Dreaming instruction is divided into two parts. Part one is about dreaming procedures that fix the dreaming attention and Part two is about the purely abstract explanations of these procedures. This is an interplay between enticing one's intellectual curiosity with the abstract principles of dreaming and guiding one to seek an outlet in its practices.

In this podcast I read a short extracts from Tales of Power and Journey to Ixtlan that that relate to Selecting a Topic for Dreaming: First Extract is from Part 1, Tales of Power: Witness to Acts of Power, Chapter 1. An Appointment With Knowledge. Second Extract is from Part 1, Journey to Ixtlan: Stopping the World, Chapter 12. A Battle of Power.

“You’re again confusing issues. Solace, haven, fear, all of them are moods that you have learned without ever questioning their value. As one can see, the black magicians have already engaged all your allegiance.”

“You’re again confusing issues. Solace, haven, fear, all of them are moods that you have learned without ever questioning their value. As one can see, the black magicians have already engaged all your allegiance.”

Most of the time when we’re dreaming, we’re not aware of it and just take what’s before us in the dream as real. But the Not-doing of dreaming is when you are aware that you’re dreaming and can take steps to control the dream.

Moon meditation or Trataka, also known as Tratak (pr. trah’-tahk), Trataka means fixed gazing. The object you gaze upon can be just about anything, and Trataka played a major role in Yoga before postures and breathing exercises began to dominate the system in the early 1800’s.