students and whatnot, me paraphrasing and he said, you know, you Westerners, you're always processing processing, processing. This is just cut. Just cut in this is there's a lot to be said for that. I mean, I have never been, and again, I'm not criticizing the psychological thing. I'm not at all I'm an indigo students as a place that's why you interview Bruce Tift I'm not criticizing any of this stuff at all has a bandwidth here. But we just have to be really careful to put all our eggs in this one basket I've never heard one spiritual teacher and dozens and dozens and dozens that I've had interviews with to present with issues now one said tell me about your parents. Tell me about your past, not one, because they're more interested in the immediacy of the present moment. They're more interested in how are we going to relate to the phenomenal rising as it is now? Right? That's, I think, really something to pay attention to. And once again, I'm not dismissing the validity of doing the psycho graph doing the history during the trauma stuff. I mean, when you do if you do psychedelic assisted psychotherapy things and you're working with deep trauma 99.9% of this is due to stuff that happened in your history. That stuff really has to be worked through. I'm not criticizing that I'm just saying that we have to be a little careful. There's this is the fact precisely what I talked about with Bruce we just haven't released that interview yet. The difference between the developmental and the fruition of approaches. The traditional approach is more immediate presentational immediacy. Whitehead called it what's happening right now work with that. The developmental approach deals more with the history of the psychology the processing of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Yes, it has a place but I think you get the point here don't get too caught up and you know, all this processing stuff. On one level tadhack correction cut through. So part two of your question, does Buddhism have ideas about the circumstances of previous lives that lead to certain birth like breech twins face up? Yeah, of course they do. But they're not that much. You know, I mean, it's almost like tangential really and that's the way I relate to it's kind of interesting, but I'm not going to spend my time on it. Because first of all, well anyway, I leave it. Could it be related to the type of Death Violence war? Yes, for sure. I have a friend who was born the same way who feels it meant she was kicking and screaming not to come back to samsara? I, I that's an imputation. In my estimation, I mean, who am I to say that that's accurate or not, but I would be a little cautious about this kind of imputation projection thing in my world that doesn't carry a lot of traction. That's just me. Do you have any experience with or comments on past life regression? I don't roll a whole lot in this world. Michael Newton's work. Yeah, but Thurman talks about him. I don't roll a ton with as I did with him when I was a teenager. And again, I'm not criticizing this stuff, but when I was into the kind of new age thing, I'm not criticizing it. I did a little bit of that stuff I O. Wilson named William David, this wonderful guy. He was a past life progressive guy, a classic mediator. Akashic mediators, you know, like Casey was that who could read the records? could read the Akasha. And then basically tell you, Oh, this is what's happening. And you know, what's happening in your life now, is that working out of this particular karma? I think there's some absolute positive positively. There's some validity to that. But I don't roll too much in these sorts of things past life regression stuff. I've never done it except for that one time and I didn't do it intentionally. I wasn't hypnotized. I wasn't regressed. This is just what some guy this guy said as a precaution ear. I don't rely too much in this world, simply because more and more traditional in the sense of like, what's happening presentational immediacy, what's happening now how can I relate to what's happening now? Because otherwise, like I mentioned, you can just get so caught up in all the factors. And a lot of this is really pretty conjecture. I mean, who's gonna say with any authority on this stuff, right? So that's just me. That's just my disposition. So anyway, Thanks, Mary. I hope that's helpful. Okay, from joy, when a beautiful name your presentation a few weeks ago with a transitional Life Care was excellent. Thank you so much. I did a riff for them. They're a wonderful group, and inspired me to begin reading your books. Oh, that's very kind. Thank you for doing that. The books are beginning to arrive. Oh, that's exciting. Now I'm wondering if you recommend reading them in any particular order, which Oh, you're still very kind which might be beneficial. I began reading preparing to die. Thank you for your high energy presentation. Certainly. So yeah, thank you joy for the kind words. You know, you know, joy, it kind of depends on what you're really interested in that that particular presentation was an end of life stuff. So I think beginning to read preparing to die would be the most appropriate in that instance. And then Ah, geez, what to say, you know, maybe my very first book, The Power and the pain, because that's a little bit connected to transitions and whatnot. And then maybe Dream Yoga. But you know, this is this is just like ah, there it is. There. It isn't Spanish, beautiful. It's kind of like what are you interested in if you're interested in really, really deep, profound philosophy kind of theory. You're so kind bringing up these books. Look at that. Oh, my gosh, that's so sweet. There's joy bringing up all these books. He's got it all. You were kidding. Oh, my God, Joy. You just made my whole day. There it is. Because you know, it's all about me. Oh, you're so sweet. Oh, my God. You just made my whole day. Thank you so much. So you know, if you're really into the deep, deep stuff, dreams of light is my deepest book. Meditation and iGeneration is probably the most accessible entry level book, The Harvard hit press. Our lucid dreaming workbook is also probably one of the more easier books and the other ones are slightly heavier lifting and then I've got you know, I've got two more coming up. So maybe just roll with those Joy see what you know, just inspires you when you look at the cover or whatnot, but I'm so touched that you even asked the question or even by my propaganda, thank you so much, actually, really, it really means a lot to me. Thank you. Okay, from Patrick. In the 11 months since I joined nightclub, that's those of you who may not be nightclub members. That's the platform that we started almost four years ago to help people with nocturnal meditations. Since in the last month since I joined a club I've had 10 lucid dreams. That's very good. I know I would not have been able to accomplish this without the site. Well, that's really great. Thank you, your help. And the members. That's Patrick, that really makes me happy. Thank you. My lucid dreams are mostly short, that's fine. That doesn't mean that they're somehow less effectual or less profound, short, lucid dreams are fine. I become lucid and then wake up in about 30 seconds. That's super common. Can you recommend any tips on how to prolong the lucid dream and not wake up? Yes, I can. So number one is asked for more. Like if you're a fundraiser, you know, it's amazing what you can get if you just ask for it. And so by this what I mean is we make a second order. First Order intentionality I want to attain lucidity in my dreams. And this is actually quite common, playful, comical when I do my Dream Yoga programs because 1234 or five days depending on the person. Somebody who's never had a lucid dream will almost invariably have one. They come in the next day. It's actually quite touching. It's really sweet. They're just bursting. They just this is I just had my first lucid dream. It's just unbelievable. And then I'd probably say 80% of the time they say exactly what you're saying the object, but it didn't last very long. And so then I go, okay, okay, well, let's take a look at this. What did you ask for? Is to have a lucid dream. You got what you asked for? asked for more. Second order intentionality, those listening to some teachings from suddenly rotate this week, where again, a single instruction he gives for Dream Yoga, slash lucid dreaming is intention. And he was talking about I hadn't heard this languaging from him before. I really liked what he said how it is that intentionality is that which bridges conscious and unconscious mind I thought that was spot on. And so basically what you do here Patrick is is second order intentionality put some octane in it. Yes, yes. Tonight I want to wake up I want to have my lucid dreams number one order, you know, but another order in I want to wake up in my dream and I want to have a longer dream so that I can do X, Y and Z. Right. So as seemingly simple as it is patronizingly set the intention, ask for more. And then the other thing you can do is