Interviewing
Interviewing is the core IDL practice. It restores feedback by allowing dream,
body, emotional, and situational perspectives to speak directly—without
interpretation or symbolic reduction.
Trains: Trustworthiness • Reciprocity
Perspective-Shifting
Perspective-shifting develops the capacity to temporarily inhabit viewpoints
beyond waking identity, expanding empathy, flexibility, and systems awareness.
Trains: Empathy • Respect
Repair & Integration
Repair and integration translate insight into behavior. Interviewed
recommendations are tested, refined, or rejected in waking life to restore
functional trust between perspectives.
Trains: Trustworthiness • Reciprocity
Waking & Dreaming
IDL treats waking and dreaming as modes of experience rather than hierarchical
states. Both provide essential feedback for learning and adaptation.
Why “Waking” Instead of “Ego”
“Waking” describes a functional perspective without importing metaphysical,
moral, or developmental assumptions embedded in the concept of ego.
Dreaming as a Mode, Not Sleep Content
Dreaming is understood as a way perspectives communicate—not merely narratives
produced during sleep. Similar dynamics appear in reverie, emotion, and imagery.
The Interviewing Method
The IDL method replaces interpretation with dialogue, emphasizing accountability,
neutrality, and experiential verification.
Step-by-Step IDL Process
Each interview follows a repeatable sequence: identifying a perspective,
becoming it, eliciting experience, and testing recommendations in waking life.
Becoming Perspectives
Speaking *as* a perspective rather than *about* it allows implicit intelligence
to surface without symbolic translation.
Testing Recommendations in Waking Life
Insight is provisional. IDL requires behavioral testing to determine whether
recommendations genuinely increase adaptability and system health.
Accessing the Transpersonal
IDL allows engagement with archetypal, natural, and formless perspectives
without requiring metaphysical belief or trance induction.
Four Varieties of Transpersonal Experience
IDL distinguishes four common transpersonal modes: nature oneness, devotion,
formless awareness, and non-duality—each with different implications.
Sublimation Explained
Sublimation describes the redirection of disruptive energy into regenerative
learning rather than repression or discharge.
Precipitation vs Sublimation
Precipitation collapses complexity into symptoms. Sublimation preserves tension
long enough for new organization to emerge.
Edge of Chaos
Learning accelerates near the edge of chaos—where order and disorder coexist.
Dreams and IDL interviews naturally access this zone.
Why Dreams and IDL Open Regenerative Space
By suspending control while maintaining structure, IDL creates conditions for
repair, novelty, and system-wide renewal.