bright light in meditation

[Nick]

Hi,

Welcome to the Astral Pulse forums! [] The experience you speak of is not one I am familiar with. Perhaps someone else has had that happen. You may want to try using our search engine. There have been a number of posts on guides so if you type that in as your keyword you will get some hits.


Very best,

[JAW]

Howdy,
Ive noticed something similar 2-3 times. Sometimes whilst meditating and sometimes while going to sleep (although Im concentrating on my mental state while drifting off)
The ball of light I see doesn't "come at me" but seems to wander within my visual field from left to right. It usually hangs around for a minute or so then I dont see it again. Also I dont find it so bright I have to look away. Its not like the usual waves or gobledegook of colour/light. Very interesting I must say, dunno if this is the same thing as youre experiencing though, it sounds a bit different

Cheers

[halfphased]

Greetings,

I recently read a book titled "Journey of insight meditation : a personal experience of the Buddha's way" By Eric Lerner.  In this book, Lerner describes seeing a bright ball of light in his meditation.  The way he describe it is that it was across a dark chasm and if his awareness faltered it would slip away.  Obviously, I have no idea if this is what you are experiencing.  However, if it is, he ended up thinkink he had attained something rather great and when he went to some Buddhist masters he was basically told that he had strayed into unmindfulness and that he should leave the ball of light alone.  Apparently, he had become attached to obtaining this ball of light and forgotten that the world is change.  Annika. Annika.

Not that I am saying you are doing this or it's anything similar or if it is similar then I am in no position to say that the masters know what they are talking about.  Follow your intuition

Peace
-Nathan

[krmason]

hi,

I am new to these forums and new to finding my spirituality.  There is something driving me to find my inner self and I am interested in finding my spiritual guides and enhancing whatever gifts I have.

However, when I meditate there will always be a time when I come into the presence of an extremely bright ball of light that comes straight for me.  It comes within a few feet of me but the light is so bright I instinctively shift my eyes and it is gone.

When I am doing visualization, I often see it in the corner of my vision or at the peaks of mountains or buildings.

I have been told that this is my spiritual guide, of whom I want to meet, but I can't seem to be able to stare right at it and when I mov emy eyes it's gone.

Has anyone experienced this before?  any suggestions on how to make contact with my guide?[?]