Five-Day Training: Exploring Exceptional Experiences, July 12-17, 2024
Exceptional Experience encompasses the great variety of non-ordinary experiences ranging from the mystical to the pathological. Interest in them has greatly accelerated since Albert Hofmann’s discovery of the psychotropic effects of LSD-25 eighty years ago. We explore Dreamshadow’s theoretical and practical ways of regarding such experiences. Topics covered include shamanism and modern religion, material vs. spiritual explanation, madness vs. ecstasy, and the nature of consciousness.
Format and Cost: This five-day training workshop in Pawlet, Vermont, will begin with dinner Friday evening, July 12, and conclude with lunch on Wednesday, July 17. It will consist of 4 afternoon breathwork sessions, supplemented with group sharing and processing. Morning discussions will include teaching presentations and discussions. The cost, including food and lodging for five days, is $895.
It’s important to be present for the full duration of the workshop because of the preparation, closure and integration required to support the breathwork experience.
Workshop Facilitators: This workshop will be led by Lenny and Elizabeth Gibson. Information about us is available at this page.
Schedule, Notes and Handouts for July 2024 Exceptional Experience Training Workshop
- Training Workshop Schedule July 2024
- This Exceptional Experience Overview is the first of two essays that are part of the material for our upcoming training workshop.
- The second essay, Plato’s Method, extends this first one. The impetus for both essays has been a desire to address issues from the rapidly developing interest in the ‘Psychedelic Revolution.’
- The syllabus for this training workshop is available here: Exceptional Experience Syllabus .
- Practical Matters for Breathwork summarizes the basic information about how to do breathwork, which should be reviewed at the start of every workshop.