Integral Relational Practice of Dreaming the Caesura

Abstract

ABSTRACT This two-part article, “Integral Relational Practice of Dreaming the Caesura,” describes an integral relational practice of “dreaming the caesura,” with an illustration of this specific practice through the author’s dreaming of her great, great, great, great grandmother, Charlotte Small Thompson, a Métis Cree woman who traveled across Canada with her husband from 1799–1812. The contemplative practice, a method of nonduality, is anchored in compassion and will expand the practitioner’s capacity to be with suffering. The 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person perspectives of integral experience are viewed through their separate and also their linked and embedded relationships to one another, thus constituting the caesuras of contemplation.