Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers talks, online courses, and workshops. As a long-time student of Buddhism, he presents this tradition from a contemporary perspective - blending the ancient wisdom of the East with modern knowledge from the West. Drawing on years of intensive study and practice, he teaches on the opportunities that exist in obstacles, helping people with hardship and pain, death and dying, and problems in meditation.
He is the author of several books, including “The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy,” “Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom From the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition,” "Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep", "Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming","The Lucid Dreaming Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Dream Life" and “Meditation in the IGeneration: How to Meditate in a World of Speed and Stress.”.
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I have suffered from sleep awareness and lucid dreams my entire life. I can’t believe anyone would want to learn to do it. be careful because it doesnt go away and you’ll never feel well rested again
Where is the video from the next day?
This is why i don't like Buddhism as a religion.You just end up talking in circles for hours Without really saying anything and shallow people think it's deep
Hi... I'm from India.... Where I can learn this 6 yogas of Naropa.... Plz guide....
Dreaming about Wilbur shavel and a cement in it
❤ i did meditation n i had twice lucid dream
I love your book “ The Dream Yoga” is my favourite guide and encouragement to nurture my wealthy world of dreams , I almost see the waking state, physical reality is a continuum of a dream 😊💜
Would like to see your new content here. Please take care 😊💜
You are so right on the Dream Yoga! Recently I have had a dream when my past traumas from schools days were TRANSFORMED in one dream!!!! I am not sure how I did it but I recollect I was meditating on Jesus words from the Bible 💜😊
Much 💜Andrew, I’m so glad I’ve found you 😊🙏
I saw this video years ago and I had it open in a tab for a few days because I wanted to watch it again. In the meantime, I had a lucid dream in which in front of a door, I was unable to go through it (passing through it when it was closed) and for the first time I "felt" the surface of an object with the touch of my hands. It was shocking to hear about this very thing now that I've rewatched the video!
In those 8 hours days and weeks can go by, to say to add 30 years is an understatement lol
Thats true...I always thought they have it all backwards...the waking dream is the most asleep= true. Nice talk ❤Thx❤
Hi, you had previously talked about liminal meditation or hypnagogic meditation however when this is normally mentioned, its normally mentioned under the context of mindfulness meditation but i was wondering how hypnagogia would interact with vipassana consider vipassana activates different regions of the brain as opposed to mindfulness and vipassana is related to immediately verbalising the sensation youre experiencing eg. "Thinking, thinking, thinking" "seeing seeing seeing" etc. And maintaining this level of focus which i feel would be interesting because one of the uses of the hypnagogic state is to view the projections of your subconscious mind and vipassana allows you to notice it in greater detail and also the paralel simulatenous process of vipassana alongside the hypnagogic visualisation may enhance the encoding of the visualisations into memory and increase its intensity also hypnagogia is the precursor to lucid dreaming occasionally or atleast its connected and vipassana is similar to that technique where you tell yourself "i'm in a dream" but this time youre not focusing on the birds eye view aspect of being someone who is merely in a dream but instead the internal aspect of the hypnagogic sensations themselves however to compensate for the lack of anchor that keeps you from drifting to regular sleep in the first technique, the second technique is performed under hypnagogia which is a state in between wakefulness and sleep so this might be a sibling process albeit different to the lucid dreaming process with cocomitantly brain region activation in the same manner. Altho with this, youre focusing on your senses and einstein did say that integration of senses is a crucial part of intelligence. Im going on a bit of a waffle now xd.
This guy is very articlate, enthusiastic and wise. I discovered him in the Kastrup interview. He hasnt a big following mind. This is the state we are in
Gaaaahhhhhh! This video found me at the EXACT right time! I've had insomnia for a very long time. I just now have started getting back into actually sleeping. The medication that I'm taking extends the hypnagogic state. This is the first time in over 9 years that I have experienced all that is in that phase. Instead of this being a light trip into slumber, it turned into a journey. I used to experience this state every single night. It was part of my practice, part of my lucid dreaming, and part of who I was. After all of this time I've become so unfamiliar with it and it makes me realize that it's not just the practice that I have become unfamiliar with. Wow wow wow. I just now started reconnecting with myself over the past 3 years. My spiritual journey is back on course... It's humbling to know that there is still work to be done. Thank you Thank you Thank you. This is very eye-opening.
Is it just me or did your voice change? Is sounds deeper...
Read The WILD Way To Lucid Dreaming by Slider.
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I have been trying a number of techniques available on KZread to have lucid dreams; but none of them worked for me. I usually have bad dreams like being chased by animals etc. I never tried this technique. Let me try it from tonight till the next seven days. I'll come back again with a comment.
Dream yoga advanced techniques work instantly if you are a mediator
Thank you so much. Not sure what a mediator mean but I don't think I am one. I would be grateful if you could recommend any particular video.
16.30 Does consciousness really ever turn off? Doesn’t make sense to me….
Wow! Andrew teaches so clearly...would love to hear the rest of the weekend. Can these videos be found somewhere on youtube? thank you
I learned about the goal of attaining awareness in the three states and am very excited to begin to utilize dreams as a skillfull means to see deeper levels of reality and expand my awareness. Thank you for this amazing information! Much respect and reverance for Tibetan wisdom.
Wow you believe in cnn and msnbc? I’m glad I didn’t sign up for your upcoming dream yoga retreat. Although I did enjoy your book dream yoga a lot and am starting to read dream of light. I think I can overcome the political differences because so far most of your spiritual teachings resonate well with me. Still thanks for the spiritual messages
Book is ordered. I've tried lucid dreaming techniques about ten years ago, it worked one or two times and then I lost interest after a mere month, and also used substances at the time that didn't really got me into a decent REM. I now am sleeping sober each night and getting back into lucid dreaming, Andrew Holecek you are an inspiration.
Who is the boy with the "joy" in the name?
He is an Oneironauta
Transparent thought , best thought
I love when people are better than me in a certain spiritual domain or field - if they can back it up. Who else can I learn from if not someone “better” than me?
I definitely suffer from this, through and through. And although this may sound like my ego using twisted logic, I really do wonder if being better than other people is a bad thing exactly. Meaning, isn’t that what we all want and learn from? Someone better than us? Do we not go to the mechanic because they are “better” than us at cars? When finding a guru or teacher do we not want someone again, better? Now thinking that I am better than you could be? That’s dangerous. But acknowledging someone is further on the path… why is that bad exactly. I think my point needs more nuance than a KZread comment section can provide, but I hope I am getting close to explaining it. I love my ego, obviously. But that inflated sense of self also comes with the necessary confidence to go out into the world and make a change. I wonder how close humbleness and low self esteem are related - do either even do anybody any good.
If we are more asleep here in waking reality, which I understand and agree with, then stepping down consciousness [to dreaming levels] is a misnomer - we are stepping “up” our consciousness. And I think that semantics game matters here; matters a lot actually.
Good dreams are heaven, bad dreams are hell, no dreams are purgatory. We die when we sleep and that’s literal - not faith based woo woo. A judgmental world with no time, no pain, and no physics. The universal and cross religious consensus for mechanics of the afterlife - overarching each religious tradition
This is so great! 0:00 intro 8:17 is where the resolutions are stated to facilitate lucid dreams
I would be super interested see what books you have in your library.
I’m really happy to have discovered your work. Such interesting topics and well presented. Thanks 😃👍
Dear Andrew, Thank you so much for your Dream Yoga book. I have a question regarding a recurring experience that I have. I have experimented off and on for many years the idea of leaving the body. I sometimes visualize and try to feel my self rolling like a log as to role out of the body. Which was something I learned about from Robert Monroes tapes 25 some odd years ago. It seams that when the experience comes, I’m not rolling out of the physical body but its as if I’m dreaming then from that dream body I set my self to the task of lying down and rolling out of that body then from there I feel my self leave this dream body and with Varying lucidity I continue with the experience.. I would greatly appreciate any advice or words of wisdom regarding this. Thank you, Mark
One proper dose of ketamine will get you there in minutes.
Great video - and dukkha is the deep and correct sense that something is very wrong. We assign the ideas that we ourselves (all of our selves) and the conditions for them are somehow wrong or not worthy somehow. The mistake of course is that mind tricks us into thinking that one or all of these selves actually exist.
Hey! I have heard your name while researching about lucid dreaming, but this is the first time I actually watch one of your videos. What a beautiful character you seem to have! Beautiful light, thanks for your work!
The Greek god family tree was mixed up but the jist is similar. Nxy and Erebus (night and darkness) had twins Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and peaceful death) . Hypnos and Pasithea (relaxation) have the oneiroi (dreams) Morpheus, Phobetor and Phantasos. They're personifications of different kinds of dreams.
I spent 10 years preparing to turn my dreams into an art machine, awake, in this world. my diamond dogs are waiting for my glorious arrival. all you freaking people are on notice. get gud. the internet is on your doorstep. i am a blighthouse. if you can't conjure your dreams as multimedia, you're merely messin around, like xbox
Thanks Andrew!
It was an extreme pleasure listening to your presentation! You are very knowledgeable and it shows, and your enthusiasm brought it to life! Thank you very much!!
I discovered your videos today and I am hooked! It's a pleasure listening to you! I can't wait to suck in more information from your channel. I also adore your goofiness 🙃 Much love and gratitude from Germany.
Onm xx
So it's kind of like toddlers are more correct when they don't have object permanence.
Gracias miles!
So you didn't actually explain how dream yoga is different from lucid dreaming. Seems to me it's the same thing, just called a different name by different people.
🙏😀👌 thanks 🙏👌😁
What’s the book 📕 you mentioned at 15:13 please?
Excellent 👌