Lucid Dreaming: A Path to Healing & Inner Growth

Course Description

This course offers a thought-provoking introduction to lucid dreaming, as well as the deeply spiritual experiences it can provide.

Join author and one of the world’s most interesting lucid dream teachers, Robert Waggoner, as he shows how lucid dreaming can experimentally validate some of Carl Jung’s most profound discoveries about the nature of the unconscious, human psyche, healing, and co-creativity with the Self.

Along the way, you will learn many of the techniques that Waggoner and others successfully use to become lucid. You will also be introduced to some lesser-known techniques that can help you to remain consciously aware in the dream state, and constructively engage a mentally responsive dream environment.

While some have equated lucid dreaming with controlling the dream, Robert Waggoner argues that just as “the sailor does not control the sea, neither does the lucid dreamer control the dream”. Instead, experienced lucid dreamers realize basic principles of the dreaming environment and work with the unconscious psyche in a co-creative manner.

With Waggoner’s guidance you will learn how to become aware in the dream state and in your daily life. You will learn to go beyond your own expectations and experiment with engaging deeper aspects of your soul. Explore lucid dreaming as another path of individuation. Learn to achieve new personal goals and receive stimulating psychological insights.

This course is ideal if

• You want to learn what Jungian psychology and lucid dreaming have in common.
• You want to be exposed to and acquire techniques to consciously explore dreaming while lucid.
• You want to explore lucid dreaming for personal development and awareness practices.
• You want to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the unconscious.

Course Overview

Class 1. Possible Benefits of Lucid Dreaming

This class introduces you to the topic of lucid dreaming and its powerful effect on spiritual and psychological development. You will start an exciting journey of learning how to become lucid. You will also deepen your understanding of the Jungian concept of the unconscious, and how lucid dreaming can become a means to explore the actual nature of dreaming and the psyche. This class also covers themes like: the potential of lucid dreaming for emotional and physical healing and directly accessing creativity for use in literature, music, art, and science.

Class 2. Achieving Lucid Awareness and Creating a Stable Dream Environment

Learn various approaches to become consciously aware of dreaming while in the dream state. Like mastering any activity, this requires a certain amount of patience, discipline and positive expectation. Through explorations and playful experiments you will gain insight and important skills. At the end of this class, you will have acquainted yourself with the techniques involved in becoming lucid in dreams, as well as techniques on how to progress with stability in lucid dreaming.

Class 3. Exploring the Principles of the Dreaming Environment and Mental Physics

At the end of this class, you will have a greater understanding of the basic principles at work in lucid dreaming, such as ‘the expectation effect’ and the influence on the environment of your belief system. Besides beliefs and expectations, you will discover how your intent, will, focus, and the Inner Self influence your dream experience. You will see how easily you can access your inner creativity when you find yourself lucid dreaming, and understand the co-creative nature of your dream experience.

Class 4. Using Lucid Dreams to Engage Your Inner Self in Healing and Inner Growth

This class focuses on offering an understanding of methods and techniques that can be used for emotional and physical healing purposes. You will discover that the Self has the greatest capacity for creativity and helping you grow. Acquire ideas on how you can begin to see your own role in the creation of the dream and the role of the Self. Gain an understanding of the complexities of the dream space and what lucid dreaming may show us about the nature of reality, the Self and our interconnectedness.

By the end of this course you will

• Acquire techniques that will help you become consciously aware in your dreams, and learn how to maintain and prolong the lucid dreaming experience.
• Identify how your beliefs, expectations, focus, intent and will all influence your experience of the lucid dreaming environment, while co-creating dreaming along with the conscious unconscious.
• Obtain practical advice on how to experiment within lucid dreams, and go beyond your own expectations to the ‘non-visible awareness behind the dream’ or inner Self (which happens to demonstrate the most creative awareness accessible).
• Assess the benefits of using lucid dreaming as a method of self-discovery, emotional healing and possibly physical healing.
• Identify a means for personal and spiritual exploration in lucid dreaming.