The Power Of Voice Dialogue 

Just found several minutes of Dr. Stone's interview on the Thinking Allowed channel. It was almost forty years ago and the first I'd heard of this integration of opposites. Now exploring his work. Rest in peace, Doc.

J'utilise tous les jours le VOICE DIALOGUE avec mes consultants. C'est un outil passionnant, qui se marie très bien avec d'autres approches. Il a été une contribution majeure dans ma vie, et continue de l'être . Merci à Hal et Sidra pour leur travaux qui constituent une avancée majeure dans l'exploration de la Conscience, de l'Energie, de l'Ombre, une percée majeure dans la compréhension de la véritable nature de l esprit, la nature de l'être humain.

There cannot be anything in life as wonderful as seeing and knowing one's ego(s) either when or even after the ego takes you over. Even just temporarily separating from one's ego can bring a sense of extreme relief and joy as we suddenly return to the beautiful and free self that we always are - the Aware Ego - except when we are under the spell of the ego(s). Best of all, you don't have to believe in or succumb to something like your Critic when it is on a rampage but most folks unwittingly give in and then fail to realize that they are NOT the Critic.

This is a brilliant framework for working with the structure of self. For uncoupling or disassembling the personality so we can more clearly receive guidance from the individuality or higher mind. In esoteric teaching this is the building of the antahkarana.

Well I guess Hal has passed on. I learned so much from him. 🧡

Thank you for this video. I am the one who have been through this process. It is liberating experience. I am here after Hal has passed away for a week. I really appreciate his wisdom and it is an extensive part of my growth in the past year.

« Voice dialogue » is the method that applies to the theory of the psychology of selves. The goal of the work is threefold : · Number one: the development of the aware ego; in order to do this we must learn how to separate from those selves with which we're identified and embrace the parts of us that we have rejected in the course of growing up. Once we do this we stand between opposites and the aware ego is in process. · Secondly: once we're able to stand between opposites and make choices in this aware ego process the dreams begin to change and the inner teacher that is waiting to be triggered in all of us begins to make its appearance ; our dream process literally becomes a teaching process and we begin to withdraw those feelings and projections that we have onto outer teachers and outer therapists, and the teaching starts to go where it really belongs on an inner level. · Once this aware ego process reaches this point where the inner teacher is constellated we then begin an unpeeling of personality. So we'll take this one at a time. The first thing that voice dialogue gives a person is awareness of the selves; Exactly. what are the selves ? The selves are groupings of thoughts, feelings, and behavior that are built into the human psyche. We come into this life in a certain family system and we are conditioned by that family to behave and think and act in certain ways. The selves are the actual parts of us that develop because of this conditioning process. So once a person has become aware of these selves these conditioned behaviors and so on. what is the next thing that they get ? The problem is that becoming aware of these selves is difficult because we generally identify with one or two or three of them; whenever we are completely identified with certain selves, we don't know about the rest of the selves; so the first task is to become aware of these primary selves that govern our life, so that we then can separate from them and literally learn how to embrace all of the selves. So what is the second goal ? The second goal is more difficult to understand because a lot of people may not have experienced it. Once we have this clarification of selves and are able to recognize different points of view, different ways of behaving and feeling and thinking, our dream process begins to change; we begin to get dreams that are clarifying in nature; sometimes we get dreams in which a voice speaks to us and gives us information. But the general name we give to this process is the birth of the inner teacher. So an inner teacher can arise within one's own psyche and literally advise us, guide us, cause us to react in different ways ? Exactly, and the dreams come in and begin to balance our life in very significant ways. You know how an ocean liner at sea has the ability to stabilize itself; if the ship tilts to the right the stabilizer goes to the right and forces the ship to the left; when it goes to the left the stabilizer comes out and forces it back to the right; it's this sideward action on a ship that really makes us sick. When the unconscious begins to function as teacher it begins to function as the role stabilizer system on an ocean liner, and literally balances where we are: if we're too much identified with a mind it will show us that or it will bring up feeling in some way; if we're too identified with responsibility, it will bring up the parts of us that are not responsible; it is always helping us to balance whatever it is we’re identified with. So it seems to be a higher intelligence almost within us ? It is in fact a higher intelligence, an organized higher intelligence that knows exactly where it wants us to go. In the old days they call it “entelechy” that was Jung's term: a very propulsive directed intelligence that wants us literally to embrace all the selves and become all that we can possibly be. Some of these selves obviously are onto the surface of our mind, some of these behaviors let's call them or sub-personalities; where do the others go ? The general term that we use for where they go is the unconscious; all of these selves that have been forced underground in our early upbringing don't disappear; no self ever disappears, no matter how hard we try to make it disappear; so as the primary selves develop say the responsibility side it tries to get rid of the parts of the person that are non-responsible so the non-responsible, irresponsible selfish parts go into the unconscious. There you will find them in dreams, they will break out in many different ways, and they have an amazing consequence and behavior, because whatever it is that you try to get rid of, that you force into the unconscious, is going to manifest in your life in relationship. You are going to be either strongly, strongly, judgmental towards somebody who is not responsible or are you are going to be unbelievably attracted to somebody who is irresponsible, or as is often the case you'll first be attracted and then repelled, or repelled and then attracted, so you get this kind of love-hate thing that's known as marriage. So what is the third goal of voice dialogue? The third goal is the kind of clarification that happens as you begin to unhook from the various system of selves that comprise the personality level. So for example one time someone had a dream of a ball of twine that was all mushed together and they were peeling off the layers of twine to get to the inside core; the inside core is that very vulnerable essential energy that we come into the world with; that energy can't stay with us as we develop a personality because if you remain identified without energy, you get killed in the world and you become a victim. By killed what do you mean? Well, it's buried very very very deeply, because if it's [out] there, it's so painful, you are dysfunctional. So almost everyone has to really get rid of that kind of energy, but at some age we have to get it back, because that energy gives us, it's almost like an essential frequency that defines who we are. So what happens in the course of transformational work as this aware ego process develops, we separate from the personality level and we begin to get in touch again with this primary frequency that we were born with. The other thing that happens is that as we separate from the personality level, we also become more open to energies that we call transpersonal, namely experiences that are not part of our personal experience; we become open to the mythic and archetypal nature of the psyche that's the part of our psychology that is not a function of our personal upbringing; there are parts of our unconscious that are built into the system; they are not learned behaviors. So what would you say is the actual power of voice dialogue? The separation from primary selves and the discovery of disowned selves creates such a revolution in consciousness, it can hardly be imagined, and people feel like they're out of prison. They feel literally like they've gotten out of prison; you do a session with the inner critic and they say do you mean to tell me that's a voice? when I've thought for the last 50 years that was me? They are going out of prison. So it's like an amazing discovery of a totally new land that they've discovered in which freedom is possible; they don't have total freedom right away, but they begin to have a map of how to get out of this prison that they've been in the prison of being identified with selves. The prison of conditioning? The prison of conditioning.

Brillaint and needed.

Fantastic talk for an aware audience! I love voice dialogue and would love to see its methods spread faster because I believe that this video is not accessible to someone who has never heard of voice dialogue: lots of jargon that will means nothing to most people who watch youtube :) I'd be very happy to help out translating it into everyday language... thanks for all the fabulous work on VD!

This sounds like an amazing description of accessing one's True Self which is taught in Navigating Change: Restoring Trust and Balance at Highest Potential Training. I never heard the ship at sea has a balancing mechanism and how the unconscious can serve to do the same balancing when one uses voice dialogue.

Well presented and easy to understand although seems to be core sub personality work taken from Psychosynthesis but renamed.

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Fantastic talk for an aware audience! I love voice dialogue and would love to see its methods spread faster because I believe that this video is not accessible to someone who has never heard of voice dialogue: lots of jargon that will means nothing to most people who watch youtube :) I'd be very happy to help out translating it into everyday language... thanks for all the fabulous work on VD!