I assembled these notes a few years after in 2021 having attended the Level 1 retreat with Daniel P Brown preceding his final one. They are purely my own thoughts, based on publicly available material on Youtube, Vimeo, books, courses, and my retreat notes, as well as on comments by other participants shared with me. They must not be taken as authoritative statements about theories, concepts, methods, teachings etc of POGW. Neither should they be taken as "teaching" of any sort. All they can do is to provide a conceptual breakdown of core components of the method. However, as being purely conceptual, they cannot replace the participation in a live retreat (online or in person), where a trained teacher puts them in context, interacting with a group and enabling an experiential access to abstract words. This had been Daniel P Brown´s aim: structuring his material to support the experience from the inside; teaching cerntain "mental operations" to shift the mind between different levels (views). The material is limited to what was taught as Level 1. All errors are mine. I made use in 2025 of the summarising, structuring , and presenting abilities of AI. The notes were initially meant for my personal use, as a little fun AI project, completed in 3 days. But I invite every reader to snoop around to get "a taste" of the teaching system and its content of Daniel P Brown. He had aimed to preserve the Tibetan Mahamudra and Dzogchen tradition in a modern form, combining it with his Western psychotherapist background, and later, with some traditions of the Bon strand. I am very grateful for him to have given me, in a few days, an incredibly deep reaching insight into one of the most fascinating spiritual traditions, arising in the "Silicon Valley of the Mind" (Dustin diPerna, his brilliant co-teacher).
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