Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain [Hardcover]

J. Gackenbach (Editor), S. LaBarge (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 468 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 30, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306428490
• ISBN-13: 978-0306428494
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,818,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Prominent research difficult to find elsewhere, June 4, 2003

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Michael A. George (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain (Hardcover)

This compilation of the leading research on lucid dreaming, includes 19 chapters, each contributed by leading researchers in the field,such as Paul Tholey (great techniques for learning lucidity), Judith Malamud (vital practices to increase lucidity), Charles Tart, Sue Blackmore, Alan Worsley, and Patricia Garfield.

These chapters address the subject of lucid dreaming in a broad interdisciplinary manner. It contains chapters providing historical and cultural perspectives, reviews of empirical investigations, discussions of clinical applications, accounts of personal experiences, and theoretical chapters relating lucid dreaming to the out-of-the-body experience, meditation, descriptive psychology and cognitive psychology. The material varies from the general to technical, although it is quite readable by the non-specialist.

If you are interested in the nature of consciousness, this book has material published nowhere else for the general public. If you are seeking to learn, or simply expand upon, the ability to lucid dream, I found this book indespensible. It has helped me enormously.

Also, my own personal experience has been greatly facilitated by techniques and theory in THE ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING by Harold Klemp and HOW I LEARNED TO SOUL TRAVEL by Terrill Wilson.