Thread: Witchcraft?

Originally Posted by Emkinator

Stephen LaBerge started when he was six if i remember correctly .

:O He must be the most powerful warlock alive!

Lucid dreaming is just dreaming, which is necessary and inevitable, while having the knowledge that you are dreaming. People who are oppose lucid dreaming are really saying that you are not supposed to have knowledge of what you are doing when you dream. They are saying, "You are wrong for not being ignorant about your own actions." How ridiculous is that? I guess they think that if you dream and realize you are dreaming you are supposed to tell yourself, "Okay, I need to stop knowing what I am doing. Be ignorant!"

Lucid dreaming is not witchcraft. It is self understanding.

First off, witchcraft is NOT devil worship. It is being in sync with nature, and practicing with the energies of the earth. NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPING. Lucid dreaming is not witchcraft either, they may have some connections such as the astral plane, but there is nothing dealing with the craft. Please, explore these topics before making assumptions.

Hm, I always wondered why people put LD together with that, its quite simple to ask oneself the question "Is being aware of my own actions witchcraft?" the same applies to dreaming, I would say.

I've recently been working on a research paper concerning Lucid Dreaming. Most holy/scriptural texts make reference to lucid dreams. In fact, the Bible is so stock full of it that it's crazy...

Read the Book of Revelation- it's a whole book of 22 chapters describing/interpreting a dream, which I believe was lucid. Joseph (the technicolor dreamcoat one) is a story about dreams, dream interpretation, etc.

Furthermore, it's something that most, if not all people, experience. In the simplest of terms it is recognizing that you are dreaming during the event. I'm sure if you ask anyone, they would say "oh yeah, that's happened to me." I seriously doubt in that same breath they'll accuse themselves of witchcraft. It is perfectly logical, natural, and scientifically, historically, religiously and spiritually varified/sanctioned.

I've recently discovered that if I present the fact that it has the potential to be used thereputically that people receive it much better. I now have my university English class interested in lucid dreams, simply because I presented the possibility of theraputic lucid dreaming. It's like hypnosis: once people come to understand it, and when they see it as a means to help people, they begin to accept it.

Originally Posted by Kordan

I've recently been working on a research paper concerning Lucid Dreaming. Most holy/scriptural texts make reference to lucid dreams. In fact, the Bible is so stock full of it that it's crazy...

Read the Book of Revelation- it's a whole book of 22 chapters describing/interpreting a dream, which I believe was lucid. Joseph (the technicolor dreamcoat one) is a story about dreams, dream interpretation, etc.

Furthermore, it's something that most, if not all people, experience. In the simplest of terms it is recognizing that you are dreaming during the event. I'm sure if you ask anyone, they would say "oh yeah, that's happened to me." I seriously doubt in that same breath they'll accuse themselves of witchcraft. It is perfectly logical, natural, and scientifically, historically, religiously and spiritually varified/sanctioned.

I've recently discovered that if I present the fact that it has the potential to be used thereputically that people receive it much better. I now have my university English class interested in lucid dreams, simply because I presented the possibility of theraputic lucid dreaming. It's like hypnosis: once people come to understand it, and when they see it as a means to help people, they begin to accept it.

Could I see what you have so far of your paper? Sound really interesting.

Considering that many, if not most people will have at least one spontaneous lucid dream in their lifetime, it is completely natural; in that sense, learning to induce lucid dream is no different than learning to whistle a tune from making the sound by accident.

Originally Posted by YYNYM

Could I see what you have so far of your paper? Sound really interesting.

I'm almost done with the paper. In fact, I just have to have the final edit completed, and then I'll be set for turning it in. For this paper, I had gatherd scads of information. Unfortunately, not all of it made it into the final product...or even the drafts.

SO...when it's finished, I'll send you a copy. If you have questions, feel free to ask. Hopefully I'll be able to clear things up.

Originally Posted by Walms

Hm, I always wondered why people put LD together with that, its quite simple to ask oneself the question "Is being aware of my own actions witchcraft?" the same applies to dreaming, I would say.

Probably because it's not normal to them, or they're narrow minded, or they link anything that they don't know/can't do with evil (aka ego issue), ect. The list seems to go on.

As most people have said, there's nothing "evil" about lucid dreaming. It is the most amazing experience. And I started out as young as you, and it helps me be aware and understand myself a lot more.