[Infinite Consciousness]

MEDITATION,

Meditation is simply another word for " concentration. " My sole purpose for posting in these forums is to help others to learn and to - attempt - to raise their consciousness above the physical - material body. And, in the process of rising above the body to lessen and possibly even avoid the - pain - sorrows - suffering - decay - aging - dis-ease - and death - that identification of our consciousness with the physical body brings us.


How to meditate i. e. concentrate and where it is to be done to achieve the desired effect of rising above body consciousness. In the process of praying we talk at God - in the process of meditating we listen to God. The process of meditation involves becoming aware of our attention (i.e. spirit)
and the purpose of meditation is to reunite our attention ( the outer expression of our consciousness or soul ) back with its source the soul or consciousness within us.

This very problem is explained in the Bible in Hebrews 4:12 but not understood re "The word of God is quick (living and conscious) and powerful ( energy of Light & Sound ), and sharper than any twoedged sword (note twoedged in that it cuts both ways one to devide one to unite), piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul (inner consciousness) and spirit (its outer expression or attention), and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner ( discern = the ability to see below the surface clearly and sharply - implies more consciously - and to judge accurately ), of the "thoughts and intents of the heart."

Meditation or concentration is done with the eyes closed - in any pose in which we are most comfortable - with lying down we tend to fall asleep - so it is better sitting up if possible. When we sit for meditation we are not to move our body as movement makes us aware of the body we are trying
to rise above. We close our eyes and focus our attention or concentration in the eye - focus. We are not to try stopping our thought as that itself is a thought - it is the focusing of the attention with full concentration that stops thought.

We look minutely - intently - penetratingly - at the darkness and it will burst forth into Light - nature abhors a vacuum and if we learn to hold our concentration in the focus - we will either rise above body-consciousness or if we lose our concentration we will go out of the focus and see thoughts.
With practice we soon realize that when we lose our concentration we become our thoughts in that we are no longer aware of the Self we were aware of when we were fully concentrated in the eye- focus. This is how and where consciousness loses awareness of itself in the act of thinking.

This is a very important point that we need to fully understand if we are to rise above the body - we must - " with our eyes closed " - have our attention focused about 10 inches outside. If our attention is focused inside we will be aware of our breathing and of our body and we will be unable to rise above it.

What we are attempting to do here is to separate our consciousness or spirit from the mind or matter and we simplify the process by giving the mind something to keep it occupied while our attention separates from it. This is done by a mantra or prayer or any name of God that we are comfortable with. In getting the mind to repeat the mantra we are keeping it occupied and it is not able to interfere with what we are doing.

The key to this process that will open this door for us is that our attention " must be focused on our looking " not on the words we are saying with our thought. The prayer or mantra is done with our thought not with our voice. This is important to achieve any success. The mantra or prayer must
be done with the tongue of thought or there will be no success.

If you see a dot of light fully focus your concentration on it and it will burst forth and you will experience your consciousness as spirit independent of and freed from your body. There is no experience in this world to compare with the bliss and "peace that passeth all understanding" that comes with this experience - and you know - that as spirit you never die and death becomes a laughing matter in that there is no more fear and you too say "Oh death where is thy sting."

When you achieve success at rising above the body level of consciousness you will see and experience micro-galaxies. They are a fact . I have seen and been in these spiritual realms. They are planes of consciousness vibrating at a higher frequency than this physical - material world.


William James McCann III