August 13, 2026: "Ask Me Anything!" Replay
A recording of Paul's monthly "Ask Me Anything!"
Paul Levy's Awaken In the Dream
As a wounded healer helping others awaken to the dreamlike nature of reality, I'm thrilled to be here on Substack, sharing my work and hosting live video talks.
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Writing From the Fires: Notes From the Portland Underworld
This post, written in 2021 during a truly dystopian wildfire season, is—tragically—just as relevant today. But perhaps this stress is the means for summoning the archetype of the savior.
Awakening in the Dream Glossary, Entry 2: What Is Active Imagination?
Hearing voices? You’re not alone; Carl Jung heard them too. This wasn’t a pathological phenomenon but an illumination: There is a figure in us who knows us better than we know ourselves.
What Is Dream Yoga? Two Accomplished Teachers Explain a Fundamental Principle of Tibetan Buddhism
Instead of us being controlled and conditioned by events in the seemingly outer world, dream yoga takes away the world’s seeming power over us, allowing us to take charge ourselves.
Awakening in the Dream Glossary, Entry 1: What Is Wetiko?
What if the deadliest poison and the most potent medicine were co-joined in one superposed state? This post is a place to begin your inquiry into the danger (and the promise) of the mind-virus.
July 9, 2026: "Ask Me Anything!" Replay
A recording of Paul Levy's monthly live video.
Our Superhero Power: On Dreaming as a Portal to Our Own Reality-Shaping Powers
Each one of us has a power beyond our wildest imagination, but most don’t even know it. Where can it be found? Look inside: This innate creative genius is on full display in our dreams every night.
The Reality of the Psyche, or: How to Change Everything, Including the World..and Ourselves
Matter is only a skin around an enormous cosmos of psychical realities, wrote Carl Jung, an illusory fringe. The real experience occurs in the psychic realm, and it has the power to change the world.
One Great Dream of a Single Dreamer: Looking Inwards to a Deeper Truth
“There is a dream dreaming us,” said a Kalahari elder, “and we must get back to that dream.” Notes on recognizing the dreamlike nature of reality—and in it the power to change the world.
June 11, 2026: "Ask Me Anything!" Replay
Here's the recording from Paul Levy's live video from earlier this week.
True hallucinations and waking dreams, or: The Tibetan book of the half-asleep
What if Moses interpreted the burning bush as projection? What if Saul concluded his encounter with Christ was hallucination? The "Tibetan Book of the Dead" has something to say about these visions.
The biospheric dreambody: How Dr. Arny Mindell collapsed the boundary between ourselves and the world
Unbound by conventional laws of space and time, the dreambody is a hyperdimensional concept created by Dr. Arny Mindell. In a world seemingly bent on self-destruction, it might be the tool for today.
The Daemon Inside: On Creativity, the Unconscious, and the Power to Resist Mind Control
When our inner voice seems “evil,” it contains the power to make us conscious of the evil from which the whole community—be it our family, nation or the whole human race—is suffering.
May 7, 2026: "Ask Me Anything!" Replay
Hi folks, hoping you enjoyed tuning in as much as I did presenting! Here's the replay of last week's "Ask Me Anything!" for my paid subscribers.
No Darkness without Light: An Argument for Owning Our Shadows
As human beings we are all potential angels or demons, not a composite of the two. When we are most ourselves we’re not a summation of opposites but a union, a co-incidence of opposites.
When the Most Awake Among Us Fall Asleep: Marc Gafni, Sexual Abuse, and Wetiko
Why do some spiritual leaders prey on their followers? And why do so many of their defenders blind themselves to the possibility they might be wrong? Thoughts on a prominent spiritual Substacker.
Meeting the Other Within: Our Internal Demons (and Why We Need Them)
When we discover the “other” within, we enter into relationship instead of trying to dominate and destroy. Treating our darker parts “religiously,” we honor and respect an essential life partner.
The Power of the Psyche: Carl Jung's Crucial Insight into the Human Nature of Global Events
The "doctor of the soul believed there was only one way to break that spell that binds us: Rediscovering our spiritual cores. The only question was (and remains): Will we do it in time?
The light has cast a spell upon itself: On courage, self-deception, and the power of creativity
One thing we humans are geniuses at is deceiving ourselves. In doing so, we deny our vast genius for creatively shaping our own experience, both in the world around us and inside our own heads.
April 9, 2026: "Ask Me Anything!" Replay
This month's open forum was a rich and generative dive into this current moment, wetiko, and the dreaming nature of what we call "reality." I so appreciate the chance to go deep with you!