Kuriakon - Infinity

The inner reaches of introspection become the outer reaches of meditation, as the exploration moves beyond the subjective experience of the present-day personality, into the boundless oceans of the Mind, towards alignment with the universal and eternal

Of that which is universal and eternal there is none greater than Love, for "there is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear" (1 John 4:18). The Love of the Absolute Beingness is at the very heart of the cosmos and the Source of all Creation. It is the same Love to which we owe our Source, and the same Love which lives in our hearts.

If, from time to time, one has the opportunity to spend a few days in the mountains or by the seashore, in meditation and contemplation, that is most renewing and advisable. We spend too little time in nature and far too little time in silence. It is good to escape the chaos every now and then, but we have work to do.

Meditation, which utilizes both observation and concentration, entails contemplation and investigation of a subject.

Meditation is more passive (than exercises or visualization), as it involves reflection and introspection. The difference is not great and often an exercise will lead into a meditation

Meditation is practiced in varying degrees. You cannot jump ahead but have to go slowly by mastering each step along the way. The first field of work (let us call it the 'microcosm") concerns the cleansing of the present-day personality. This cleansing is ceaseless work and of even so-called Masters must keep constant vigil against the emergence of egoism. Through study we set about to understand the nature of elementals. Remember, we teach that the sum total of all elementals which we create, assimilate and re-energize, compose our present-day personality.

We are fundamentally opposed to any system of exercise adopted by Westerners which create a division between the mundane and the Divine and a gulf between a meditative state and a normal waking state. It is not healthy, nor respectful, to annihilate either the natural world or the lower body belonging to it.
From: Researchers of Truth

Meditation Tips from Edgar Cayce

• Meditation is the attuning of the mental and physical body to your spiritual source.
• Meditation builds a protective barrier around yourself against harmful forces.
• Meditation will help you manifest the fruits of the Holy Spirit and the white light of the Christ.
• Meditation allows you to obtain information on any subject and the answer will come from within.
• Meditation is the way to at-one-ment with God.
• Constant communication with God through meditation will result in spiritual guidance.
• During meditation, you can increase the spiritual forces taking place within your inner self.
• This is necessary to help you attune and become one with the Creative Force - just as in the pitch of a song of praise.
• Raise these spiritual forces in yourself and you will enter the presence of your Maker.
• Attunement through meditation comes not above yourself - but within yourself.
• No sacrifice is necessary except your desire to be one with God.
• You will know within yourself when you are in an at-one-ment with God.
• Read about the promises of Jesus in the book of John, chapters 14-17, to learn about the spirit of light within you to help unlock your inner self.
• Set definite time periods to listen to the voice of your Maker. Meditate either at 11:00 am to noon in the day or 11:00 pm to midnight in the evening. The best time is 2:00 am to 3:00 am in the morning. (For at least 30 minutes)
• Meditate facing east (for polarity with the Earth) and in the same place each day.
• For some people, the song of the spheres is necessary for their comfort in meditation and to rest the senses.
• Sit or lie in an easy position, without any binding garments around your body.
• Sit as in readiness. Crucify desires within yourself. Turn yourself inward.
• Quiet yourself mentally. Cleanse the inner room of your mind. No unkind thoughts are allowed.
• Shut out all thoughts pertaining to activities or attributes of carnal forces.
• The hands should always cross the solar plexus, the balancing between the forces of the body, when meditating or seeking to open yourself to the unseen sources.
• Never open yourself without surrounding yourself with the Christ Consciousness by thought, by word of mouth, by impressing it upon yourself - also for protection.
• Certain types of breathing are suggested, that there may be an even balance in the respiratory system, that the circulation becomes normal in its flow through the body.
• With low music or incantations, let yourself go deeper, to the seeing, feeling, experiencing the creative forces of love and enter into the Holy of Holies.
• Then listen to the music of your inner spiritual centers responding.
• Enter in the closet of your inner self and pour out your self so that you may be filled with the Spirit of God.
• Find what is the impelling desire (i.e., your ideal) in your inner self - council with your soul.
• Make your will to be one with the whole.
• In your temple, let the voice, the feeling, the spirit of your purpose be free in its direction to yourself.
• Meditate on the fruits of the Spirit in the inner secrets of the consciousness and the cells in the body will become aware of the awakening of the life in their activity.
• Only in patience can you become aware of your soul's activity.
• Attune yourself almost in the same manner as you would tune a violin for harmony.
• Seek God's face and God's ways. When you are fully attuned, let your intonations, breathing, and posture be rather an outgrowth of your attunement.
• As the body attunes itself, it may be a channel where there may be instant healing with the laying on of hands.
• Voices can be heard when attuning yourself during meditation.
• Visualizing while attuned in meditation can influence others.
• Many people meet their spirit guide during their first experience of meditation. Do not be satisfied with a guide other than one from the Throne of Grace itself.
• After raising your consciousness, God meets you in your own temple (the Holy of Holies, the third eye).
• No one can know attunement who has not developed their inner self.
• If we fail to apply what is given us in meditation, the body will act!

Three Keys
Prayer is speaking to God and mediation is listening to God. Mastering the technique of meditation is not easy. There are three keys necessary to succeed in meditation. The three keys to this door of communication with God are sincerity, enthusiasm and perseverance.

As for sincerity, ask yourself these questions: Do I really know who and what God is? Do I know him personally as a loving Father, or do I just know about him? More important, does he know me? Are we on speaking terms, or do we just nod occasionally? If we find ourselves answering in the negative to these questions, we may begin to realize how greatly we need him. His promise has ever been that if we believe, live by his laws, he will aid us swiftly when we call, no matter where we happen to be.

Enthusiasm is important because it is an inner fire, an inner light seeking its own source. In Webster's dictionary, the origins of the Greek word "enthusiasm" meant to be "inspired, or possessed by a god." In meditation, this inner fire stimulates every cell of the body and every reflex of the brain to listen. How do we evoke enthusiasm for our search for God? By first examining those people who, from the beginning of time, have found him. The Bible tells of man's experiences with God. Studying it in conjunction with efforts at meditation and prayer awakens the necessary enthusiasm to begin.

Perseverance is perhaps the most difficult key. We need to keep on, day after day, in the effort to re-establish our communion. When we first attempt to harness the thoughts, to control the body, to sit still, we realize just how much the body controls us, mind and spirit.

The purification and control of the spiritual body takes place within the endocrine glands, under the direction of the mind. The Cayce readings and modern science concur that constructive thoughts and emotions release healing hormones into the body and mind. But the Cayce readings go further. They suggest that the endocrine glands are the spiritual centers of the body and that through them our spiritual forces find means of expression. Meditation is a key to opening these spiritual centers.

These spiritual centers are: the sex glands, the Lyden gland, the Adrenal glands, the Thymus, the Thyroid, the Pineal and the Pituitary glands. The proper application of the energies illuminates them, transforming the individual into a light in the world.

Ideals enter the mind when led by the spirit. The Cayce readings remind us over and over again that mind is the builder, led by the spirit we are entertaining, the spirit of God or the spirit of the devil - self. What one thinks and eats, one becomes.

Spiritual cleansing begins when the mind is in accord with his spirit. It is across the bridge of the mind that we pass, as we come to know God. Once a soul sets for itself an ideal which is spiritual in essence, every cell in the body is made aware of this and changes begin to take place. Our seven spiritual centers become the points of contact with the divine within; thus we experience a stepping-up of activity in all these centers. We have redirected the use of this energy to its highest function. A refining process has taken place in the body, a lifting of the rate of vibration; these centers now disseminate their energies and hormones to the entire body.

As the individual sits in meditation, his mind focused on an affirmation (an ideal), spiritual energy begins to move upward from the sexual glands. Usually, at this point, a pulsation may be felt at the end of the spine. If the spiritual force has been able to rise unhindered and undefiled to the pineal and pituitary, one may experience an incandescence as if the whole body had been filled with light and become transparent.

It is at the pineal center that we gradually become oriented to the Christ-presence, where we may even receive the Mind of Christ, depending on the degree of the attunement.

This force then flows into the pituitary, from whence, being now in purified form, it flows downward, cleansing and strengthening body and mind.
From: Meditation: Gateway to Light.
Cayce Research (A.R.E)