Daniel Deslauriers and Dan discuss dreams, arts-based inquiry, contact improvisation, alternative epistemologies, living knowledge, inquiry and personal transformation.

Daniel Deslauriers, PhD, received his doctorate (1989) in Psychology from the University of Montreal (Quebec) and conducted research at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the Chronopsychology Laboratory, Carleton University (Ontario). He lived in Indonesia and has studied the religion and sacred arts of Bali, and trained in Gamelan music and Balinese dance. He was co-founder of the Montreal Center for the Study of Dreams. Daniel co-authored Le rêve: sa nature, sa fonction et une methode d'analyse (P.U.Q., 1987), has published articles on epistemology and narrative research, and and has co-authored (with Fariba Bogzaran) Integral Dreaming (SUNY Press, 2012). His professional interests in consciousness studies include: traditional and contemporary approaches to dreams and imagination, altered states of consciousness, spiritual intelligence, and integral psychology. He is also a practitioner and teacher of Unity in Motion, a bodymind integrative practice. Daniel was selected as winner of the Templeton 2000 Science and Religion Course Award Competition for a course he developed entitled "Consciousness, Science and Religion."

Dr. Deslauriers' article referenced in the interview is:

Deslauriers, D. (1992). Dimensions of knowing: Narrative, paradigm, and ritual. ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation, 14(4), 187-193.