This is a chapter from the book, Dream Yogas, by Joseph Dillard. It asks, “What does Ken Wilber’s Integral AQAL say about dream yoga? How does it compare and contrast with the Integral Deep Listening, in particular, one form of dream yoga?
The following is a chapter from the book Dream Yogas. It compares one type of dream yoga, Integral Deep Listening, with several traditional approaches, including shamanism, Chinese traditions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and several other contemporary paths to awakening, including lucid dreaming, Ken Wilber’s Integral AQAL, and various psychotherapeutic approaches.
An introduction to Buddhism in the context of Integral Deep Listening Dream Yoga, Chapter 4 of the book, “Dream Yogas.”
The contributions of Chinese shamanism, Taoism, and Confucianism to dream yoga, a chapter from the book, “Dream Yogas.”
Dream Yogas typically possess many attributes that can be traced back to Hindu yogic foundations. This is the second chapter of Dream Yoga, a text that addresses shamanism, Hinduism, Chinese practices, Theravadin and Tibetan Buddhism, lucid dreaming, Wilber’s integral AQAL, Freud, Jung, and Perls, in comparison to one particular form of dream yoga, Integral Deep Listening, and dream yoga in general.
The “Shadow” is Jung’s term for all the repressed parts of yourself that you need to re-own to become an integrated Self. This concept becomes less important and helpful the higher you climb on your developmental ladder.
“Voice Dialogue” is a self-aspect interviewing process developed by Hal and Sidra Stone in the 1980’s and ’90’s. It received wide renown in integral circles through Wilber’s praise of Dennis Genpo Roshi’s “Big Mind” adaptation of the process in the late 1990’s.
Integral Deep Listening is one specific approach to dreamwork and, more broadly, personal transformation. I created it in 1980 and it has been in a constant process of development and refinement since then.
To describe an interviewed character like Godzilla as a “self-aspect” is to reduce its transformational power; to describe it as “real” is to inflate its nature beyond attainment. Both throw one into the Drama Triangle. So what is the alternative?
The basic concepts of Integral Deep Listening are summarized in a statement of intent
