Description
Dreaming-awake — also known as “dreaming while awake,” or heightened awareness — is a growing area of interest in the field of perception. Originating from a real dreaming-awake adventure, The Dream of Vixen Tor offers an original blend of illustrated storytelling, perspective, poetry, and how-to exercises — all designed to help you awaken your own potentials of heightened awareness. You’ll then discover how to turn your everyday experiences into adventures of consciousness.
Well know anthropologists such as Carlos Castaneda have written about dreaming-awake, as have psychologists such as Arthur Mindell. It is a dynamic state of awareness that allows you to directly experience the creative interplay between personal and environmental energies. As a result, your daily life literally becomes a dream. Your senses are sharper and clearer, and you feel more alive as your world springs more to life.
Now take the first step into heightened awareness by making yourself relaxed and alert, then come – for it is time to enter The Dream of Vixen Tor.
The Dream of the Vixen Tor reads like the waking dream that inspired it. As Ken Eagle Feather (Tracking Freedom, A Toltec Path) drifts through his fables and teachings, one senses there is no left brain at work–only the meandering of the right brain as it delves into the unconscious world. Like a modern-day Carlos Castaneda, Eagle Feather works from the Toltec traditions and produces writing that is often ethereal and unconventional.
Eagle Feather begins by telling a mystical tale about a ranger’s quest to restore the crown of King Arthur. (By this he means restoring the relationship between humans and the “spirit of all things goods and whole.”) The old-fashioned tale is thick with symbolism–including a waif, an evil shape-shifting vixen, coachmen, and a hidden cave. After the fable ends, Eagle Feather explains the story within the story–how it grew from a real-life waking dream he had on a tor (a natural rock formation on the top of a hill) in England. Finally, the ethereal prose shifts into a series of concise, step-by-step guided meditations on how to live more in the realm of imagination and how to bring the dream world into the waking world, and vice versa.
What’s the payoff? “Remember, heightened awareness is often called dreaming-awake, as your environment takes on a dreamlike quality,” he writes. “Colors are clearer, sharper. You feel connected. You feel more capable. You feel like you’re not at the mercy of the world, and that you can actively shape your dream… your life.” –Gail Hudson
