SPL3. Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness and Quantum T eory
In Dreams Awake: An Overview of Lucid Dreaming from Science to Transcendence, Stephen LaBerge, PhD 2:00pm–2:35pm
LARKSPUR ROOM "Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience," writes Tarthang Tulku, "yet they are often over-
looked as a vehicle for exploring reality." Indeed, lucid dreaming (dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming) could be considered a magic carpet among such vehicles, and for more than a thousand years, the Tibetan Buddhists have used lucid dreams as a means of experiencing the illusory nature of personal identity and awakening to reality. Relatively recent scientifi c research has provided objective evidence for the reality of lucid dreams, and made the state much more accessible. T is workshop will provide a brief overview of the science and practice of lucid dreaming. Topics touched upon will include the following. Learning how to dream more lucidly: Inducing, stabilizing, and guiding lucid dreams. Dream control: freedom, fl exibility, and choice. Lucid dream work: from nightmares to wholeness. Dreaming, Illusion and Virtual Reality; Consciousness as a model of self and world. Dream yoga, Death and Transcendence; identity: personal and transpersonal. Life as a dream quest: Awakening in your Dreams and in your Life.
A Time for Caution? Immanence, Transcendence and Nonduality, Zoran Josipovic 2:40pm–3:15pm
LARKSPUR ROOM
T is talk will explore diff erent views on nonduality, paths to to it and their stages, and the ways we are becoming accustomed to talking about them. T is will provide a background to look at the ways we draw inferences from them about the nature of reality and the space-time continuum.
Experiential Sessions Friday Oct. 21 2:00PM–3:30PM
E. Sufi Whirling Workshop, Shaykha Ayshegul Ashki, Sufi Teacher, MA, HHP 2:00pm-3:00pm
SANTA ROSA ROOM
Sufi s whirl like everything else in this vast creation from atoms to the planets to the galaxies. In Sufi whirling the body represents the earth and the heart represents the sun, which is the epicenter of our being, the cental sun, lovesun, the heart. Sufi s practice whirling as a meditation in motion. Sufi discovers the timeless stillness within the movement in time. While whirling the sufi spontaneously comes to discover that while everything whirls, the central core of the whirling-Sufi remains still, beyond time, beyond any identity, beyond form, as the eternal witness of all things whirling and whirling. Over there the Sufi sees everything moving, but here in the central eye of it all, Sufi fi nds clear stillness—I AM Presence of Essence, T e Witness, T e Timeless-Awareness, the all-Transcendent Heart of it all. As the Sufi keeps whirling, even witnessing melts away, only whirling remains even without the one who is whirling. Pure Whirling and Ecstatic Bliss. Whirling Bliss. Come beloved friends let us learn the simple moves of the Whirling and aligning our earthbody with the
heartsun, let us joyously whirl away all the seeming veils, and joyously discover the Light of Unity in the Heart of it all, as Scientists, as Mystics, as Children, as THAT…
E. Video inquiry with A.H. Almaas on the subject of “Time” (22min), Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas), Founder of the Diamond Approach® 2:00pm–2:55pm
ROSS ROOM
An exclusive video talk and an invitation for an inquiry from Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) on the topic of “Time”. You will have the opportunity after the video to share the inquiry with the other audience members.
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