Just googled my name and came across this:
http://www.kenwilber.com/blog/show/300
Somehow, I had completely forgotten about that feature. For those not familiar with Ken Wilber’s theories, check out this quote where he mentions lucid dreaming as a state of consciousness at the leading edges of human development and the cutting-edge of the evolution of consciousness:
“And so one of the things that becomes really important is that in order to move into…true transpersonal structures, you have to have some sort of state training and state realization to allow wakefulness, which starts out confined to the waking state, to be able to move into subtle states of consciousness and not lose track of its own I AM-ness, or its own ground. Sometimes that actually includes lucid dreaming, or it may not. But it always includes being able to objectify the subtle, to transcend and include it, to make that subject and object.”
I agree with Ken’s view that transpersonal development is at least partially dependent upon state training. As discussed in my presentation, this allows for a wider and higher sense of identity, because selfhood is no longer confined to only one aspect of the psyche, of daily experience. When the self recognizes the presence of itself throughout various states of consciousness, such as in a lucid dream, it’s only natural for a wider sense of identity to emerge.
You no longer think you’re just who you are while awake. You come to see a more complex inner life which includes all those characters that appear in your dream state. Who you are includes inner space and outer space. The self then becomes more flexible, clings less to one state of consciousness, embraces self-identity temporally as what is arising in the present moment, and consequently opens the door into higher levels of lucidity and potential. Sounds a bit like one approaches perfect imperfection.
