I don’t know how much meditation is known in its very real and core essential. I do know that I used to understand it only superficially, but I have learned. Meditation is the gateway to a new world, a greater mind, a capacity we have that is infinite and divine in its essential.
Years ago I had the privilege of having private darshan (audience) with Muktananda. I was very Westernized at the time, to say the least. In his presence, however, I felt an enormous surge o love in my heart and a huge dedication to helping the world through my profession. When I asked for advice as to my further development he said, “Meditate, meditate, meditate.” While I thought that was superficial at the time – I have learned. It is essential. It is the ESSENTIAL.
What is there about meditation that makes me say that it is these things?
We are essentially Divinity (Spirit) precipitated as we descend from the creative heights into this material plane. We learn here, and we return. Meditation is learning here and return, both at the same time.
What do I mean by that?
When we meditate, we loosen the ties with our earthly home by removing attention from the body, from the emotions and from the ordinary pre-occupations of life. Then we are in a place of SILENCE; we are at the cusp. We remain in contact with the earth, but we are open to reception from High Planes, from the Cosmic Wisdom. If we retain what we learn (if we remember it) we can weave it into Life and grow progressively into the Spirit-Beings that we are.
With that in mind, I would like to transmit some of my meditations and their meaning for me. Not selfishly, but in the spirit that we are all essentially alike and that we can learn from each other.
Here is the first: Revolution Evolution
We are in the midst of a rapidly developing Revolution, a part of an accelerating evolution. What I mean by this is that there is a veil between the two worlds in which we live, and that it is gradually growing thinner,- not too gradually, perhaps at an accelerating pace.
What do I mean by the two worlds and veil between the two worlds? One world is the five-sense sensory realm, the material world, the scientific world, the here and now and “can-do” world. The other is the world of thought-spirit-love-imagination-subtle energy—God!
Heretofore, we have worshiped the physical-scientific way. Gradually society becomes aware of the spiritual/thought world; --its reality and its power.
A whole host of new happenings are on the scene
The popularity, yes, the popularity, of after-death communication and after-death experience;
The interest in past lives as has been popularized by Brian Weiss;
The increasing interest in after death communication following upon Raymond Moody’s familiarizing us with near-death experiences;
The communication with the deceased as part of Marc Macy’s research;
And the work of the late and wonderful spiritual-psychiatrist, John Mack, who gathered experiences with those he named “expriencers”, those who felt they have had experiences of being abducted by the UFO-ers. From these he deduced that the UFOs were here to help us to create a newer and better society.
Now we have the latest work by Alan Botkin, “induced after-death communication”- after-death communication induced by the use of EMDR.
Experiences such as those of Botkins AID’ERS, and Raymond Moody’s near-death experiencers, experiences of the Indigo children, a new breed of children who come into the world with knowledge and conviction of the after death realms and “goodness” of it all—all of this new knowledge brings us progressively into a higher world of subtle energies,-the realm of higher consciousness and indeed Love
This is a Revolution-Evolution, which in the West was started by Freud, who made introspection legitimate, and had us learn that the inside-self, the inner-direct self is important in our lives. We have learned that we are not just a bunch of outward-directed people. The inner-self is moving us in significant ways. The popularization of psychoanalysis has led, and continues to lead us into a veritable proliferation of ways of understanding ourselves, healing ourselves emotionally and mentally, and therefore of investigating ourselves.
It was Alan Watts who brought this into our country, along with a whole host of others: Grof, Maslow, Pierrokis – all of this gathering as a revolution-evolution, bringing us closer and closer to the other side, and the other side closer and closer to us. Instead of a wall between the two worlds, we have a veil, a fog or a mist,- which promises to become clearer and clearer,--and as it does we will integrate the goodness of God, which IS the other side, into our lives and our culture and our society, -- and live in the Promised Land.
AND another: Personality Counts
Personality is that through which we live. If we are the expression of the soul which created us, we are not unlike the filter changes the color of the light as it comes through the projector. So we, in our personalities , change the expression of the light from within; we color it, we distort it into something else.
What is the importance of this? If we study ourselves and get to know ourselves better, we can locate our distortions and convey ourselves in a progressively purer way our light from within becomes progressively white and we become more of what we are in potential. We approach our divinity.
I have noticed this, not only in my patients, but in many people of high achievement, many of whom I admire greatly.
A researcher, well known for her contributions to the study of the higher mind, and one who has an extraordinary psychic gift, nevertheless is held back by the residues of an overly strict and compulsively moral upbringing. This has given rise to in a certain degree of shyness about promulgating her own contributions, -- a certain inhibition by due to hypertrophied self-criticism.. To relieve that would free her to put forth her very important contributions, and to do so more fully and more clearly -- the expressions of a purer light.
Since the early 1970s, I’ve been working with Olympic skaters. In the beginning, I noticed with great surprise that the skater’s personality “flows through the blade”. It is the inner self wanting to expressing itself. But the distortions, the learned inhibitions, the contaminations of learned personality, distort the pure expression of pure performance. One must be true to oneself. The skater who is afraid to communicate his/her true self neither completes the self or the performance.. I remember one very gifted girl, squashed by herc oach who insisted in having her skate his way. Thus the inhibition of her own free flow; her gift of the beauty of her presentation disappeared, - as did she.
We are at our best when we project the inner light harmoniously, with free flow and with the strength of a coherent laser. The inhibitions of pure expression came when the skater (or we) are unafraid to express our individual style.
Perhaps in this fast food society, where we are in such a rush, we have forgotten too much of the humanity that we are, and therefore we have imposed too many filters.
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Dr. Maurie D. Pressman
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