B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel - 2012 - Dreaming Yourself Awake - Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation (194p).pdf

B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel - 2012 - Dreaming Yourself Awake - Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation (194p).pdf

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala; 1 edition (May 29, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159030957X
ISBN-13: 978-1590309575

Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream. There is a range of techniques anyone can learn to become a lucid dreamer—and this book provides all the instruction you need to get started. But B. Alan Wallace also shows how to take the experience of lucid dreaming beyond entertainment to use it to heighten creativity, to solve problems, and to increase self-knowledge. He then goes a step further: moving on to the methods of Tibetan Buddhist dream yoga for using your lucid dreams to attain the profoundest kind of insight.

B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism, language, and culture in 1970 at the University of Göttingen and then continued his studies over the next fourteen years in India, Switzerland, and the United States. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford University. He then taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://sbinstitute.com). He is also Chairman of the Thanypura Mind Centre (http://piamc.com) in Thailand, where he leads meditation retreats.