Before sleeping, the Magician defines and opens the circle, attunes to the principle patterns and meditates briefly. The chosen 'subject' is visualised very clearly, and also may be symbolised by an actual object or image placed close to where the Magician is to sleep. Traditionally, images such as Tarot trumps are often used for this type of work, due to their convenient size and universal symbolic alphabet. The Magician makes a simple avowal to seek further insights on the defined subject during sleep.If a known innerworld contact is required, the Magician defines this contact through name or image or key symbol. In some schools of magic, this method is known as tapping into the Universal Mind ... a concept similar to that of popular Psychology in which the unconscious is said to have answers to all the questions. Although the result may be superficially similar, there is a great deal of difference between education through innerworld contact and unconsciousness providing processes of deduction that are not part of regular mentation.
The Universal Mind is, or should be, defined as a quite different level of perception ... stellar, transhuman and archangelic ... in which the knower and the known subjects merge together. This mode of awareness is one of the highest potentials which human beings have, and transcends all magical work, though it may filter through magical images and methods as our consciousness returns to its exterior direction and habitual rate.
Once the dream contact method has been established, the Magician pauses each morning on awakening to write out whatever can be remembered of dreams on the required subject. If no dreams can be remembered, the subject should be written about in any case, as it is likely a surprising amount of new material can emerge even if no dream can be recalled.
