

This is a highly personal book by Pita that explores her lucid dreams and its effect on her faith and self-knowledge. Lucid dreams and the Holy Spirit, by Maria Pita (2015).(By the way, I’m also not covering Buddhist Dream Yoga and lucid dreaming in this post–that also is a topic that needs its own round-up). These are the authors who have taken lucid dreaming into the 21st century. So here’s the most recent lucid dreaming books in this category of philosophical and spiritual perspectives that I can personally recommend. They go deeper they have bigger fish to fry. These books may touch on the “how to” aspect of lucidity, but that’s not their central purpose. I’m talking about thoughtful, spiritually mind-bending, and downright world-shattering books that take on the central mystery of “consciousness in sleep” and run with it. Rather, there’s a smaller niche of works that might have escaped your notice. These books are great - worthy of a blog round up on their own - but that’s not what I’m focusing on here. Today, there’s a ton of new books about lucid dreaming on the market, with more coming out every year, and most of them focus on the nuts and bolts of how to have a lucid dream. It has not been surpassed when it comes to sheer usefulness, authenticity, and grounded expert opinion.

This book is still required reading for the inspiring oneironaut. Since then, Laberge went on to pen an even more popular book, The World of Lucid Dreaming, co-authored with Howard Rheingold. Back in the day, which is to say the early 1990s, when I was wearing flannel and too much patchouli, we read Stephen Laberge’s book Lucid Dreaming (now out of print), and we liked it! I was 20 years old, and the work transformed my dream life.
