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[could someone experienced answer my 2 questions, recently, i have been talking to people who seem to regurgitate what they have read in books]

quote:could someone experienced answer my 2 questions, recently, i have been talking to people who seem to regurgitate what they have read in books

Hi Mouse,
Good thought behind your question. I'd like to point out that there is much confusion about what real meditation is. Often the term "meditation" is used to refer to a trance. While a trance-like state can be gained while in meditation, meditation is not trance. Nor should trance be the goal, or "way" of your meditation.

Trance is a taming of the body "awareness", Meditation is becoming aware. Of what? You!


I'd like to quote Browning's Paracelsus.

"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; all around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception, which is Truth.
A baffling and perverted carnal mesh binds it,
And makes all error.
And to KNOW
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without."



Id just like to give you some encouragement with your current way of meditation. By what you describe, sounds like your very well on the right path. Well done!

quote:I intuit that this is one of the benefits of meditation- it tells me that the chasm between my "self" and David (normal me)
is getting smaller- can you clarify this???
even though i think its true, it feels better if someone clarifies it

What can you look foward to? Simply put, "YOU". You can look forward to You. You will eventually burn away all things, until you're all thats left. Quite a beautiful thing really. With practice, that feeling you get, will greatly increase. You're well on your way to what some call a "buddhic mind". Sometimes you will feel "alienated" to society. But perhaps thats a blessing.

As a side note, you can look foward to lucid dreaming.

Phlux

hey silver,

Big questions... and obviously ones which only you can answer. But fear not, its almost impossible to make a mistake

And tom, I very much agree with you. When a person steps outside the world of school and works/travels for awhile, you change. It's as if you finally shrug off peer pressure and find who you really are.

Phlux

hi general,

I know your asking about the "psychic" part involved. To that ends I know u can see in the dark while in astral/trance(sometimes) but dunno how easy it would be while awake and moving.

But also remember your eyes can be involved also. Depending if theres any light or no light. Heres and interesting little known fact: your eyes secret special chemicals to aid night vision after short periods in the dark. I first discoved this while reading a site on astronomy. Unfortunatly I can't find the link at the moment. But, there it states that after about 6 minuits in the dark, your eyes will secrete a chemical to improve night vision. Perhaps it helps to stimulate your rod cells. Rod cells "view" in black and white only. They of course are more sensative to light than the color sensative cells. Thats why you usually only see in black and white at night.

As I have discovered first hand (running every night for 6 years), there is some truth to this. I have noticed drastic improvement in my night vision. To the point where I can see quite well even in the darkest nights. I perhaps can speculate that this comes from more exposure to that night vision chemical. Or its possible that my long exposure to dark periods might have helped some kind of "psychic night vision" to kick in. There is of course other possibilities.

Would be interesting to look into.

Phlux

aka Phrozen from astraltravellers.com

Take care.