I owe much of where I am currently at with lucid dreaming to Sageous' tutorials and freely offered advice and answers here on the forums and I am extremely appreciative of his and Steph's contributions to the forums (Steph provides a substantial amount of interesting content throughout the forums). I hold them both in high regard for what they contribute to the forums. I do want to present another view in this discussion that seems to go partly counter to what they are saying and I would be truly heartbroken if it was taken the wrong way.

I will try to keep this short:

I agree that it may not be in the author's best interest to claim that the book will be revolutionary.

From the responses posted to the individual chapter's/exercise's threads, it doesn't appear that many people have really put in much effort into doing all of the exercises. I think that it is safe to say that all experienced people here on the forums know that consistent lucid dreaming takes significant effort. Even my beloved Steph admits that she only "did some of them" and I think that I understand why my experience was different. For one, I came to the thread late and got wind of some of the negative comments so I wasn't surprised when I saw the intro claims and just thought along the lines of "perhaps he is just trying to draw in the reader to read on." I think this helped me go through all of the chapters with an open, knowledge hungry mindset.

From the perspective of a many year journey to meet various "gurus" of all kinds, a 20 chapter book would be a much shorter journey if it achieved consistent lucid dreams for the reader.

The author is freely sharing his work with us as Steph pointed out. If we try to put ourselves in his shoes, it may be more understandable why he is releasing it bits at a time. He put up 7,8 & 9 all together in what I took as a gesture of good will at a time when he really wasn't getting a lot of feedback on people's experiences with the exercises and had seen a number of negative comments over mostly the early threads. Not even 10% of the people that "signed up" posted experiences for all of the exercises so far. I am not saying that I blame any of these members as there are a number of reasons that I can think of why they didn't follow all the way through so far. I am just pointing out that the feedback has been dismal and discouraging...but perhaps it will create a better book in the end.

I feel that I have definitely gotten something significant out of these exercises! Sure aspects of these exercises can be found in various places, but they tend to be places that I was not likely to seek out. They are also put together in a step by step basis, one building on the next or towards the next sub-set it seems. What I have gotten out of these exercises is most notably in waking life but I think I may be starting to see it in my lucid dreams after having a personally fascinating one two nights ago and generally noticing more vividness in my lucid and non lucid dreams. This combined with my base of generally good base of self-awareness (once I am lucid in my dreams, thank to Sageous) may be taking me to the next level. I am at the very least hopeful.

Gotta run...hopefully no major errors above...may edit/add later.