Delphi’s Book Club Pick: The Master of Lucid Dreams
The Delphi Report, my new show on the Global Reality Network (Saturdays from 4-5pm), will feature a Book Club pick of the week. This week, I’ve been journeying through Samarkand with Olga Kharitidi, M.D., a Russian psychiatrist who has been priveleged enough to learn healing from the shamans of central Asia. The book is The Master of Lucid Dreams, and it is an excellent read.
Ancient Samarkand, where Kharitidi travels to learn the techniques of healing through the exploration of the dreamstate, is located near Usbekistan, and has been one of the ancient centers for dream workers throughout the centuries.
This book will curl into your consciousness and make you face your fears; death, abuse, trauma, guilt, and suicide are all addressed in this text; not with clinical tediousness, but with lasting and powerful storytelling.
A unique aspect that Kharitidi delves into, or continues to find herself emersed in, are the true mysteries: Shambala, underground kingdoms, the shamanic connection to Sirius as described in mythologies throughout the world; all key roadstops along the journey of liberation of our soul’s imprisonment in our awareness. I highly recommend her other book, Entering the Circle, which was her first autobiographical description of her experience with Siberian shamanism.
One of the things I appreciate the most about Kharitidi’s work is that nothing seems forced, faked, or sensationalized. She is not giving you an end-all solution to your problems. She makes it clear that psychiatric, and especially shamanic, healing is an extremely difficult, painful, and involved process. There are no simple answers presented and the work described in her books requires that the initiate or healing patient go through very challenging mental, and sometimes physical, change. She is not selling snake oil here, but revealing what she has been blessed to learn from a very small group of working shamans.
Take the ride, enter the circle, and walk with the master of lucid dreams. You will not regret it.
Kharitidi’s Website: Cliff House Publications
Journey: Four Stars (out of Five)
High Weirdness: Four Bats (out of Five)
Truth: Five Stars
