Waking Up
Waking up
If there were to exist within you, right now, parts of yourself that are enlightened and knew the shortest way for you to become enlightened, wouldn’t it be worth your time to learn to listen to what they have to tell you and to follow their recommendations?
Integral Deep Listening is a form of Dream Yoga. It assumes that an increasingly awake waking identity in all states is our priority, because our waking sense of self is the executive consciousness that perceives dreams while asleep and makes decisions about when and if to interact in them. If your waking sense of self- the self that is reading these words at this moment – is living in a state of delusion, then when it wakes up in dreams it will experience, interpret, and interact with the dream in the context of that delusion. It will simply export its waking dream into and onto night time dreams, but from a lucid state. Your waking identity will have no choice but to colonize dreaming with its own consciousness when it is not yet awake. It will inevitably merely impose its waking dream on dream events and characters, thereby misperceiving and missing the wake up calls that dream characters and events intrinsically present. Therefore, the considered preference of Integral Deep Listening is to focus on lucid living regardless of the state of consciousness we are in at the moment.
IDL uses several tools to accomplish this. The first is interviewing personifications from our sleeping and dreaming states, dream characters, dream consciousness, the formless source of dreaming, which is aligned with the deep sleep state, the personifications of waking life issues, and our mental representations of those with whom we have waking conflicts. IDL emphasizes listening to dream characters rather than changing them or interpreting them, whether during dreams or afterward, when working with dream narratives, interviewing dream characters, and later becoming them at recommended times during waking life and while dreaming or deeply asleep.
The second tool is meditation, which is designed to rest the mind in its natural state. IDL does this through identification with self-aspects that already are awake, as well as through the use of breath as a centering aid.
The third tool is to learn to awaken out of the dream of the drama triangle, whether awake or dreaming.
When high-scoring self-aspects are interviewed we find that they are less interested in lucid dreaming than they are in having waking identity listening to them so that it will wake up. They generally appreciate being interviewed, because they are more interested in being heard than in being told what their truth is or should be. They are interested in meditation because it is food, nourishment for them. They are interested in waking up out of the drama triangle because it is the antithesis of core qualities that manifest spirit through them.
You can learn about IDL at IntegralDeepListening.Com. What you’ll find here are examples of using IDL to help wake up and a blog so that you can contribute your own examples of using the Integral Deep Listening Interviewing Instructions to help you wake up. You will also find articles on various aspects of waking up, approached from an IDL perspective.