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A lucid dream begins at the moment you become aware that you are dreaming, and fully conscious of the experience even though your body is sound asleep. In lucid, as well as in semi-lucid dreams, the Holy Spirit may choose to speak personally with our soul. In her intimate autobiographical account, Maria Isabel Pita shares how she was led home to Christ through lucid dreaming as a spiritual practice.

Born into Catholicism in Havana, Cuba, Maria’s family fled into exile after the communist revolution, and she grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. As an adult, Maria came to lead a secular life, concentrating primarily on her growth as a writer. The author of several successful novels, the happily married Maria never expected God to personally enter her life. Then she began experiencing lucid dreams. At first, she called them "flying dreams" because flying felt fantastic, and she could think of no better way to make use of them. But as her skill and control as a lucid dreamer improved, a pure and overwhelming Love introduced itself into her life in the form of a mysteriously wonderful Man who began appearing regularly in her dreams, and who she came to think of as her "Guardian Lord."

This compelling account charts Maria's journey through the extraordinary experiences she recorded, and the insight and direction she drew from them as, dream by dream, her soul was guided along a path in keeping with Christian mystical tradition.

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"A short look into the devotional life of a Christian Mystic. Lucid Dreaming as a spiritual path and experience the progress thru a series of dreams. The audiobook is lively, informal yet poetic."

"I think lucid dreaming has everything to do with spirituality. I found Maria's dreams to be fascinating."

"This book was totally interesting. I'd never heard of Lucid Dreams or the life of a Christian Mystic. This has opened my eyes to how others devote themselves to our Lord and Savior."

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Maria Isabel Pita was born in Havana, Cuba. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was eight months old and she grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. Reading, writing and history have been her abiding passions ever since she can remember. In college she majored in World History, and minored in English Literature and Cultural Anthropology. She has traveled extensively, and authored a series of critically acclaimed romances. Maria's best-selling novel is the historical epic Truth is the Soul of the Sun-A Biographical Novel of Hatshepsut-Maatkare. Her most recent work is the non-fiction Lucid Dreams and the Holy Spirit. An experienced lucid dreamer, Maria is a member of the International Association For the Study of Dreams, and a regular contributor to the Lucid Dreaming Experience Magazine.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00V72X5SO
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 658 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 278 pages

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Maria Isabel Pita was born in Havana, Cuba. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was eight months old, and she grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. Reading, writing and history have been her abiding passions ever since she can remember. In college, she majored in World History, and minored in English Literature and Cultural Anthropology. Later in life, lucid dreams led her to fully embrace the Catholic faith in which she was raised. Once a popular erotic romance author, Maria now writes faith based fiction and nonfiction. She has presented at two International Association For the Study of Dreams conferences, and is a featured contributor to the Lucid Dreaming Experience Magazine.

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Linda Chase

Extremely well-written guide to personal spiritual enlightenment

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Like the author, I was raised a Catholic. I was the perpetually annoying questioner in Catechism class (Sunday School) who never got answers that satisfied my search for clarity.
Many years ago, I experienced what I now know as "lucid dreams", and as a lover of ancient history and a student of psychology, I thought it exciting to fly to points of interest in my sleep.
My life has changed much in the ensuing years, and I believe that my many new responsibilities have made me reticent to "let go" and feel free to travel this way as I had in the past.
After reading this book, I have a better understanding, through the author's experiences, of the spiritual importance of allowing myself to go on journeys that may open my mind and heart.
If you seek this clarity, you should read this book!

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luvyurnurse

Read the free sample and decided to buy this. ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2015

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Read the free sample and decided to buy this. I have had dreams and nightmares that are so real, I am affected by them all day. Many times I haven't slept for fear of them. When I started to read it, I immediately felt the connection. It is surreal at times. It makes me wonder if the stories may be embellished, but there are so many commonalities with myself, I have to read more. Haven't finished it yet. It certainly is intriguing. As a PS. my primary physician gave me a low dose blood pressure medicine to take before bed. Unbelievably effective. Wish I would have known about it so many years ago.

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Lee F.

Greater works than these will you do...

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019

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Maria, Maria, Maria,

WOW!!! Thank you so so so very much for sharing your relationship and your journey with me. This has changed my life forever.

My journey with lucid dreaming started with Steven Daberg years ago, but I didn’t go deep with it (I didn’t know there was more). Doing recent online search, I discovered Robert Waggoner, and watched several interviews: I couldn’t get enough. Everything that I heard from Robert shouted Holy Spirit. Especially when he mentioned the voice that would answer. He mentioned a school where part of the class was done in lucid dreams. I have only imagined and fantasized such a possibility! But you have to understand that at this point, I still have not received Robert Wagner’s book yet. At this point everything that he is saying to me is screaming Holy Spirit, kingdom of heaven, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. In my heart I’m saying I need to get back in the game because this is another opportunity to get closer to God. My online search resulted in more techniques and elixirs, and several other devices. One of those devices referenced you. I went to Amazon and found you and your book, I purchased it, listen and read it in one day. Amazed, impressed, blown away, are all understatements. It was as if I found a sister or confidant that had the same questions and suspicions that I had. It was as if I had an adventurous spiritual sister and now she was blazing a trail and I was got the benefit of her experience downloaded in me. Several examples occurred as i listened to the book, and knew what was going to happen before you described it or as you described it. I know that this is one of the ways that God speaks to me. Giving me the confirmation before the event happens that I may question. I am currently a 1st Year student at Bethel Atlanta School of Supernatural Ministry (BASSM). In this first year, we’re learning our identity in Christ. Basically, who does God say I am. And experiencing that intimacy first hand. (Most of the times in worship, I’m in tears of joy when this is revealed to me only the way that He can).

II really don’t have the words to describe the experience of the journey that this book takes you on. But if I had to try to describe this book it would be, Empowering, Faith building, Hope growing, Adventurous, Honestly intimate and life changing. I am so greatly thankful to you Maria for being so vulnerable and transparent. The personification of concepts and ideas was so clear and useful. That cleared up so much for me and opened me up to new possibilities with lucid dreaming. Thank you.

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One dream (September 2011) led her to a physical healing of her painful tendonitis in her right hand and thumb

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017

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Review of Maria Isabel Pita, Lucid Dreams And The Holy Spirit, Create Space, 2015.

“This is too much,” says a Chicago street vendor to the 22-year-old rebellious author, as he refuses to take the author’s money for ice cream. After he insists she keep it, she puts the $5 into her jacket pocket. Maria knew that was a dream, however, because in real life, she says, “no one gives you money.” Only a few minutes later, however, a kindly looking black man approached her, offering to buy her breakfast. After she declined, he responded, “Well if you won’t join me for breakfast, at least buy yourself something to eat.” He placed a bill in her pocket—the same pocket of the same jacket of her dream. The bill was for $5.

In her book, Maria Isabel Pita recounts a series of dreams she experienced, with her interpretations, as recorded in her dream journal in chronological order. They begin in 2009 and extend through 2014, the period of her journey to Christ from paganism and New Age. Maria believes her dreams are ways God communicates with her. She also believes Christ, in a dream (July 3, 2014), revealed he wants her to share her dreams of Him with others in this book.

Pita is an active member of the International Association For the Study of Dreams, and regularly contributes to Lucid Dreaming Experience Magazine. A lucid dream, she explains, occurs when we are aware that we’re dreaming; our mind is conscious, even though our body is asleep. Semi-lucid dreams mean: “I am in full possession of my faculties,” but without the ‘Aha, I’m dreaming.’” A footnote reminds readers that in the Bible, “dreams were a privileged way for God to communicate with people.” (Introduction).

In her first dream, for example, she saw a man she knew would eventually rise, lying in a stone vault beside her in a white sheet, three masks, and feels a strong wind blowing against her and numerous others fanned out behind her. She now knows the man in the shroud who will rise is Jesus, the three masks are the persons of Holy Trinity, and “the wind, which made me feel so intensely alive and hopeful,” is the Holy Spirit. One dream (September 2011) led her to a physical healing of her painful tendonitis in her right hand and thumb. “I appear to have reduced the inflammation in my wrist in lucid dreaming equivalents of cortisone shots,” she writes.

As the result of a dream of a comatose family friend (Cared For February 18, 2011), Pita says she learned “that dreams can transform you in dramatic, and seemingly magical ways. I learned that in dreams time and space are somehow transcended, and that it’s possible to communicate ‘telepathically’ with other people. I learned that it’s not a waste of time, that it’s actually very important, to pay attention to our dreams and believe in them.” In her dream of March 16, 2013 Pita describes her telepathic experience: “Like many dreamers, lucid and non-lucid alike, I have experienced so-called telepathic, pre-cognitive, and mutual or shared dreams in which information was received and/or exchanged that was later verified. I’m referring to information I was not privy to, and had not yet acquired, or even had the means of acquiring in waking reality. When I lucid-dream, I’m aware of my soul transcending my body-brain even while remaining connected to it.”

One question I had while reading: what about the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives is revealed through her dreams? Would Pita address how her dreams facilitate using the Spirit’s gifts or produce the fruit of the Spirit? In the author’s dream of January 10, 2014, she sees many bottles of fruit juices. Of these she says, “I can well understand now the meaning of all those bottles of assorted fruit juices—the fruits of the Spirit—as well as the final part of the dream where I succumbed to the temptation of being massaged by a handsome young stranger.” She then quotes from an online article on the fruit of the Spirit. Citing Galatians 5:22-23 and other Scriptures, the article concludes, “It is the Holy Spirit’s job to conform us to the image of Christ, making us more like Him. Our sinful flesh produces certain types of fruit that reflect our nature, and the Holy Spirit produces types of fruit that reflect His nature…the new nature given by Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).” She concludes, “I feel my longing to come home to Christianity was expressed in this dream.”

The author clearly outlines steps she took toward Christian commitment, and how Christ changed her life. Some of her dream experiences, such as lucid dreaming, telepathic communication, and dreamsharing, are beyond my experience. Although she sees herself aligned with Christian mystics, she doesn’t deal with concerns other Christians may have to these phenomena. Also, some readers may be turned off by some sexual content. Before her journey to Christ the author wrote erotic novels.

Pita shares her dreams because, in her dream of July 3, 2014, Christ told her to. The format in which she shares them, however, presents difficulties for the reader. The book’s length (276 pages), and content was tedious and overwhelming for me to read. It is filled with her dreams, experiences, and interpretations, her journey from paganism to Christ, and her deepened learning about the Holy Spirit. In other words, although unintentional, is the overall impact of her book too self-centered?

Pita could have crafted a book with her reader in mind. As a writer, the first questions to ask yourself are “Who is my reader?” and “How will what I write help my reader?” If her audience is people without experience in lucid dreaming, she would have done better to use selected dreams as illustrations, but to provide introductory chapters on dreaming: the biblical basis, theories why we dream, principles of dream interpretation, answers to objections about trusting dreams, and telepathic communication in dreams, in order to bring the novice along. Another approach would be to use selected dreams to illustrate her journey to Christ.

Pita’s book will interest readers who experience vivid dreams and are looking for a deeper understanding. The drawbacks, however, in its length, content, and organization will limit its appeal.

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