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The Lucid Institute has a bizarre & captivating history, which you can find more about in the videos below. The first Lucid Institute service of the 21st Century was held on 6/17/23, & its first online salon was held on 7/28/23. Therefore, we are witnessing a thriving period for the LI, so please be on the lookout IRL, online, in you, outside of you, & in the animated environments that you confront. If you would like to know more or to participate in any of its ongoing experiments, rituals, outings, salons, or exercises, email welcometothelucidinstitute@gmail.com

"The Absolutely True History of the Lucid Institute”

“The Origins of the Lucid Institute”

The Ever-Expanding Lucid Institute Digital Library

(all free digital texts below):

• Upanishads

• Heraclitus’ Fragments (5th-6th Century BCE, Greece)

• Plato’s Dialogues (4th-5th Century BCE, Greece)

• The Tao Te Ching (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

• Bhagavad Gita

• The Gospel of Thomas

• Nag Hammadi Library

• The Corpus Hermeticum (100-300 CE, Alexandria)

• Hypatia

• Nagarjuna’s Middle Way (2nd Century CE, India)

• Plotinus’ Collected Works (3rd Century, Roman Egypt)

• Shitou’s Straw Hut Song (8th Century CE, China, translated & read by Dave Cuomo)

• Shitou’s Collected Works

• The Teachings of Padmasambhava (8th Century CE, Tibet)

• Self-Knowledge by Shankara (8th Century CE, India)

• Shiva Sutras by Vasugupta (9th Century, Kashmir)

• The Essential Dogen (13th Century CE, Japan)

• The Gateless Gate - Book of Zen Koans (13th Century CE, China)

• The Heart Sutra (Thich Nhat Hanh Translation)

• Ethics by Spinoza

• Marriage of Heaven & Hell by William Blake

• Collected Works of Immanuel Kant

• Prelude by William Wordsworth

• PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM & FIRST OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE by FWJ Schelling

• In Defence of Poetry by Percy Shelley

• Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel

• The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

• Collected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Song of Myself & Specimen Days by Walt Whitman

• Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

• Collected Works 1, Collected Works 4, of Nietzsche

• “Evolutionary Love” by Charles Sanders Peirce

• Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin

• The Completed Works of Vivekenanda

• Selected Works & Pragmatism of William James

• Best of Debussy

• Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson

• The Creative Mind by Bergson

• Kybalion

• How to Know Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner

• Paintings for the Temple by Hilma af Klint

• Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky

• Dada Manifesto by Tristan Tzara

• Manifestos of Surrealism by Andre Breton

• In Search of the Miraculous by PD Ouspensky

• Gurdjieff: His Life and Ideas by John Shirley

• Mount Analogue & “Fundamental Experience” by Rene Daumal

• Collected Works of Carl Jung

• Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

• Tender Buttons & Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

• Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

• Collected Poems of Alberto Caiero (a Pessoa heteronym)

• Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P Hall

• Process & Reality by AN Whitehead

• The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo

• The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

• Selected Works of Neville Goddard

• The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• The Situationist International Anthology

• “Sun Stone” by Octavio Paz

• The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

• Seymour, An Introduction & Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates

• The Way of Zen & Watercourse Way by Alan Watts

• The Media is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan

• Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan

• Zenarchy by Kerry Thornley

• Operating for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller

• The Structures of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

• Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

• All of Carlos Castaneda

• True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna

• Principia Discordia

• Valis Trilogy by Philip K Dick

• Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson

• Cosmic Trigger 1 by Robert Anton Wilson

• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

• Regarding the Pain of Others & Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag

• Breakdown of Chaos Theory, Chaos Magic

• Excerpts from Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

• Poems by Russell Edson

• Poems by James Tate

• Poems by Charles Simic

• “The Rejection of Closure” by Lyn Hejenian

• The Line of Time and the Plane of Now (Full Album) by Shira Small

• The Ending of Time by Krishnamurti & David Bohm

• Best of Leonard Cohen

• Best of Brian Eno

• Wabi Sabi by Leonard Koren

• Laraaji Vision Songs Vol. 1 (Full Album)

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• The Lawn of the Excluded Middle by Rosmarie Waldrop

• The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

• Rule of the Bone (novel) by Russell Banks

• Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack

• The Golden Thread by Joscelyn Godwin

• Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science by Christian Bok

• Essays One by Lydia Davis

• Interview with Franz Wright (poet)

• All of Bill Knott - archive (poet & artist)

• Works by Caveh Zahedi

• Dawn (Full Album) by Mount Eerie, Best of Phil Elverum

• Theories of the Sublime

• The Miracle Club by Mitch Horowitz

• Articles by Mitch Horowitz

• Duncan Trussell Family Hour (podcast)

• Collected Notes on the Philosophy of Aesthetics

• Real Magic by Dean Radin

• New Thinking Allowed (interview series) by Jeffrey Mishlove

• Best of Bjork

• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

• The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination by Gary Lachman