LESSON & PRACTICE: Dream Warriors "The Most Important Question" the Warrior's first maneuver in fighting for awareness by Kevin Wikse.
*This piece was first written on May 18th, 2023, during a period when I had no intention of revealing my inherited Toltec lineage. At that time, my focus was not on ancestry or initiation, but on my life’s work and my experiences with lucid dreaming. I intended to share techniques I had gathered from a variety of traditions, with the Toltec methods—by far the most profound—held in reserve. Leading with them felt too obvious, almost predictable. Instead, I chose to introduce the reader to something rare, a doorway into lucidity that few will ever encounter: a method of dream induction from Haitian Vodou, facilitated for me by my Godfather, a Houngan Asogwe and High Priest of the tradition. That method proved deeply effective, and it still serves me to this day. Vodou and Palo Mayombe both offer powerful technologies for entering lucidity and awareness. Yet, as formidable as they are, the Toltec Art of Dreaming surpasses them in nearly every respect. It was my obsession with lucid dr...