Application: The Evolutionary Mechanics of Lucidity
Lucidity is a personal path of evolution. It is predicated on knowledge that our physical universe, relative to the position of the primeval conditions which govern consciousness, is actually upside-down, and that lucidity is permitted conditionally on our ability to summersault through this change in perspective. Lucidity is not just becoming aware of a dream while dreaming, or being able to control one’s dream by making choices.
Many people today, and also in millenia old tradition, approach lucidity through a practice of deeply questioning reality. This practice creates cracks in our status quo cognitive model, but is only a tiny byproduct of a much larger transformation that wants to happen. Prophetic dreams, lucid nightmares, dreams out of time, dreams of distant relatives and ancestors, dreams of spirits and entities… These are interesting avenues for research but are nevertheless underscored by a total architecture which hosts complex but predictable evolutionary dynamics. The architecture is sustained and the dynamic is fueled by lucidity: Lucidity is the cosmos becoming aware of itself through localized organisms becoming aware of the cosmos as itself.
Lucidity means a journey in which consciousness is expressed through energy which culminates in mass and matter, then reawakens through sentient life’s evolution. Creatures that dream host lucidity, which in turn drives them to expand through countless transpersonal, transobjective borderlands. Pure consciousness is information, which becomes time, force, particles, waves, emotions and thought. It is allowed to do this because lucidity gives it movement, direction, change, and relationship. This transmigration of pure information is dreaming, and lucidity delineates consciousness’ evolutionary journey through sentient organisms as well as abiotic systems.
Lucidity is produced when things that are different or far away from each other find their way back together. It is a byproduct of transcendental yet inclusive states of consciousness, capable of extending and retracting through other dimensions of reality. These movements are, relatively speaking, not actually transcendental, but highly charged relational communications. Lucidity is acutely concerned with communication, exchange, and diversity. From diversity large territories of memory are “harvested”, or individuated, providing leaps in thought, instinct, and evolution. The universe is sustained through these continuous relational dis/charges. Lucidity creates and sustains the universe, but also echoes back across itself through creatures which heed the evolutionary pressure they host inside their psyches. Lucidity is an urge, a nourishment, a foundation, an oceanic network of currents and vital pathways.
Lucidity also enforces the agreements made between derivative and primeval laws. Those that break this agreement without going through the proper channels lose lucidity, and can actually annul themselves over time into oblivion. Lucidity supports and translates the boundary zones needed by cosmic forces to coexist harmoniously: It does not compromise and, while immanent, is also indifferent. It is a supportive restraint, strongest at the point of origin and weakest at its most elastic extension–material condensation. One can more easily “break the laws” where only low levels of sublucidity exist, making choices that go against life and consciousness. Nothing in nature is wasted even if the universe will also readily make slag and fertilizer out of species that violate their own covenant with lucidity and the laws. The restraining function of lucidity is also the geometric signature needed for the balanced composition of both mechanics forces and biological organisms.
However, the primeval agreements elaborated by various derivative, balanced conditions coexist upon a spectrum which changes dynamically: Other dimensions illustrate different kinds of physics, and may or may not lead to other forms of coherent and sustainable time, matter, and life. When a phase upon this spectrum becomes highly concentrated, it is allowed to assemble even greater distortion. There is more room for compromise, experimentation, and error. Matter and organisms born from extreme cosmological phase states will be highly conditioned and find great tension applied to their level of perception. For superlucid beings this means they are less likely to have direct, specific participation and influence over derivative conditions. For sublucid creatures there is the risk of being disconnected from the evolutionary mechanics of dreaming, leading to devolution or being recycled by other vital forces.
All to say, proper reorientation to the architecture and mechanics of dreaming can be both challenging and highly rewarding. It puts individuals, species, and planets in touch with tremendous evolutionary capacity. It is also a defense, a high resistance to chaotic and entropic influence: highly refined organisms which can sustain lucidity can entertain stable simulations of perception and self while also transitioning limits. For an objective observer separate from that which is observed, or for a sentient feeler separate from that which is experienced, there will be conflict. Whether this conflict becomes fuel for lucidity or a block against lucidity depends upon the coherent variability of the organism. A highly conscious dreamer will always repurpose conflict, separation, and blocks into superlucidity.
Subjectively, lucidity describes the nature of love, which paradoxically implies the merging of many and the totality of one. For individual organisms, and especially species with social complexes, lucidity can be found in nearly every activity, but principally in the “push” and “pull” of choices defined by the measurements of perception and memory in relation to the “other”. Where there is social conflict, interpersonal conflict, or inner conflict the dreamer finds only more kinds of fuel to enrich and contribute back to reality. There is room enough for intense emotion, passionate involvement, keen indifference, careful circumspection, nonattachment, and love–as long as one realizes that tolerance allows for perception, which in turn produces lucidity.
Lucidity can also be generated through the translation process of death. When things end, including an incarnation, there is a natural process of individuation which lucidity supports and encourages. In death, instead of perception repurposing conflict, perception is that which is repurposed by lucidity, retaining coherence and continuity. It is a transpersonal muscle memory transiting memories and attributes depend upon. In this way, across many lives lucidity permits degrees of “immortality”. Lucidity can also support the recuperation of other lives once incarnation has taken root. In conflict there is suppression, which leaks energy and scrambles information. With great tolerance and love, entire lifetimes can be contained, streamed, and connected across great distances of space, time, and self—which are no longer obstacles or separations.
In scientific pursuits and spiritual disciplines, lucidity accompanies understanding and creativity. In therapeutic healing and life-affirming vocational efforts, lucidity guides the formation of empathy, compassion, and community. Lucidity can be used strategically to explore opportunities and choices. It expands capacity to use free will and synchronizes plurality without reducing or conflating possibility. It allows for simultaneous perceptions of time which lead to a larger experience of the present moment.
The present moment, in fact, is another way to define what is lucid. Each moment is a slice of reality we each possess, a quasi-real dream territory we create and occupy. It is a process that we can grow more aware of, allowing us to generate multiple territories, and to transform or end versions of our reality when the time is right. This corresponds to the possibility of a continuous rebirth of one’s deepest sense of identity relative to the natural order of the cosmos. In this way, lucidity can increase our quality of life, make us more adaptable and resilient, and also increase the length and density of time we live for. We can live many more lifetimes, with meaningful developmental patterns, within a single lifetime’s energy and circumstances.
Dreamers can use lucidity to journey back to the primeval reflections of the void, exploring territories of energy, probability, and direction that compose the physical universe. With practice, dreamers become reality technicians. Lucidity can teach us about the basic building blocks of existence, where the axis of quali/quanta give way to total lucidity, pure consciousness, and the generative forces of the cosmos. Lucidity is a substrate architecture that can be entered, navigated across, and lived upon in simultaneous ways. Powerful lucid journeys rise and fall like convection currents, carrying dreamers into successive levels of purer and purer consciousness, but also allow primeval forces to enter and participate with the derivative properties of matter. These forces can also become guides, protectors, and benefactors. They can help lucid dreamers complete the full direction of their primeval circuit, extending one’s locality completely into totality.
The evolutionary mechanics of lucidity allow for the processes of reincarnation to become a continuous safe passage across dimensional thresholds that ordinarily represent hard limits in the cosmos. Ordinarily extreme boundary exchanges would create enormous tension and pressure. Pure consciousness and its derivative matrices, which both splice and interconnect the universe into its discrete processes, compose opposite ends of a spectrum between extreme sublucidity and total superlucidity. The fertility of matter for biological organisms is due to this dissonance and harmonization, which allow lucidity to barricade itself from itself in endlessly cascading propagations.
So, even though an organism's physical state of sensation and feeling is characterized by a kind of sublucidity without which it couldn’t exist, it also prohibits high degrees of lucidity by design. It creates an appropriate amount of evolutionary pressure and tension. Evolved organisms capable of utilizing these mechanics develop a function which straddles the thresholds of total and sub lucidity, making them bridge species capable of primeval and derivative states of simultaneous exchange. The physical organism is refined in order to handle this capacity–but there also exists the possibility of enlisting higher level forces to support the dream of matter, while also theoretically creating more coherent territories and processes for deceased beings to traverse while reincarnating.
These possibilities are natural and inherent properties of physical creatures. Human beings already express a small degree of pure consciousness within a world heavily defined by derivative conditions. A physical body which optimizes its capacity to dream will inevitably produce, elaborate, and manipulate lucidity on behalf of the universe. Without dreaming, there is constant guesswork, and worse, there is a constant need to “prove” everything to oneself. The need for proof is proportional to the degree of exclusion and conflict existing between oneself and the cosmos.
There are many ways of producing evidence that can be used to repeat experiences and refine theories, but “physical proof” in and of itself does not actually exist! The notion of proof is founded in an ideology that outcomes can be divorced from their processes. The idea of proof is more helpful and accurate when it elaborates a comprehensive, holistic process. There are many, many other ways to accomplish progress, innovation, and evolution beyond a science which can only survive on empirical reduction. It would be much better to enjoin scientific empiricism with the natural intelligence of animals, trees, alien species, nonphysical beings, and a living and lucid model of the cosmos.
Just as primeval consciousness cannot experience lucidity in the same way as organisms born of physical form, physical creatures cannot experience lucidity in relation to an infinite value, which has no relativity and no notion of evolutionary movement. The mechanics of lucidity speak to an incredible paradox in which totality and relativity can and must coexist. A methodology which founds its principles at this point will be sturdy and accurate. Furthermore, this model can be used to show the relationship between the mechanics of lucidity, physical existences, and the possible purposes for the creation of the universe itself.
In our dreams, we can study how lucidity accumulates through individual growth and development in relation to much larger processes that we exchange with, returning and receiving information from a primeval event horizon. Presumably, this exchange also achieves something valuable, meaningful, important, enjoyable, or dynamic to the absolute ground of being. It is from the primeval that sentient beings have been gifted the lucidity of corporeal incarnation. Sentient creatures evolve, distilling vital meaning from experiences, eventually forming a coherent “drop” derived from a lifetime of exploration, creativity, choice and emotion. This participation is a function fulfilling the cosmos’ flow of power, perpetuating its existence, of which every dream is a part.
So, it is an honor and a privilege to dream. It is an inheritance from one’s ancestors and a critical skill for one’s descendants to survive in an increasingly complicated and interconnected world. The evolution of civilization is inevitable, as are the tests and existential challenges it must procure for itself. Everyone is able to cultivate and increase their dream power. Everyone can learn to live with more lucidity: to feel more connected to the power of the cosmos, to the power of their body, and to the power of their humanity. It is no exaggeration to say that we can learn to lucid dream every night, and to continue dreaming like this during the day. It is a great expression of personal freedom. However, the process of preparing to dream and live in this way is not a project that can be pursued haphazardly. It benefits from a definite path to power, or a formula for the recomposition of dream power.
Power is lucidity, and lucidity is born from correct orientation. It is consciousness, which moves through dreaming, that creates and directs physical energy, vibration, mass, and the flow of time. Power is expressed through lucidity’s negotiations of primeval and derivative exchange, dictating the harmonic structures (archetypes, territories, dreams, forces, species, civilizations) responsible for the evolution of life. Power for the dreamer is a path toward lucidity defined by a similar series of movements, changes, and relationships. It is a path which requires sustained inquiry, focusing a process of important and continuous reflection. At the very beginning, this process can benefit from a series of simple but fundamental questions:
Where in the world do I witness subjectivity, distinct from objectivity, or objectivity, distinct from subjectivity?
If I was dreaming right now, what would it feel like to experience objectivity and subjectivity at once?
If I was dreaming right now, what would it feel like to dream as many people at once? What would it feel like to dream as many places at once?
If I were to suddenly stop existing, but my awareness continued to move forward, where would it go? What would it do? What would define its trajectory and momentum?
If this awareness was required to return to physical existence, into a body, what kind of life would it choose? What kind of personality would it become?
In this new life, what kinds of things would be challenging for this awareness? From its perspective, what kinds of things would be the most attractive? The most scary? The most risky? The most rewarding?
These simple questions can teach us a lot about who we become when we dream. They are familiar reference points for our dreamer. They help us remember our dreams with more regularity, and open us up to new kinds of transpersonal experiences. They generate insight, create energy, and produce lucidity. The answers we find also show us more about who we are and how we got here, in our present incarnation.
One also needs to reflect on the concrete requirements to sustain lucidity, which especially in the beginning can come in flashes or bursts. Lucidity needs to be stabilized, grounded, and harmonized with all of one’s many pieces. Our territory must be clean of ideological debris and energetic depolarizations. Our inner organizing principles must be sound. Reality is right here, ready for us to enter, but it will take some effort to be ready for a bigger kind of relationship with the cosmos: We will need to enter reality with an equivalent level of power. Our ordinary existence, fragmented and distorted from a transpersonal perspective, needs to be prepared and refined for translations into the present moment. These are challenging types of dream maneuvers that will ask us to hold more and more and more...
Lucidity asks dreamers to adapt to a more fluid interpretation of their subjective emotions, desires, memories, choices, and new experiences. At the same time, it makes one’s subjective experiences more profound, more visceral, more immediate. This is reality presenting itself, asking us if we are prepared to respond with an appropriate degree and quality of energy, coherence, and respect. There can be no planetary, provincial infantilization–the terrestrial sapien form and its mammalian complexes are derivative explorations of infinity, but must be transitioned and even abandoned at certain thresholds of being, in pursuit of levels of perception from which to approach the void. To relate to the void, and to pass through the other side, one must have intimate knowledge of a very specific dream maneuver that you are already familiar with: death and birth.
Each lucid journey and out of body experience is a transpersonal death–a building block of immortality. It involves somersaulting outside of oneself, and then summersaulting back, all while remaining coherent and alive. Lucidity means dying into the unknown possibilities of dreaming's expansive, inclusive nature. It means passing through oneself, beyond oneself, to reawaken (temporarily or permanently) in another dimension of being. Lucidity requires freedom to move. It can dismantle and reassemble verisimilitude independently and interdependently with other dimensions of movement, unlimited by any notion of status quo or preference. It is a wild, highly relational, cunning kind of freedom.
It is related to the idea that, in the present moment, dreaming stretches or dilates perception, but also self, in order to encounter and relate to more possibility. The present moment is not simply resting spaciously in the known—it is expanding across a dynamic, highly energized state of interconnectivity. There is an openness in the body and in the universe around it, which “bounces” information back and forth upon each other dynamically. Lucidity is a process that the physical body can also be trained to induce, direct, and sustain while awake. It is not merely cognitive or subjective, but invokes and evokes nonlocal phenomena and the mechanical forces in one’s objective environment.
True illness is the loss of this connection, or ignorance of its presence and importance. Illness can be defined by a missing, abstract, or vague sensation of transpersonal interconnectivity. This is the root cause of loneliness, fear, hatred, and hopelessness. Accumulation of imbalanced emotions and belief systems then engenders physical and social diseases. The underlying imbalance is always rooted in a concrete sensation that there is no connection, no opening, no back-and-forth movement of dreaming and being. It is the illusion of non-existence, which becomes temporarily real due to the power of dreaming. It is a dangerous error in cosmological orientation that can spread like a virus and destroy whole civilizations.
To cultivate lucidity means also to cultivate wellbeing and social harmony. It challenges love to expand and realize its potential as fidelity to transobjective imperatives. All creatures must learn how to expand their level of reality to include and become more aware of each other. Greater intimacy and exchange are vital ingredients for diversity and evolution. To be healthy, mature, and progressive, people should learn how to dream with each other. They should also explore dreaming into the earth, its biomes, trees, plants, animals, stones and deep geological processes. With power, we can even dream out into the stars and become the stars, not only studying them, but orienting them so that we can recognize them in ourselves.
A working prototype of lucidity’s mechanics will never be perfect, but it can be modeled after an ever expanding, transcending, and ever-including intermediate dynamic. It will be enough simply to recognize ourselves as dreamers: as transcorporeal voyagers that hunt for expansion, for I-we-energy, for new and more interesting kinds of connection and exchange. Lucidity also hunts for blocks, conflict, and liminal spaces, where new and interesting kinds of energy are often dormant. Lucidity is the synergistic colliding of worlds toward greater orders of complexity, and it is the dreamer’s job to let it happen, guiding and being guided by a relative, participatory, emergent process.
Lucidity also, perhaps paradoxically, protects and nourishes the known, and our familiar sense of self. Even while transcending into the unknown, it deeply recognizes and resonates with individual expression. It enables a qualitatively greater expression of our unique strengths, weaknesses, talents, personalities and dreams. Our dreamers have a profound sense of respect for us, our bodies, and our authentic livelihoods.
Lucidity is our teacher. It can heal, guide, serve justice, innovate, and lead the way. If people regained the power of lucidity, the world would change overnight. Those that were ill or unwell would find healing. Those that made choices against their nature or their humanity would hold themselves accountable. We could, and we would, weigh our own souls and diagnose our own conditions every night. There would be no escape from reality. We would realize, bit by bit, a razor’s edge between error and integrity—a way forward no matter what.
Lucidity would also be realized as an enhancement of our physical existence. It can be trained to live upon the skin, like an invisible multisensual barrier. It can be projected in order to move through the environment, modify conditions, perceive temporal conditions, or even saturate new events. When confronted by insurmountable conditions, lucidity finds the crack, the winning solution, the right idea and the right timing that make improbable events more favorable and even inevitable. If lucidity were truly understood, societies would choose the strongest dreamers among them to be their leaders. It would be understood as a gift, to be safeguarded in children. That which is antithetical to lucidity, and even to ordinary dreaming, would be understood as antithetical to life.
Over time, lucid dreaming creates a muscle memory within a new kind of body that self-organizes itself beyond the limits of our dimension, surpassing itself again and again through its strongest dreams. Lucidity eventually retrains one not to define themselves by what they believe or who they are, but by how they are and how reality moves through them. Lucidity is a science defined by stages of development in which the dreamer approaches the heart of reality. What feels and is real becomes more real when we learn to harmonize many types and levels of consciousness at once. This process can ultimately be referred to as “enlightenment”, even if according to dreaming, this word is a just symbolic description of the mechanics by which the primeval and derivative laws invert their polarity through the physical body.
“Dream metamorphosis” means that the fabric of the universe has opened the physical body up, releasing tremendous energy, offering safe passage into other worlds, and reconnecting consciousness back to its cosmological dream threshold. It is also a process mirrored by trauma, beliefs, and habits which distort lucidity, block it entirely, or drain its energy before it can express itself properly. When blocked by our own lack of awareness, or blocked by the lack of awareness of others, we also reduce ourselves and our capacity to exist. We rely more on the autonomic processes of our body, which perceives for us, but also subsumes and leadens our sensations. Trauma is an evolutionary mechanism that, if understood, gives great insight into lucidity and its potential to “unblock” the physical body as a transpersonal fulcrum.
Lucidity is the steady hum of local and nonlocal connective tissue. It is the degree of free will possible within the present moment. Engaging this mechanism, we can push and pull our blocked perceptions apart, reconnecting us with the structure of the self beyond time, our inner transpersonal complexity, and the part of the primeval journey we represent. Through our dreams we animate our primeval self’s database of living transpersonal memory and its deepest archetypal desires. Our main reservoir of energy for dreaming, in fact, comes from this primeval reservoir of subtle energy, and from its metabolic activity. The primeval self’s dreaming processes our vital, sexual energy and formless, transpersonal, spiritual energy—rendering them compatible. The primeval self is a transpersonal engine: an interdimensional ship designed for free range of motion across the cosmos.
When we are awake, when our physical bodies move, we do not ordinarily consider that we are dreaming, but this is only because we have moved our cosmological center of gravity into a different relationship with the laws. If we generate enough lucidity, we will perceive that the physical and nonphysical worlds move together with us—depending on our perception of dreaming as a formula of energy. Even ordinary movements through the physical world are accompanied by complex and interesting kinds of dreaming. In out of body travels, dreaming takes only the movements we’ve mastered through lucidity with us. Our integrated, vital movements are our currency in this life and have currency in our afterlife. Without a body, we will only have these dream movements to give our existence a sense of continuity, evolution, and free will. Lucidity therefore is also a kind of measurement that tells us a lot about the death process, and about how prepared we are for what lies beyond.
If we do not heal our trauma before dying, our dreamer carries unstable or unusable energy in its wake. Trauma is an arrested dream movement that needs to be metabolized by the soul, or else it will accompany us through lifetimes. From a mechanical perspective, it is just locked up vital-spiritual energy, stored through inaccessible musculature or disassociated transpersonal containers. It only needs a channel through which to discharge. However, since trauma is created through dreaming, it also needs proper dream maneuvers to complete its journey—which actually might not be simple or straightforward at all. Trauma might need a complex process of harmonization, neutralization, stages of decomposition and recomposition, or a combined process of many kinds of healing relationships and changes.
For traumas arriving from other timelines, other bodies, other transpersonal inheritances… One will need to be a strong dreamer in order to distill and fully recapitulate experiences that have no physical bases within one’s own lifetime. Our lucidity can actually volunteer to process trauma from the primeval library of lives of different species, inheriting great pain, violence, grief, knowledge, lucidity, and power. We may also encounter opportunities to do this for our biological ancestors, for our spiritual community, even for strangers. These can be terrible lessons with steep learning curves. They can lead to enlightenment, even while they tear the ordinary self apart in confusion and misunderstanding.
Managing one’s healing and recovery process is an important part of cultivating dream power. Lucidity’s great capacity for traversing territories and orienting natural law gives it a prodigious capacity to heal and transform. The pain of dozens or hundreds of incarnations can be held in one body, negotiated with directly, and potentially resolved (or greatly reduced) over the course of a lifetime of lucid dreaming. The body’s posture, emotions, gestures, and habits all reflect a fundamental balance between the objective laws of the cosmos and our degree of derivative lucidity. Lucidity knows how to move between the primeval and derivative, effectively generating a formula of new energy, a new personal meaning, a new technique for healing. Lucidity opens doors to new worlds, and can send an entire incarnation flashing before one’s eyes, preparing the primeval self for successive rebirths.
To walk the path of lucidity is an adventure of rediscovering oneself as a primeval part of the cosmos, occupying huge swathes of physical and energetic territory relative to one’s tiny position in the universe. We have the honor and duty to observe a flow of lucidity in our lives which speaks to the architecture of distributed power across the cosmos. Greater and greater levels of the universe’s dreaming observe our attention to the requirements of the laws, deciding the flow of power to be sent individually, collectively, and through packets of time that define important moments for whole civilizations.
Dreamers can use lucidity to poke through their own existence, exchanging with higher level forces. There are always new tests and new requirements to observe. This is why dream power is also cultivated and sustained through knowledge of the cosmos as a primeval/derivative superstructure. This knowledge governs a near infinite variety of living creatures and their ecosystems. When our own movements harmonize with the movements of this superstructure, a wealth of knowledge and understanding lies at our fingertips. If power is subtracted from those who do not follow the path indicated for humans, our dreams will seek to reduce the collective error and to guide us toward taking right action. For species that enter collectively into lucid harmony with primeval laws, a mission for life is revealed that encompasses countless galaxies and an endless variety of species. This is the “great work” of lucidity that all beings seek to realize and participate in.