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Guru Viking PodcastEp178: Buddhist Meditation, Hypnosis, & Dzogchen - Dr Ian Wickramasekera & Julia ShannonIn 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 e...
2022-12-022h 34
Psychology Talk PodcastEncore Episode: The Mysteries of Hypnosis, Meditation & the Self with Ian Wickeramaselera Psy.D.Dr. Ian Wickramasekera, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Dr. Ian has been involved in research and exploration of Neuroscience, Biofeedback, Bon-Buddhism, Empathy, Hypnosis, Lucid Dreaming, Mind/Body Medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology for most of this present lifetime. He is Science Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Ian joins us in this encore episode to enter into a deep dive into the world of hypnosis, meditation, exalted states of being, the creativity of being human and how to enhance it through hypnosis and mediation, and Tibetan Bon...
2022-11-181h 17
The Truth to Power ShowTranspersonal TruthDr. Ian Wickramasekera discusses the transpersonal with Vijay R. Nathan and Scottt Raven
2022-08-3159 min
Psychology Talk PodcastThe Mysteries of Hypnosis, Meditation & the Self with Ian Wickeramaselera Psy.D.Dr. Ian Wickramasekera, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Dr. Ian has been involved in research and exploration of Neuroscience, Biofeedback, Bon-Buddhism, Empathy, Hypnosis, Lucid Dreaming, Mind/Body Medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology for most of this present lifetime. He is Science Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Ian joins us to enter into a deep dive into the world of hypnosis, meditation, exalted states of being, the creativity of being human and how to enhance it through hypnosis and mediation, and Tibetan Bon and Buddhist meditation and...
2022-06-211h 17
Guru Viking PodcastEp89: Dzogchen, Hypnosis, & Psychopaths - Dr Ian Wickramasekera & Petra TauchnerIn this episode I host a dialogue between Dr Ian Wickramasekera, Bön Buddhist practitioner and associate professor of Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counselling at Naropa University, and Petra Tauchner, a student at the University of Vienna with a degree in microbiology and genetics, whose current batchelor’s thesis in psychology is based on Dr Ian’s ‘Empathic Involvement Theory’ of hypnosis.
In the first part of this interview, Dr Ian gives an overview of the history of the mysteries and theories of hypnosis, lays out his own journey to formulating EIT, and discusses its implications for therapy and enlightenment.
Then, Dr Ian an...
2021-04-022h 32
Guru Viking PodcastEp79: Agony Into Bliss, Facing Covid With Dzogchen - Dr Ian WickramasekeraIn this episode I am once again joined by Dr. Ian Wickramasekera as he recounts his dramatic nervous system collapse and near-death experience as a consequence of COVID-19.
Dr Wickramasekera is a Bön Buddhist practitioner and associate professor of Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counselling at Naropa University.
On the 19th of March Ian woke up with a headache, dizziness, and fatigue - he had contracted COVID-19. While symptoms initially receded, and it seemed like this might be a light case, events soon took a devastating turn for the worse.
What followed brought Ian to the very brink of death and f...
2021-01-291h 54
Guru Viking PodcastEp74: Dr Ian Wickramasekera - Gurus, Hypnosis, & Toxic DevotionIn this episode I am once again joined by Dr. Ian Wickramasekera, Bön Buddhist practitioner and associate professor of Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counselling at Naropa University.
We learn how a mirror divination from a mysterious Lama, and a powerful lucid dream, saw Ian travel to Sikkim in search of the monastery of his previous incarnation.
Ian discusses the similarities between the Western tradition of hypnosis and the system of Dzogchen, and why he considers hypnosis to be the best means to approach and apprehend Buddhist thought.
Ian reveals why gurus are so often surrounded by high-hypnotisable people, to what e...
2020-12-262h 00
Guru Viking PodcastEp67: Dr Ian Wickramasekera - Tummo, Hypnosis, & Realising RigpaIn this episode I am once again joined by Dr. Ian Wickramasekera, Bön Buddhist practitioner and associate professor of Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University.
We learn how a divination from a Tibetan master radically changed the direction of Ian’s life, and how he encountered the man who would later become his teacher, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
Ian recounts how, on an intense tummo meditation retreat, he attained to the Dzogchen spiritual realisation known as rigpa, and its profound consequences in his life.
Ian also discusses how he uses energy practices such as tsa lung and Tibetan yoga in...
2020-11-071h 56
Guru Viking PodcastEp61: Dr. Ian Wickramasekera - Devolving The SelfIn this episode I am joined by Dr. Ian Wickramasekera, Bön Buddhist practitioner and associate professor of Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University.
We discuss how a violent, childhood near-death experience propelled Ian onto the path of meditative exploration, and how psychedelics played a part in unraveling deep seated racial conditioning.
We learn how early encounters with Glenn Mullin and Robin Kornman profoundly shaped Ian’s contemplative and academic trajectories.
Ian recounts his first meditation retreats with the Shambala organisation, his opinion of the Sakyong, and why he left that lineage.
Ian also explores dualistic and non dualistic epi...
2020-09-262h 17
Mindful U at Naropa University60. Ian Wickramasekera - Hypnosis: Change Your Mind, Change RealityI really enjoy this field so much because it gives you a very practical way of investigating the spiritual mysteries of the world. so that we can gain inspiration to look deeper into ourselves. But also, it is a very practical way of helping people with very difficult problems—people with very powerful kinds of pain and those that feel like they're locked in a body that's going to hurt for the rest of their life, and nothing can be done about it. And then I say, ‘You don't live in reality.’ If it feels like you do and that y...
2019-02-1147 min