Guru Viking Podcast

Ep178: Buddhist Meditation, Hypnosis, & Dzogchen - Dr Ian Wickramasekera & Julia Shannon

Dec 2, 2022

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Do You Know Meditation Is Pure Hypnosis?

03:22

Hypnotism and the Human Aspect of Hypnosis

02:42

The Research Tradition of Hypnosis

02:05

Introduction

2min

The Research Tradition of Hypnosis

2min

Hypnosis and Talk-Chan - A New Neurophenomenological Paradigm

5min

Hypnosis and Zoop-Chan Are a Real Crisis in Science

4min

Is There Something Inherently Causes One to Suffer?

4min

The Philosophy of Zuchen - Let It Be as It Is

4min

The Interaction Between Hypnosis and Zhu-Chin and Hypnotherapy

4min

Kundalini Yoga - It's Not the Parasympathetic Nervous System That's Making It Bad

4min

Is There a Philosophy That Can Be Beautiful?

4min

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How to Change the Mind Using the Body

4min

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Hypnotic Hallucinations and Togol's Embedded Tradition of Hypnosis

3min

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Hypnosis

5min

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Do You Know What Makes for a Good Student in Zochin?

4min

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I've Been Studying Vajrayana Buddhism and Science of Healing With Dr. Nina Chenek-San and Dr. Carolyn Van Dam

4min

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Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis

5min

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Do You Know Meditation Is Pure Hypnosis?

3min

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Is There an Overlap in Hypnosis?

4min

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EEG Biofeedback and Hypnosis

5min

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Is There a Way to Help Dharma Practitioners?

5min

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Then I Was Like Oh Yeah She's Getting It How Wonderful You Know

3min

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'Sad Meditation' Practices

4min

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Is There a Place for Austerity in Practice?

3min

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Is This Real or Is It Unreal? That's the One Thing I Love About Tenzin Wang

3min

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I Think Hypnosis and Buddhist Counseling Might Be Able to Work in Tandem

4min

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Is There a Hypnotic Equivalent of Togol?

5min

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I Think Hypnosis Is a Way to Bring About a More Fluid and Open Sense of Self

3min

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Hypnosis and Hypnotic Hypnotism

3min

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Hypnosis

5min

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How Do You Teach Post-Hypnotic Suggestion?

4min

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Is There Any Stability and Personality at All?

2min

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Dopamine and Homeostasis Intervention

3min

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Hypnosis Experience

4min

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Is There a Way to Break Through the Illusion of Choice?

3min

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Hypnosis Is Relevant in Providing a Shortcut or Something Faster Right

5min

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I Think It's Back in Me as a Biracial Practitioner of Psychotherapy

3min

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The Importance of Integrating Dualistic Racial Identity in Psychotherapy

4min

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Is There a Need to Be More Explicit About My Identity?

2min

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Is Hypnosis a Path to Non-Dualism?

4min

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How Does Multi-Racial Hypnosis Work?

4min

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The Role-Taking Theory of the Thesis

5min

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Hallucinated Intensity and Its Effects on Hypnosis

4min

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Hypnotism and the Human Aspect of Hypnosis

3min

In this episode I host a dialogue between Dr Ian Wickramasekera, Bön Buddhist practitioner and professor at Naropa University, and Julia Shannon, trainee clinical psychotherapist and researcher. In the first part of this interview, Dr Ian discusses his current thinking on what the traditions of Dzogchen and Western hypnosis can learn from each other, challenges Herbert Benson’s relaxation response theory of meditation, and questions dualistic frameworks in science and experimental psychology. Then, Dr Ian and Julia dialogue about the prevalence of mental illness and regressive coping in Buddhist meditators, the personality types of religious mystics, and Julia’s own experience using hypnosis to cure her phone addiction Dr Ian and Julia also consider the implications of teaching advanced Buddhist meditation methods in a clinical setting, including ethical issues and concerns about violating sacred vows, and they discuss their experiences of personal identity and professional life as biracial adults in America. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep178-buddhist-meditation-hypnosis-dzogchen-dr-ian-wickramasekera-julia-shannon  Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’. … 01:26 - Dzogchen and hypnosis 05:37 - Going beyond dualism in science 06:19 - Crisis in clinical psychology 09:37 - Suffering & serotonin 20:01 - Dzogchen philosophy in clinical hypnosis 22:14 - Invalidating Herbert Benson’s relaxation response theory of meditation 29:08 - What really brings cessation of suffering 30:14 - Aestheticism is needed in science 32:05 - Specific Dzogchen practices and hypnotic hallucinations 36:31 - A daily practice of hypnosis 40:01 - What science can offer Dzogchen 46:45 - Julia’s background 49:05 - Overcoming phone addiction via hypnosis 52:08 - Hypnotic trance vs meditative states 53:46 - Stigmata of hypnosis and meditation 57:56 - High hypnotisable people and the prevalence to mystical experience 01:01:10 - Ronald J. Pekal’s Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) 01:03:15 - Myth of meditation brain states such as alpha 01:07:23 - Bringing Buddhist practice into clinical practice 01:08:53 - Mental illness in religious practitioners 01:10:44 - Repressive coping in tummo meditators 01:23:02 - Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and finding one’s innate experience 01:25:06 - Presenting completion stage practices in a secular context 01:29:20 - Trekchod and togyal vs post-hypnotic suggestion 01:31:23 - Which Buddhist practices Dr Ian gives to his patients 01:33:32 - Experimental vs clinical psychology 01:34:41 - Does teaching Buddhist practice to non-Buddhists break Samaya? 01:38:03 - Hypnotising Dzogchen practitioners 01:39:49 - Counselling dissatisfied Buddhists 01:41:33 - Nervousness about teaching Dzogchen and Vajrayana 01:43:02 - The importance of devotion 01:45:08 - Training clinicians and counsellors 01:50:38 - Dr Ian asks Julia about her experience being hypnotised 01:54:14 - Catharsis, clinging, and the battle of addiction 01:56:19 - Executive ego and skepticism 01:57:19 - Pointing out instructions and polypsychic therapy 02:01:32 - Rapid behaviour change and eschatological pressure 02:03:15 - Race, empathy, and therapeutic efficacy 02:10:33 - Integrating dualistic racial identities 02:12:08 - Identity dimensions of the therapist 02:16:22 - Chogyam Trungpa and reconciling racial identity 02:24:23 - Role-taking theory and hallucinated intensity 02:29:26 - Myths of hypnosis and the role of expectancy … Previous episodes with Dr Ian Wickramasekera: - https://www.guruviking.com/search?q=wickramasekera To find our more about Dr Ian Wickramasekera, visit: - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian_Wickramasekera2 - https://www.naropa.edu/faculty/ian-wickramasekera.php For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James

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