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  placed upon

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