Reading Frenzy

After that first lucid dream I found myself turning into a voracious reader. I've always enjoyed reading, but it seems that as an adult I read less and less. If you looked at my library prior to 1996 you would see titles such as:

Turbo Pascal
C++ Programming
Organizational Management Strategies
Essential Managers Handbook
Object Oriented Programming
German Grammar Made Easy

But then I entered a frenzied information gathering phase. I just consumed book after book. Sometimes I had 3-4 books going at the same time. I read during every free moment I could find.

I still read a lot more than I used to, but the pace has slowed and I find myself re-reading some of my favorite books, and savoring them a little more.

A sample of stuff I inhaled:
Pierce Howard: Owners Manual for the Brain
Alan Watts: The Book
Ken Wilber: A Brief History of Everything, Integral Psychology, Sex Ecology and Spirituality, The Marriage of Sense and Soul, Grace and Grit, Eye of Spirit, No Boundary
Sri Aurobindo: Integral Yoga, Growing Within, The Future Evolution of Man, Looking From Within
Deepak Chopra: Ageless Body Timeless Mind
Robert Anton Wilson: Prometheus Rising, Cosmic Trigger 1, 2, and 3. Schroedinger’s Cat, Reality is What You Can Get Away With
Thich Nhat Hanh: Old Path White Clouds, The Miracle of Mindfulness
Anthony DeMello: Awareness, The Heart of the Enlightened, Sadhana A Way to God
Gurdjieff: Meetings With Remarkable Men, Life is Only Real When ‘I am’, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
Walsh/Vaughan: Paths Beyond Ego
Beck/Cowan: Spiral Dynamics
Kegan: The Evolving Self, In Over Our Heads
Idries Shah: A Perfumed Scorpion, 101 Tales of Wisdom, Caravan of Dreams, Tales of the Dervishes
Jane Roberts: Seth Speaks, The Magical Approach, The Nature of Personal Reality
Talbot: The Holographic Universe
Newberg/D’Aquili: Why God Won’t Go Away
Steve Pinker: The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works
Epstein: Thoughts Without a Thinker
Tony Schwartz: What Really Matters
Charles Tart: Living the Mindful Life
George Murphy: The Future of the Body
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Full Catastrophe Living, Wherever You Go There You Are
Colin Wilson: From Atlantis to the Sphinx
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: Awakening
Dalai Lama: Sleeping Dreaming and Dying, The Good Heart
Helen Palmer: The Enneagram
Suzuki: Zen Mind Beginners Mind
Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods
Buddhadasa Bhikku: Mindfulness With Breathing
Riso/Hudson: Wisdom of the Enneagram
Geshe Gedun Lodro: Walking Through Walls
Kabir Helminski: The Knowing Heart, Living Presence
Karen Armstrong: Islam
JG Bennett: Enneagram Studies, Creative Thinking, The Sevenfold Work, A Spiritual Psychology, The Way to be Free, Elementary Systematics
Hakim Sanai: The Walled Garden of Truth
Joyce Nielsen: Sex and Gender in Society
A.G.E. Blake: The Intelligent Enneagram
Ellen Langer: The Power of Mindful Learning
Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice
Tulku: Time Space and Knowledge
Wolinsky: Quantum Consciousness
Peter Russell: The Brain Book
Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous, The Fourth Way
Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Being and Becoming, The Inner Life
Thomas Moore: Care of the Soul
James Moore: Gurdjieff
David Allen: Getting Things Done
Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Taner Ansari: The Sun Will Rise in the West
Alexander/Langer: Higher Stages of Human Development
Sogyal Rinpoche: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Lucid Dream Kick-Off

A short time after I turned 40 years old something odd happened to me while sleeping and having a dream. During the dream I remember realizing "Hey I'm dreaming, I'm suppose to look at my hands now". I did. My life changed forever.

Lucid Dreaming 1