the dreamer to begin to realize that the environment of
the waking state is a self-created dream as well. The
Edgar Cayce readings concur with this idea by referring
to visible reality as a "past condition."

     "... so those things that do appear to have
reality ... have in reality passed into past laws,
and its relations to other spheres, [it] has to
man become a past condition." (E.C. reading
3744-4)

     This recognition leads the adept to the secondary and
most important phase of the lucid dream which is
meditating upon the present reality obscured by the
dream images. This stage of the lucid dream during
which the dreamer may enter an illuminated state is
referred to in the Tibetan text as the "Dawning of the
Clear Light." It is a stage in which the dreamer turns his
attention to the Source motivating the dream images.
      For some reason I have become more accessible to
illuminatory experience when meditating in the dream
state than in the waking state. It is as if the barrier
between the conscious self and the Divine becomes
transparent, revealing the Luminosity which has been so
effectively obscured by unfulfilled experiences, guilt,
and reprehensible thoughts. As the desires and fears
inherent in this subconscious barrier are forgiven or
accepted, the dreamer may perhaps come face to face
with the Divine.
      I have found that when the Light makes its
appearance in the lucid dream, the preceding events
usually fall to the wayside. Whereas the initial dream
may have been an important preliminary experience, the
presentation of the Light seems to represent the
essential culmination of the dream process. At this point
in the dream I have accrued a great deal of independence
and response-ability which has accompanied the
emergence of lucidity. Yet as the Light becomes visible, I
discover that the independence and the interests of self
must be relinquished if the Light is to approach and
become an inner experience. The pre-eminent demand

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