I am thinking or reading something about earth-
quakes. A female friend calls me to a window [in an
unfamiliar house] and excitedly tells that "the sun has a
blue flake on it!"
      I look out the window. A white sun is about 30° above
the northern horizon. I notice that it has a bluish tint to
it, but think that's probably due to a retinal after-image.
I think, "If I am dreaming, then that is the Light, not the
sun!" In order to test this, I try to enter into a meditative
state. But then I decide that I'm not dreaming, though
the sun has increased in size.

     As a result of such dreams, I soon decided that
whenever I became lucid in a dream, I would pray for the
Light and seek to enter a meditative state. I have since
found that failure to do so usually results in premature
awakening or in being eventually distracted by the
dream environment to the extent of being re-absorbed in
the normal dream consciousness. Thus the act of prayer
and meditation has allowed me to focus my attention on
what I truly desire to encounter without being distracted
by the unlimited possibilities which may arise in the lucid
dream. Prayer and meditation have seemed to consoli-
date what can be a fleeting experience. More important,
the attitude of receptivity engendered by this practice
has invited — in the case of many dreams—an immediate
presentation of the Light.
      Recently I was astounded to discover that this practice
of seeking the Light through the lucid dream has been
described in ancient Tibetan manuscripts and can be
read in translation in Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines
by Evans-Wentz. In the chapter entitled "The Yoga of
the Dream State," the adept is admonished to become
aware of the illusory nature of the dream images while in
the dream! There are various physical and mental
exercises given to enable the adept to achieve lucidity.
One of the goals of this process is to carry the waking
consciousness into the dream and vice versa without a
break in consciousness. The primary purpose for
establishing this continuity of consciousness is to allow

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