Andrew Holecek

Holecek serves as a master mapmaker, master explorer of internal terrains, and master guide. Dream Yoga, Holecek's previous offering, is a book of mine that has multiple sheets of notes; penciled-in lines; a thoroughly examined bibliography. I believe Dreams of Light will collect extra reading time over the years too.

When examining the journey I took with this book (quite literally, reading and listening while on walks or seated at various locations in and out of the house), specific passages reappear in memory.

I am walking in a field behind my neighborhood, tall grasses and barbed wire fences to climb, headphones on... I hear the phrase from Part I - Deconstructing the Sense of Self, "change the way you think about things and you will change the way you see them. It's a change that changes everything" ... this can seem a common enough cliche, but with Holecek's written guidance, it CAN change everything.

I listen and read Part II - Manifesting Clear-Light Mind while waiting for car to be repaired. I travel behind the business and find a patch of woods, lay upon a hidden concrete space and take notes on having no head.

I read Part III - Finding Support in Science: The Illusion of Externality and recite baffling facts to my six-year-old in between his virtual schooling. I begin to see my child as Saunder's depicts in Lincoln in the Bardo, as an unfixed, unstable being in constant flux. "Had he not looked this way at birth, that way at four, another way at seven, been made entirely new at nine? He had never stayed the same, even instant to instant."

This book leads the reader into the practice of illusory form. The goal is simple: see the world differently, as dream-like. The practice is a way of life and, if you reach the point in which it does change everything, you will carry forth this profound experience into all other experiences. Then the phrase lucid dreaming while awake will make sense.… (mais)