness we can dance with and through this dance we engage in co-creation with the web of energy and intelligence behind the solid world that we perceive. <\/span><\/p>\n

In examining lucidity with this broad view, McCready and Waggoner address the nature of what is \u201creal.\u201d We readers are encouraged to explore with a critical eye the nature of our assumptions about \u201cwaking\u201d and \u201cdreaming.\u201d Through this process, the authors state, we will receive \u201can education in the nature of the mind and perceived experience that calls forth insights capable of transforming yourself and your waking life.\u201d So, for me, lucid dreaming is now about so much more than remembering to look for my hands in a dream. It is about \u201cwaking up\u201d to my assumptions about the nature of what is real. It is about lifting the veil of separation so that all that is does not remain compartmentalized in my mind. So perhaps I am already awake within the dream during daylight hours! I loved this book and recommend it to you to awaken within the dream of your life AND in your nighttime dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Amazon Information Click Image<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

***<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About the Author:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Susan Rossi<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong> is a Practitioner and Teacher of Shamanism. She is a long-time explorer of The Mysteries \u2013 the connections between mind, body, spirit and how to live in right relationship to all of the energies streaming through the cosmos. She works with clients as an astrologer, coach, ceremonialist and guide to the wisdom that each of us has the capacity to access. Her focus is on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>guiding clients to unblock and rediscover their inner wisdom. , exploration of the birth chart, ceremony, legacy writing, hypnotherapy, energetic healing practice and creation of sacred tools are integral pieces of her practice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Susan trained in Soul Level Astrology with master astrologer Mark Borax. She delights in exploring with individuals the planetary pattern under which their soul choose to incarnate.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Flying to the Heart\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>www.flyingtotheheart.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Review – Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple: Tips and Techniques for Insight, Creativity and Personal Growth By Robert Waggoner and Caroline McCready \u201cNo sailor controls the sea\u2026Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream. Like a sailor on the sea, we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of dreaming.\u201d \u2013 Robert Waggoner. \u201cWe don\u2019t consciously create our dreams; we only ride their waves and direct our experience.\u201d Caroline McCready.   I love dreaming. As a child, I woke up from dreams feeling like I had visited another world \u2013 a world that is as real as the \u201cevery day\u201d world we move around in. I still feel that way. I love having a \u201cbig dream\u201d \u2013 one the feels like a communication from another realm or includes visits from the Beloved Dead. These dreams feel so real, sometimes more real than what happens while I am awake! I have spent years recording my dreams, tracking patterns of dreaming by the moon and by astrological sign. I have participated in dream circles listening to the dreams of others, marveling at how we often had similar dreams or walked in each other\u2019s dreaming on the same night. I often wondered how those connections come into being. But, after all these years, I have had little experience with lucid dreaming. Other than listening to how easily it comes for some of my friends, that is. And wondering why I haven\u2019t had a sustained lucid dreaming experience. In case you are not familiar with the concept, lucid dreaming occurs when dreamers \u201cwake up\u201d inside a nighttime dream, realize they are dreaming and can direct activity in the dream. Oh, I have so wanted to do this for such a long time. I\u2019ve read lots of books, taken courses, explored all kinds of approaches to lucid dreaming, but have never been able to do more than realize that I am dreaming and shock myself awake with excitement! So, I was truly excited to read \u201cLucid Dreaming-Plain and Simple.\u201d Authors Robert Waggoner and Caroline McCready are lifetime dream explorers, like I am. They\u2019ve not only experienced lucid dreaming, they\u2019ve studied it. Their research started with the works of Stephen LaBerge, Patricia Garfield, Ann Faraday and Carlos Castaneda, among the better-known early pioneer writers on the topic. I, too, poured over these authors\u2019 works, studying and practicing techniques for lucidity.   (Original Painting by Susan Rossi)   Waggoner and McCready are much better students than I! They have dreamed lucidly with great success and now offer us a doorway into dream deepening that is a synthesis of the lucidity pioneers and their own experience. And this book is more than a dreaming technique guide. It is a manual about consciousness and perception. I devoured this book. It is well written and engaging, full of the authors\u2019 experiences in the dream time and well sourced in independent dream research. I have tried several of the techniques for lucid dream entry the authors present. It still hasn\u2019t happened for me. However, I am filled with new optimism. Because Waggoner and McCready broaden the approach to lucidity way beyond simply achieving it. They present lucidity not as the result of techniques or the ability to fly when you want to in a dream. Rather, they raise with the reader an inquiry into of the awareness of consciousness and its role in \u201cwaking\u201d and \u201cdreaming\u201d reality. As a longtime meditator, I realized I can go through this doorway to get to lucidity and that truly, dreaming is about playing with the web of consciousness and its interrelatedness with all that is! Waggoner writes that through his practice of lucid dreaming, he discovered a \u201cconsistent framework of rules and principles beneath lucid dreaming events\u201d and that this \u201chidden framework suggested that dreaming and the unconscious actually followed rules and had structure.\u201d Dreaming is not just \u201crandom firing of neurons.\u201d In fact, he explores the idea that there is an intelligent awareness that exists behind our dreams and that this awareness will respond to questions posed to it. For those of us who read PaganPagesOrg, this feels quite familiar, I\u2019m sure. All that is has an awareness we can dance with and through this dance we engage in co-creation with the web of energy and intelligence behind the solid world that we perceive. In examining lucidity with this broad view, McCready and Waggoner address the nature of what is \u201creal.\u201d We readers are encouraged to explore with a critical eye the nature of our assumptions about \u201cwaking\u201d and \u201cdreaming.\u201d Through this process, the authors state, we will receive \u201can education in the nature of the mind and perceived experience that calls forth insights capable of transforming yourself and your waking life.\u201d So, for me, lucid dreaming is now about so much more than remembering to look for my hands in a dream. It is about \u201cwaking up\u201d to my assumptions about the nature of what is real. It is about lifting the veil of separation so that all that is does not remain compartmentalized in my mind. So perhaps I am already awake within the dream during daylight hours! I loved this book and recommend it to you to awaken within the dream of your life AND in your nighttime dreams. For Amazon Information Click Image   *** About the Author: Susan Rossi is a Practitioner and Teacher of Shamanism. She is a long-time explorer of The Mysteries \u2013 the connections between mind, body, spirit and how to live in right relationship to all of the energies streaming through the cosmos. She works with clients as an astrologer, coach, ceremonialist and guide to the wisdom that each of us has the capacity to access. Her focus is on\u00a0guiding clients to unblock and rediscover their inner wisdom. , exploration of the birth chart, ceremony, legacy writing, hypnotherapy, energetic healing practice and creation of sacred tools are integral pieces of her practice. Susan trained in Soul Level Astrology with master astrologer Mark Borax. She delights in exploring with individuals the planetary pattern under which their soul choose to incarnate. 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