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The Sun and the Shadow: My Experiment With Lucid Dreaming
In a clear and thought provoking manner, Kenneth Kelzer shows you how to develope your dream life to your ultimate advantage. Relating a series of his own lucid dreams, he presents steps to become aware that you're dreaming...while you dream!
278 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1987
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July 12, 2015
Kenneth Kelzer's The Sun and The Shadow: My Experimentation with Lucid Dreaming is actually a very important piece of fact based dream research.
Considering it was published in 1987 by A.R.E. Press (Association for Research and Enlightenment - The Edgar Cayce Foundation) only places it further on the fringe of essentially unknown yet extremely pertinent efforts towards educating the layman in lucid dream pursuits.
Essentially a dream journal broken by Jungian infused imagery interpretation, and though a somewhat dry read, the context of Kelzer discussing how to Lucid Dream and its potential significance is clearly visionary and as prescient now as it would have been in '87.
Citing historic Buddhist and Hindu platforms Kelzer makes no fronts upon originality, and humbly puts forth for everyday american his idea of how to pursue psycho-spiritual enhancement.
Now, some 23 years after its publication, we're still living in a society that's reluctant to remember their dreams let alone engage them in a gestative fashion, which places The Sun and The Shadow ahead of the curve for its unique importance and also the allure of relative obscurity.
"I fondly remembered the words of Baba Ram Dass from one of his workshops many years ago. He said: 'The word 'miracle' is merely a cover for our own ignorance.' By this he meant that whenever we encounter something new and mysterious in the world, something impressive which we do not understand, we are likely to label that event as a 'miracle.' However, once we begin to understand the event, we become less likely to consider it a miracle and more likely to view it as ordinary. The ordinary is that with which we are familiar. Once 'miracles' become familiar to us, we usually cease to regard them as miracles and begin to view them as normal occurrences." Pgs. 147-148 - Kenneth Kelzer
Considering it was published in 1987 by A.R.E. Press (Association for Research and Enlightenment - The Edgar Cayce Foundation) only places it further on the fringe of essentially unknown yet extremely pertinent efforts towards educating the layman in lucid dream pursuits.
Essentially a dream journal broken by Jungian infused imagery interpretation, and though a somewhat dry read, the context of Kelzer discussing how to Lucid Dream and its potential significance is clearly visionary and as prescient now as it would have been in '87.
Citing historic Buddhist and Hindu platforms Kelzer makes no fronts upon originality, and humbly puts forth for everyday american his idea of how to pursue psycho-spiritual enhancement.
Now, some 23 years after its publication, we're still living in a society that's reluctant to remember their dreams let alone engage them in a gestative fashion, which places The Sun and The Shadow ahead of the curve for its unique importance and also the allure of relative obscurity.
"I fondly remembered the words of Baba Ram Dass from one of his workshops many years ago. He said: 'The word 'miracle' is merely a cover for our own ignorance.' By this he meant that whenever we encounter something new and mysterious in the world, something impressive which we do not understand, we are likely to label that event as a 'miracle.' However, once we begin to understand the event, we become less likely to consider it a miracle and more likely to view it as ordinary. The ordinary is that with which we are familiar. Once 'miracles' become familiar to us, we usually cease to regard them as miracles and begin to view them as normal occurrences." Pgs. 147-148 - Kenneth Kelzer
July 15, 2020
While there are interesting moments and insights scattered throughout, this book is such a fundamentally subjective memoir that I often felt like a voyeur while reading it. Who was the intended audience?
August 15, 2023
I found it useful as some information in it helped me to have a really elaborate lucid dream. There is a religious perspective and some religious dreams, I don't believe in God, but I did not find any problems with that in this context, it was interesting. It is for the general reader and it has some simplified Carl Gustav Jung concepts thrown in. It is quite old, but it mostly just describes the dreams the writer and some other people had, things people dream about don't have an expiration date unlike science I guess.
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