So, from my one session with you and meditation I've come on leaps and bounds. My vision is getting stronger
each day and I can't tell you grateful I am to have one. Finally! And, all thanks to you. Thank you for waking me up. A.S., LONDON
Margot Wilson MPhil, MA
I am an astrologer, philosopher, sensitive, and independent researcher in dreaming and hypnagogic visualization. I have been a practitioner of astrology and intuitive coach for over 30 years and an East/West Philosopher for over 20 years.
I have Bachelor's and Research Master's degrees in Philosophy from the Universities of London and Glasgow, and a Masters in Creative Writing (distinction) from Sheffield University.
I have Bachelor's and Research Master's degrees in Philosophy from the Universities of London and Glasgow, and a Masters in Creative Writing (distinction) from Sheffield University.
Immersing your brain and nervous system in the world you want.'
The foundation of all my work is astrology based upon the concept that patterns of every kind provide a basis for analysis and generic prediction of cycle based behaviors. I am at heart a humanist astrologer, which means I'm not a fatalist or determinist and that I believe that while we are commensurately conditioned by our heredity and environmental backgrounds, we also have the ability envisage and immerse ourselves in virtual and imagined alternative worlds that effect our real worlds. We do so nightly in the form and function of dreams and can also simulate a similar effect using hypnagogic visualization.
Creative|Force Coaching is my service that offers neuro-immersive methods such as Vivid Dream|Work Method and includes 'The 4-Stages Method'. My research on the Buddha's teachings and Kundalini (and tantric) meditation and dream yoga practices all feed into this method.
'Learn How to Trick Your Brain into Happiness by Outgrowing Your Unhelpful Holding Patterns' Margot Wilson (2016)
VIVID DREAMING AND HYPNAGOGIC VISUALIZATION RESEARCH
In philosophy, contradiction is a component of the term reductio ad absurdum, which means paradoxical and unresolvable. As a researcher and practitioner of vivid dreaming, my view is that the primary role of sleep and dreaming is manage the reductio ad absurdum and life’s contradictions for the purposes of:
1) retrospective consolidation: matching and reconciling existing cognitive and spiritus (animate/breathing) states
2) emergent priming: dumping contradictory information as the imagery and scenes of dreams
3) prospective priming: dreaming as immersions in absurdity and contradiction so that we are uniquely prepared to
recognise and respond to overwhelming unexpected events. [See Karl Friston on Free Energy Principle]
Neuroscientists, Matthew Walker and Allan Hobson, view sleep and dreaming as opportunity to ‘go mad’ and ‘experience madness’ so that we can maintain a sense of daily normality. Neither consider the content of dreams as prophetic or information to well being. I agree with the first point and disagree with the second. My view is that the management of absurdity and contradiction and the experience the unimaginable is essential to what we consider as human sanity and social normality. Given we sleep for a third of each daily rotation of the moon around the earth, being able to enter the cave of sleep and hypnagogia is truly a gift. Harnessing the brain-spiritus organic ability to tread carefully and safely between the coherent and absurd, maintain a sense of continuity of self others and world, is within everybody’s reach. Hypnagogic visualization is the opportunity to influence each of the retrospective, emergent and prospective states. Pre-designed appropriate cognispiritus (cognitive animate) states may be taken into the theta/delta brainwave states on the cusp of sleep.
In philosophy, contradiction is a component of the term reductio ad absurdum, which means paradoxical and unresolvable. As a researcher and practitioner of vivid dreaming, my view is that the primary role of sleep and dreaming is manage the reductio ad absurdum and life’s contradictions for the purposes of:
1) retrospective consolidation: matching and reconciling existing cognitive and spiritus (animate/breathing) states
2) emergent priming: dumping contradictory information as the imagery and scenes of dreams
3) prospective priming: dreaming as immersions in absurdity and contradiction so that we are uniquely prepared to
recognise and respond to overwhelming unexpected events. [See Karl Friston on Free Energy Principle]
Neuroscientists, Matthew Walker and Allan Hobson, view sleep and dreaming as opportunity to ‘go mad’ and ‘experience madness’ so that we can maintain a sense of daily normality. Neither consider the content of dreams as prophetic or information to well being. I agree with the first point and disagree with the second. My view is that the management of absurdity and contradiction and the experience the unimaginable is essential to what we consider as human sanity and social normality. Given we sleep for a third of each daily rotation of the moon around the earth, being able to enter the cave of sleep and hypnagogia is truly a gift. Harnessing the brain-spiritus organic ability to tread carefully and safely between the coherent and absurd, maintain a sense of continuity of self others and world, is within everybody’s reach. Hypnagogic visualization is the opportunity to influence each of the retrospective, emergent and prospective states. Pre-designed appropriate cognispiritus (cognitive animate) states may be taken into the theta/delta brainwave states on the cusp of sleep.
The brain must contain a ‘model of the environment in which it is immersed, K. Friston. Free Energy and Global Dynamics in Rabinovich, Mikhail I., Karl J. Friston, and Pablo Varona, eds. Principles of brain dynamics: global state interactions. MIT Press, 2012. [P 272]
What sleep, dreaming and hypnagogic visualization all boil down to, is two things:
1) continuity of the sense of self as stasis
2) the mechanism for maturation as change
The two states combined produce a contradiction. A reductio ad absurdum that appears impossible. Yet here we humans are, possessing a continuous identify and sense of self that is static and changing at the same time. This may be the defining point of difference between humans and other sentient beings such as animals, and possibly, all of nature. This extraordinary ability to straddle, what the Buddha termed, ‘permanence’ and ‘impermanence’ is both a source of suffering and happiness.
1) continuity of the sense of self as stasis
2) the mechanism for maturation as change
The two states combined produce a contradiction. A reductio ad absurdum that appears impossible. Yet here we humans are, possessing a continuous identify and sense of self that is static and changing at the same time. This may be the defining point of difference between humans and other sentient beings such as animals, and possibly, all of nature. This extraordinary ability to straddle, what the Buddha termed, ‘permanence’ and ‘impermanence’ is both a source of suffering and happiness.
The idea here is that the Cartesian theatre is not observed by an internal (homuncular) audience but furnishes a theatre in which fictive narratives and fantasies can be rehearsed and tested against sensory evidence. We suppose the brain is driven by the imperative to infer the causes of its sensory samples; in much the same way as scientists are compelled to test hypotheses about experimental data. [J. Allan Hobson and Karl J. Friston, Consciousness, Dreams, and Inference The Cartesian Theatre Revisited in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21, No. 1–2, 2014, pp. 6–32] .
the Four Stages Method
The 4 Stages Method has been developed over many years and is designed for our modern times which come laden with internal and external pressures and often very little time to attend to one's own growth.
The method is distinctly immersive in that you jump in and give it all then jump out and carry on with life, the jumping in is just 3 minutes twice a day. This is the miracle of the Grounding Meditation that gives the brain and complete shot of intense experience that it 'grabs as real' and in doing so begins the process of 'dumping' redundant holding patterns held in the body. The 'dumping' process takes place in the dream world which are inevitably more vivid, frequent and intense than regular dreams, which is why you can remember them. It is quite usual to have 2 to 5 dreams in one night. These are called 'vivid dreams'.
These dreams are then analyzed to locate the stage of life where the holding pattern was formed and the drivers of its creation, in other words, the dream tells you when and why the holding pattern was created in the first place, and what it is that is no longer in sync (internally) with your highest self - and also what it is that needs to be looked at and changed.
From there, the use of hypnagogic visualization is employed to proved yet another immersive experience for the brain to grab as real.
The method is distinctly immersive in that you jump in and give it all then jump out and carry on with life, the jumping in is just 3 minutes twice a day. This is the miracle of the Grounding Meditation that gives the brain and complete shot of intense experience that it 'grabs as real' and in doing so begins the process of 'dumping' redundant holding patterns held in the body. The 'dumping' process takes place in the dream world which are inevitably more vivid, frequent and intense than regular dreams, which is why you can remember them. It is quite usual to have 2 to 5 dreams in one night. These are called 'vivid dreams'.
These dreams are then analyzed to locate the stage of life where the holding pattern was formed and the drivers of its creation, in other words, the dream tells you when and why the holding pattern was created in the first place, and what it is that is no longer in sync (internally) with your highest self - and also what it is that needs to be looked at and changed.
From there, the use of hypnagogic visualization is employed to proved yet another immersive experience for the brain to grab as real.
the grounding meditation
The Grounding Meditation could possibly be defined as the meditation that grounds all other forms of meditation. It does so because it overcomes three significant barriers to meditation, the first is the ‘Monkey Mind’, the second is the ‘Commitment of Time’ and third is the ‘Can I do it?’ question. Meditation is what happens when the meditator shows up so the greatest barrier is inevitably the second one, the commitment of time. It is not so much the time but the notion of commitment that is that the root of this problem and the monkey mind and self-doubt naturally feeds into this. If you settle down to think about it, commitment is a constant pressure throughout our lives, we marry and bear children out of ‘commitment’, we embark on friendships, businesses, projects and partnerships in the name of ‘commitment’ and we undertake goals we might otherwise never choose out of ‘commitment’.