Joseph Dillard How an Integral Approach to Awakening Is Supported by Integral Deep Listening Did you know that you can become stable in the non-dual and still have nightmares and persecutors in your dreams? You can check this out for yourself by asking your favorite living master to tell you a cross-section of their typical night’s dreams. … Read more
The big brains, curiosity, and extraordinarily social behavior of dolphins make them ideal subjects for the projection of human hopes and aspirations. While it may be impossible to eliminate the human tendency to anthropomorphize completely, our fascination with dolphins has led to claims that they are more evolved than humans or that they even have … Read more
Integral Deep Listening has four spiritual disciplines or sadhanas associated with the dream state and one associated with the deep sleep state. The first is interviewing self-aspects in your dreams while you are dreaming. This practice is cultivated by making a habit of regular waking interviewing and by setting this intent while drifting off to … Read more
It is recommended that students of IDL dream yoga hold regular groups. We call them “Integral Salons.” The function of these groups is to support people and network. We charge for these groups as a way to cause people to value and contribute, however you may choose to offer groups for free. The role of … Read more
Dreaming can be viewed from an immense variety of perspectives. Some of these look at how dreams address physical health concerns, stress management, or problem solving. Other perspectives focus on the nature of intersubjective communication: is dreaming metaphorical, symbolic, personal, or archetypal? The approach may focus on individual psychodynamics, developmental processes, group dynamics, psychic phenomena, … Read more
Integral Deep Listening, a form of Dream Yoga first developed by Joseph Dillard in 1980, accesses the source of not only your dreams but of the waking dream of your scripted life. It asks, “If there exist parts of yourself that are already enlightened and can tell you how to become so, shouldn’t you listen … Read more
For many, the term “dream yoga,” conjures up a spiritual discipline of Indian origin for the purpose of becoming lucid during dreams and sleep. Lucid dreaming has traditionally been done for two purposes, to understand and recognize the illusoriness of all experience so as to wake up out of it, and to gain yogic control, … Read more
Integral deep listening teaches that there are six core qualities. These are confidence, compassion, wisdom, acceptance, inner peace, and witnessing. This number comes from observation of the cycle of every breath: abdominal inhalation, chest inhalation, pause, chest exhalation, abdominal exhalation, pause. Each of these phases of breathing can be associated with a life process. In … Read more
]The six core qualities are ways of describing levels of awareness that transcend yet include the life of any one individual. Because such awareness is not born into a human life span, it does not die to it. It is a component of awareness that transcends the life and death cycle of individuals. Because such … Read more
Awakening Buddha means “the enlightened or the awakened one.” As such, “Buddha” stands for your awakened, enlightened life in the world. All yogas are disciplines whose purpose is such enlightenment, regardless of their religious background or spiritual preferences. Dream yogas view life as a dream; to become lucid within that dream is to wake up … Read more