Paul Levy
Learn to perceive your reality as a dream — and the Universe as an oracle — speaking to you through symbols as you create your life.
Discover how the source of our collective madness lies in each of us individually — and how you have the power to awaken from the spell of scarcity as you perceive your reality as a ‘dream.’
Many of us go through life with a desire to wake up...
To experience a new level of enlightenment, cultivating a deeper understanding of life’s mysteries — and a deeper sense of who we are.
What if the doorway to reach this level of enlightenment lies in one pivotal shift in perception —
It’s time to tap your creative agency and discoverhow this life-altering shift in perception can help you consciously create your life — and a more mindful, joyous, and fulfilled you.
Embark on a 7-module course from Paul Levy, spiritual emergence pioneer, teacher, and author.
You’ll deepen your realization of life’s dreamlike nature, connecting with your intrinsic creative power at the same time — to create your experience of yourself... and your experience of the world.
Think about it: if what you’re experiencing right now is a dream, other people are embodied aspects of yourself — even your shadows are reflected in your perceptions of other people.
The truth is, you have unbelievable creative power, far beyond what you know.
Paul teaches to actively participate in your own awakening process. You’ll recognize how you’re always projecting and dreaming into and through your day-to-day life...
He shares processes you can use to consciously reveal the shadow forces that seem to obscure your light, yet are actually helping to reveal it.
Everyone possesses an inner, wisdom-filled guide that’s always dreaming along with you — and as you’ll discover, you can live in intimate relationship with this empowering ally.
As dream characters in one another’s dreams, you can even reflect with others upon your shared experiences — to help everyone deepen their awareness of the dreamlike nature of reality...
As Paul puts it, you’ll “conspire to co-inspire” each other, activate your collective genius, and literally dream yourself awake.
Paul’s approach to awakening and personal and collective evolution is a radical synthesis of quantum physics, alchemy, shamanism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, mystical Christianity, and the works of Carl Jung and Philip K. Dick.
Drawing from his intense interest in dreams — both night dreams and the dreamlike nature of reality — Paul is continually expanding his investigation into a deeper reality...
As he shared in this course, our species is in the thrall of a mass epidemic of what Paul refers to as “malignant egophrenia” or what the Native Americans call wetiko, which can be conceived of as being a virus of the mind.
Our collective madness has been weirdly normalized and projected out in the world onto the other. When you let go of your agency to some dreaded evil outside force, it’s understandable you’d become a passive observer, taking it as fact that you’re a passive observer of your own life.
As Paul explaines, because the source of our collective madness lies in each of us individually, you have the power and prerogative to awaken from the dream-like spell of scarcity.
As you learn to look at your reality as a collective dream — and the people and events in your life as reflections of you, your thoughts, and your intentions...
You’ll step into a more powerful and creative way of being. You’ll consciously and intentionally dream up and help co-create a better tomorrow — for yourself and the world.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- How to participate in your own awakening process
- Ways to ground yourself in the perception that life is a dream, so you can create “lucidity stimulators” — clues in your daily life to help you remember the dreamlike nature of reality
- Why the psychological and spiritual task of our unique time in history is to recognize and take on board within our psyches what is openly being revealed to us via synchronistic phenomena by our dreamlike universe
- How, in essence, quantum physics has empirically proven that we’re having a collectively shared dream
- The dreamlike nature of reality, and why it isn’t some sort of new-agey, magical-thinking type of idea — instead, it’s validated by the hardest of the hard science, quantum physics
- Ways to snap out of the mainstream scientific materialist spell, which is severely limiting both your creative genius and your natural compassion
- How your unexpressed creativity can cause illness — emotional, psychological, spiritual, even physical
- That the universe is overflowing with hidden treasures — whose purpose is to help us wake up, dispel fear, and give us a sense that we live in an abundant universe
- How you’re using your creativity every moment of your life — and how you can plug into your creative nature in a way that serves your awakening
- How to alchemically transmute your projective tendencies (which tend to separate people from the world) into a process that helps you connect with your true nature
- Ways to get in touch with your inner guide and ally — who is always with you, but easy to either ignore or marginalize
- Ways to amplify the immense creative power within you (individually), when you connect with other people (other dream characters) who are also accessing their creative agency
- That, instead of being mistakes, your wounds are sacred events that are part of your initiatory ordeal — helping you find your true vocation in life... which will help you become who you truly are
- How the source of the madness and evil that’s playing out in the world can be traced back to its very source, within us
- Why joining together with others to create an alchemical container can help everyone deepen their awakening
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Paul guides you through the fundamental body-mind-spirit skills and competencies you’ll need to recognize reality as a “dream,” freeing you to create a mindful, joyous, and fulfilling life.
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Paul. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to dream yourself into awakening. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Module 1 Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality
This video teaching excerpt from The Shift Network course, Dreaming Yourself Awake, by spiritual emergence pioneer, teacher, and author Paul Levy, will explore the creative source within you and its gifts through dreamwork — how your nighttime dreams and symbols therein are a template for understanding the nature of your waking dream. You’ll discover how a dream, like the universe, is a continually unfolding revelation… an oracle that’s always speaking to you with symbols.
Access to the full on-demand course can be purchased here if you would like to delve deeper.
Module 2 Synchronicities & Hidden Treasures
A very powerful way of realizing life’s dreamlike nature is to contemplate the experience of synchronicity.
In this session, you’ll discover the power of synchronicities, those moments of “meaningful coincidence” when the boundary dissolves between the inner and the outer — between psyche and matter...
Synchronicities are themselves a revelation, the vehicle through which we can wake up to the dreamlike nature of the universe.
To deepen and understand the dreamlike and synchronistic universe we live in, Paul will guide you to inquire into the Tibetan Buddhist idea of terma (hidden treasures) that are encoded within the multidimensional fabric of the universe... both within the physical world and within our minds...
This ancient idea has great modern-day relevance — there are sacred spiritual treasures hidden in our world and within our psyches. They’re waiting to be brought forth for the benefit of all of us, when the time is right.
These hidden treasures, long buried in the dreamlike fabric of our world and dormant in the collective unconscious of our species from time immemorial, — are typically discovered in times of great need.
Living expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, these treasures can potentially help us become lucid in the waking dream of life...
The most profound hidden treasure, the great revelation hidden within us — also referred to mythically as “The Treasure Hard to Attain” — is the creative spirit itself... a spirit that can help us re-create the world and ourselves.
In this module, you’ll discover how to:
- Experience more synchronicities in your life
- Recognize how the synchronicities in your daily life can help you to see the dreamlike nature of reality
- Learn how more synchronicities give your life a deeper sense of meaning and inspire in you a feeling that you’re right where you’re supposed to be
- Understand that the universe is overflowing with sacred treasures — whose purpose is to help us wake up, dispel fear, and give us a sense that we live in an abundant universe.
- Learn how these sacred treasures can inspire you to clearly see the magic-filled Universe you’re living in — which can inspire hope and expand your consciousness
- Move through a guided meditation to think back on events from your life that were actually hidden treasures — and bring this powerful experience into the present moment
Module 3 The Topic of Topics: The Wetiko Mind-Virus
Many individuals and groups have discovered what the Native Americans call wetiko — a contagious, psychospiritual disease of the soul, being acted out via a collective psychosis...
And they all have the same response. They consider it the most important topic — it’s even been called the topic of topics — we need to understand to help make sense of our world.
As Paul will explain, wetiko is at the very root of every crisis we face — climate change (and our lack of response and confusion around the issue), the threat of nuclear war, social injustice, political malfeasance, financial corruption, endless war, and more...
Wetiko is the overarching umbrella over every form of self-and-other destruction that our species is acting out in our world on every scale.
If we don’t come to terms with what wetiko is revealing to us, however, nothing else will matter — as there will be no more human species.
And yet, wetiko secretly contains its own cure.
Once you see how wetiko covertly operates, both out in the world and within your own mind, you’ll not only take away its power over you, but unlock the vast creative power that is intrinsic to human nature.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Why there’s something within you that’s impersonating you, tricking you into identifying with a limited version of yourself
- The deeper madness that’s playing out in the world through a new lens — that helps you recontextualize and make sense of it
- How the source of the madness and evil that’s playing out in the world can be traced back to its very source, within us
- How to shed light on the darkness that’s both playing out in the world and within all people
- The correlation between what’s happening in the outer world and your inner reactions
- A meditation based on a beautiful teaching in Buddhism called the “Lion’s Gaze” — you’ll imagine an experience or person who triggers you... then do the practice to transform it
Module 4 The Wounded Healer & The Shaman
The archetype of the wounded healer reveals that your wounding is a spiritual event, making you a participant in a divine happening...
This week, you’ll discover how your wounding is an initiatory event that becomes a portal to a deeper level of your being, which will help you find what you’re here to do in the world.
By consciously taking on the mindset of the wounded healer, you’ll access your creative and healing gifts.
As Paul will explain, everyone is being called to be potential wounded healers and shamanic healers-in-training.
Shamanism is the oldest form of healing known in our world. Shamans were the first physicians, psychotherapists, creative artists, spiritual emissaries, prophets, translators, mediums, magicians, entertainers, cultural heroes, and storytellers.
Both collectively and individually, we’re making a shamanic descent into the darkness of the underworld — into the netherworld of the unconscious shadow side of our psyche, where we’re demanded to shed light on our own dark side.
Shamanism is an archetypal form of behavior that spontaneously emerges within us when we’re faced with seemingly unsolvable problems — on both the individual and collective levels.
The multiple converging world crises confronting humanity are catalyzing the shamanic archetype to become activated deep within the collective unconscious — the core of our very being.
When you’re called to shamanism — and we\'re all being called — there’s no external shaman who can heal you. You have to find your inner creative resources and discover the shamanic figure within yourself.
In this module, you’ll:
- See that, instead of being a mistake, your wounds are events that are part of your initiatory ordeal — helping you find your true vocation in life... which will help you become who you truly are
- Realize that you don’t have to identify with your wounds
- Recognize that your wounds are actually portals to connecting with your gifts
- Connect with your natural shamanic abilities
- Move through a meditation to shed light on the part of you that reflects what’s playing out in the greater collective
Module 5 Quantum Physics: The Physics of Dreaming
Quantum physics is widely considered the greatest discovery in the history of science.
This week, you explore how the revelations emerging from quantum physics are so mind-blowing, physicists are still in the beginning stages of wrapping their mind around what quantum physics reveals.
In essence, quantum physics has empirically proven that we’re having a collectively shared dream.
Paul will share how quantum physics is a modern-day analogue to a hidden treasure that emerged — both in our world and within our minds — about a century ago.
Before the advent of quantum physics, classical physicists thought of themselves as passive observers trying to understand an objective universe that was separate from themselves.
Quantum physics reveals the notion of an objective universe to be a nonsensical idea — it only exists in our minds, and has no correlation in reality.
Quantum physics also shows us that you’re influencing the universe just by observing it — a precise description of a dream...
Just like a dream, our moment-by-moment act of observation is creative.
By openly revealing the dreamlike nature of our universe, quantum physics unlocked previously unimaginable creativity.
Quantum physics, in shedding light on the illusory nature of the separate subjective self, has become its own spiritual path...
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How you’re playing a key, participatory role in creating your experience of yourself and your experience of the world
- The dreamlike nature of reality, and why it isn’t some sort of new-agey, magical-thinking type of idea — instead, it’s validated by the hardest of the hard science
- How to shed more light on who you truly are — and the role you play in creating your experience
- Ways to snap out of the mainstream scientific materialist spell, which is severely limiting both your creative genius and your natural compassion
- How to make a true difference in the world when you connect with other people who are also plugging into their creativity
- A powerful meditation to imagine how a quantum leap would feel — and how it’s possible to create your own quantum leap… simply by changing how you’re thinking, interpreting, and placing meaning on your experience
Module 6 Your Creative Spirit: Oxygen For Your Soul
Your spirit, the sentient presence that animates you, is creative by its very nature.
This week, you’ll discover how the creative spirit is an essential part of your being, the life-giving oxygen for your soul.
In their own unique ways, every wisdom tradition throughout history points out that humans are creators.
Even the world’s spiritual traditions point out in their own ways that humans are creators.
These wisdom traditions consider your creative power your greatest gift, both to the world and yourself. Your creativity isn’t as a mere hobby, a sideline, something you should just indulge in on your days off...
The very center of your being is an unknown creative energy that forges us in its likeness, one way or another (with our cooperation or not).
A creative person — and we’re all creative people — must create! Nothing is more poisonous to your psyche than an unexpressed creative impulse.
Creativity without a suitable form of expression is an obstructing shadow that veils the light of divinity within us.
You’ll see how creatively expressing what’s moving you — as well as what’s stopping you from moving — is the very act that liberates you from unconsciously recreating your unhealed abuse, wounds, and trauma.
Paul will explain how the root of the collective madness that our species suffers from is the fact that we’re not connecting with, mobilizing, and expressing our creative natures.
The mysterious secret of your being can only be realized via participating in the creative act itself. You must create in order to know yourself...
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn how profoundly important your creativity is
- Explore how being creative is not just an aspect of your nature, it’s essential for revealing your true nature
- Recognize how your unexpressed creativity can cause illness — emotional, psychological, spiritual, even physical
- Get in touch with what’s inside of you, preventing you from expressing yourself creatively
- Learn how you’re using your creativity every moment of your life — and how you can plug into your creative nature in a way that serves your awakening
- Participate in a guided meditation where you’ll gain insight into how your intrinsic creative agency is always at work — and can be harnessed to either imprison or liberate you
Module 7 Dreaming Ourselves Awake
This final class will be the synthesis and culmination of all you’ve learned.
You’ll also discover how to connect with others, reflecting upon your shared experience in each other’s dreams — that can help you deepen your awareness of the dreamlike nature of reality.
As you deepen your realization of reality’s dreamlike nature, you’ll connect with your intrinsic power to create your experience of yourself and your experience of the world...
Your guiding question will then become, Once I become lucid in the dream, how do I dream it?
You’ll learn to alchemically transmute your projective tendencies (which tend to separate you from the world) into a process that helps you connect with your true nature...
In this final module, you’ll discover how to:
- Creatively participate in your own awakening process
- Get in touch with your inner guide and ally — who is always with you, but easy to either ignore or marginalize
- Understand how the darker, shadowy forces (both in the world and within your mind) that seem to obscure the light are actually revealing it
- Join together with others to create an alchemical container — to help everyone deepen their awakening... as you’ll discover, this is the true sangha of the Buddha, the mystical Body of Christ
- Amplify the immense creative power within you (individually), when you connect with other people (other dream characters) who are also accessing their creative agency
- Move through a powerful meditation to imagine you’ve become lucid in the waking dream of life and then discover how a deeper, more whole and healed part of yourself would envision dreaming the dream you’ve found yourself in
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Paul’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Dispelling the Wetiko Mind Virus
Video Dialogue With Paul Levy and Nadirah Adeye
Many Indigenous traditions talk about the Wetiko Mind Virus, a virus of the mind that operates through the unconscious mind, turning our creative power against us. In this fascinating interview with Shift course manager Nadirah Adeye, Paul explains how this virus can deceive you into thinking the solutions to life’s difficulties lie somewhere outside of you — when really, you have more agency to make your life better than you realize.
Paul in Conversation With Andrew Harvey on Quantum Physics
Video Dialogue With Paul Levy and Andrew Harvey
What’s the difference between a dream and an illusion? Paul and Andrew Harvey (author, speaker, and founder of the Institute of Sacred Activism) take a deep dive into the heart of Paul\'s transmission — the revelation that quantum physics is always revealing to us that life is a dream. Paul recounts the first synchronicities he noticed back in 1981, that he’d been conditioned to understand were not possible, shares how it completely changed his life — and how this same revelation can change yours. Once you realize what quantum physics is revealing to you, it unlocks the creative spirit within you, a power which is to be used wisely, based on compassion.
Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father
Ebook Chapter Excerpt From Paul Levy’s Book
This chapter from Paul’s memoir Awakened by Darkness on the archetype of the wounded healer is grounded in his own experience of realizing that he has become a wounded healer, and sheds light on how this deeper archetype is relevant for all of us in today’s world. When Paul was 24, the emotional abuse he had suffered as a youth catalyzed a life-transforming spiritual awakening. Awakened by Darkness is the story of how Paul eventually freed himself from both his dysfunctional family and from the toxicity of psychiatry — and how, in a dream come true, he now has psychiatrists consulting with him. Paul shares how we can all shed light on and creatively bring forth our hidden gifts encoded in life’s darkness.
Awakening in the Dream Groups
Video Panel Discussion With Paul Levy and Senior Students
What if you took the idea that life is really a dream — and stepped into the reality that we’re all characters in each other’s dreams, too? Paul invites you to watch this video recording and experience a session from one of his “Awakening in the Dream” groups — a ritual he’s been leading for 25 years, where the members gather to co-create the dream of this community. This panel discussion will feature some of Paul’s students sharing their journeys and experiences — that might spark some aha! moments for you along the way.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from spiritual emergence pioneer, teacher, and author Paul Levy — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to awaken from the spell of scarcity as you perceive your reality as a dream.
Seven Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
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About Paul Levy
A creative artist, author, and wounded healer, Paul Levy is the founder of the Awaken in the Dream community in Portland, Oregon.
Deeply steeped in the work of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, Paul is a longtime Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, having intimately studied for the past 35 years with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. For over 20 years, he was the coordinator for the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center in Portland.
In 1981, catalyzed by an intense psychological trauma, Paul had a life-changing spiritual awakening in which he began to recognize the dreamlike nature of reality. During the first year of his spiritual emergence, Paul was hospitalized a number of times and was told he was having a severe psychotic break from reality. He was (mis)diagnosed as having manic-depressive (now called bipolar) disorder.
Paul has since become a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, and is currently in private practice, helping others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality.
Paul has published numerous articles on healing, dreaming, and awakening, and is the author of numerous books, including Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind-Virus... Wetiko: Healing The Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World... and Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil.