Exploring Inner Life in Dyads (pairs)
Here we work with men but a similar process can - and I believe will be- used for other groups - women, trauma sufferers, people concerned about technocratic control.
I’m excited by the persective raised here.
I’ve derived tremendous benefit from “Dyad meditation,” a meditative inquiry for two with a structure that brings interference with the partner’s stuff to an absolute minimum. We describe some of the details here but mostly this video is about what happens when individuals are witnessed doing their own inner work without interference.
In the video Keith Burch and I share our experience.
The dyad process we use is a variant on Enlightenment Intensive dyads, used to facilitate direct experience of our divine nature.
Although our focus here is on our experience as men, this process can be done with any number of sub-groups. Trauma sufferers can do it (an experiment launching very soon). People worried about technocratice social control can do it. Women of course can do it and we hope they will.
Men and the women can do it together. However, the social space between women and men is often charged with unconscious assumptions about the other and a lack of respect. Dyads as we do them are like a ritual for meeting in a respectful common space. We can explore what that’ll take.
Keith Burch is a veteran and former State Trooper from Oklahoma. We met online in a larger group doing frequent dyad meditation with “enlightenment” as the goal. It’s still the larger goal but we’ve found doing the work on the more limited objective practical and outlined useful, and ultimately not different. Some of the differences between the two are in the video.
The sky’s the limit in what’s possible for us because awakening wants to happen and we’re collectively learning how to get out of the way. Mutual meditation can help us slip out of our siloes and not take ourselves too seriously.
I inadvertently left myself out of the video portion of the video so you’ll get to watch Keith speak and then watch him listen to me :).
I believe there’s important value for group work in the form we discuss. Please give it a watch.