Mangalam Research Center
2018 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA
Saturday, March 7
10:00 – 4:00
Program webpage.
Free, registration requested.
This workshop explores how imaginal capacities of mind are mobilized via specific Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practices across the thresholds of sleeping, dreaming, and waking. We will learn conceptual and practical know-how associated with Tibetan Buddhist practices of dream yoga and corollary daytime practices of illusory forms. To understand the liminal traversal of lucid dreaming and waking, an emphasis will be on continuities of psychological flexibility, imaginal simulation, and somatic awareness along with paradigms of imaginal world-making. The workshop will present excerpts of Tibetan dream yoga manuals in conversation with insights from the contemplative sciences. We will conclude with a discussion on current dream yoga research, parallels with immersive technologies, and possible contemplative futures.
