Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner

Author:Robert Waggoner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609255398
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari

DREAM-ART SCIENTISTS

The acquisition of conceptual information through asking the unconscious may have been presaged by Jane Roberts in her 1977 book, The “Unknown” Reality. There, she broaches the idea of the “dream-art scientists,” that is, consciously aware dreamers who would seek out information in the dream state for use by science.

Already lucid dreamers have repeatedly validated that this theoretical possibility could be a practical actuality. Speaking for the personality essence known as Seth, Roberts states:

The trouble is that many in the sciences do not comprehend that there is an inner reality. It is not only as valid as the exterior one, but it is the origin for it. It is that world that offers you answers, solutions, and would reveal many of the blueprints that exist behind the world of your experience.

The true art of dreaming is a science long forgotten by your world. Such an art, pursued, trains the mind in a new kind of consciousness—one that is equally at home in either existence, well-grounded and secure in each. Almost anyone can become a satisfied and productive amateur in this art-science; but its true fulfillment takes years of training, a strong sense of purpose, and a dedication—as does any true vocation.

To some extent, a natural talent is a prerequisite for such a true dream-art scientist. A sense of daring, exploration, independence, and spontaneity is required. Such a work is a joy. There are some such people who are quite unrecognized by your societies, because the particular gifts involved are given zero priority. But the talent still exists . . .

A practitioner of this ancient art learns first of all how to become conscious in normal terms, while in the sleep state. . . .

The true scientist understands that he must probe the interior and not the exterior universe; he will comprehend that he cannot isolate himself from a reality of which he is necessarily a part, and that to do so presents at best a distorted picture. In quite true terms, your dreams and the trees outside of your windows have a common denominator: they both spring from the withinness of consciousness.15

Lucid dreamers have already discovered that this “inner reality” has the capacity to respond thoughtfully and abundantly to questions posed to it. If scientists were to approach this inner reality proactively, they would discover a new means of accessing available unconscious knowledge and creative ideas.

As we probe inwardly to the conscious unconscious and the various manifestations in dreaming, we begin to discover, like van Leeuwenhoek and his microscopic reality, an inner mental reality that has existed there all along. Through perfecting the tool of lucid dreaming, science has the means to investigate the conscious unconscious and understand the larger nature of the psyche. In doing so, we begin to lay the groundwork for the introduction of the “dream-art scientist.”

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