Insight and Mindfulness: Andrew Holecek and Dawson Church in Conversation

Andrew Holecek offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga, and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal. Holecek is a talented writer who has published books, Dreams of Light and Dream Yoga, and had articles appear in Psychology Today, Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. He also hosts the popular "Edge of Mind" podcast and is the founder of the Night Club Community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations.    Here he and Dawson discuss:

• Chongyam Trungpa: “Meditation isn’t a sedative, it’s a laxative”
• Andrew's background 
• The aspects of the unconscious mind
• Cognitive scientists tell us 95 percent of what we do is driven by unconscious patterns
• How to start making the unconscious processes conscious
• How can you attain something you already have?
• The problem with the concept of a Spiritual Path
• The Saint who said: “Enlightenment was my biggest disappointment”
• Underneath all the experience is openness
• Why we are a localization of consciousness
• Andrew's definition of meditation: habituation to openness
• The 5 nocturnal meditations
• Using your sleep for your psychospiritual development

  To learn more about Andrew's work: https://www.andrewholecek.com/   Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/   And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence:  https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/   #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #unconscious #spiritualpath #consciousness