Deep Socratic Dialogue Practice for Self-Realization Overview

The DEPTH in DEPTH Dialogue means:

depth

DEPTH Dialogue Results In True Happiness

Doing DEPTH Dialogue results in ever-increasing natural whole-body feelings of pleasure - even ecstasy as the experience grows and deepens. This is the true, lasting self-generated inner happiness we all long for and mostly don't admit is possible.

This flow of inner pleasure gradually and spontaneously transcends all negative and painful emotional patterns that make for unhappiness and problems in life. It does this through engaging the dynamics of inner creativity.

This is why DEPTH means Dynamic Transcendence of old emotional patterns. It is transcendence of old patterns through engaging the creative flow of life itself.

(How this works will be explained in the next section, The Heart Of It.)

Do It Yourself

You don't have to take drugs or meditate in the Himalayas to experience this deep flow of happiness through your whole being. By evoking the process of inner creativity and applying it to all aspects and levels of your experience DEPTH Dialogue does this naturally, easily and spontaneously. All you have to do is engage in the dialogue process.

Of course, this doesn't happen all at once with a flash of thunder and lightning out of the clouds. It unfolds over time. But through DEPTH Dialogue, that time is relatively short.

The Dream of Ecstasy

We all dream of ecstasy (the deep whole-body flow of expansive pleasure), at least in our secret, quiet moments when we allow our true heart's desires to come through. And we also know that only this will give us true and lasting happiness. We may settle for something less than this, but deep down inside we know differently, we know a better, richer experience. It may come from some ancient memory or just be the depths of our being crying out to be heard.

Fully Engaged Inner Creativity

For most of us the transcendent ecstasy we dream of eludes us and remains unrealized. But this happens only because we think of it as a condition to be attained or possessed, when it really is an activity, something we creatively do. It is the activity of fully engaged, fully lived inner creativity - and this is the activity of DEPTH Dialogue.

DEPTH Dialogue takes you step-by-step into deeper and deeper levels of inner creativity, and thereby into ever-increasing transcendent ecstasy, which is true happiness.

Levels of Psychological and Emotional Development

Real, true, deep personal creativity happens only by taking leaps with your entire being (mind, emotions, physiology, actions, thinking, etc. etc,) to entirely new levels of functioning. DEPTH Dialogue leads you to take these leaps.

Getting to new levels is not as difficult as it sounds. In fact, it is normal in the course of human development for all of us.

We start off as infants on a purely sensory-motor level, just feeling and sensing impressions around us, not aware of objects, not even mother as a distinct perception. As we grow and explore the world around us we quite naturally move into a more adaptive mode of functioning where we recognize objects and can manipulate them. As we grow further we learn to manipulate mental objects, meaning that we don't have to have everything right in front of us to be aware of it and use it.

The movement to each level is both natural and easy. And each level is a large leap beyond the previous one into a wholly new and different way of organizing your experience.

A New Educational Method

DEPTH Dialogue is an educational method that leads you to levels beyond what is generally recognized today in conventional thinking.

The movement to these levels is no more difficult than previous movements to new levels. The only difficulty has been that these higher levels have not been generally known.

It is as if we were all taught to crawl on our hands and knees but then no-one around us knew about walking so we remain as crawlers all our lives even though we have the ability to walk. If no-one around us tells us we can walk and no-one around us is actually walking, we become conditioned to that as our reality.

Think of the limits to our freedom if we were all crawling! It certainly would be a different world.

Arrested Development

No-one (since Socrates, anyway) has told us that there are levels of cognitive, emotional and somatic development beyond the level we all live now as part of the conventions of society.

Therefore we are all still crawling. And this is why we are not and do not feel as free and as ecstatic as we could. This is why we long for greater freedom and happiness. They are there in us. We quietly know this. But someone needs to tell us and show us how to get up and walk. DEPTH Dialogue does this.

The level that most of humanity lives at now, at best, is called "formal operations." It is the level of linear logic, scientific thinking, thinking in generalities, living out story-dramas (conflict enactments) and problem orientation toward life. Although this is a level of freedom beyond primitive superstition and hallucination experiences that characterize the previous level, it is certainly not the fullness of freedom that we all secretly long for.

From the perspective of DEPTH Dialogue, this stage is a lower level, a stage of arrested development.

The Levels Beyond

DEPTH Dialogue is the practical inner dynamics of the ancient dialogue method of the sage-philosopher Socrates, which he called the Dialectic. It is the enactment of his call for us to stop crawling and get up and walk, to stop suffering in emotional turmoil and conflict-enactments and to start living the full creative life of freedom and ecstasy.

DEPTH Dialogue is a subtle and sophisticated method of leading a dialogue partner to the next levels beyond formal operations. At these higher levels we find ourselves living in true freedom and transcendent ecstasy.

DEPTH Dialogue identifies three levels beyond formal operations. Each level corresponds to a level of DEPTH Dialogue.

Higher Level I:
Creative Generativity
(The Artist)

The first is the Creative Generativity level. It is at this level that you become an artist at creative play with the elements of your existence. Artists, in general, live freer and more creative lives - but mostly just in the area of their art. They often suffer greatly in other areas.

The Creative Generativity level leads you into being a creative artist with your life across the board, in every area and aspect of your existence. Your learn to play creatively with all the elements of your experience, rather than living out conflicts, as is the case at the formal operations level.

The Basic Level of DEPTH Dialogue leads you by a gentle learning method into full mastery of the Creative Generativity level, and the artistic level of creative freedom.

You thus come to have the ecstasy of child-like play along with a mature adult mastery of life.

Higher Level II:
Spontaneous Emergence
(The Creator)

The next level is the Spontaneous Emergence level.

It is hard to even imagine this level until you are firmly on the Creative Generativity level, but it can be said that it is like living as a creative genius like Mozart or Einstein, not just with your creative focus but across the board with all the elements of your existence. As we know, Mozart was utterly sublime in his creative life, and it came through him spontaneously and freely. But he was an idiot in his ordinary life, and died young.

Imagine having the sublime spontaneous creative flow of a Mozart across the board in all areas and aspects of your life. And being there all the time because it is your natural mode of functioning.

The Advanced Level of DEPTH Dialogue leads you by a gentle but more subtle and sophisticated learning method than the Basic Level into mastery of the Spontaneous Emergence level, and the creator level of personal creativity and freedom.

You thereby come to have the ecstasy of womb-like oceanic pleasure from the very origin of life, the very first impulses of existence, while fully living a complete adult mastery of life.

Higher Level III:
Dynamic Radiant Beingness
(The Living Wholeness)

The furthest level identified by DEPTH Dialogue is Dynamic Radiant Beingness.

This level is literally unimaginable, not only from the formal operations level of ordinary conventional consciousness but from the higher levels as well. This is because its workings have nothing to do with imagination, but reside entirely within the realm of the transcendental qualities of Consciousness itself.

The previous two higher levels have been working with the qualities of consciousness all along, but in a mix with thoughts, images, feelings, emotions, body sensations and expressive actions.

This level leads you to experience the pure spontaneous flow of Consciousness and its transcendent qualities from the pure emptiness or nothingness (Pure Beingness, sometimes called the Absolute Self.)

Here you experience and live the pure spontaneous creative flow of Consciousness from Beingness as the main factor of your existence. You experience yourself and your experience AS that creative flow.

This is complete and total Oneness and Wholeness.

But unlike ideas about "enlightenment" from the East or from new-age philosophies, this is not a steady state of some kind of nirvana but a dynamic creative ACTIVE Oneness and Wholeness. You live and express that dynamism while being wholly situated in the utter quietness and stillness of Being.

The Transcendent Level of DEPTH Dialogue leads you to this.

YOU Are That!!

If there is any message here, any philosophy, any "good news," it is that YOU (anyone reading this, and everyone) are that living embodiment of the Ultimate Self.

Now that the path to simple direct Self-realization has been re-discovered and brought out for everyone through DEPTH Dialogue, there is no longer any excuse for falling for the scams and frauds that say that someone other than you is the expert, the authority, the guru, the savior, the avatar, the sage, the leader, the long-awaited special one.

Self is lived and embodied in EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING WITHOUT EXCEPTION!!!

This is already the case right now in this moment, not some time in the near or distant future.

YOU ARE THAT SPECIAL ONE!!

This is not a belief. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. And it won't help you one little bit to believe it or affirm it, or anything like that. (All beliefs are nothing but delusions, shadowy images on the walls of the story-world cave. Affirmations are nothing but more aggressive self-delusions.)

It is a direct realization inside you and all through you. And it is easily had once you point your attention in the right direction in the right way.

All you have to do is come to this through the simple process of deep self-exploration. DEPTH Dialogue is here to help you do this.

Now, for an in-depth understanding of the essence of how DEPTH Dialogue works go the next section, The Heart Of It.

DEPTH Dialogue Deep Inwardly Focused Socratic Dialogue
1. Overview	2. The Heart Of It	3. Where It Comes From	4. Why Do It