“Ordaining reality” and lucid dreaming
September 8th, 2009 | 
Author: Good morning Joe,
I have yet to read your book but in anticipation of its arrival from B&N, I have two questions: I’m not certain if your method employs affirmations or not. If it doesn’t, I’d like to hear your take on whether supplementing visualizations with affirmations would be effective? Secondly, what are your thoughts about “supercharging” results by reinforcing visualizations with lucid dreaming?
Best,
Erik
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Hi Simon (and other kind folks who have blogged or emailed me),
First, let me apologize for your effort.
Second, let me thank you for your interest.
Third let me update the availability date: It should be out and available on November 9th. The delay is due to a miscommunication between the publisher and me…mainly my fault.
Fourth, let me again offer to readers who have spent time looking for the book thus far that I will sign their copies. If you are interested in having me sign your copy contact me via email (as many of you have already done) at Joe@OrdainingReality.com. I will give you the details there.
Again thanks for your patience and interest.
Joe Donlan
I found this answer very helpful. The meditation is freeing up my creativity. I’m not a writer per se, but I sort of had a brain freeze on my ability to come up with new ideas in the past year. They flow MUCH better now.
BTW, I did a short write up of the book on B&N. I’m not sure if it’s there yet.
Good afternoon Erik,
First, thank you for your purchase and thank you in particular for your blog entry. I also read your email sent to me directly, but I will answer here as your question has a wide audience appeal.
To answer your first question: Yes, my method does employ affirmations. The series of Ordaining Reality books in greater or lesser detail (depending on which one you get) explain why affirmations work and then explain the method you should use and from what area of your brain you should store and broadcast your affirmation (which, as you will learn from reading the book, is your right hemisphere – the center of your inner self). BTW, it does advise to supplement visualizations with affirmations to aid in effectiveness and offers some specific techniques.
Your second question is excellent from many levels. You didn’t bring it up here in the blog, but you mentioned in the email that you were wondering about the use of lucid dreaming to help with writers block. If I may, I’d like to combine these two questions as they are quite related.
In short, lucid dreaming is visualization that is done on the subconscious level. Your lucid dreams occur from entirely within your right hemisphere. As I get into, and as readers of my book already know, your left brain is in charge, so to speak, of making sense of everything. It acts as a reality censor. It is also the region of the brain associated with speech and writing. If you have a lucid dream that defies logic, you will not be able to explain it or retain it for long (the scientific term is verbal overshadowing). If you have a eureka experience that defies logic, you will not be able to explain it either. Similarly, if you have a visualization that is in contravention with what your left brain thinks is possible, you will not be able to maintain that vision. If you are able to have a lucid dream that is in concert with an important goal, and if you can wake up and describe that dream…you, my friend, are far along your path of success. The book will explain the mechanism behind the rest of it.
In the case of writers block, the lack of what to say is not causing the impasse; rather, it is the lack of cooperation between the two hemispheres. That is what causes the block. The idea is there in your head, but the apparatus to translate the concept into words is in shut down mode. The simple meditation I describe breaks this stalemate. Others have brought this up.
I hope this response helps and I encourage you to provide some feedback and other thoughts.
Thanks again,
Best Regards,
Joe