Episode 5: Reverse Meditation: A Conversation with Andrew Holecek

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Meditation, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Contemplation, Psychology, Buddhism, Development, Thomasmcconkie, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Holecek is an author, speaker, and humanitarian who offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. Andrew’s books include Dreams of Light, Dream Yoga, and Reverse Meditation. He hosts the popular Edge of Mind podcast and is the founder of the Night Club community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations

In this episode, Thomas and Andrew discuss lucid dreaming, dream yoga, pain, neuroscience, all in the context of what Andrew calls “reverse meditation.” What is reverse meditation? In a word, it is bringing unwanted experience directly to the path of meditation. Listen in for new insights and some guided practice.

Also, you can find Andrew’s new book from Sounds True here.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.
0:07.0	I'm your host Thomas Mekonki. Thanks so much for listening today.
0:11.0	We're fortunate today to have an extremely talented and seasoned practitioner with us,
0:18.0	Andrew Holichick. I'm going to turn the time over to him in a moment to tell us about his career and his most recent book.
0:27.3	But just to give you a little bit of his background, Andrew Holichick is an author, he's a speaker,
0:33.9	and humanitarian who offers seminars internationally on meditation,
0:38.0	lucid dreaming, and the art of dying.
0:40.8	He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga,
0:43.2	and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal.
0:47.8	Andrew's books include Dreams of Light, Dream Yoga, and Reverse Meditation,
0:52.4	which is the book we'll be exploring today.
0:55.2	His work has appeared in psychology today, Parabula, Lions Roar, Tricycle, Utney Reader.
1:00.8	Did I get that right? Utney Reader?
1:02.4	Yeah, I think that's it.
1:04.0	And Buddha Dharma, light of consciousness, and many other periodicals.
1:07.9	He hosts a popular Edge of Mind podcast and is the founder of the
1:11.0	nightclub community, a support platform for
1:13.3	nocturnal meditations. Well, lovely, Andrew,
1:17.4	I'm excited to talk to you today. Thanks for taking
1:19.8	time to be with us here. Absolutely, Thomas. It's a
1:22.9	delight. Look forward to it. Yeah. So, you know, I just
1:26.7	gave the listeners a bio, but maybe you could just, you know,
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