The Sun and the Shadow by Kenneth Kelzer
My Review
Kenneth Kelzer's The Sun and The Shadow: My Experimentation with Lucid Dreaming is actually a very important piece of fact based dream research.
Considering it was published in 1987 by A.R.E. Press (Association for Research and Enlightenment - The Edgar Cayce Foundation) only places it further on the fringe of essentially unknown yet extremely pertinent efforts towards educating the layman in lucid dream pursuits.
Essentially a dream journal broken by Jungian infused imagery interpretation, and though a somewhat dry read, the context of Kelzer discussing how to Lucid Dream and its potential significance is clearly visionary and as prescient now as it would have been in '87.
Citing historic Buddhist and Hindu platforms Kelzer makes no fronts upon originality, and humbly puts forth for everyday american his idea of how to pursue psycho-spiritual enhancement.
Now, some 23 years after its publication, we're still living in a society that's reluctant to remember their dreams let alone engage them in a gestative fashion, which places The Sun and The Shadow ahead of the curve for its unique importance and also the allure of relative obscurity.
"I fondly remembered the words of Baba Ram Dass from one of his workshops many years ago. He said: 'The word 'miracle' is merely a cover for our own ignorance.' By this he meant that whenever we encounter something new and mysterious in the world, something impressive which we do not understand, we are likely to label that event as a 'miracle.' However, once we begin to understand the event, we become less likely to consider it a miracle and more likely to view it as ordinary. The ordinary is that with which we are familiar. Once 'miracles' become familiar to us, we usually cease to regard them as miracles and begin to view them as normal occurrences." Pgs. 147-148 - Kenneth Kelzer
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Joseph Voelbel designs learning curriculum and writes about money, systems, and meaning. Author of Pay Attention to Bitcoin (2024), a crash-course primer on sound money, Nineteen Stories (2017), an exploration of the unknown, and This Plant Will Grow (2026), a children's book about a plant that becomes a rainforest.