Don't know if it began under mere suggestion or not, but I began lucid dreaming during time I was receiving dogma from this group.

An interesting thing happened; it was huge for me at the time. The "venerable master" of the organization (I had seen pictures in waking life) appeared in a lucid dream. I was on a bus; he got on and looked at me, then held up his index finger as if to say, "pay attention", then levitated.

In the dream I stood and attempted to levitate as well, but it seemed I was head-heavy, and instead floated horizontally face-down, passing partway through the floor of the bus as if it were water.

Later, in waking life, I read a translated clipping of one of his speeches from much earlier. In it, he was expressing his frustration at students he visited in the astral and commanded to levitate, but being "profoundly asleep", they failed to do so.

I guess here it is a mere bunch of text, but I'm trying to relate a personal experience that I hold dear... I draw no conclusions and make no assumptions because of it, however.