From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 10:19:20 AM UTC-5, slider wrote:   
   > On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 02:51:03 +0100, David Dalton wrote:    
   >    
   > > On Jul 8, 2023, azigni wrote on alt.religion.shamanism    
   > > (in article ):    
   > >    
   > >> Something way off topic as of late, though a serious question.    
   > >>    
   > >> There was a 'situation' I thought was not all it should be and    
   > >> considered taking steps to correct it. I was not part of the situation,    
   > >> but had not come to a decision.    
      
   > ### - it appears that lucid dreaming is a universal ability albeit    
   > everyone's been going about it totally the wrong (or rather: the most    
   > difficult) way?    
   >    
   > waking-induced lucid dreaming (or WILD for short) being what it's actually    
   > all about, particularly the shamanic/oobe versions which involve the quite    
   > conscious + deliberate entry into other worlds and realms of being for the    
   > purposes of expanding one's awareness.    
      
   The "WILD" path has been around since (perhaps) Stonehenge (or possibly   
   earlier):   
      
   Short URL: media.istockphoto.com/photos/celtic-labyrinth-carved-   
   n-stone-picture-id590290278   
      
   Longer URL (but without the "STOCK" watermark):   
   external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.istock   
   hoto.com%2Fphotos%2Fclose-up-of-finger-labyrinth-in-cornwall-eng   
   and-picture-id960665882%3Fk%3D6%26m%3D960665882%26s%3D612x612%26   
   %3D0%26h%3D-_A-rFLtRr0s7zKSrWIyKIjJoFxGc8lvWbSZf04nsKc%3D   
      
   The pre-Christian era folk would walk these paths in quiet meditation, with   
   the objective of coming to a personal type of epiphany (as in the possible   
   form of a WILD) upon reaching the center of the path.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)