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In Melinda Powell's new book on lucid dreaming, she continues to make creative contributions to understanding the mystery of dreams. Lucid dreaming has been a bit of an enigma that has in recent times been given more scientific attention. Melinda takes into account current scientific studies, including the growing literature and findings of the American Psychological Association. In addition to the scientific literature, she is well aware of the long-term recognition and value given to lucid dreaming in a number of depth psychological and spiritual traditions, including the practice of Tibetan dream yoga. Although resonant with Jungian, alchemical, transpersonal and other perspectives, she offers her own individual insights and discoveries into the world of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming has been described as entering into the experience of a dream while feeling oneself to be conscious within it. Courageously, Melinda explores her own lucid dreams by releasing her 'ego will' - what she comes to call 'Lucid Surrender', a process through which she progressively enters into the Black Light and dark illumination of her dreams. The result of this release leads to an experience parallel with what the alchemists referred to as the lumen naturae, the light of nature or the light of darkness itself - a primordial phenomenon that links light and darkness into what Jung called a coniunctio oppositorum, or unity of opposites. For Melinda, 'Lucid Surrender' and moving beyond binaries open a pathway into the depths of the soul, an alchemical-like and poetic descent, a spiritual journey through which she explores the mercurial wisdom of dreams and advances new ideas that have both personal and archetypal relevance. With remarkable hermetic discipline, Melinda captures and shares her dream experiences and personal life in a way that gives substance to her insights. A remarkable aspect of Melinda's work is the positivity she discovers in her research: the fullness of the void, the awakening and freedom of the heart, and the healing, holiness and illumination she finds in her dreams.

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The path of Lucid Surrender unveils a radically new approach to exploring the realm of lucid dreaming. With ever increasing levels of trust and acceptance, Melinda Powell opens herself to following the winds of her inner awareness to discover what it wishes her to experience. This book encourages lucid dreamers to 'let go,' accepting what comes with a grateful heart to lovingly engage their deeper wisdom and multi-dimensionality. A must read for those who seek a direct encounter with the eternal part of their being-ness ; Robert Waggoner ; Author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, and co-author of Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple - Melinda Powell invites us to surrender to the Black Light of lucid dreaming to discover the 'soul medicine' to heal and awaken. Based on her own experience of lucid dreaming, Powell relays her journey of personal growth, a growth that catalyses the soul's essence anew. Excerpts from her dream journal allow the reader to follow her inward journey home in ways that will inspire them to explore how the Black Light may be uniquely revealed in their own dreams ; Rosemarie Anderson ; PhD Author of The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching - With Lucid Surrender, Melinda Powell makes another valuable contribution to the field of transpersonal psychology and, more widely, to humanity. The author applies her professional experience as a psychotherapist, and her own profound capacity for transpersonal dreaming, to Carl Jung's process of Individuation. Drawing on alchemical symbolism, she invites the reader into her visions, embodied dreams and psycho-spiritual journey, going beyond Carl Jung's alchemical model to make readily accessible the subtle and ineffable. Through this well-researched and lucid text, the author's unique window on the world of the unconscious and the power of Lucid Surrender offers the reader a practical therapeutic guide for decoding the Transpersonal, bringing the dreamer to a deeply felt sense of what it can mean to realise one's soul desire ; Diane Greig, Ph.D. ; Founder of the Pacific Northwest Dream Community, Canada. Creator /Host of Invisible Women: The Podcast - This important work re-visions the widely misunderstood mystical topic of 'Black Light', a phenomenon described by mystics such as St. John of the Cross. Although light is not normally connected with darkness in this way, Black Light as understood by Melinda Powell is distinct in possessing a vibrant luminosity. The author, as both psychotherapist and dream guide, draws on examples from her own extraordinary capacity for dream lucidity to show how the experience of Black Light in lucid dreams can trigger a transcending of normal dream 'reality'. Through a process that Melinda Powell calls 'Lucid Surrender', she reveals how immersion in the Light of pure Spirit can lead to profound spiritual awakening ; Nigel Hamilton, PhD ; Director, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London Co-Founder of the Dream Research Institute, London and author of Awakening Through Dreams: The Journey Through the Inner Landscape - In this splendid book, Melinda Powell eloquently describes using her dreams for spiritual insight, healing, and exploring the 'stirrings of her soul' in her quest for wholeness. Her courageous process of actively surrendering in dream lucidity brings her experiences that are deeply moving and awe-inspiring. She highlights how her dreams connect to esoteric spiritual traditions and modern physics, while extending Carl Jung's alchemical model to encompass transformative lucid dreaming. Importantly, she also shows how dream lucidity can enhance waking life - including service to others. Her experiences in dreams involving light, mirrors and worm-holes are evocative of a future in which explorations of consciousness and physical reality go hand in hand - for a true bridging of spirit and science. I hope that her book will be required reading for future generations of physicists. I feel sure that readers will enjoy it immensely and that it will aid them in their journey 'beyond the limitations of time and space to Spirit' ; Don Middendorf ; Professor Emeritus of Physics and Consciousness Studies, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA ;

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Inspired by her dreams, Melinda Powell co-founded the Dream Institute, at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London, to promote research into the relationship between dreams and wellbeing. Melinda has served as past vice-president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and as director of Help Counselling Centre. She works as a psychotherapist and teaches the art of Lucid Dreaming. Melinda has published and lectured widely on dreams and lucidity. Born in Southern California, she lived for a number of years in Poland and Switzerland before making her home in the United Kingdom. Melinda Powell approaches lucid dreaming as a means to soul-awakening, a path she calls 'Lucid Surrender' (TM). This book derives from Powell's firsthand experience as a lucid dreamer, her professional work as a psychotherapist and her researches into lucid dreaming. Her application of Carl Jung's alchemical model to Lucid Surrender brings new dimensions to our understanding of alchemy, therapeutic practice and dream lucidity. She describes how stages similar to the alchemical process can also be consciously initiated in a lucid dream, with powerful therapeutic effect. Powell further develops Jung's teachings on light, revisioning the reader's understanding of darkness by illuminating the phenomenon of Black Light. She shows how lucid dreams can open us to the realm of the transpersonal.

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