Question
Hi, do you feel that lucid dreams might be astral travels to other universes with new laws of physics? Do you know anything about the croft style orgone generators and can they asist in such dimensional shifts? Thanks.
Tim
Answer
Hi Tim,
Yes, Lucid dreams are a form of Astral travel but not only to other universes or realms of existence. Lucid and even dreams are also used in communicating with your own spiritual essence and being or with other beings that are trying to break through the veil, to your conscious mind.
While I'm not familiar with the croft orgone generators, anything that you ?believe? will help you do what it is you want to do, will of course ?appear? to have "the power" and be working for you. You are still searching for things outside yourself and not trusting or believing that YOU have "the power" and not the object. Think of the Matrix, it is not the spoon that bends, it is you.
I've created a message board called ?the Heart Centre? that you may find useful. The message board is at the following link. [url]http://com2.runboard.com/btheheartcentre[/url] If you do check out the site, click on ?about this group? to get an idea of where I'm coming from. Later you can visit whatever else interests you as all topics are related. If you so choose, you can also post a ?reply? to what is already written on the message boards or you can start a ?new topic? and ask or express yourself if you so choose.
If the above link isn't ?clickable?, just highlight and copy the text between the arrows >>> http://com2.runboard.com/btheheartcentre http://www.allexperts.....etc. address and paste the one you copied in its place. Then click on ?go? and that should take you there. If you have problems or you want to ask other questions, you know where you can reach me.
Cheers
John
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The meaning of Ohm
Question
Hi:
I understand that ohm (or om) is a mantra used in meditation. However, I am curious as to whether or not it has a "meaning". I had heard that it means "everything", the wholeness, the isness of spirit. Is this true?
Thank you, Cindy
Answer
Om, Aum, Ohm is a holy meditation symbol of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism (see graphic at top of page) with a profusion of esoteric and exoteric meanings. In modern usage Om means the Word, the ?parnava,? the eternal. Various accounts are given of its origin; one that it is the term of assent used by the gods, and probably an old contracted form of the Sanskirt word "evam" meaning "thus." The laws of the "Manu" say that the word was formed by Brahma himself, who extracted the letters "a" "u" "m" from the "Vedas," one from each; and they thus explain its mysterious power and sanctity. "Om" is also the name given by the Hindus to the spiritual sun, as opposed to "Sooruj," the natural sun.
The word is Sanskrit. It is pronounced at the beginning and end of every lesson in the "Veda" and it is also the introductory word of the "Puranas." It is said in the "Katha-Upanishad": "Whoever knows this syllable obtains whatever he wishes." This is because all words are said to be but various forms of the one sound, "om", according to the ?Upanishads." It represents the divine and the power of God. It is the sound-symbol for the ultimate reality.
The three "mantras" of A, U, M also represent the outer, the inner and the superconscient states of consciousness and the waking, dream and deep sleep states respectively. And beyond these is the modeless fourth state (a-matra), which is the Self, according to Advaiata. Another way of saying this is that Om is immortal and inexhaustible. It is the symbolic expression of the creative spirit, the Word (with reference to the three component sounds), the three human conditions (waking, dreaming, and deep sleep), the three times of day (morning, midday, evening), and the three faculties (action, cognition, volition).
The Om is also often referred to as the sound of the Earth?creation...the heart of existence. To become one with the sound of the Om, through visual meditation and sounding of the vibration, allows one to become one with the source of all...to become "realized"...a "master." This last perspective of ?Om? is how most westerners experience the ?Om? and why it is used as an ending to many New Age ceremonies and gatherings.
If you choose to experiment with this sound for your own meditation and realizations, be sure to resonate the word (long o??m?.) in the deepest range of your vocal register, with a single breath. Elongate the o with an open mouth and then vibrate the m through closed lips. Keep the repetition of the sound even in duration, breathing in between soundings. After doing this exercise for 10 minutes or so, you may wish to transform the OM to AUM (ah?ewe?m?) and note the effect after 10 more minutes. It also is helpful to visualize the symbol for OM while doing this, either with eyes closed or by looking at the symbol during a wide-eyed meditation. See the symbol as a ?seed? with each OM-AUM it grows inside you?until you become the OM-AUM.
Happy realizations!
In Oneness,
Hi:
I understand that ohm (or om) is a mantra used in meditation. However, I am curious as to whether or not it has a "meaning". I had heard that it means "everything", the wholeness, the isness of spirit. Is this true?
Thank you, Cindy
Answer
Om, Aum, Ohm is a holy meditation symbol of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism (see graphic at top of page) with a profusion of esoteric and exoteric meanings. In modern usage Om means the Word, the ?parnava,? the eternal. Various accounts are given of its origin; one that it is the term of assent used by the gods, and probably an old contracted form of the Sanskirt word "evam" meaning "thus." The laws of the "Manu" say that the word was formed by Brahma himself, who extracted the letters "a" "u" "m" from the "Vedas," one from each; and they thus explain its mysterious power and sanctity. "Om" is also the name given by the Hindus to the spiritual sun, as opposed to "Sooruj," the natural sun.
The word is Sanskrit. It is pronounced at the beginning and end of every lesson in the "Veda" and it is also the introductory word of the "Puranas." It is said in the "Katha-Upanishad": "Whoever knows this syllable obtains whatever he wishes." This is because all words are said to be but various forms of the one sound, "om", according to the ?Upanishads." It represents the divine and the power of God. It is the sound-symbol for the ultimate reality.
The three "mantras" of A, U, M also represent the outer, the inner and the superconscient states of consciousness and the waking, dream and deep sleep states respectively. And beyond these is the modeless fourth state (a-matra), which is the Self, according to Advaiata. Another way of saying this is that Om is immortal and inexhaustible. It is the symbolic expression of the creative spirit, the Word (with reference to the three component sounds), the three human conditions (waking, dreaming, and deep sleep), the three times of day (morning, midday, evening), and the three faculties (action, cognition, volition).
The Om is also often referred to as the sound of the Earth?creation...the heart of existence. To become one with the sound of the Om, through visual meditation and sounding of the vibration, allows one to become one with the source of all...to become "realized"...a "master." This last perspective of ?Om? is how most westerners experience the ?Om? and why it is used as an ending to many New Age ceremonies and gatherings.
If you choose to experiment with this sound for your own meditation and realizations, be sure to resonate the word (long o??m?.) in the deepest range of your vocal register, with a single breath. Elongate the o with an open mouth and then vibrate the m through closed lips. Keep the repetition of the sound even in duration, breathing in between soundings. After doing this exercise for 10 minutes or so, you may wish to transform the OM to AUM (ah?ewe?m?) and note the effect after 10 more minutes. It also is helpful to visualize the symbol for OM while doing this, either with eyes closed or by looking at the symbol during a wide-eyed meditation. See the symbol as a ?seed? with each OM-AUM it grows inside you?until you become the OM-AUM.
Happy realizations!
In Oneness,
Posted by
Beacon Lee
feeling disconnected
Question
For the past year I've left disconnected or disintegrated as a person. I talk and yet don't feel like I'm talking, I'm living yet don't feel like I'm living. It's like on part of me understands while the other half has no idea whats going on. Of course this isn't all the time but it happens to me periodically throughout the day. I was speaking to a friend who has a depressive personality like mine and he has exactly the same symptoms that I do. Any advice?
any at all would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely.
Answer
Sounds like truma, of course, some kind of trauma. My advice is always the same, my little one, new horizons, going beyond where you hae been. I mean really beyond.
Most folks dont like clubs, dont want to get into hobbies. Some folks, its hard to put one foot in front of themselves, just to get to work, especially if they dont have money.
I tell people, learn to fly a plane and I'm serious. Join some metaphysical groups, and you will find someone. Got to a college, or coffee house, or coop, clothing boutiques, bookstores. Make contacts, do something different.
You only have yur youth, if you think life is depressing now, where is that Goddess within, in the dark? It amazes me, and I know its true that the young are depressed.
Yes, this world is a mess, it is not you, if only you knew, that you are not free. Did you family own a farm, or your great grandparents?? Did you leave your family because they were oppressive?
Our oppression began back at WW1, your grandparents became oppressed, on down the line. Is it that you have nothing to fall back on? Scared because you live in a city, and exposed to everything, and can not find love? There are so many more blessed in the looks depart. perhaps. Stop trying to compete, go better yourself, go to small village, find a mate, go to school, better training. Find out what you wish you were doing, loved to be doing, and go for it, put it into the ethereal. Go to a sunny spot to meditate, and look toward the sun, not AT it, but to the side, keep it in your view, it is the light for us, and we need it hitting our eyes, and on our skin, to help us grow, consciously, and physically, and to bring us out of darkness, our shelters.
Compassionately, Peace, Diana
For the past year I've left disconnected or disintegrated as a person. I talk and yet don't feel like I'm talking, I'm living yet don't feel like I'm living. It's like on part of me understands while the other half has no idea whats going on. Of course this isn't all the time but it happens to me periodically throughout the day. I was speaking to a friend who has a depressive personality like mine and he has exactly the same symptoms that I do. Any advice?
any at all would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely.
Answer
Sounds like truma, of course, some kind of trauma. My advice is always the same, my little one, new horizons, going beyond where you hae been. I mean really beyond.
Most folks dont like clubs, dont want to get into hobbies. Some folks, its hard to put one foot in front of themselves, just to get to work, especially if they dont have money.
I tell people, learn to fly a plane and I'm serious. Join some metaphysical groups, and you will find someone. Got to a college, or coffee house, or coop, clothing boutiques, bookstores. Make contacts, do something different.
You only have yur youth, if you think life is depressing now, where is that Goddess within, in the dark? It amazes me, and I know its true that the young are depressed.
Yes, this world is a mess, it is not you, if only you knew, that you are not free. Did you family own a farm, or your great grandparents?? Did you leave your family because they were oppressive?
Our oppression began back at WW1, your grandparents became oppressed, on down the line. Is it that you have nothing to fall back on? Scared because you live in a city, and exposed to everything, and can not find love? There are so many more blessed in the looks depart. perhaps. Stop trying to compete, go better yourself, go to small village, find a mate, go to school, better training. Find out what you wish you were doing, loved to be doing, and go for it, put it into the ethereal. Go to a sunny spot to meditate, and look toward the sun, not AT it, but to the side, keep it in your view, it is the light for us, and we need it hitting our eyes, and on our skin, to help us grow, consciously, and physically, and to bring us out of darkness, our shelters.
Compassionately, Peace, Diana
Posted by
Beacon Lee
feeling disconnected
Question
For the past year I've left disconnected or disintegrated as a person. I talk and yet don't feel like I'm talking, I'm living yet don't feel like I'm living. It's like on part of me understands while the other half has no idea whats going on. Of course this isn't all the time but it happens to me periodically throughout the day. I was speaking to a friend who has a depressive personality like mine and he has exactly the same symptoms that I do. Any advice?
any at all would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely.
Answer
Marcus Watts , Thank you for your question.
It sounds to me that you are experiencing what is called "depersonalization". This can be due to a psychiatric condition such as major depression with schizoid features, a medical condition, or can be a natural symptom of spiritual progress.
It is important to rule out a medical or mental health condition. I am not qualified to judge your health. I HIGHLY recommend that you visit a psychiatrist and ask to be examined to determine an accurate diagnosis. If it turns out that you do have a clinical illness, your doctor may prescribe medicine that will help you regain a normal state of functioning.
Once you are healthy, the addition of a practice such as Transcendental Meditation may increase your enjoyment of life.
But the first step is to get yourself checked out.
David Spector
For the past year I've left disconnected or disintegrated as a person. I talk and yet don't feel like I'm talking, I'm living yet don't feel like I'm living. It's like on part of me understands while the other half has no idea whats going on. Of course this isn't all the time but it happens to me periodically throughout the day. I was speaking to a friend who has a depressive personality like mine and he has exactly the same symptoms that I do. Any advice?
any at all would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely.
Answer
Marcus Watts , Thank you for your question.
It sounds to me that you are experiencing what is called "depersonalization". This can be due to a psychiatric condition such as major depression with schizoid features, a medical condition, or can be a natural symptom of spiritual progress.
It is important to rule out a medical or mental health condition. I am not qualified to judge your health. I HIGHLY recommend that you visit a psychiatrist and ask to be examined to determine an accurate diagnosis. If it turns out that you do have a clinical illness, your doctor may prescribe medicine that will help you regain a normal state of functioning.
Once you are healthy, the addition of a practice such as Transcendental Meditation may increase your enjoyment of life.
But the first step is to get yourself checked out.
David Spector
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Mr. Spector, Are you familiar...
Question
Mr. Spector, Are you familiar with Holosync, which is supposed to synchronize the two brain hemispheres using binaural tones to put the user into different stages of meditation? What is your opinion of this or other similiar ways of meditating? Any benefits? Thank You.
P.S. Can you e-mail me a mantra with your answer, if you wish. I was ahead of the wave and read about TM many years ago and was fascinated, In this rural area, we have only recently had yoga classes start up!!
Answer
Carol , Thank you for your question.
No, I have not heard of the system you describe.
I am only familiar with Transcendental Meditation, which I teach.
Let me describe Transcendental Meditation in detail. Perhaps that will answer your question.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Mr. Spector, Are you familiar with Holosync, which is supposed to synchronize the two brain hemispheres using binaural tones to put the user into different stages of meditation? What is your opinion of this or other similiar ways of meditating? Any benefits? Thank You.
P.S. Can you e-mail me a mantra with your answer, if you wish. I was ahead of the wave and read about TM many years ago and was fascinated, In this rural area, we have only recently had yoga classes start up!!
Answer
Carol , Thank you for your question.
No, I have not heard of the system you describe.
I am only familiar with Transcendental Meditation, which I teach.
Let me describe Transcendental Meditation in detail. Perhaps that will answer your question.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Auras
Question
I am able to see basic auras more than ever now but I can't seem to see colours other than blue and the occasional green.
Why is this?
How can I improve my auric vision?
Answer
The Inner Peace Movement, who I came thru to teach has a basic exerc ise to turn on and develope the 3rd eye to see. these ethereal colors one sees is important only if you intend to use them for long meditations to develope the higher consciousnesses.
Otherwise, the populance is still playing the game of "seeing auras". One can just feel, know, or understand what colors are there.
but to actually begin to see, I will include a exercise which is one of my FAQ's.
Thanks for asking me personally, practice dilligently, keep a journal, and someday you will thank me. Peace, Diana
Well, Mon amie, I am so happy! Let me begin by the sleep paralysis. I dont know what all you have heard but that is only a condition that happens when the spirit comes into the brain stem, and you become only partially awake, and the spirit is not entiring back in the body, and we start to fight. We think we are fighting to move, but in reality, we're fighting the rest of the ecoplasm, us, spirit from coming in. When that happens, one must "let go", relax, and you will feel a slight "zoom", or rush when the rest of spirit whips back in. I have tried to tell the populance at large, because I learned that doctors have labeled it and made it a condition, a sickness, and it is not. Its just there are more and more people coming aware, or coming of AGE.
As the child, you did experience. It has to do with light hitting our eyes, but not really directly, it doesn't matter. I have students look at a bulb, dim, very little wattage, or a yellow one, because the colors are there instantly. Your eyes will roam but thats OK, the colored orbs will roam. One must try to steady the eye, and hold the orbs as long as possible.
And let me add, there is a physiological explianation for what happens. In the brain, or the seat of the eye faculty, when stareing at certain colors, their opposites will show because this facility will "rest". I dont have the explianation in front of me. But lets go on. When you put up the color cards, and my Aunt who was a school teacher would do this with her students to show the experiment, you will see the color opposites. When you put the color cards, poster board, not the neon, but basics, or you can use the neon since its hard to find the basics. Get red, you will see green, green, you will see red, blue, you will see yellow, or lighter. Purple, you will see white. You can make them into shapes, and you will see the shapes. Let me clarify, holding is whats important, holding the color you see until it fades, and doing it again with another colored card. YOU ARE OPENING THE 3RD EYE!!!!
The light must be to the side of you, placed so it is in the locality of shining toward the eyes, not at them, to the side of the wall. When you look at the cards, pay attention to side vision, you will see the colors "seeping" from behind the cards on the wall, before its removed. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU PRACTICE!!! It is easier to see the colors and for them to deepen in color as time goes by. You would be sitting or standing at least 8-10 ft. away. Thats why someone needs to help, to stand at the wall and hold the color cards, you can take turns "seeing". When the card is taken down, you will continue to stare at where it was until the color fades.
With the light bulb or a DIM SUN, you will just hold the colors. You will go into trance as you are able to look longer. You will feel yourself, your body take the steps in meditation that they teach you to do, only it is automatic, like the deep breathing, it begins to happen on its own.
Now, lastly, have a wall of mirrors, or a mirror on the wall, so that if you get back far enough, and sit comfortably, you can see your whole body, and surrounding. You will stare at the middle of your forehead, paying attention to your side vision, then you will begin to see your own aura, and the longer you practice, you will begin to experience. To mention a few, a white spiral, of which if someone were looking at your pupils, they would see them retract, and go full, just like walking into light, then back to dark, BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THIS SPIRAL MOVING. You can see the white mist, called the silver cord, going up and down, both ways, energy coming from you, and to you, ectoplasm, proving your connection to life, not the material. You will feel yourself pushing out the top of your head, and being that Prophecy is your first gift, as I believe it is, you may just go. Thats why you must prop the body snugly, so it cant fall over. Now, the light must be to the side of you, as usual. Remember, Jesus hinted that he was the Light, well, we are light, Jahwe is light, and we need light to energy. Our body needs food, the spirit needs light, like electricity, electromagnetic waves seated in the brain. Each cell of the body does have an eye, explained one time in OMNI.
My room was maybe 20 x 20, with a wall length mirror, (my closet), my bed to the right, and using the lamp on my bedtable. My door was directly across from the mirrors, and I sat on the floor, with a pillow under my rump, at my back, on each side, and on my lap, so wherever my arms, hands felt comfortable with. Being an Intuitive, I couldn't let go, until well practiced, I laid on the couch, and went out, raising up, or almost asleep, after doing the practice I told you to do. Using the imagination, to see oneself go thru the ceiling, and out. I always went to a chateau in a villiage in the Alps. It took about a week of practice. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Thats why I'm relating, and you must read books on it, so you will know it is real, and you are not alone. It must be viable in your head.
Going to the Edgar Cayce Inst. was a breathe of fresh air. Being in his surrounding made me even more viable.
There's much more I can relate, but I dont want to inhibit either, because you will experience what I haven't. Each person is a individual, and you will teach me also.
My first experience was when I was only two. I have a photographic memory when NECESSARY, such as work, or something I will need to remember later. I have seen color since very young, and thank the Goddess, for my grandfather, studying Cayce.
The bulb exercise is separate from the wall exercise with the light to your side to clarify your question. Dont forget Robert Monroe, he is still on the web, and his books. He's a natural, and he has an open invite to others to go there, volunteer for experiments. That was years ago, so check within his later books. Also, hopefully, he's still alive.
Not time travel, its dimension jumping. Altho, techyon waves might project us backwards, that remains to be seen with experiencing. We either have a past, or we live simultaneously. I think we do have a past. I have reasoning, (intuition) about that. We have an expert, JerryGeorge who dimension jumps like Robert Monroe.
I think I've covered everything. Please feel free to get in touch. And teach others. I dont travel like I used to. Its easier coming in and touching someone on the computer. I plan to go to Sedona, a metaphysical society. Peace, Diana
I am able to see basic auras more than ever now but I can't seem to see colours other than blue and the occasional green.
Why is this?
How can I improve my auric vision?
Answer
The Inner Peace Movement, who I came thru to teach has a basic exerc ise to turn on and develope the 3rd eye to see. these ethereal colors one sees is important only if you intend to use them for long meditations to develope the higher consciousnesses.
Otherwise, the populance is still playing the game of "seeing auras". One can just feel, know, or understand what colors are there.
but to actually begin to see, I will include a exercise which is one of my FAQ's.
Thanks for asking me personally, practice dilligently, keep a journal, and someday you will thank me. Peace, Diana
Well, Mon amie, I am so happy! Let me begin by the sleep paralysis. I dont know what all you have heard but that is only a condition that happens when the spirit comes into the brain stem, and you become only partially awake, and the spirit is not entiring back in the body, and we start to fight. We think we are fighting to move, but in reality, we're fighting the rest of the ecoplasm, us, spirit from coming in. When that happens, one must "let go", relax, and you will feel a slight "zoom", or rush when the rest of spirit whips back in. I have tried to tell the populance at large, because I learned that doctors have labeled it and made it a condition, a sickness, and it is not. Its just there are more and more people coming aware, or coming of AGE.
As the child, you did experience. It has to do with light hitting our eyes, but not really directly, it doesn't matter. I have students look at a bulb, dim, very little wattage, or a yellow one, because the colors are there instantly. Your eyes will roam but thats OK, the colored orbs will roam. One must try to steady the eye, and hold the orbs as long as possible.
And let me add, there is a physiological explianation for what happens. In the brain, or the seat of the eye faculty, when stareing at certain colors, their opposites will show because this facility will "rest". I dont have the explianation in front of me. But lets go on. When you put up the color cards, and my Aunt who was a school teacher would do this with her students to show the experiment, you will see the color opposites. When you put the color cards, poster board, not the neon, but basics, or you can use the neon since its hard to find the basics. Get red, you will see green, green, you will see red, blue, you will see yellow, or lighter. Purple, you will see white. You can make them into shapes, and you will see the shapes. Let me clarify, holding is whats important, holding the color you see until it fades, and doing it again with another colored card. YOU ARE OPENING THE 3RD EYE!!!!
The light must be to the side of you, placed so it is in the locality of shining toward the eyes, not at them, to the side of the wall. When you look at the cards, pay attention to side vision, you will see the colors "seeping" from behind the cards on the wall, before its removed. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU PRACTICE!!! It is easier to see the colors and for them to deepen in color as time goes by. You would be sitting or standing at least 8-10 ft. away. Thats why someone needs to help, to stand at the wall and hold the color cards, you can take turns "seeing". When the card is taken down, you will continue to stare at where it was until the color fades.
With the light bulb or a DIM SUN, you will just hold the colors. You will go into trance as you are able to look longer. You will feel yourself, your body take the steps in meditation that they teach you to do, only it is automatic, like the deep breathing, it begins to happen on its own.
Now, lastly, have a wall of mirrors, or a mirror on the wall, so that if you get back far enough, and sit comfortably, you can see your whole body, and surrounding. You will stare at the middle of your forehead, paying attention to your side vision, then you will begin to see your own aura, and the longer you practice, you will begin to experience. To mention a few, a white spiral, of which if someone were looking at your pupils, they would see them retract, and go full, just like walking into light, then back to dark, BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THIS SPIRAL MOVING. You can see the white mist, called the silver cord, going up and down, both ways, energy coming from you, and to you, ectoplasm, proving your connection to life, not the material. You will feel yourself pushing out the top of your head, and being that Prophecy is your first gift, as I believe it is, you may just go. Thats why you must prop the body snugly, so it cant fall over. Now, the light must be to the side of you, as usual. Remember, Jesus hinted that he was the Light, well, we are light, Jahwe is light, and we need light to energy. Our body needs food, the spirit needs light, like electricity, electromagnetic waves seated in the brain. Each cell of the body does have an eye, explained one time in OMNI.
My room was maybe 20 x 20, with a wall length mirror, (my closet), my bed to the right, and using the lamp on my bedtable. My door was directly across from the mirrors, and I sat on the floor, with a pillow under my rump, at my back, on each side, and on my lap, so wherever my arms, hands felt comfortable with. Being an Intuitive, I couldn't let go, until well practiced, I laid on the couch, and went out, raising up, or almost asleep, after doing the practice I told you to do. Using the imagination, to see oneself go thru the ceiling, and out. I always went to a chateau in a villiage in the Alps. It took about a week of practice. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Thats why I'm relating, and you must read books on it, so you will know it is real, and you are not alone. It must be viable in your head.
Going to the Edgar Cayce Inst. was a breathe of fresh air. Being in his surrounding made me even more viable.
There's much more I can relate, but I dont want to inhibit either, because you will experience what I haven't. Each person is a individual, and you will teach me also.
My first experience was when I was only two. I have a photographic memory when NECESSARY, such as work, or something I will need to remember later. I have seen color since very young, and thank the Goddess, for my grandfather, studying Cayce.
The bulb exercise is separate from the wall exercise with the light to your side to clarify your question. Dont forget Robert Monroe, he is still on the web, and his books. He's a natural, and he has an open invite to others to go there, volunteer for experiments. That was years ago, so check within his later books. Also, hopefully, he's still alive.
Not time travel, its dimension jumping. Altho, techyon waves might project us backwards, that remains to be seen with experiencing. We either have a past, or we live simultaneously. I think we do have a past. I have reasoning, (intuition) about that. We have an expert, JerryGeorge who dimension jumps like Robert Monroe.
I think I've covered everything. Please feel free to get in touch. And teach others. I dont travel like I used to. Its easier coming in and touching someone on the computer. I plan to go to Sedona, a metaphysical society. Peace, Diana
Posted by
Beacon Lee
meditation
Question
Hi,
I am a student taking a philosophy class online and am learning about Buddhism and different religions. I was wondering if you could explain how transcendal meditation affects the mind and body, how people can be changed by it, and the basic process of meditation. How long does it take to learn and how must one follow through with it? Do you know how it originated? I think it is really interesting, and would love to know anything about it. Thank you!
Answer
Jen , Thank you for your question.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Hi,
I am a student taking a philosophy class online and am learning about Buddhism and different religions. I was wondering if you could explain how transcendal meditation affects the mind and body, how people can be changed by it, and the basic process of meditation. How long does it take to learn and how must one follow through with it? Do you know how it originated? I think it is really interesting, and would love to know anything about it. Thank you!
Answer
Jen , Thank you for your question.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Meditation
Question
I have a few questions about Buddhism and meditation. I have been practicing meditation for a few years, but there are a few questions I would like to ask.
~It seems that I cannot part with my ego. Whenever something happens to me while meditating (a hallucination, etc), I get scared and stop the excersize. I feel like I am too grounded in reality. How do I give this up?
~One time while meditating, I came to a point where it was as if my ears were clogged. I couldn't hear anything. This really scared me, so I stopped the excersize. Is this normal, and is this safe? Is meditation safe?
~The ultimate goal of meditation is to escape the cycles of birth and death (correct?) If this is so, once one reaches enlightenment, does their body die? If not, what is it like to walk around in a constant state of enlightenment?
Thank you so much for your time and answers.
~Kristen Sund
Answer
Hi, Kristen.
You are asking some sincere questions. I wish we had a chance to talk about these directly, like on the phone, because then I could ask you more what you mean and it would be a nice dialogue. But I'll try to respond here and if you ever do want to have a discussion, you'd be welcome to call.
You say you can't part with your ego and your examples are having something like a halucination or strange sensation in your ears, which makes you stop your "exercise". First, I wonder what this exerecise is. Do you have some practice such as counting the breath or following the breath or are you holding some image to focus on?
If so, then I can understand why certain things may make you stop that exercise. Maybe the thing that's coming up needs your attention. Personally, I don't focus on anything. There is no practice for me in sitting quietly. It is just being with what is, letting it all reveal itself and unfold without interference, noticing the strong tendency to react immediately to what comes up in the mind and seeing if that tendency can just be put aside so the simple presence can continue.
So if something comes up for you during your meditation, something that scares you, I wonder if you can be with it for a bit before reacting. Of course, if you think it is something that has a real danger right then, then hopefully you will do what you need to protect yourself. But if you are not sure, can you sit with it a while and listen. What is the fear? Can you let it speak to you, to clarify itself? Can you listen to what the body is doing, as well as the mind, as well as the sounds in the air around you and the rising and falling of the breathe? It is all real and is happening right now.
Maybe instead of going back to your exercise, you can just continue to be present without engaging the mind in any particular activity, just allowing whatever pops up in the mind, listening to your whole self, which includes the sounds around you, the feel of the air on the skin, the sensations in the stomach and legs.
Now where is there any ego in this to give up?
You say you are too grounded in reality. If by reality you mean what is really present, what is here and can be felt, seen, touched, tasted, smelled, as well as the space around it all and what moves through the mind and body, then is there any problem in this for you, I wonder? Are you trying to achieve some more ethereal state? To get away from the sensations (as they are not always pleasant)?
You ask if meditation is safe. This is really a good question. If meditation means trying to control or focus the mind, concentrate on something, encourage certain states, then we really have to wonder whether the effect is good or bad. It is very difficult to know how we might be influencing the mind, conditioning it.
But if meditation means being openly with what is, noticing how things really are moment by moment, being in touch sensitively with the nervous system and with space around, how does that sound to you? Does it sound unsafe? Maybe it does, because we are very much unfamiliar with living that way.
You said: The ultimate goal of meditation is to escape the cycles of birth and death (correct?) If this is so, once one reaches enlightenment, does their body die? If not, what is it like to walk around in a constant state of enlightenment?
I wonder what this means to you personally - "escape the cycles of birth and death". Does it mean the pain of life, the physical pain of the body - even fresh new babies cry from the intensity of what their nervous systems are going through - the pains of aging, the loss and sorrow, the ultimate loss through death, either my own or of a loved one?
Isn't pain a fact of life? The Buddha said life is pain. It's the first noble truth, I think. If we look carefully at the pain in our lives, we can discover that there is a simple pain, for example someone I have been close to is not here now and it is harder for my body because that shared energy is not here. That is a simple fact and a factual discomfort. But then there is reaction to this. Why did she leave me? What did I do to deserve this? Why does this always happen to me? How can I get him back? I'll never get her back! How can I get even with him?
In all of this reaction there is a tremendously greater pain - maybe we can call it a suffering - that is set in motion. With it there is eventually an exhaustion in the body and then more reaction. How can I ever get out of this continual reaction, getting wound up, angry, hurt. Maybe I can do an exercise to get rid of it. Maybe I can try this or that.
Is it possible to start to simply notice what is reaction and let it drop. To stay for a moment with what is, simply, without labelling it painful or pleasant. To come back again and again just to the simplicity of what is here, not in order to change things in the future, but rather just because reaction is not helpful. Can you start to find this space of being where reaction can be seen but does not need to take over?
In doing this, does fear come up? Is this safe? Things are happening that I'm not in control of. Actually we're not in control of any of it! That's a very freeing thing. The breathing, the paining, the sound of a distant bird, heaviness of the legs, it is just all here without the need for control or reaction, without knowing where it is all going. And if fear comes up, is it at all possible that some times it can just be felt, watched listened to, gotten familiar with, in not reacting to it. If there is something important there, it can reveal itself in this kind of fresh openness. Reveal itself in a simple, fresh way.
Controlling and reacting are a tremendous burden and yet they are deeply programmed into the mind and come up again and again. Listening carefully, silently, timelessly, we can wonder if all of this struggle to protect and defend can drop away into simple being. Is this a dying, not physically, but in a different way? A dying to what is not really necessary. What's left is this simple world around us and of us, alive and undivided, timeless and goalless, complete in itself.
Simple awareness is a moment to moment thing. It is not a permanent thing for us. It happens on its own when something else drops. It seems to disappear when the mind is wrapped up in reaction, defense and suffering. In simple awareness there is no goal, no problem of dying or being born, no problem with pain or pleasure. There is an appropriate moving with things and events. In the reactive mind there are endless, impossible goals demanding endless effort, striving and suffering, endless complication, confusion and fear and every reaction is inappropriate and causes more trouble.
Can you simply begin to notice how the mind is for you as you sit quietly. Can you sometimes, a little, let it all unfold and don't worry about your future, about escaping the complications of birth and death. Presence is simple.
If you find that this seems impossible, don't despair. Even when the mind is completely embroiled in reaction, this is not all there is. Stick with it quietly, sitting in the eye of the hurricane, a space of quiet within the turmoil that you may find yourself in.
I think I'll stop here. I hope I haven't thrown too much at you. Please write back with any comments, questions. If I was not clear about something, please ask me about it. You can write here to the allexpert site or email me directly at jcutts@swcp.com. Put the word meditation in the subject line.
If you'd like to talk on the phone, let me know and we can make arrangements.
Best wishes to you.
Jay Cutts
I have a few questions about Buddhism and meditation. I have been practicing meditation for a few years, but there are a few questions I would like to ask.
~It seems that I cannot part with my ego. Whenever something happens to me while meditating (a hallucination, etc), I get scared and stop the excersize. I feel like I am too grounded in reality. How do I give this up?
~One time while meditating, I came to a point where it was as if my ears were clogged. I couldn't hear anything. This really scared me, so I stopped the excersize. Is this normal, and is this safe? Is meditation safe?
~The ultimate goal of meditation is to escape the cycles of birth and death (correct?) If this is so, once one reaches enlightenment, does their body die? If not, what is it like to walk around in a constant state of enlightenment?
Thank you so much for your time and answers.
~Kristen Sund
Answer
Hi, Kristen.
You are asking some sincere questions. I wish we had a chance to talk about these directly, like on the phone, because then I could ask you more what you mean and it would be a nice dialogue. But I'll try to respond here and if you ever do want to have a discussion, you'd be welcome to call.
You say you can't part with your ego and your examples are having something like a halucination or strange sensation in your ears, which makes you stop your "exercise". First, I wonder what this exerecise is. Do you have some practice such as counting the breath or following the breath or are you holding some image to focus on?
If so, then I can understand why certain things may make you stop that exercise. Maybe the thing that's coming up needs your attention. Personally, I don't focus on anything. There is no practice for me in sitting quietly. It is just being with what is, letting it all reveal itself and unfold without interference, noticing the strong tendency to react immediately to what comes up in the mind and seeing if that tendency can just be put aside so the simple presence can continue.
So if something comes up for you during your meditation, something that scares you, I wonder if you can be with it for a bit before reacting. Of course, if you think it is something that has a real danger right then, then hopefully you will do what you need to protect yourself. But if you are not sure, can you sit with it a while and listen. What is the fear? Can you let it speak to you, to clarify itself? Can you listen to what the body is doing, as well as the mind, as well as the sounds in the air around you and the rising and falling of the breathe? It is all real and is happening right now.
Maybe instead of going back to your exercise, you can just continue to be present without engaging the mind in any particular activity, just allowing whatever pops up in the mind, listening to your whole self, which includes the sounds around you, the feel of the air on the skin, the sensations in the stomach and legs.
Now where is there any ego in this to give up?
You say you are too grounded in reality. If by reality you mean what is really present, what is here and can be felt, seen, touched, tasted, smelled, as well as the space around it all and what moves through the mind and body, then is there any problem in this for you, I wonder? Are you trying to achieve some more ethereal state? To get away from the sensations (as they are not always pleasant)?
You ask if meditation is safe. This is really a good question. If meditation means trying to control or focus the mind, concentrate on something, encourage certain states, then we really have to wonder whether the effect is good or bad. It is very difficult to know how we might be influencing the mind, conditioning it.
But if meditation means being openly with what is, noticing how things really are moment by moment, being in touch sensitively with the nervous system and with space around, how does that sound to you? Does it sound unsafe? Maybe it does, because we are very much unfamiliar with living that way.
You said: The ultimate goal of meditation is to escape the cycles of birth and death (correct?) If this is so, once one reaches enlightenment, does their body die? If not, what is it like to walk around in a constant state of enlightenment?
I wonder what this means to you personally - "escape the cycles of birth and death". Does it mean the pain of life, the physical pain of the body - even fresh new babies cry from the intensity of what their nervous systems are going through - the pains of aging, the loss and sorrow, the ultimate loss through death, either my own or of a loved one?
Isn't pain a fact of life? The Buddha said life is pain. It's the first noble truth, I think. If we look carefully at the pain in our lives, we can discover that there is a simple pain, for example someone I have been close to is not here now and it is harder for my body because that shared energy is not here. That is a simple fact and a factual discomfort. But then there is reaction to this. Why did she leave me? What did I do to deserve this? Why does this always happen to me? How can I get him back? I'll never get her back! How can I get even with him?
In all of this reaction there is a tremendously greater pain - maybe we can call it a suffering - that is set in motion. With it there is eventually an exhaustion in the body and then more reaction. How can I ever get out of this continual reaction, getting wound up, angry, hurt. Maybe I can do an exercise to get rid of it. Maybe I can try this or that.
Is it possible to start to simply notice what is reaction and let it drop. To stay for a moment with what is, simply, without labelling it painful or pleasant. To come back again and again just to the simplicity of what is here, not in order to change things in the future, but rather just because reaction is not helpful. Can you start to find this space of being where reaction can be seen but does not need to take over?
In doing this, does fear come up? Is this safe? Things are happening that I'm not in control of. Actually we're not in control of any of it! That's a very freeing thing. The breathing, the paining, the sound of a distant bird, heaviness of the legs, it is just all here without the need for control or reaction, without knowing where it is all going. And if fear comes up, is it at all possible that some times it can just be felt, watched listened to, gotten familiar with, in not reacting to it. If there is something important there, it can reveal itself in this kind of fresh openness. Reveal itself in a simple, fresh way.
Controlling and reacting are a tremendous burden and yet they are deeply programmed into the mind and come up again and again. Listening carefully, silently, timelessly, we can wonder if all of this struggle to protect and defend can drop away into simple being. Is this a dying, not physically, but in a different way? A dying to what is not really necessary. What's left is this simple world around us and of us, alive and undivided, timeless and goalless, complete in itself.
Simple awareness is a moment to moment thing. It is not a permanent thing for us. It happens on its own when something else drops. It seems to disappear when the mind is wrapped up in reaction, defense and suffering. In simple awareness there is no goal, no problem of dying or being born, no problem with pain or pleasure. There is an appropriate moving with things and events. In the reactive mind there are endless, impossible goals demanding endless effort, striving and suffering, endless complication, confusion and fear and every reaction is inappropriate and causes more trouble.
Can you simply begin to notice how the mind is for you as you sit quietly. Can you sometimes, a little, let it all unfold and don't worry about your future, about escaping the complications of birth and death. Presence is simple.
If you find that this seems impossible, don't despair. Even when the mind is completely embroiled in reaction, this is not all there is. Stick with it quietly, sitting in the eye of the hurricane, a space of quiet within the turmoil that you may find yourself in.
I think I'll stop here. I hope I haven't thrown too much at you. Please write back with any comments, questions. If I was not clear about something, please ask me about it. You can write here to the allexpert site or email me directly at jcutts@swcp.com. Put the word meditation in the subject line.
If you'd like to talk on the phone, let me know and we can make arrangements.
Best wishes to you.
Jay Cutts
Posted by
Beacon Lee
General
Question
I have a few general questions about Transcendental Meditation. I know very little about it so my first question is what is it? How is it different from other types of mediation? Benifits? and how does one learn how to meditate like this?
thanks
Answer
Taylor , Thank you for your question.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
I have a few general questions about Transcendental Meditation. I know very little about it so my first question is what is it? How is it different from other types of mediation? Benifits? and how does one learn how to meditate like this?
thanks
Answer
Taylor , Thank you for your question.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Posted by
Beacon Lee
TM
Question
Hi,
I have read some books and some internet resources about Tm and there were some awfully unbielveble information(yogic flying,gathering peace,increasing every goodness and etc)
Are whole of these things true?
and did you yourself see these effects?
and how long does it take to affect person?
have fun
Answer
Hi, Mohammad.
Thanks for your nice note. Well, there are all kinds of things that promise wonderful feelings and experiences and many people who will do anything to try to get that. Usually when this happens, someone is making a lot of money from it!!!
This is half a joke but it is also a sad fact. Let's look at this maybe another way. First of all, I think we can agree that there is a lot in life that is painful by the very nature of life. We have physical pain, we have loss of those we love, we have the knowledge of our own limitations and death. We have conflicts between our needs and the reality of our world, for example being hungry when we can find no food or being tired when there is no chance to rest, being cold when there is no way to get warm.
What I've described is true for all living things. But for human beings it is more complicated. In reading your note, I wonder how your life is for you and wonder if like most people, you feel a lack of freedom and a lack of real love and peace. And then maybe the feeling that, yes, there should be a real freedom and love that is not someone's trick to make money.
I would agree that the way we usually live is not all there is. How do I explore this? Let's say right away that it is probably not by exercises, practices, repetition of something, training or believing in certain ideas. Why not? Because this is all part of the same kind of conditioned, controlled way of living that I am questioning.
Let's propose something different. Something simpler and more direct. Let's propose starting to see carefully and without judgment how we really are moment by moment. Seeing the reactions in myself that make things more painful than they need to be and make my life more restrictive than it needs to be. This is a start.
I'm going to stop here because I don't really know how things are for you. You are welcome to write back to me with your thoughts or reactions and we can continue to discuss and clarify things together. Let me know if I said things that were not very clear. I'm interested to hear more about what your concerns are for yourself.
You can write me at the allexperts site or you can email me directly at jcutts@swcp.com. Please put the word meditation in the subject line.
Hope this starts to address your question. Best wishes to you.
Jay Cutts
Hi,
I have read some books and some internet resources about Tm and there were some awfully unbielveble information(yogic flying,gathering peace,increasing every goodness and etc)
Are whole of these things true?
and did you yourself see these effects?
and how long does it take to affect person?
have fun
Answer
Hi, Mohammad.
Thanks for your nice note. Well, there are all kinds of things that promise wonderful feelings and experiences and many people who will do anything to try to get that. Usually when this happens, someone is making a lot of money from it!!!
This is half a joke but it is also a sad fact. Let's look at this maybe another way. First of all, I think we can agree that there is a lot in life that is painful by the very nature of life. We have physical pain, we have loss of those we love, we have the knowledge of our own limitations and death. We have conflicts between our needs and the reality of our world, for example being hungry when we can find no food or being tired when there is no chance to rest, being cold when there is no way to get warm.
What I've described is true for all living things. But for human beings it is more complicated. In reading your note, I wonder how your life is for you and wonder if like most people, you feel a lack of freedom and a lack of real love and peace. And then maybe the feeling that, yes, there should be a real freedom and love that is not someone's trick to make money.
I would agree that the way we usually live is not all there is. How do I explore this? Let's say right away that it is probably not by exercises, practices, repetition of something, training or believing in certain ideas. Why not? Because this is all part of the same kind of conditioned, controlled way of living that I am questioning.
Let's propose something different. Something simpler and more direct. Let's propose starting to see carefully and without judgment how we really are moment by moment. Seeing the reactions in myself that make things more painful than they need to be and make my life more restrictive than it needs to be. This is a start.
I'm going to stop here because I don't really know how things are for you. You are welcome to write back to me with your thoughts or reactions and we can continue to discuss and clarify things together. Let me know if I said things that were not very clear. I'm interested to hear more about what your concerns are for yourself.
You can write me at the allexperts site or you can email me directly at jcutts@swcp.com. Please put the word meditation in the subject line.
Hope this starts to address your question. Best wishes to you.
Jay Cutts
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Personal demons....
Question
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Followup To
Question -
Dear Jay Cutts: I'm not sure how to articulate this question so it makes sense, but here goes...
how can one forever come to terms with their "personal demons" in a way which is not self-deluding. It seems every time I try, I am reminded by one source or another, essentially pidgeon-holed, by others or myself. For instance, my sisters are culprits in making me feel forever worthless - its in the trigger actions and responses and the net result is always a weakening of my resolve to change it. I hope I've made sense in this question and look forward to hearing your reply.
Pat
Answer -
Hi, Pat. Thanks for the note. Your example does make sense to me.
You have actually described something very clearly. Something happens - a person's words, actions, looks - and it triggers a response, or let's call it a reaction. And as you said the reaction is seen and felt - though maybe afterwards - as not helpful, painful, counterproductive, a dead end.
As you say, this reactivity happens over and over. Your question is also very clearly and nicely put. Is there a coming to terms with this fact of human existence that is not self-deluding? Because self-delusion is quite possible - to react to this reactiveness with some defensive approach or stance, such as trying to become all encompassingly compassionate or hiding in myself or trying to create a different state of mind to counter the reactivity. So is there a coming to terms with reactiveness that is simple and direct?
Well, in fact it might be very helpful to notice what happens when you find yourself in a situation where you know your sisters might say something that will trigger your reaction. Coming intimately in touch with the mind and body, listening carefully inside and outside to become familiar with the reactivity, to allow it to be seen and revealed as it moves in the mind and in the body.
Interestingly this same open transparency of listening - unjudging and undefensively - that reveals what is happening in you also allows your system to be more accurately receptive to the other people - where they are really coming from, their own reactiveness and defensiveness that may be going on - in a fresh and non-judgmental, non-divisive, non-defensive way.
So is there a coming to terms with our reactiveness? This open space of non-judgmental, non-defensive listening - isn't this already a different kind of being than defensiveness, a different kind of space? Do you notice that reactiveness is part of the whole circuit of memory in which the mind habitually dwells? Memory being what I know, what I've learned, what's happened before, what works, what doesn't work, even what I believe myself to be. Memory expressing itself usually in the mind through imagery and/or words. Always ready to come up with a reaction.
Open listening really puts all of this knowing aside for the moment. Listening without knowing is much larger, broader, deeper than knowing. We don't need to worry that putting knowing aside will leave us too vulnerable or that somehow we'll lose everything valuable that we know. What we know doesn't go away and has a lovely way of popping up when it is needed and appropriate. It is just that knowing cannot shed light on anything, cannot initiate or give birth to real, appropriate change, to a fresh response.
I'm talking about a radical shift in our life. A shift from living in knowing and reacting to openly listening and, when necessary, responing, which we can define as different from reacting. Responding means to act out of clearly seeing what is going on.
The thing that is remarkable about open listening is that nothing is being defended. Defensiveness is already the mind enclosing itself in some known fear and preparing for a reaction. This doesn't mean that I don't look carefully before crossing a busy street. In fact to really look carefully, there has to be an openness. And if a truck suddenly speeds around the corner, if there is openness it may be seen and an appropriate response may happen. There is no defensiveness in this, no sense of a fearful enclosure. I've heard people report about responding instinctively in an emergency and they say there was no fear, no internal conflict. Just seeing and responding, often with immense energy and compassion.
Not stuck to what I know has happened in the past a million times. The knowledge is here, impressed into the brain cells and reinforced by repetition. But it is only the smallest part of what is real this moment. If the mind does not cling to the tininess of these known patterns, then it may open to the vastness of what is really here right now, the sunshine filtering in, the moist smells of the room, the hum of an airplane, the breath moving the body, the appropriate words for expressing something and, if they should pop up, worries or fears. All happening in open space, all open to examining, intelligent consideration and the possibility of response.
How can this happen, you may ask. Enclosure may drop away on its own. It does from time to time for all of us. You wouldn't be able to notice that there is this pattern of reaction with your sisters if there weren't some space around it for you. Noticing how unhelpful defensive reaction is, noticing in the world around us how dangerous and how exhausting defensiveness is - and defenesiveness, protecting something, protecting myself, is the essence of blind reaction, the root of it, isn't it? - there is already a shift in emphasis somehow away from defensiveness in all of its myriad forms and disguises. A shift to what? We don't know. When there is no defensiveness, what is it here, simply, moment by moment, breath after breath, not knowing, not comparing? This is the exploration that is our real life, perhaps long forgotten and yet simple, always here, so simple that it has no place for self-delusion.
Well, I hope that is a start with your inquiry. It is always nice to have a dialogue about these things and you are welcome to write back to ask me to clarify something if I didn't make any sense, or to say that you see it differently or to bring up a new question that this raises.
You can write me here at the allexpert site or you can mail me personally at jcutts@swcp.com. If you do, please put the word meditation in the subject line so the spam filters don't eat it!
I like conversations about these issues too. Without being able to ask you questions, I'm only guessing and how things are for you. So if you'd like to talk on the phone, let me know and we can arrange it.
Best wishes,
Jay Cutts
Dear Jay....
What a beautiful, intelligently meditated response. I feel very lucky to be indulged this way. What you said made alot of sense, I was able to look at it from another perspective. Actually that reminded me of something someone said about Parisiens being so used to the Eiffel Tower that they somehow take its presence for granted. Thank you so much for having desire to share with me your thoughts. May I ask you a question?
Do you counsel for a living in some capacity? The warmth in your answer suggests you have a calling....Patricia
Answer
Hi, Patricia. Thanks for your nice comments. No, I don't do counseling. I do work with people one on one for graduate school test prep, which does take patience. And I like being able to talk together about the concerns of our lives.
I'll be interested to hear if you ever have any follow up observations or questions. It's nice to clarify these things together.
Best wishes,
Jay
-------------------------
Followup To
Question -
Dear Jay Cutts: I'm not sure how to articulate this question so it makes sense, but here goes...
how can one forever come to terms with their "personal demons" in a way which is not self-deluding. It seems every time I try, I am reminded by one source or another, essentially pidgeon-holed, by others or myself. For instance, my sisters are culprits in making me feel forever worthless - its in the trigger actions and responses and the net result is always a weakening of my resolve to change it. I hope I've made sense in this question and look forward to hearing your reply.
Pat
Answer -
Hi, Pat. Thanks for the note. Your example does make sense to me.
You have actually described something very clearly. Something happens - a person's words, actions, looks - and it triggers a response, or let's call it a reaction. And as you said the reaction is seen and felt - though maybe afterwards - as not helpful, painful, counterproductive, a dead end.
As you say, this reactivity happens over and over. Your question is also very clearly and nicely put. Is there a coming to terms with this fact of human existence that is not self-deluding? Because self-delusion is quite possible - to react to this reactiveness with some defensive approach or stance, such as trying to become all encompassingly compassionate or hiding in myself or trying to create a different state of mind to counter the reactivity. So is there a coming to terms with reactiveness that is simple and direct?
Well, in fact it might be very helpful to notice what happens when you find yourself in a situation where you know your sisters might say something that will trigger your reaction. Coming intimately in touch with the mind and body, listening carefully inside and outside to become familiar with the reactivity, to allow it to be seen and revealed as it moves in the mind and in the body.
Interestingly this same open transparency of listening - unjudging and undefensively - that reveals what is happening in you also allows your system to be more accurately receptive to the other people - where they are really coming from, their own reactiveness and defensiveness that may be going on - in a fresh and non-judgmental, non-divisive, non-defensive way.
So is there a coming to terms with our reactiveness? This open space of non-judgmental, non-defensive listening - isn't this already a different kind of being than defensiveness, a different kind of space? Do you notice that reactiveness is part of the whole circuit of memory in which the mind habitually dwells? Memory being what I know, what I've learned, what's happened before, what works, what doesn't work, even what I believe myself to be. Memory expressing itself usually in the mind through imagery and/or words. Always ready to come up with a reaction.
Open listening really puts all of this knowing aside for the moment. Listening without knowing is much larger, broader, deeper than knowing. We don't need to worry that putting knowing aside will leave us too vulnerable or that somehow we'll lose everything valuable that we know. What we know doesn't go away and has a lovely way of popping up when it is needed and appropriate. It is just that knowing cannot shed light on anything, cannot initiate or give birth to real, appropriate change, to a fresh response.
I'm talking about a radical shift in our life. A shift from living in knowing and reacting to openly listening and, when necessary, responing, which we can define as different from reacting. Responding means to act out of clearly seeing what is going on.
The thing that is remarkable about open listening is that nothing is being defended. Defensiveness is already the mind enclosing itself in some known fear and preparing for a reaction. This doesn't mean that I don't look carefully before crossing a busy street. In fact to really look carefully, there has to be an openness. And if a truck suddenly speeds around the corner, if there is openness it may be seen and an appropriate response may happen. There is no defensiveness in this, no sense of a fearful enclosure. I've heard people report about responding instinctively in an emergency and they say there was no fear, no internal conflict. Just seeing and responding, often with immense energy and compassion.
Not stuck to what I know has happened in the past a million times. The knowledge is here, impressed into the brain cells and reinforced by repetition. But it is only the smallest part of what is real this moment. If the mind does not cling to the tininess of these known patterns, then it may open to the vastness of what is really here right now, the sunshine filtering in, the moist smells of the room, the hum of an airplane, the breath moving the body, the appropriate words for expressing something and, if they should pop up, worries or fears. All happening in open space, all open to examining, intelligent consideration and the possibility of response.
How can this happen, you may ask. Enclosure may drop away on its own. It does from time to time for all of us. You wouldn't be able to notice that there is this pattern of reaction with your sisters if there weren't some space around it for you. Noticing how unhelpful defensive reaction is, noticing in the world around us how dangerous and how exhausting defensiveness is - and defenesiveness, protecting something, protecting myself, is the essence of blind reaction, the root of it, isn't it? - there is already a shift in emphasis somehow away from defensiveness in all of its myriad forms and disguises. A shift to what? We don't know. When there is no defensiveness, what is it here, simply, moment by moment, breath after breath, not knowing, not comparing? This is the exploration that is our real life, perhaps long forgotten and yet simple, always here, so simple that it has no place for self-delusion.
Well, I hope that is a start with your inquiry. It is always nice to have a dialogue about these things and you are welcome to write back to ask me to clarify something if I didn't make any sense, or to say that you see it differently or to bring up a new question that this raises.
You can write me here at the allexpert site or you can mail me personally at jcutts@swcp.com. If you do, please put the word meditation in the subject line so the spam filters don't eat it!
I like conversations about these issues too. Without being able to ask you questions, I'm only guessing and how things are for you. So if you'd like to talk on the phone, let me know and we can arrange it.
Best wishes,
Jay Cutts
Dear Jay....
What a beautiful, intelligently meditated response. I feel very lucky to be indulged this way. What you said made alot of sense, I was able to look at it from another perspective. Actually that reminded me of something someone said about Parisiens being so used to the Eiffel Tower that they somehow take its presence for granted. Thank you so much for having desire to share with me your thoughts. May I ask you a question?
Do you counsel for a living in some capacity? The warmth in your answer suggests you have a calling....Patricia
Answer
Hi, Patricia. Thanks for your nice comments. No, I don't do counseling. I do work with people one on one for graduate school test prep, which does take patience. And I like being able to talk together about the concerns of our lives.
I'll be interested to hear if you ever have any follow up observations or questions. It's nice to clarify these things together.
Best wishes,
Jay
Posted by
Beacon Lee
crystals
Question
Hi. Can you give me some advice about using crystals in meditation. I have four quartz crystals - 3 small, 1 large. When I meditate I wear one round my neck (as a pendant), hold one in each of my hands (on my knees) and have the big one directly behind me. I have to sit on a chair because I have a knee injury. Is this a good way to use them? What will the effects be?
Also, do you know anything about the so-called 'missing years' of Jesus' life. I know the Indians claim he spent this time in India, while the Tibetans claim he went to Tibet, and I'm sure the Chinese would claim he was in China learning Nei Dan during this time. Can you shed any objective light on this?
Thanks for your time,
Chris.
Answer
Hi, Chris, first of all, do you practice holding ANY crystal to find the "vibes, or heat" of it? Thats what one MUST do, then you can use crystal therapy, because you have felt it in your hand. All peoples can feel, if not, they are not trying enough.
For years, I felt nothing, then one day, I picked one up, and IT MADE ME FEEL IT!!!! Very strong, and I was caught off gaurd so that it would come thru. After that, I feel them all, and can tell different things from different crystals. Also, the bigger but still hand size, the better actually, not a mammoth, but that which is comfortable with the hand. Smaller ones have energy, but with beginning practicers, big is best. Healing stones, also, dont forget, those are available, and it lends to the power of the mind to pick certain stones for accomplishing certain things, and have them handy on your alter.
Jesus traveled everywhere to learn, to correlate what he had been taught. They say he was there, because he was, even to the Americas. He knew our future, his anger in the temple, the money. So, he was gifted extrememly, and he did go where he could become a better God-send to all the religions to reserch, do, and use his intuitive.
There are two books I recommend to you, Urantia, and The Book of Levi. I believe it is Levi that tells more details.
He had to prepare for what he knew was coming, and to give a message in so many words to the people so when it came to here, our day, we would understand a little better than what is taught. Thanks, have a blessed day, Diana
Hi. Can you give me some advice about using crystals in meditation. I have four quartz crystals - 3 small, 1 large. When I meditate I wear one round my neck (as a pendant), hold one in each of my hands (on my knees) and have the big one directly behind me. I have to sit on a chair because I have a knee injury. Is this a good way to use them? What will the effects be?
Also, do you know anything about the so-called 'missing years' of Jesus' life. I know the Indians claim he spent this time in India, while the Tibetans claim he went to Tibet, and I'm sure the Chinese would claim he was in China learning Nei Dan during this time. Can you shed any objective light on this?
Thanks for your time,
Chris.
Answer
Hi, Chris, first of all, do you practice holding ANY crystal to find the "vibes, or heat" of it? Thats what one MUST do, then you can use crystal therapy, because you have felt it in your hand. All peoples can feel, if not, they are not trying enough.
For years, I felt nothing, then one day, I picked one up, and IT MADE ME FEEL IT!!!! Very strong, and I was caught off gaurd so that it would come thru. After that, I feel them all, and can tell different things from different crystals. Also, the bigger but still hand size, the better actually, not a mammoth, but that which is comfortable with the hand. Smaller ones have energy, but with beginning practicers, big is best. Healing stones, also, dont forget, those are available, and it lends to the power of the mind to pick certain stones for accomplishing certain things, and have them handy on your alter.
Jesus traveled everywhere to learn, to correlate what he had been taught. They say he was there, because he was, even to the Americas. He knew our future, his anger in the temple, the money. So, he was gifted extrememly, and he did go where he could become a better God-send to all the religions to reserch, do, and use his intuitive.
There are two books I recommend to you, Urantia, and The Book of Levi. I believe it is Levi that tells more details.
He had to prepare for what he knew was coming, and to give a message in so many words to the people so when it came to here, our day, we would understand a little better than what is taught. Thanks, have a blessed day, Diana
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Meditation
Question
Hi, I've been experiencing extreme stress and fatigue in recent times and I'm only 21! I'm very keen to start meditating so I can handle pressure better. I'd like to know how to go about meditating properly and effectively. Appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks so much in advance.
Answer
Below is a faq that will instruct you for Auric TM, plus some other interesting points. Peace
Let me begin by the sleep paralysis. I dont know what all you
have heard but that is only a condition that happens when the spirit comes into the brain stem,
and you become only partially awake, and the spirit is not entiring back in the body, and we
start to fight. We think we are fighting to move, but in reality, we're fighting the rest of
the ecoplasm, us, spirit from coming in. When that happens, one must "let go", relax, and you
will feel a slight "zoom", or rush when the rest of spirit whips back in. I have tried to tell
the populance at large, because I learned that doctors have labeled it and made it a condition,
a sickness, and it is not. Its just there are more and more people coming aware, or coming of
AGE.
As the child, you did experience. It has to do with light hitting our eyes, but not really
directly, it doesn't matter. I have students look at a bulb, dim, very little wattage, or a
yellow one, because the colors are there instantly. Your eyes will roam but thats OK, the
colored orbs will roam. One must try to steady the eye, and hold the orbs as long as possible.
And let me add, there is a physiological explianation for what happens. In the brain, or
the seat of the eye faculty, when stareing at certain colors, their opposites will show because
this facility will "rest". I dont have the explianation in front of me. But lets go on. When
you put up the color cards, and my Aunt who was a school teacher would do this with her students
to show the experiment, you will see the color opposites. When you put the color cards, poster
board, not the neon, but basics, or you can use the neon since its hard to find the basics. Get
red, you will see green, green, you will see red, blue, you will see yellow, or lighter.
Purple, you will see white. You can make them into shapes, and you will see the shapes. Let me
clarify, holding is whats important, holding the color you see until it fades, and doing it
again with another colored card. YOU ARE OPENING THE 3RD EYE!!!!
The light must be to the side of you, placed so it is in the locality of shining toward the
eyes, not at them, to the side of the wall. When you look at the cards, pay attention to side
vision, you will see the colors "seeping" from behind the cards on the wall, before its removed.
DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU PRACTICE!!! It is easier to see the colors and for them to deepen in
color as time goes by. You would be sitting or standing at least 8-10 ft. away. Thats why
someone needs to help, to stand at the wall and hold the color cards, you can take turns
"seeing". When the card is taken down, you will continue to stare at where it was until the
color fades.
With the light bulb or a DIM SUN, you will just hold the colors. You will go into trance
as you are able to look longer. You will feel yourself, your body take the steps in meditation
that they teach you to do, only it is automatic, like the deep breathing, it begins to happen on
its own.
Now, lastly, have a wall of mirrors, or a mirror on the wall, so that if you get back far
enough, and sit comfortably, you can see your whole body, and surrounding. You will stare at
the middle of your forehead, paying attention to your side vision, then you will begin to see
your own aura, and the longer you practice, you will begin to experience. To mention a few, a
white spiral, of which if someone were looking at your pupils, they would see them retract, and
go full, just like walking into light, then back to dark, BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THIS SPIRAL
MOVING. You can see the white mist, called the silver cord, going up and down, both ways,
energy coming from you, and to you, ectoplasm, proving your connection to life, not the
material. You will feel yourself pushing out the top of your head, and being that Prophecy is
your first gift, as I believe it is, you may just go. Thats why you must prop the body snugly,
so it cant fall over. Now, the light must be to the side of you, as usual. Remember, Jesus
hinted that he was the Light, well, we are light, Jahwe is light, and we need light to energy.
Our body needs food, the spirit needs light, like electricity, electromagnetic waves seated in
the brain. Each cell of the body does have an eye, explained one time in OMNI.
My room was maybe 20 x 20, with a wall length mirror, (my closet), my bed to the right, and
using the lamp on my bedtable. My door was directly across from the mirrors, and I sat on the
floor, with a pillow under my rump, at my back, on each side, and on my lap, so wherever my
arms, hands felt comfortable with. Being an Intuitive, I couldn't let go, until well practiced,
I laid on the couch, and went out, raising up, or almost asleep, after doing the practice I told
you to do. Using the imagination, to see oneself go thru the ceiling, and out. I always went
to a chateau in a villiage in the Alps. It took about a week of practice. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN
YOURSELF. Thats why I'm relating, and you must read books on it, so you will know it is real,
and you are not alone. It must be viable in your head.
Going to the Edgar Cayce Inst. was a breathe of fresh air. Being in his surrounding made
me even more viable.
There's much more I can relate, but I dont want to inhibit either, because you will
experience what I haven't. Each person is a individual, and you will teach me also.
My first experience was when I was only two. I have a photographic memory when NECESSARY,
such as work, or something I will need to remember later. I have seen color since very young,
and thank the Goddess, for my grandfather, studying Cayce.
The bulb exercise is separate from the wall exercise with the light to your side to clarify
your question. Dont forget Robert Monroe, he is still on the web, and his books. He's a
natural, and he has an open invite to others to go there, volunteer for experiments. That was
years ago, so check within his later books. Also, hopefully, he's still alive.
Not time travel, its dimension jumping. Altho, techyon waves might project us backwards,
that remains to be seen with experiencing. We either have a past, or we live simultaneously. I
think we do have a past. I have reasoning, (intuition) about that. We have an expert,
JerryGeorge who dimension jumps like Robert Monroe.
I think I've covered everything. Please feel free to get in touch. And teach others. I
dont travel like I used to. Its easier coming in and touching someone on the computer.
Peace, Diana
Hi, I've been experiencing extreme stress and fatigue in recent times and I'm only 21! I'm very keen to start meditating so I can handle pressure better. I'd like to know how to go about meditating properly and effectively. Appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks so much in advance.
Answer
Below is a faq that will instruct you for Auric TM, plus some other interesting points. Peace
Let me begin by the sleep paralysis. I dont know what all you
have heard but that is only a condition that happens when the spirit comes into the brain stem,
and you become only partially awake, and the spirit is not entiring back in the body, and we
start to fight. We think we are fighting to move, but in reality, we're fighting the rest of
the ecoplasm, us, spirit from coming in. When that happens, one must "let go", relax, and you
will feel a slight "zoom", or rush when the rest of spirit whips back in. I have tried to tell
the populance at large, because I learned that doctors have labeled it and made it a condition,
a sickness, and it is not. Its just there are more and more people coming aware, or coming of
AGE.
As the child, you did experience. It has to do with light hitting our eyes, but not really
directly, it doesn't matter. I have students look at a bulb, dim, very little wattage, or a
yellow one, because the colors are there instantly. Your eyes will roam but thats OK, the
colored orbs will roam. One must try to steady the eye, and hold the orbs as long as possible.
And let me add, there is a physiological explianation for what happens. In the brain, or
the seat of the eye faculty, when stareing at certain colors, their opposites will show because
this facility will "rest". I dont have the explianation in front of me. But lets go on. When
you put up the color cards, and my Aunt who was a school teacher would do this with her students
to show the experiment, you will see the color opposites. When you put the color cards, poster
board, not the neon, but basics, or you can use the neon since its hard to find the basics. Get
red, you will see green, green, you will see red, blue, you will see yellow, or lighter.
Purple, you will see white. You can make them into shapes, and you will see the shapes. Let me
clarify, holding is whats important, holding the color you see until it fades, and doing it
again with another colored card. YOU ARE OPENING THE 3RD EYE!!!!
The light must be to the side of you, placed so it is in the locality of shining toward the
eyes, not at them, to the side of the wall. When you look at the cards, pay attention to side
vision, you will see the colors "seeping" from behind the cards on the wall, before its removed.
DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU PRACTICE!!! It is easier to see the colors and for them to deepen in
color as time goes by. You would be sitting or standing at least 8-10 ft. away. Thats why
someone needs to help, to stand at the wall and hold the color cards, you can take turns
"seeing". When the card is taken down, you will continue to stare at where it was until the
color fades.
With the light bulb or a DIM SUN, you will just hold the colors. You will go into trance
as you are able to look longer. You will feel yourself, your body take the steps in meditation
that they teach you to do, only it is automatic, like the deep breathing, it begins to happen on
its own.
Now, lastly, have a wall of mirrors, or a mirror on the wall, so that if you get back far
enough, and sit comfortably, you can see your whole body, and surrounding. You will stare at
the middle of your forehead, paying attention to your side vision, then you will begin to see
your own aura, and the longer you practice, you will begin to experience. To mention a few, a
white spiral, of which if someone were looking at your pupils, they would see them retract, and
go full, just like walking into light, then back to dark, BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THIS SPIRAL
MOVING. You can see the white mist, called the silver cord, going up and down, both ways,
energy coming from you, and to you, ectoplasm, proving your connection to life, not the
material. You will feel yourself pushing out the top of your head, and being that Prophecy is
your first gift, as I believe it is, you may just go. Thats why you must prop the body snugly,
so it cant fall over. Now, the light must be to the side of you, as usual. Remember, Jesus
hinted that he was the Light, well, we are light, Jahwe is light, and we need light to energy.
Our body needs food, the spirit needs light, like electricity, electromagnetic waves seated in
the brain. Each cell of the body does have an eye, explained one time in OMNI.
My room was maybe 20 x 20, with a wall length mirror, (my closet), my bed to the right, and
using the lamp on my bedtable. My door was directly across from the mirrors, and I sat on the
floor, with a pillow under my rump, at my back, on each side, and on my lap, so wherever my
arms, hands felt comfortable with. Being an Intuitive, I couldn't let go, until well practiced,
I laid on the couch, and went out, raising up, or almost asleep, after doing the practice I told
you to do. Using the imagination, to see oneself go thru the ceiling, and out. I always went
to a chateau in a villiage in the Alps. It took about a week of practice. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN
YOURSELF. Thats why I'm relating, and you must read books on it, so you will know it is real,
and you are not alone. It must be viable in your head.
Going to the Edgar Cayce Inst. was a breathe of fresh air. Being in his surrounding made
me even more viable.
There's much more I can relate, but I dont want to inhibit either, because you will
experience what I haven't. Each person is a individual, and you will teach me also.
My first experience was when I was only two. I have a photographic memory when NECESSARY,
such as work, or something I will need to remember later. I have seen color since very young,
and thank the Goddess, for my grandfather, studying Cayce.
The bulb exercise is separate from the wall exercise with the light to your side to clarify
your question. Dont forget Robert Monroe, he is still on the web, and his books. He's a
natural, and he has an open invite to others to go there, volunteer for experiments. That was
years ago, so check within his later books. Also, hopefully, he's still alive.
Not time travel, its dimension jumping. Altho, techyon waves might project us backwards,
that remains to be seen with experiencing. We either have a past, or we live simultaneously. I
think we do have a past. I have reasoning, (intuition) about that. We have an expert,
JerryGeorge who dimension jumps like Robert Monroe.
I think I've covered everything. Please feel free to get in touch. And teach others. I
dont travel like I used to. Its easier coming in and touching someone on the computer.
Peace, Diana
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Astral Projection
Question
Have you ever heard of meditation or astral projection bringing on permanent hallucinations or atypical schizophrenia?
Answer
John, the experience of astral projection may throw people. It is an experience not easy to forget, BUT even children experience it, and there are logical reasons to the side of spiritual also. We are what we are, and life in the body is like a movie we are in, and the real life is us, our little baubles of color, our natural state, not even the "ghost" forms we take on as persona when we leave.
If one is so stuck in this world, perhaps, it is quite a shock. Perhaps, the one folks come across, because of new found knowledge may seem a little schizo.
I've known folks with those mental problems who do have spiritual experiences, and gain knowledge. It, just easier for them to "go" than others. Sometimes, it helps them to survive, those experiences.
I've never heard of it causing. You must realize, we have to become very trusting souls of the ethereal, to believe, have faith, to be able to gain anything from meditation, or out of body. We have to find that still center of "Angeldom", and we do, so I dont think its bad for one to be able to accomplish new adventure. sure breaks the boredom. Peace, Diana
Have you ever heard of meditation or astral projection bringing on permanent hallucinations or atypical schizophrenia?
Answer
John, the experience of astral projection may throw people. It is an experience not easy to forget, BUT even children experience it, and there are logical reasons to the side of spiritual also. We are what we are, and life in the body is like a movie we are in, and the real life is us, our little baubles of color, our natural state, not even the "ghost" forms we take on as persona when we leave.
If one is so stuck in this world, perhaps, it is quite a shock. Perhaps, the one folks come across, because of new found knowledge may seem a little schizo.
I've known folks with those mental problems who do have spiritual experiences, and gain knowledge. It, just easier for them to "go" than others. Sometimes, it helps them to survive, those experiences.
I've never heard of it causing. You must realize, we have to become very trusting souls of the ethereal, to believe, have faith, to be able to gain anything from meditation, or out of body. We have to find that still center of "Angeldom", and we do, so I dont think its bad for one to be able to accomplish new adventure. sure breaks the boredom. Peace, Diana
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Astral Projection
Question
Have you ever heard of meditation or astral projection bringing on permanent hallucinations or atypical schizophrenia?
Answer
Hi, John.
I don't know that I've heard of this. I remember a situation where a person with manic depression went into a long manic period after a retreat.
I don't have any expert advice but common sense would say that if you do have a mental condition, even if you are on medication, that it would be good to work with your doctor if you think you are developing these problems.
I don't know if you are asking about yourself, someone else, or just in theory.
I have a feeling that the less one is trying to manipulate the mind, the better. Astral projection sounds like a lot of mental manipulation. Meditation to me is a space of non-reactive attention or awareness. This doesn't guarantee that the mind will not freak out. Open listening allows the mind to begin to be responsive to the real world. It is a radical change. I've never seen it cause a permanent problem in a mentally stable person, as far as I know.
I do think that for a person with mental confusion, it could be extremely helpful to explore this space of just being with what is, inside and outside, without immediately reacting. I'm not sure there would be any dangers in this on a day to day basis, but extended sittings might stir up something and need more supervision.
Please let me know if this doesn't address your question or if it needs some clarification or brings up other questions.
I sometimes quote from things people have written, as it can help others. I don't use real names of course. If you don't want to be quoted, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Jay Cutts
Have you ever heard of meditation or astral projection bringing on permanent hallucinations or atypical schizophrenia?
Answer
Hi, John.
I don't know that I've heard of this. I remember a situation where a person with manic depression went into a long manic period after a retreat.
I don't have any expert advice but common sense would say that if you do have a mental condition, even if you are on medication, that it would be good to work with your doctor if you think you are developing these problems.
I don't know if you are asking about yourself, someone else, or just in theory.
I have a feeling that the less one is trying to manipulate the mind, the better. Astral projection sounds like a lot of mental manipulation. Meditation to me is a space of non-reactive attention or awareness. This doesn't guarantee that the mind will not freak out. Open listening allows the mind to begin to be responsive to the real world. It is a radical change. I've never seen it cause a permanent problem in a mentally stable person, as far as I know.
I do think that for a person with mental confusion, it could be extremely helpful to explore this space of just being with what is, inside and outside, without immediately reacting. I'm not sure there would be any dangers in this on a day to day basis, but extended sittings might stir up something and need more supervision.
Please let me know if this doesn't address your question or if it needs some clarification or brings up other questions.
I sometimes quote from things people have written, as it can help others. I don't use real names of course. If you don't want to be quoted, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Jay Cutts
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Astral Projection
Question
Have you ever heard of meditation or astral projection bringing on permanent hallucinations or atypical schizophrenia?
Answer
John , Thank you for your question.
I do not know what you mean by "astral projection", but there are some reports of mental illness among meditators. You may be able to find references for this on the Web. I believe that the incidence is comparable to that in the general population; it is not clear that the meditation was the causative factor in these cases.
Personally, I have known hundreds of practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (and have taught about one hundred) and know of no case such as you describe. TM helps make a person relaxed, happy, and productive.
David Spector
Have you ever heard of meditation or astral projection bringing on permanent hallucinations or atypical schizophrenia?
Answer
John , Thank you for your question.
I do not know what you mean by "astral projection", but there are some reports of mental illness among meditators. You may be able to find references for this on the Web. I believe that the incidence is comparable to that in the general population; it is not clear that the meditation was the causative factor in these cases.
Personally, I have known hundreds of practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (and have taught about one hundred) and know of no case such as you describe. TM helps make a person relaxed, happy, and productive.
David Spector
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Out of body
Question
Hi, you answered a question of mine the other day and your answer was very useful. I would like to ask another one, if that is okay. I apologise for the length of this email but I need to do some explaining.
I had my first out of body experience a few days ago and it is something that I very much would like to develop. I have been meditating seriously for about two years and it has given me lots of different night-time experiences - some very pleasant, some terrifying. For example, aside from the lucid dreams, I often wake up with sleep paralysis, accompanied by a very loud buzzing sound, and strong vibrations. At first this was very frightening but as I got used to it, it even felt pleasant. However, other experiences were not so pleasant - for example, sometimes I would hear ghostly whisperings in my room, and once I felt like a man was right next to me and screaming at me. At other times I feel as if I am being punched, poked or shaken violently. This always takes place during the time when I experience 'sleep paralysis', which last for about 20 or 30 seconds, and it all seems completely real. Could it be that these are bad spirits that are attracted to me? I often get the distinct feeling that there is another presence in the room.
I had my first near-'oobe' a while ago, after one of these experiences. I remember feeling as if I was floating 2 or 3 inches above my bed, but I felt relaxed and must have fallen asleep soon after. On the second time I felt my upper body lifting up, and I knew what was happening, but I immediately got scared and snapped back into my body. The third time, however (a few days ago), I woke up and had the same feeling, so I consciously lifted myself completely out of my body and into the middle of my room. As soon as I had done this, though, I panicked because it was such a strange experience. I immediately 'shook' myself, as if to wake from a dream, and quickly found myself back in my body. Afterwards I felt annoyed with myself for panicking and missing this opportunity.
I would like to know if there's something I can do before I go to bed, in order to make this happen more often. And if it does happen, how can I avoid panicking and ruining the experience? Is there, for example, something I can include in my meditation to help me? This is really something I would like to develop. I would love to be able to explore the astral and meet my guide.
Thank you for your patience and kind help.
All my love,
Christopher.
Answer
Let me answer part of this while I have a few minutes. Sleep paralysis is partial return ONLY, and you may see al sorts of things, mental anquishes, hallucinations, alternative realities, stress, ect. One can not go too much on these. But know to "let go" when you feel the trapped feeling, because you are fighting the spirit COMING IN! Will write more.
Hi, you answered a question of mine the other day and your answer was very useful. I would like to ask another one, if that is okay. I apologise for the length of this email but I need to do some explaining.
I had my first out of body experience a few days ago and it is something that I very much would like to develop. I have been meditating seriously for about two years and it has given me lots of different night-time experiences - some very pleasant, some terrifying. For example, aside from the lucid dreams, I often wake up with sleep paralysis, accompanied by a very loud buzzing sound, and strong vibrations. At first this was very frightening but as I got used to it, it even felt pleasant. However, other experiences were not so pleasant - for example, sometimes I would hear ghostly whisperings in my room, and once I felt like a man was right next to me and screaming at me. At other times I feel as if I am being punched, poked or shaken violently. This always takes place during the time when I experience 'sleep paralysis', which last for about 20 or 30 seconds, and it all seems completely real. Could it be that these are bad spirits that are attracted to me? I often get the distinct feeling that there is another presence in the room.
I had my first near-'oobe' a while ago, after one of these experiences. I remember feeling as if I was floating 2 or 3 inches above my bed, but I felt relaxed and must have fallen asleep soon after. On the second time I felt my upper body lifting up, and I knew what was happening, but I immediately got scared and snapped back into my body. The third time, however (a few days ago), I woke up and had the same feeling, so I consciously lifted myself completely out of my body and into the middle of my room. As soon as I had done this, though, I panicked because it was such a strange experience. I immediately 'shook' myself, as if to wake from a dream, and quickly found myself back in my body. Afterwards I felt annoyed with myself for panicking and missing this opportunity.
I would like to know if there's something I can do before I go to bed, in order to make this happen more often. And if it does happen, how can I avoid panicking and ruining the experience? Is there, for example, something I can include in my meditation to help me? This is really something I would like to develop. I would love to be able to explore the astral and meet my guide.
Thank you for your patience and kind help.
All my love,
Christopher.
Answer
Let me answer part of this while I have a few minutes. Sleep paralysis is partial return ONLY, and you may see al sorts of things, mental anquishes, hallucinations, alternative realities, stress, ect. One can not go too much on these. But know to "let go" when you feel the trapped feeling, because you are fighting the spirit COMING IN! Will write more.
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Just a small question...
Question
Hi, I'm Ashley, an 18 year old girl from a small town in Ohio. I have only briefly experimented with meditation. To be honest, I find it very hard to concentrate or feel comfortable enough to do it anymore. But I want to change that. I want to bring a new form of enlightment into my life through meditation that I can really benefit from and not waste time on. Like everyone, I have enough stresses to last a lifetime. But I am a very senstive girl and I feel that calming down at the end of each day could help clear my worries and tension that can cause me to be very selfish sometimes. Basically all I'm asking is if you know of any type of free learning classes, books, videos or anything that can get me started on this new change in my lifestyle...please let me know. Because frankly, I dont know what kind of meditation would be good for me or anything. I havent the slightest clue where to start even. So I could really use your help. Thank you for listening, Ash...
Answer
Hi, Ashley.
I'm trying to get a grasp on what your reasons are for wanting to meditate. It sounds like you are saying that you'd like to calm down at the end of the day and that would help clear out your worries and tensions. Ok, that's clear. You are sensitive and the worries and tensions are uncomfortable, naturally. So it is helpful for your poor nervous system to let these discomforts clear away.
But then you also say that the worries and tensions make you selfish sometimes. I'm not sure what this means for you. (I can imagine some things it could mean but don't know if they are what you are talking about.) Maybe you could tell me more about this. Maybe you get mad at people when you don't really mean to because you are stressed out. It's true that it's hard to be very considerate when we're stressed out, especially if someone does something that makes the stress worse, not to mention the innocent victims of my stress!
So, if I've understood you, you'd like to find some meditation that will help clear out the stress and worries. You mentioned finding it hard to concentrate. I personally don't have any kind of concentration in my meditative time. Instead, I want to just be able to open up and feel and hear what is really going on in my body and mind right now. Have you ever tried that? Not trying to change anything, but just listening and feeling. Giving your nervous system, mind, body a chance to just express what is happening in it without judging it or changing it. Of course, it may change on its own, effortlessly. That could include actually feeling more uncomfortable for a while, since during the day we hold back a lot of the sensations that are going on, or push them out of our mind. So they build up until you let yourself feel them.
I think if you try this you might find that it is sometimes possible just to give all of this worry and tension a big, wide space of awareness to express itself in, and that this allows the body and the mind to take care of themselves, to clear out, to refresh, to learn and to integrate information from the day. All of this takes place on its own. You don't have to try to do it.
You may even discover things about how you tend to react that may change how you respond to things in your daily life, so there might not be quite so much tension and worry created. The more quiet, open time you can have, the more this can happen. So it's nice sometimes to get away to a silent retreat for several days or a week to really get a fresh view of your life. I go to the Springwater Center in western NY. You can read about it at www.springwatercenter.org.
In your daily sitting you might find that it is not so easy to have this space of being open to what is going on. You might find that you have been daydreaming or that there is just a lot of confusion or turmoil going on. This is all ok. It has its own life and comes and goes. If you do wake up from a daydream, the important thing is that you are awake now. Maybe a moment later there will be daydream again. But there is no need to fight this or react to it. It is just how you are right then. The mind may need to daydream but there may also be a natural interest to stay awake and be with what is going on.
I wouldn't worry too much about trying to achieve any state of being more balanced, less worried, more considerate or anything. If you give yourself time and space to really listen to yourself, just as you are, to get to know yourself, changes will happen by themselves. In any case, we can be quite calm one minute and the next minute be angry and defensive, so there is no need to have the idea that you should hold on to a particular state of mind. The state of mind changes on its own. We don't need to control it. Just, if possible, allow the space to listen, feel and see yourself without judging. Just listening. You may find this also allows you to hear others.
I hope this is a start for you. Please write back if I have not been too clear or if you have some other questions or if you try this and want to let me know how it goes. I think if you can keep it simple, just listening without knowing why, just being in touch with what is here in yourself and around you, not worrying about making something of yourself, you may find a meditative being that is simple and uncomplicated and allows your life to take care of itself in a simple and intelligent way at moments.
Best wishes.
Jay Cutts
Hi, I'm Ashley, an 18 year old girl from a small town in Ohio. I have only briefly experimented with meditation. To be honest, I find it very hard to concentrate or feel comfortable enough to do it anymore. But I want to change that. I want to bring a new form of enlightment into my life through meditation that I can really benefit from and not waste time on. Like everyone, I have enough stresses to last a lifetime. But I am a very senstive girl and I feel that calming down at the end of each day could help clear my worries and tension that can cause me to be very selfish sometimes. Basically all I'm asking is if you know of any type of free learning classes, books, videos or anything that can get me started on this new change in my lifestyle...please let me know. Because frankly, I dont know what kind of meditation would be good for me or anything. I havent the slightest clue where to start even. So I could really use your help. Thank you for listening, Ash...
Answer
Hi, Ashley.
I'm trying to get a grasp on what your reasons are for wanting to meditate. It sounds like you are saying that you'd like to calm down at the end of the day and that would help clear out your worries and tensions. Ok, that's clear. You are sensitive and the worries and tensions are uncomfortable, naturally. So it is helpful for your poor nervous system to let these discomforts clear away.
But then you also say that the worries and tensions make you selfish sometimes. I'm not sure what this means for you. (I can imagine some things it could mean but don't know if they are what you are talking about.) Maybe you could tell me more about this. Maybe you get mad at people when you don't really mean to because you are stressed out. It's true that it's hard to be very considerate when we're stressed out, especially if someone does something that makes the stress worse, not to mention the innocent victims of my stress!
So, if I've understood you, you'd like to find some meditation that will help clear out the stress and worries. You mentioned finding it hard to concentrate. I personally don't have any kind of concentration in my meditative time. Instead, I want to just be able to open up and feel and hear what is really going on in my body and mind right now. Have you ever tried that? Not trying to change anything, but just listening and feeling. Giving your nervous system, mind, body a chance to just express what is happening in it without judging it or changing it. Of course, it may change on its own, effortlessly. That could include actually feeling more uncomfortable for a while, since during the day we hold back a lot of the sensations that are going on, or push them out of our mind. So they build up until you let yourself feel them.
I think if you try this you might find that it is sometimes possible just to give all of this worry and tension a big, wide space of awareness to express itself in, and that this allows the body and the mind to take care of themselves, to clear out, to refresh, to learn and to integrate information from the day. All of this takes place on its own. You don't have to try to do it.
You may even discover things about how you tend to react that may change how you respond to things in your daily life, so there might not be quite so much tension and worry created. The more quiet, open time you can have, the more this can happen. So it's nice sometimes to get away to a silent retreat for several days or a week to really get a fresh view of your life. I go to the Springwater Center in western NY. You can read about it at www.springwatercenter.org.
In your daily sitting you might find that it is not so easy to have this space of being open to what is going on. You might find that you have been daydreaming or that there is just a lot of confusion or turmoil going on. This is all ok. It has its own life and comes and goes. If you do wake up from a daydream, the important thing is that you are awake now. Maybe a moment later there will be daydream again. But there is no need to fight this or react to it. It is just how you are right then. The mind may need to daydream but there may also be a natural interest to stay awake and be with what is going on.
I wouldn't worry too much about trying to achieve any state of being more balanced, less worried, more considerate or anything. If you give yourself time and space to really listen to yourself, just as you are, to get to know yourself, changes will happen by themselves. In any case, we can be quite calm one minute and the next minute be angry and defensive, so there is no need to have the idea that you should hold on to a particular state of mind. The state of mind changes on its own. We don't need to control it. Just, if possible, allow the space to listen, feel and see yourself without judging. Just listening. You may find this also allows you to hear others.
I hope this is a start for you. Please write back if I have not been too clear or if you have some other questions or if you try this and want to let me know how it goes. I think if you can keep it simple, just listening without knowing why, just being in touch with what is here in yourself and around you, not worrying about making something of yourself, you may find a meditative being that is simple and uncomplicated and allows your life to take care of itself in a simple and intelligent way at moments.
Best wishes.
Jay Cutts
Posted by
Beacon Lee
use of meditation
Question
Please don't misunderstand me. I am not being sarcastic here.
Suppose I drop something on the floor, like a small screw, and can't find it anymore. Do you think that meditation can help me find it?
What I think can help is to vacuum the whole floor and then empty the vacuumed materials into s shallow basin and then search for the object. If the object is heavy and will not be spoiled by water, then washing the whole vacuumed material will leave the object at the bottom of the basin used for washing.
This solution is arrived at by thinking systematically, taking into account first the problem, then the other incidentals like the object to be found, the circumstances of its loss.
Is meditation like that, thinking systematically on a matter, like a problem in the household.
Or is it what?
It is thinking before anything else.... But how is the thinking done in meditation?
Susma Rio Sep
Answer
Meditation puts you in touch with higher self, yes, and that higher self is more aware. You use that Intuitive gift already analyzing, and "figureing it out", but if you cant figure it out, then thats where the ESP, awareness BECAUSE you have been meditating, will lead you to those little items you have lost.
Some folks are born with it, this time, others will go that progression this time, because meditation is now the "IN" thing to do, so more and more folks will pick up on progression this time. When magic happens in many aspects of life thru going into higher realms, then one loves, wants to continue what be right in our mundane world. Also, on the way, if a sincere person, one becomes a better person, if one acknowledges that ALL people ARE psychic to more or lesser degrees, and consciously may be able to read your mind, read your body language, attitude, way of speaking, ect., and goes the saying that GOD/GODDESS is omnipresent. We want to be better people with that reality.
You have to gain wisdom as you go, know the truths, and act, think, accordingly.
You may use meditation in any form you want, for any reason, but one finds the answers if one looks beyond the mundane, and lets problems "sit" as long as possible. Some problems thru your quandry of answers will take care of themselves, and others, one must continue to wonder, and ask for the answers, and time, all take time. Perhaps, a lifetime. ;-)
Or you must make quick decisions, no matter, and go with the flow. Not all times will one go with the flow, and that doesn't mean its wrong, either, we have all our choices, hence confusion.
You are sailing a ship called Earth, and it has certain rules to live by, or hit choppy waters. Prepare, and go on, no matter, it is your lesson, your reason for being. Peace
Please don't misunderstand me. I am not being sarcastic here.
Suppose I drop something on the floor, like a small screw, and can't find it anymore. Do you think that meditation can help me find it?
What I think can help is to vacuum the whole floor and then empty the vacuumed materials into s shallow basin and then search for the object. If the object is heavy and will not be spoiled by water, then washing the whole vacuumed material will leave the object at the bottom of the basin used for washing.
This solution is arrived at by thinking systematically, taking into account first the problem, then the other incidentals like the object to be found, the circumstances of its loss.
Is meditation like that, thinking systematically on a matter, like a problem in the household.
Or is it what?
It is thinking before anything else.... But how is the thinking done in meditation?
Susma Rio Sep
Answer
Meditation puts you in touch with higher self, yes, and that higher self is more aware. You use that Intuitive gift already analyzing, and "figureing it out", but if you cant figure it out, then thats where the ESP, awareness BECAUSE you have been meditating, will lead you to those little items you have lost.
Some folks are born with it, this time, others will go that progression this time, because meditation is now the "IN" thing to do, so more and more folks will pick up on progression this time. When magic happens in many aspects of life thru going into higher realms, then one loves, wants to continue what be right in our mundane world. Also, on the way, if a sincere person, one becomes a better person, if one acknowledges that ALL people ARE psychic to more or lesser degrees, and consciously may be able to read your mind, read your body language, attitude, way of speaking, ect., and goes the saying that GOD/GODDESS is omnipresent. We want to be better people with that reality.
You have to gain wisdom as you go, know the truths, and act, think, accordingly.
You may use meditation in any form you want, for any reason, but one finds the answers if one looks beyond the mundane, and lets problems "sit" as long as possible. Some problems thru your quandry of answers will take care of themselves, and others, one must continue to wonder, and ask for the answers, and time, all take time. Perhaps, a lifetime. ;-)
Or you must make quick decisions, no matter, and go with the flow. Not all times will one go with the flow, and that doesn't mean its wrong, either, we have all our choices, hence confusion.
You are sailing a ship called Earth, and it has certain rules to live by, or hit choppy waters. Prepare, and go on, no matter, it is your lesson, your reason for being. Peace
Posted by
Beacon Lee
I want to meditate
Question
I want to begin meditating. I've heard a variety of information from different sources here and there but I don't know too much about it. Will I be able to touch a higher essence of myself from meditation? Also is it true that meditation produces beta waves in the brain which are similar to the brain waves produced during REM of sleep. I know beta waves are good for you. Finally is meditating for an hour equivalent to an hour of sleep or more? Thank you.
Answer
Any meditation will work, Bob, and yes, there are different levels of sleep, and yes, it is equivalent, but sleep is different, resting the body, not the mind.
There are different levels of consciousness that has nothing to do with sleep. All the way to "out of body".
But in the beginning, it does correlate as REM, but one must try not to get that far into sleep. I mean its OK, if you need the rest, but best to go to bed early, and then meditate.
Also, you can try sleep deprivation, say stay up to the wee hours of the morning, till your mind is overalert, and it helps one to meditate, and astroproject. Peace
I want to begin meditating. I've heard a variety of information from different sources here and there but I don't know too much about it. Will I be able to touch a higher essence of myself from meditation? Also is it true that meditation produces beta waves in the brain which are similar to the brain waves produced during REM of sleep. I know beta waves are good for you. Finally is meditating for an hour equivalent to an hour of sleep or more? Thank you.
Answer
Any meditation will work, Bob, and yes, there are different levels of sleep, and yes, it is equivalent, but sleep is different, resting the body, not the mind.
There are different levels of consciousness that has nothing to do with sleep. All the way to "out of body".
But in the beginning, it does correlate as REM, but one must try not to get that far into sleep. I mean its OK, if you need the rest, but best to go to bed early, and then meditate.
Also, you can try sleep deprivation, say stay up to the wee hours of the morning, till your mind is overalert, and it helps one to meditate, and astroproject. Peace
Posted by
Beacon Lee
meditation
Question
What is Meditation?what are its effects ?to what point can it be beneficial and when will it become dangerous?
Answer
Hi Tati
Meditation goes under many names and styles, but basically it's a method of both physical relaxation and mental and spiritual refinement.
The effects of meditation are dependent upon what style you are practicing, but commonly include relaxation, stress relief, calming a troubled mind, and feeling "refreshed", as if you just took a nap. :>)
Properly performed, meditation also increases the efficiency of your breathing and helps correct bad postural habits.
As in any other mind/body practice, it can only become dangerous when taken to extremes. Also, realize that there is a time and place for everything - you don't necessarily want to meditate while you're driving down the freeway! But the dangers are so slight as to be almost non-existent.
Thanks for your question - hope my answer helped!
What is Meditation?what are its effects ?to what point can it be beneficial and when will it become dangerous?
Answer
Hi Tati
Meditation goes under many names and styles, but basically it's a method of both physical relaxation and mental and spiritual refinement.
The effects of meditation are dependent upon what style you are practicing, but commonly include relaxation, stress relief, calming a troubled mind, and feeling "refreshed", as if you just took a nap. :>)
Properly performed, meditation also increases the efficiency of your breathing and helps correct bad postural habits.
As in any other mind/body practice, it can only become dangerous when taken to extremes. Also, realize that there is a time and place for everything - you don't necessarily want to meditate while you're driving down the freeway! But the dangers are so slight as to be almost non-existent.
Thanks for your question - hope my answer helped!
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Lack of progress
Question
Hello. I am a volunteer in the Buddhists category, but I have never been very good with meditation. I can usually sit for a few minutes, but become discouraged when I constantly become unfocused. Should I try to find a teacher? The only problem with that is I have no idea where I could find one. I haven't seen much progress as far as contolling my wandering mind, though I do feel more at peace afterwards. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Amber
Answer
Hi Amber!
Trying to find a meditation teacher, let alone a good one, can be a toughie! A lot depends on where you live - if you're near a large city, it's usually much easier than if you're out in the country.
Becoming discouraged is also par for the course with meditation. Perhaps it's the nature of the meditation exercises that you're practicing. There are so many possible ones to choose from, that you should probably try a few others (or a few DOZEN others:>) until you find one that "sits" with you.
Have you tried counting breaths? Visualizations? Single-point meditations (where you look at one thing, like a rose, and explore every tiny piece of it)? Tried mantras, or chanting? Even everyday chores like washing dishes or doing laundry can become meditations when you look at them the right way.
As you can see, this can be a huge topic, so it would be best if you could find a local teacher. Failing that, try searching for some on-line meditation instruction. I'm planning on offering that in the future, but haven't got the bugs ironed out yet, so I'll have to meditate on a solution :>)
Hope this helped!
Be Well,
Phil
Hello. I am a volunteer in the Buddhists category, but I have never been very good with meditation. I can usually sit for a few minutes, but become discouraged when I constantly become unfocused. Should I try to find a teacher? The only problem with that is I have no idea where I could find one. I haven't seen much progress as far as contolling my wandering mind, though I do feel more at peace afterwards. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Amber
Answer
Hi Amber!
Trying to find a meditation teacher, let alone a good one, can be a toughie! A lot depends on where you live - if you're near a large city, it's usually much easier than if you're out in the country.
Becoming discouraged is also par for the course with meditation. Perhaps it's the nature of the meditation exercises that you're practicing. There are so many possible ones to choose from, that you should probably try a few others (or a few DOZEN others:>) until you find one that "sits" with you.
Have you tried counting breaths? Visualizations? Single-point meditations (where you look at one thing, like a rose, and explore every tiny piece of it)? Tried mantras, or chanting? Even everyday chores like washing dishes or doing laundry can become meditations when you look at them the right way.
As you can see, this can be a huge topic, so it would be best if you could find a local teacher. Failing that, try searching for some on-line meditation instruction. I'm planning on offering that in the future, but haven't got the bugs ironed out yet, so I'll have to meditate on a solution :>)
Hope this helped!
Be Well,
Phil
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Meditation as a career
Question
What are your views on meditation as a career? Writing books, teaching others to meditate, or simply creating art etc.. Do you feel there is a sufficient market for such things? How did you turn your meditation into a career oppertunity? And what is the most fulfilling part about meditation as a career?
Answer
Hi Tom!
Hmmm...interesting question - thanks for asking it!
As far as there being a sufficient market, I'll play the Devil's advocate here for a moment and ask YOU, "What would be a large enough market to make YOU comfortable?" :>)
What I personally have found is that:
a) There IS a market, albeit not one as large as, say, the one for information on how to make a million dollars on eBay!
b) A large part of marketing "soft" ideas such as meditation, taiji, etc. is education. Most consumers need to be educated as to WHAT these services are and WHY they need them. Otherwise, they continue to live their lives in blissful ignorance, until the day that someone like YOU comes along and shows them a better way. If what you provide them does indeed improve their lives, then you have every right to expect financial gain from them.
I've been "successful" (a very individual measure, granted) by incorporating several diverse elements into my career. In other words, I didn't put all my eggs into one basket!
Meditation, taiji, qigong, traditional Chinese medicine, philosophical counseling, self-defense training, writing and publishing on these topics, offering related items for sale in my schools and clinics, lectures, private lessons...all came together to provide a decent living for me. I've been lucky in that I took the time and expense to learn all these arts, and that I've acquired a faithful group of students and clients that see the benefit in what I offer them. But it isn't something that happens overnight - for many, many years, I had to hold onto my day job (and sometimes a night job, too! :>) until the moment for flying was right.
The most fulfilling part of my career - seeing how my actions and words help others to evolve into more peaceful, centered, happy personalities. They often first come to me strung out, unhappy, bitter, and depressed. Through instruction in such techniques as meditation, they often come away greatly changed for the better. THAT is the miracle that I never tire of seeing.
Good luck with your career!
What are your views on meditation as a career? Writing books, teaching others to meditate, or simply creating art etc.. Do you feel there is a sufficient market for such things? How did you turn your meditation into a career oppertunity? And what is the most fulfilling part about meditation as a career?
Answer
Hi Tom!
Hmmm...interesting question - thanks for asking it!
As far as there being a sufficient market, I'll play the Devil's advocate here for a moment and ask YOU, "What would be a large enough market to make YOU comfortable?" :>)
What I personally have found is that:
a) There IS a market, albeit not one as large as, say, the one for information on how to make a million dollars on eBay!
b) A large part of marketing "soft" ideas such as meditation, taiji, etc. is education. Most consumers need to be educated as to WHAT these services are and WHY they need them. Otherwise, they continue to live their lives in blissful ignorance, until the day that someone like YOU comes along and shows them a better way. If what you provide them does indeed improve their lives, then you have every right to expect financial gain from them.
I've been "successful" (a very individual measure, granted) by incorporating several diverse elements into my career. In other words, I didn't put all my eggs into one basket!
Meditation, taiji, qigong, traditional Chinese medicine, philosophical counseling, self-defense training, writing and publishing on these topics, offering related items for sale in my schools and clinics, lectures, private lessons...all came together to provide a decent living for me. I've been lucky in that I took the time and expense to learn all these arts, and that I've acquired a faithful group of students and clients that see the benefit in what I offer them. But it isn't something that happens overnight - for many, many years, I had to hold onto my day job (and sometimes a night job, too! :>) until the moment for flying was right.
The most fulfilling part of my career - seeing how my actions and words help others to evolve into more peaceful, centered, happy personalities. They often first come to me strung out, unhappy, bitter, and depressed. Through instruction in such techniques as meditation, they often come away greatly changed for the better. THAT is the miracle that I never tire of seeing.
Good luck with your career!
Posted by
Beacon Lee
To be happy...??
Question
Hi,
I'm a 22yr old gal...
I have read many times that You decide to be happy.I just wanted to ask how can u do the same if u r in a relationship...
I have been into the same since 3 yrs...we started as Best friends...and no doubt We love each other a LOT. But as it does happen...with time there comes a situation oftenly when ur mood gets spoiled.....n I want to learn what n how shud I deal with it so that even I can remain happy....
Can u tell smthng to start meditation for a beginner...I'm keen to learn but yet to implement.
Regards
NN
Answer
Hi, NN.
What you say is interesting. You talk about the idea that a person could keep themself happy by just deciding to hold on to a happy mood. And as you say, this doesn't really seem to work, even for oneself, but especially in relation to other people.
As you say, we effect each other's moods. Trying to stop this would be like trying to make the weather always sunny and warm.
You ask if there is some way to learn to remain happy. Well, let's consider what happens when someone's mood is spoiled. I'm looking at myself and you can look at yourself as we consider this. Suppose you've been in a wonderful mood and then you come in the house and your partner says something critical to you, maybe that you did something wrong or that you don't look right.
What happens? Actually, I want to stop here for a minute and say that it might be important to just ask this question when this happens. To keep an eye on what is happening, how am I reacting, what is going on in me that makes things suddenly uncomfortable or even painful?
I think in this way we can discover some interesting things about ourselves that we didn't notice before. First, you might notice that your whole body and mind have an immediate strong reaction to the other person's words (or their look, etc.) You might not even notice this until later because that reaction of being angry, hurt, protecting yourself and on top of all of that being angry that you are not happy any more, that whole reaction is so strong that you are carried away by it and don't even notice that's what was going on until later.
Noticing this kind of reaction doesn't mean that it will go away, at least at first, but noticing it is something new and fresh. And there is a kind of joy in noticing something that hasn't been seen clearly before. Even if it is a small joy.
What I described is just the beginning of noticing how we react to each other in ways that are not often really helpful. The reaction just happens. Sometimes it's clear that I didn't even want that reaction to happen. It just did by itself. That's the nature of these blind reactions that we live much of our life through. So starting to notice this is a very good start. The noticing - which has some space and freedom to it - is already a different, fresh energy.
This is really the heart and soul of meditative work. When possible to be with this energy of just letting things be revealed that are happening inside and outside. Sometimes to sit quietly and to let yourself feel and hear what you are inside - the thoughts, the feelings - without trying to change or judge them. Just let it all speak. And at the same time to also be able to hear and feel what is around you - the sounds, the wind, the feel of the body.
I think we all have a strong habit of reacting against how we are at a certain time. I want to be happier than I am now, or I want to be more loving than I am now, or more assertive than I am now. It's true that we want change for the better. But I think the greatest, most radical change is to let go of wanting something different right now so that I can really, really feel and experience what I really am right now. There is a reason why I am what I am now. It doesn't really help to want it to be different but it does really help to listen to it right now, to know it intimately. Out of this change may or may not happen. If it does, it happens on its own, simply and somewhat mysteriously, almost miraculously because we don't know how it happens. And there is a joy and happiness in this kind of natural change.
Your question is a very deep one and there is much to explore about it. I hope this is a start. I would like to hear how this seems to you and what happens as you explore this. Please feel free to write back here or you can write me at my personal email address at jcutts@cuttsreviews.com. If you do, please put the word "meditation" in the subject so my spam filters don't eat it.
Best wishes,
Jay Cutts
Hi,
I'm a 22yr old gal...
I have read many times that You decide to be happy.I just wanted to ask how can u do the same if u r in a relationship...
I have been into the same since 3 yrs...we started as Best friends...and no doubt We love each other a LOT. But as it does happen...with time there comes a situation oftenly when ur mood gets spoiled.....n I want to learn what n how shud I deal with it so that even I can remain happy....
Can u tell smthng to start meditation for a beginner...I'm keen to learn but yet to implement.
Regards
NN
Answer
Hi, NN.
What you say is interesting. You talk about the idea that a person could keep themself happy by just deciding to hold on to a happy mood. And as you say, this doesn't really seem to work, even for oneself, but especially in relation to other people.
As you say, we effect each other's moods. Trying to stop this would be like trying to make the weather always sunny and warm.
You ask if there is some way to learn to remain happy. Well, let's consider what happens when someone's mood is spoiled. I'm looking at myself and you can look at yourself as we consider this. Suppose you've been in a wonderful mood and then you come in the house and your partner says something critical to you, maybe that you did something wrong or that you don't look right.
What happens? Actually, I want to stop here for a minute and say that it might be important to just ask this question when this happens. To keep an eye on what is happening, how am I reacting, what is going on in me that makes things suddenly uncomfortable or even painful?
I think in this way we can discover some interesting things about ourselves that we didn't notice before. First, you might notice that your whole body and mind have an immediate strong reaction to the other person's words (or their look, etc.) You might not even notice this until later because that reaction of being angry, hurt, protecting yourself and on top of all of that being angry that you are not happy any more, that whole reaction is so strong that you are carried away by it and don't even notice that's what was going on until later.
Noticing this kind of reaction doesn't mean that it will go away, at least at first, but noticing it is something new and fresh. And there is a kind of joy in noticing something that hasn't been seen clearly before. Even if it is a small joy.
What I described is just the beginning of noticing how we react to each other in ways that are not often really helpful. The reaction just happens. Sometimes it's clear that I didn't even want that reaction to happen. It just did by itself. That's the nature of these blind reactions that we live much of our life through. So starting to notice this is a very good start. The noticing - which has some space and freedom to it - is already a different, fresh energy.
This is really the heart and soul of meditative work. When possible to be with this energy of just letting things be revealed that are happening inside and outside. Sometimes to sit quietly and to let yourself feel and hear what you are inside - the thoughts, the feelings - without trying to change or judge them. Just let it all speak. And at the same time to also be able to hear and feel what is around you - the sounds, the wind, the feel of the body.
I think we all have a strong habit of reacting against how we are at a certain time. I want to be happier than I am now, or I want to be more loving than I am now, or more assertive than I am now. It's true that we want change for the better. But I think the greatest, most radical change is to let go of wanting something different right now so that I can really, really feel and experience what I really am right now. There is a reason why I am what I am now. It doesn't really help to want it to be different but it does really help to listen to it right now, to know it intimately. Out of this change may or may not happen. If it does, it happens on its own, simply and somewhat mysteriously, almost miraculously because we don't know how it happens. And there is a joy and happiness in this kind of natural change.
Your question is a very deep one and there is much to explore about it. I hope this is a start. I would like to hear how this seems to you and what happens as you explore this. Please feel free to write back here or you can write me at my personal email address at jcutts@cuttsreviews.com. If you do, please put the word "meditation" in the subject so my spam filters don't eat it.
Best wishes,
Jay Cutts
Posted by
Beacon Lee
To be happy....
Question
Hi,
I'm a 22yr old gal...
I have read many times that You decide to be happy.I just wanted to ask how can u do the same if u r in a relationship...
I have been into the same since 3 yrs...we started as Best friends...and no doubt We love each other a LOT. But as it does happen...with time there comes a situation oftenly when ur mood gets spoiled.....n I want to learn what n how shud I deal with it so that even I can remain happy....
Can u tell smthng to start meditation for a beginner...I'm keen to learn but yet to implement.
Regards
NN
Answer
NN, Thank you for your question.
I cannot give any specific advice about your life situation. Nor can I advise on meditation in general. I practice a specific kind of meditation called Transcendental Meditation.
Here is some information about it.
In our everyday relative existence there is pleasure and pain, there are differences and distinctions, there is reasoning and judgement, there is action and result. What is not obvious is that all of this complexity happens in a very simple field--in the simplest field--the field of the Absolute, unchanging Self. All the activity is as if projected on a plain white motion picture screen, a field of all possibilities.
The nature of our Self is absolute unchanging purity, intelligence, creativity, and bliss. Actually, such a description falls short, because the nature of the Self is an experience, a reality, not an activity.
Transcendental Meditation effortlessly brings the experience of Absolute bliss consciouness (what we may call Transcendental Consciousness) to us. Repeated practice helps to establish the Absolute as an all-time reality. Living in the full values of both the relative and Absolute is the way to live in accordance with Natural Law. In this state we naturally accomplish all we wish, because the very nature of our wishes changes. If we previously wanted to engage in crime, we now find that the desire for criminal activities withers away. How can it survive in an all-encompassing field of bliss?
Transcendental Consciousness brings about the fulfillment of life.
Let me describe Transcendental Meditation in detail.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Hi,
I'm a 22yr old gal...
I have read many times that You decide to be happy.I just wanted to ask how can u do the same if u r in a relationship...
I have been into the same since 3 yrs...we started as Best friends...and no doubt We love each other a LOT. But as it does happen...with time there comes a situation oftenly when ur mood gets spoiled.....n I want to learn what n how shud I deal with it so that even I can remain happy....
Can u tell smthng to start meditation for a beginner...I'm keen to learn but yet to implement.
Regards
NN
Answer
NN, Thank you for your question.
I cannot give any specific advice about your life situation. Nor can I advise on meditation in general. I practice a specific kind of meditation called Transcendental Meditation.
Here is some information about it.
In our everyday relative existence there is pleasure and pain, there are differences and distinctions, there is reasoning and judgement, there is action and result. What is not obvious is that all of this complexity happens in a very simple field--in the simplest field--the field of the Absolute, unchanging Self. All the activity is as if projected on a plain white motion picture screen, a field of all possibilities.
The nature of our Self is absolute unchanging purity, intelligence, creativity, and bliss. Actually, such a description falls short, because the nature of the Self is an experience, a reality, not an activity.
Transcendental Meditation effortlessly brings the experience of Absolute bliss consciouness (what we may call Transcendental Consciousness) to us. Repeated practice helps to establish the Absolute as an all-time reality. Living in the full values of both the relative and Absolute is the way to live in accordance with Natural Law. In this state we naturally accomplish all we wish, because the very nature of our wishes changes. If we previously wanted to engage in crime, we now find that the desire for criminal activities withers away. How can it survive in an all-encompassing field of bliss?
Transcendental Consciousness brings about the fulfillment of life.
Let me describe Transcendental Meditation in detail.
Most meditation techniques operate on one of two principles: concentration or contemplation.
Concentration is forcing the mind to be devoid of thoughts, or to have one specific thought only. This is doomed to failure because it doesn't take account of how the mind works (the mind is naturally full of thoughts). It also prevents transcending thought to experience the source of thought, which is unbounded blissful awareness.
Contemplation is thinking about some subject, such as God. Again, there is little opportunity here for transcending.
Transcendental Meditation uses a special sound (mantra) to lead the mind naturally in the direction of the source of thought, effortlessly. Although the mantra is a simple sound, the technique for using it is subtle and requires instruction.
You learn TM in a 4-day course. You can get complete information at http://www.tm.org.
I can explain the technique in detail, but it isn't possible for you to learn over the Internet (the first instruction would be to close your eyes, but then how could you read further?). TM cannot be learned from a book for the same reason.
Practicing TM is an experience, one of increasing bliss, intelligence, and creativity. Learning TM is also an experience. A very beautiful one.
David Spector
Posted by
Beacon Lee
Aura
Question
How can you learn to see Aura? And if there are different colors, what do they mean?
Answer
Hi Marie, Aura is easy. I saw as a child, progressively evolved born here this time, but learned how to teach others thru the Inner Peace Movement. It is so easy, takes ten minutes.
Everyone on Earth today have as least four gifts with many subcategories, and colors that go with the gifts, and different blends.
Prophecy, Knowing, Blue
Intuitive, Understanding, claraudience, commonsensical, Red
Feeling, Green, growth, feeling with consciusness
Visionary, yellow, clarvoyance, dreams, details, visions
Under these four gifts are many others which are listed on many websites.
I will give you one of my faqs to practice seeing the colors. Peace
Let me add, easier to do with someone holding the cards for you.
Let me begin by the sleep paralysis. I dont know what all you have heard but that is only a condition that happens when the spirit comes into the brain stem, and you become only partially awake, and the spirit is not entiring back in the body, and we start to fight. We think we are fighting to move, but in reality, we're fighting the rest of the ecoplasm, us, spirit from coming in. When that happens, one must "let go", relax, and you will feel a slight "zoom", or rush when the rest of spirit whips back in. I have tried to tell the populance at large, because I learned that doctors have labeled it and made it a condition, a sickness, and it is not. Its just there are more and more people coming aware, or coming of AGE.
As the child, you did experience. It has to do with light hitting our eyes, but not really directly, it doesn't matter. I have students look at a bulb, dim, very little wattage, or a yellow one, because the colors are there instantly. Your eyes will roam but thats OK, the colored orbs will roam. One must try to steady the eye, and hold the orbs as long as possible.
And let me add, there is a physiological explianation for what happens. In the brain, or the seat of the eye faculty, when stareing at certain colors, their opposites will show because this facility will "rest". I dont have the explianation in front of me. But lets go on. When you put up the color cards, and my Aunt who was a school teacher would do this with her students to show the experiment, you will see the color opposites. When you put the color cards, poster board, not the neon, but basics, or you can use the neon since its hard to find the basics. Get red, you will see green, green, you will see red, blue, you will see yellow, or lighter. Purple, you will see white. You can make them into shapes, and you will see the shapes. Let me clarify, holding is whats important, holding the color you see until it fades, and doing it again with another colored card. YOU ARE OPENING THE 3RD EYE!!!!
The light must be to the side of you, placed so it is in the locality of shining toward the eyes, not at them, to the side of the wall. When you look at the cards, pay attention to side vision, you will see the colors "seeping" from behind the cards on the wall, before its removed. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU PRACTICE!!! It is easier to see the colors and for them to deepen in color as time goes by. You would be sitting or standing at least 8-10 ft. away. Thats why someone needs to help, to stand at the wall and hold the color cards, you can take turns "seeing". When the card is taken down, you will continue to stare at where it was until the color fades.
With the light bulb or a DIM SUN, you will just hold the colors. You will go into trance as you are able to look longer. You will feel yourself, your body take the steps in meditation that they teach you to do, only it is automatic, like the deep breathing, it begins to happen on its own.
Now, lastly, have a wall of mirrors, or a mirror on the wall, so that if you get back far enough, and sit comfortably, you can see your whole body, and surrounding. You will stare at the middle of your forehead, paying attention to your side vision, then you will begin to see your own aura, and the longer you practice, you will begin to experience. To mention a few, a white spiral, of which if someone were looking at your pupils, they would see them retract, and go full, just like walking into light, then back to dark, BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THIS SPIRAL MOVING. You can see the white mist, called the silver cord, going up and down, both ways, energy coming from you, and to you, ectoplasm, proving your connection to life, not the material. You will feel yourself pushing out the top of your head, and being that Prophecy is your first gift, as I believe it is, you may just go. Thats why you must prop the body snugly, so it cant fall over. Now, the light must be to the side of you, as usual. Remember, Jesus hinted that he was the Light, well, we are light, Jahwe is light, and we need light to energy. Our body needs food, the spirit needs light, like electricity, electromagnetic waves seated in the brain. Each cell of the body does have an eye, explained one time in OMNI.
My room was maybe 20 x 20, with a wall length mirror, (my closet), my bed to the right, and using the lamp on my bedtable. My door was directly across from the mirrors, and I sat on the floor, with a pillow under my rump, at my back, on each side, and on my lap, so wherever my arms, hands felt comfortable with. Being an Intuitive, I couldn't let go, until well practiced, I laid on the couch, and went out, raising up, or almost asleep, after doing the practice I told you to do. Using the imagination, to see oneself go thru the ceiling, and out. I always went to a chateau in a villiage in the Alps. It took about a week of practice. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Thats why I'm relating, and you must read books on it, so you will know it is real, and you are not alone. It must be viable in your head.
Going to the Edgar Cayce Inst. was a breathe of fresh air. Being in his surrounding made me even more viable.
There's much more I can relate, but I dont want to inhibit either, because you will experience what I haven't. Each person is a individual, and you will teach me also.
My first experience was when I was only two. I have a photographic memory when NECESSARY, such as work, or something I will need to remember later. I have seen color since very young, and thank the Goddess, for my grandfather, studying Cayce.
The bulb exercise is separate from the wall exercise with the light to your side to clarify your question. Dont forget Robert Monroe, he is still on the web, and his books. He's a natural, and he has an open invite to others to go there, volunteer for experiments. That was years ago, so check within his later books. Also, hopefully, he's still alive.
Not time travel, its dimension jumping. Altho, techyon waves might project us backwards, that remains to be seen with experiencing. We either have a past, or we live simultaneously. I think we do have a past. I have reasoning, (intuition) about that. We have an expert, JerryGeorge who dimension jumps like Robert Monroe.
I think I've covered everything. Please feel free to get in touch. And teach others. I dont travel like I used to. Its easier coming in and touching someone on the computer.
Another..........
The light must be to the side of your vision, so that light is reflected on your eyes. Say midway between you and your color cards. You will be paying attention to your side vision, peripually. Light, artificial or the sun is the key to our "seeing" of Aura. Light on our visical eyes brings the colors. Have you ever looked into a fireplace, and find yourself focusing, and deeply concentrating? The Rainbow is a demonstration of the colors that we see.
Move the light as you wish. I use a large industrial light that mechanics use to see under cars for demonstrations. Making sure that light will hit the eyes of students. I gaze at the sun, not too strong a light, and colors come automatically. When well practiced, the purple will come on its own. It signals movement in consciousness. It will "pop-up" all the time.
Also, remember to keep a journal, and as you look at the color cards, pay attention to your side vision at the edge of the card. Here the color will seep before you remove the card, and see the color in place of the card. The colors will be light at first, but will become deeper as time and practice happens. Hope this helps, good luck, and let me know how you are doing.
How can you learn to see Aura? And if there are different colors, what do they mean?
Answer
Hi Marie, Aura is easy. I saw as a child, progressively evolved born here this time, but learned how to teach others thru the Inner Peace Movement. It is so easy, takes ten minutes.
Everyone on Earth today have as least four gifts with many subcategories, and colors that go with the gifts, and different blends.
Prophecy, Knowing, Blue
Intuitive, Understanding, claraudience, commonsensical, Red
Feeling, Green, growth, feeling with consciusness
Visionary, yellow, clarvoyance, dreams, details, visions
Under these four gifts are many others which are listed on many websites.
I will give you one of my faqs to practice seeing the colors. Peace
Let me add, easier to do with someone holding the cards for you.
Let me begin by the sleep paralysis. I dont know what all you have heard but that is only a condition that happens when the spirit comes into the brain stem, and you become only partially awake, and the spirit is not entiring back in the body, and we start to fight. We think we are fighting to move, but in reality, we're fighting the rest of the ecoplasm, us, spirit from coming in. When that happens, one must "let go", relax, and you will feel a slight "zoom", or rush when the rest of spirit whips back in. I have tried to tell the populance at large, because I learned that doctors have labeled it and made it a condition, a sickness, and it is not. Its just there are more and more people coming aware, or coming of AGE.
As the child, you did experience. It has to do with light hitting our eyes, but not really directly, it doesn't matter. I have students look at a bulb, dim, very little wattage, or a yellow one, because the colors are there instantly. Your eyes will roam but thats OK, the colored orbs will roam. One must try to steady the eye, and hold the orbs as long as possible.
And let me add, there is a physiological explianation for what happens. In the brain, or the seat of the eye faculty, when stareing at certain colors, their opposites will show because this facility will "rest". I dont have the explianation in front of me. But lets go on. When you put up the color cards, and my Aunt who was a school teacher would do this with her students to show the experiment, you will see the color opposites. When you put the color cards, poster board, not the neon, but basics, or you can use the neon since its hard to find the basics. Get red, you will see green, green, you will see red, blue, you will see yellow, or lighter. Purple, you will see white. You can make them into shapes, and you will see the shapes. Let me clarify, holding is whats important, holding the color you see until it fades, and doing it again with another colored card. YOU ARE OPENING THE 3RD EYE!!!!
The light must be to the side of you, placed so it is in the locality of shining toward the eyes, not at them, to the side of the wall. When you look at the cards, pay attention to side vision, you will see the colors "seeping" from behind the cards on the wall, before its removed. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU PRACTICE!!! It is easier to see the colors and for them to deepen in color as time goes by. You would be sitting or standing at least 8-10 ft. away. Thats why someone needs to help, to stand at the wall and hold the color cards, you can take turns "seeing". When the card is taken down, you will continue to stare at where it was until the color fades.
With the light bulb or a DIM SUN, you will just hold the colors. You will go into trance as you are able to look longer. You will feel yourself, your body take the steps in meditation that they teach you to do, only it is automatic, like the deep breathing, it begins to happen on its own.
Now, lastly, have a wall of mirrors, or a mirror on the wall, so that if you get back far enough, and sit comfortably, you can see your whole body, and surrounding. You will stare at the middle of your forehead, paying attention to your side vision, then you will begin to see your own aura, and the longer you practice, you will begin to experience. To mention a few, a white spiral, of which if someone were looking at your pupils, they would see them retract, and go full, just like walking into light, then back to dark, BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING THIS SPIRAL MOVING. You can see the white mist, called the silver cord, going up and down, both ways, energy coming from you, and to you, ectoplasm, proving your connection to life, not the material. You will feel yourself pushing out the top of your head, and being that Prophecy is your first gift, as I believe it is, you may just go. Thats why you must prop the body snugly, so it cant fall over. Now, the light must be to the side of you, as usual. Remember, Jesus hinted that he was the Light, well, we are light, Jahwe is light, and we need light to energy. Our body needs food, the spirit needs light, like electricity, electromagnetic waves seated in the brain. Each cell of the body does have an eye, explained one time in OMNI.
My room was maybe 20 x 20, with a wall length mirror, (my closet), my bed to the right, and using the lamp on my bedtable. My door was directly across from the mirrors, and I sat on the floor, with a pillow under my rump, at my back, on each side, and on my lap, so wherever my arms, hands felt comfortable with. Being an Intuitive, I couldn't let go, until well practiced, I laid on the couch, and went out, raising up, or almost asleep, after doing the practice I told you to do. Using the imagination, to see oneself go thru the ceiling, and out. I always went to a chateau in a villiage in the Alps. It took about a week of practice. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Thats why I'm relating, and you must read books on it, so you will know it is real, and you are not alone. It must be viable in your head.
Going to the Edgar Cayce Inst. was a breathe of fresh air. Being in his surrounding made me even more viable.
There's much more I can relate, but I dont want to inhibit either, because you will experience what I haven't. Each person is a individual, and you will teach me also.
My first experience was when I was only two. I have a photographic memory when NECESSARY, such as work, or something I will need to remember later. I have seen color since very young, and thank the Goddess, for my grandfather, studying Cayce.
The bulb exercise is separate from the wall exercise with the light to your side to clarify your question. Dont forget Robert Monroe, he is still on the web, and his books. He's a natural, and he has an open invite to others to go there, volunteer for experiments. That was years ago, so check within his later books. Also, hopefully, he's still alive.
Not time travel, its dimension jumping. Altho, techyon waves might project us backwards, that remains to be seen with experiencing. We either have a past, or we live simultaneously. I think we do have a past. I have reasoning, (intuition) about that. We have an expert, JerryGeorge who dimension jumps like Robert Monroe.
I think I've covered everything. Please feel free to get in touch. And teach others. I dont travel like I used to. Its easier coming in and touching someone on the computer.
Another..........
The light must be to the side of your vision, so that light is reflected on your eyes. Say midway between you and your color cards. You will be paying attention to your side vision, peripually. Light, artificial or the sun is the key to our "seeing" of Aura. Light on our visical eyes brings the colors. Have you ever looked into a fireplace, and find yourself focusing, and deeply concentrating? The Rainbow is a demonstration of the colors that we see.
Move the light as you wish. I use a large industrial light that mechanics use to see under cars for demonstrations. Making sure that light will hit the eyes of students. I gaze at the sun, not too strong a light, and colors come automatically. When well practiced, the purple will come on its own. It signals movement in consciousness. It will "pop-up" all the time.
Also, remember to keep a journal, and as you look at the color cards, pay attention to your side vision at the edge of the card. Here the color will seep before you remove the card, and see the color in place of the card. The colors will be light at first, but will become deeper as time and practice happens. Hope this helps, good luck, and let me know how you are doing.
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Beacon Lee
Ohm
Question
You answered a persons question about ohm on http://experts.about.com/q/2544/3402994.htm Why did you not credit the original writer (myself) with your word for word answer? The text you used came directly from my site at: http://visit.elysiumgates.com/aum.html
Kythera Ann
Answer
Then why did you ask, did you want to know what we do with it, use it for, Rainbow, Nation of all tribes. Did not you understand? You got what was there of yours for the asking of the same. Its called awareness by default. I could not understand what you were doing? Peace
You answered a persons question about ohm on http://experts.about.com/q/2544/3402994.htm Why did you not credit the original writer (myself) with your word for word answer? The text you used came directly from my site at: http://visit.elysiumgates.com/aum.html
Kythera Ann
Answer
Then why did you ask, did you want to know what we do with it, use it for, Rainbow, Nation of all tribes. Did not you understand? You got what was there of yours for the asking of the same. Its called awareness by default. I could not understand what you were doing? Peace
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Beacon Lee
ego
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would it be accurate to think of the ego in terms of a computer analogy as the graphical user interface that rests atop the underlying processes of a computers operating system? is this a productive way of being able to see ourselves as not being the ego?
Answer
Hi Greg
I would think first off that it depends on how comfortable you are with the computer analogy - some folks have a morbid fear of computers, so for them, using this idea would be counterproductive. Since you evidently ARE comfortable with it, let's go to...
Indulge me for a moment, since I'm not a computer wiz, but a GUI is simply an easy way to access the "important" stuff that computers do for us. Back in "the day", I remember having to use BASIC and FORTRAN to get my dinosaur of a computer just to spit out a few names and addresses.
So, you could theoretically use a computer without a GUI - can we "use" ourselves without ego? I would think so...indeed, the goal of many meditations is to go beyond the ego and to discover the "real" us. To continue the analogy, then, we don't really need the ego, but does it make it easier for us to live?
Just like MS Windows, it sometimes does make things easier, but sometimes it drives us to distraction! Just like in meditational techniques, many attempt to use them, but soon quit due to various difficulties, real or perceived. Only a relative few are "successful" in meditation, just as only a relative few can work a computer without all the graphical interfaces.
So, to sum up, if you're comfortable "working yourself" with raw data and know what buttons to push :>), then have at it! If you're more comfortable knowing that the ego is merely a shell, an outward manifestation or mask, butthat you feel better using it, then that is equally valid.
Thanks for your question - hope this helps!
would it be accurate to think of the ego in terms of a computer analogy as the graphical user interface that rests atop the underlying processes of a computers operating system? is this a productive way of being able to see ourselves as not being the ego?
Answer
Hi Greg
I would think first off that it depends on how comfortable you are with the computer analogy - some folks have a morbid fear of computers, so for them, using this idea would be counterproductive. Since you evidently ARE comfortable with it, let's go to...
Indulge me for a moment, since I'm not a computer wiz, but a GUI is simply an easy way to access the "important" stuff that computers do for us. Back in "the day", I remember having to use BASIC and FORTRAN to get my dinosaur of a computer just to spit out a few names and addresses.
So, you could theoretically use a computer without a GUI - can we "use" ourselves without ego? I would think so...indeed, the goal of many meditations is to go beyond the ego and to discover the "real" us. To continue the analogy, then, we don't really need the ego, but does it make it easier for us to live?
Just like MS Windows, it sometimes does make things easier, but sometimes it drives us to distraction! Just like in meditational techniques, many attempt to use them, but soon quit due to various difficulties, real or perceived. Only a relative few are "successful" in meditation, just as only a relative few can work a computer without all the graphical interfaces.
So, to sum up, if you're comfortable "working yourself" with raw data and know what buttons to push :>), then have at it! If you're more comfortable knowing that the ego is merely a shell, an outward manifestation or mask, butthat you feel better using it, then that is equally valid.
Thanks for your question - hope this helps!
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Beacon Lee
ego
Question
is it accurate to think of the ego as the graphical user interface of the computer which allows us to be able to interact with the inner workings of the machine?
Answer
If you mean that ego is what we show out front, no, not necessarily, some would not lead with the ego, while some would, but I'd say maybe, 40%. As humans in the last three generations, we have too much programmings by our governments, and society, meekly going alone, not questioning, being good little citazens, and taught to ridicule, and distrust anyone who is different. Peace
is it accurate to think of the ego as the graphical user interface of the computer which allows us to be able to interact with the inner workings of the machine?
Answer
If you mean that ego is what we show out front, no, not necessarily, some would not lead with the ego, while some would, but I'd say maybe, 40%. As humans in the last three generations, we have too much programmings by our governments, and society, meekly going alone, not questioning, being good little citazens, and taught to ridicule, and distrust anyone who is different. Peace
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Beacon Lee
ego
Question
is it accurate to think of the ego as the graphical user interface that lets us interact with a computer? in other words, it's not the real computer and has nothing to do with whats really going on in the background, but its what everyone sees. is this a constructive way of thinking of the ego?
Answer
Greg, Thank you for your question.
The awakened intellect feels whole and joyful within itself. To the extent that we identify with our experience of thoughts and the objects of the senses, we lose ourselves in that identification. It is always difficult to speak of the nature of consciousness, since using words commits us to the realm of thought, a realm that is subject to interpretation.
David Spector
is it accurate to think of the ego as the graphical user interface that lets us interact with a computer? in other words, it's not the real computer and has nothing to do with whats really going on in the background, but its what everyone sees. is this a constructive way of thinking of the ego?
Answer
Greg, Thank you for your question.
The awakened intellect feels whole and joyful within itself. To the extent that we identify with our experience of thoughts and the objects of the senses, we lose ourselves in that identification. It is always difficult to speak of the nature of consciousness, since using words commits us to the realm of thought, a realm that is subject to interpretation.
David Spector
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Beacon Lee
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