Consciousness Expansion: The Hard Way or How to find your Path

• Lucid Dreaming -- Dream Views: "This website provides information on lucid dreaming, controlling dreams, the stages of sleep, dream recall, dream signs, and more. It is written to be easily understood by those just starting out; the information and techniques provided are also beneficial for those who already have some ability. Tutorials are provided to further help those in their attempts, and an active message forum is available for those seeking help or wanting to provide it."


• Wired News: Brain Workouts May Tone Memory: "Among people who work with older adults, the concept of "cognitive fitness" has become a buzzword to describe activities that stimulate underutilized areas of the brain and improve memory. Proponents of brain-fitness exercises say such mental conditioning can help prevent or delay memory loss and the onset of other age-related cognitive disorders."


• Essentials of Buddhism
  1. Suffering exists
  2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires
  3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases
  4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path


• BuddhaNet - Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education Network: "BuddhaNet™ is the result of a vision to link up with the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha. In this way, an ancient tradition and the information superhighway will come together to create an electronic meeting place of shared concern and interests."


• Mindfulness In Plain English: "The subject of this book is Vipassana meditation practice. Repeat, practice. This is a meditation manual, a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step guide to Insight meditation. It is meant to be practical. It is meant for use."

You may find religion helpful in your path, and since buddhism is not a religion this may be a good idea for most people. I found that religion often gives people a more accessable and everyday kind of practical moral gauge. Stay away from any religion cooked up by drunk cowboys or fiction novelist, especially science fiction novelists.

Scientology is not a path to enlightenment or any greater understanding/unity with the universe and creation. It seems to me that Lafayette Ronald Hubbard is nothing but a manipulative fascist with fantasies of global domination. Am I Fair Game now? This post from metafilter fills in some of the disturbing details.

"Here's an account of conditions and abuse in a Scientology prison camp. Considering Scientology's philosophy, the use of prisons and slave labor (often used for the benefit of celebrities) shouldn't be surprising. (for these links, you may need a good dictionary)"

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