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Meditation is just one part of the whole tree.

Yes. Placing the point of focus between breathing in and out. I find doing that is maybe deeper than focusing on just the breath- in and breath-out. Maybe more focus is needed because it's only there for a split second? It feels differently to me too. I place more awareness in between breaths and allow consciousness to "hang" there for a moment, and just let the in breath and out breath happen.

Has anyone had any experience using a pyramid to enhance their meditation? MEDITATION IN PYRAMIDS: Careful study reveals several unique and beneficial qualities that may be derived from Pyramid Meditation. Experienced Meditators relate profound results in their quest for expanded awareness.Many people feel that psychic powers are stimulated or heighten by the use of pyramids. Psychics who use pyramids in that fashion have achieved an altered state of consciousness more rapidly than they would have otherwise, placed on the head focussing through the chakra system, during Meditation sessions, clearing psychic passages which may have become blocked. The pyramid is a geometric amplifier which increases the power of prayer or strengthens the spiritual request of a religious devotee. Pyramid Meditators suggest that the best results are achieved by sitting upright with the upper chakras located approximately one third up from the pyramid base directly under the apex. The use of a pyramid in meditation can excellerate the process bringing feelings of calmness, wellbeing and a more open and positive attitude. Many users claim increased memory recall, visions of past incarnations, telepathic communication and an expansion of awareness. Verbal and written testimonials, among experienced and non-experienced pyramid meditators throughout the world have reported that the pyramid shows the following reactions. 1. A sense of weightlessness. 2. Electric-like tingling sensations. 3. Feelings of warmness, usually in the upper portions of the body. 4. Tranquility, relaxation and freedom from tensions. 5. Dreams with vivid colors and graphic visions. 6. External stimuli, sight and sounds particularly fade away. 7. Time distortion, Space consciousness prevails. 8. Deeper, more fulfilling meditations and higher energy levels . th using a

Yes, the illusion of "self " begins. Not just the image in the mirror but the whole concept that goes with that self identity. Than one day you realize, this isn't true! How did this happen and how did I ever get so far into this idea of self? That's the sleep we walk in, of course and awaken from. I was just reading about a woman's NDE and how she became so depressed after realizing that she is not what she thought she was. She is now searching for that middle ground. She said that "life now feels like thick peanut butter to me". She is searching other NDE's to relate her personal experience too.

2Yea, same here. (Is that me?) Maybe that's not that uncommon?? Not sure. I watched a documentary and most children don't identify themselves with the image in the mirror until the age of 24 months or so.

Have you ever tried this. Being the empty space between the in breath and the out breath.

I remember when I was a young child a very special feeling that would suddenly come over me. It was the feeling that I and the world around me were one. Existence was comforting me and caring for me. Hugging me. I could feel myself existing within it, but belonging to it in every way. It felt wonderful. That didn't happen all the time. But when it did, it was very special. It was everything. It would often happen when I was outside, in nature (the back yard) by myself. Sometimes it was just "me" playing, and sometimes it was something much more than just "me" that was happening.

http://www.michaelteachings.com/7planes.html I also often wonder about the Akashic plane and it's existence. I found this when I was searching it.

@Nick I hope more people see this pic. Btw-the reflected image shown is nicknamed "The pillars of Creation". How appropriate.

That's very cool!

Peeling potato's can be enlightenment. "Potato's are being peeled" apposed to "I'm peeling potatoes"

@The Alchemist Maybe during sex? Ask this guy if it's working for him! Haha See youtube vid Namasti_"lingam message" I didn't post the site directly b-c it's sexually graphic.

Ram Das

Walt Whitman "I must not be awake for everything looks to me as it has never before. Or else I'm awake for the first time and all that was before was just a dream"

Can you see through child eyes again?

Yea, that's it. Do not attach. Just let it be

This space that our minds and body's occupy exists within that "Alpha" space. It is the larger field that surrounds us always. It is the canvas for this existence to be expressed.

Everything else becomes a sub-space to the field of perfect emptiness .

Lets watch this together. O.K.

It’s unfortunate to say, but spiritual seekers often do not genuinely want to wake up; they want to have an experience. One that fits into their spiritual schema, which of course is grounded in existence

Wow!

Just wanted to share something. I just came out of meditation. There exists now an infinite silent emptiness. I look at the total forum and it's almost painful by compairison. So many ideas and perceptions and thoughts happening at one time. It's a traffic jam with 10000's of horns blowing in contrast to this vast emptiness. I'm not saying this in a negative way. Just bringing that to light while the experience is still fresh. It's starting to wear off now. Wow, what a contrast that was.

Thanks Ayla for posting "Christ Conscionsceness". That's a beautiful satsang. I'm sitting here now listening to George Harrisons "Isn't it a pity" "Some things take so long, but how do I explain? When not too many people can see we're all the same. And because of all there tears, there eyes can't hope to see, the beauty that surrounds them-oh isn't it a pity" George Harrison

My first experience watching Mooji was "Christ Consciousness". Very powerful and moving. He opens the door to total oneness and presence, where separation and distance are an illusion.