--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > What I'm inter- > ested in is whether anyone on FFL has had experiences > of this sort, and wants to rap about them. No "experts," > no dogma, just rappin'...trying to figure things out. > > The Rama fellow I studied with for many years taught > Lucid Dreaming. He taught it in the context of Tibetan > Dream Yoga, but the techniques were the same as those > I've later found in Native American shamanism and > other disciplines. The "Tibetan connection" is that > in that tradition Lucid Dreaming is seen as analogous > to (or synonymous with) the Bardo state between death > and rebirth, and thus developing a facility with > "waking up in the dream, and being able to manipulate > the dream state" is seen as valuable to a culture in > which the teachings of The Tibetan Book Of The Dead > are assumed as a given. If you can wake up in a normal > dream, and use your intention there in the astral, then > it is assumed that you might also be able to do the > same thing in the Bardo, and thus have a shot at a > cooler rebirth. >
Hi Turq, Yeah, there is at least one Satsang in FF that works with this as technique or method for cultivating clarity of experience with immortal soul. Is a type of meditation for them along with TM. Spiritual practice, not spiritism. Some people quite adept at it. JGD, -D in FF
