3 X 5's: Index Card Wisdom from Best of Books

  AWAKENED WAY Suzanne Giesemann (2024).  The Awakened Way:                                                            Making the Shift to a                                                            Divinely Guided Life. Giesemann is former US Navy Commander who shifted her life course dramatically after her daughter died from a lightning strike by developing evidence-based communication with nonphysical consciousness. The first half of the book explains her journey and the rationale behind her perspective, while the second half of the book contains practical activities. Beliefs We are both human and soul, i.e., multidimen...

LUCID Stephen LaBerge (1990). Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming LaBerge has a PhD in psychophysiology and did his doctorate in lucid dreaming. In this somewhat dated book (as of 2025, it is 35 years old...for more recent science based information research Daniel Love's work on lucid dreaming), LaBerge lays the groundwork for lucid dreaming, combining scientific studies (some of which are his own) and specific techniques/practices for entering the lucid dreaming state and for activities that one can apply while lucid such as creative problem solving, wish fulfillment, skill development... some pragmatics to test to see if you are in a lucid dream [ld] (aware that you are dreaming while in a dream) include the following reality checks: look at a clock, look away, then look again...if the time is different, you're likely in a ld--you can do the same check with a word/phrase on a book cover or any type of text with the intention of flying, jump up and see if you can take off, i...