In meditation, people seek a particular state:
- Some associate it with a state of silence.
- Someone with deeper experience of these practices may associate it with entering the unknown, exploring other worlds, or receiving additional information.
If meditation means expanding perception and entering a particular state of perception, then a person can experience its entire range during that time: from a headache to complete relaxation of the whole system, from heightened vision to blurred perception, from incredible silence to an all-consuming, terrible noise. A person in a meditative state can experience anything at all.
In a meditative state, a person moves into the unknown without a clearly defined path. They do not know where they are going, so the outcome can vary. This raises a very interesting point: how much strength does a person have to alter their state and enter different states?
I often tell people in sessions and groups: ‘If, during meditation, you can simultaneously perceive reality, remain aware enough to understand mentally what is happening, and still hold other worlds in your awareness, that is deep immersion.’ But within that immersion, it is not so much that all sensations become muted. Rather, they are perceived in a completely different way from what the person is hoping to experience.
For example, a person wants complete silence. In that silence, you have no thoughts with which even to become aware of the silence; you cannot describe it. There is an illusion that you will be able to describe it after the meditation ends, but you can recall only part of it. The space you entered to experience that silence will already be inaccessible by then.
To describe the space of silence, you need to be present in it and describe it at the same time.
When I record a video on a particular subject, I am in a stream of movement, following a ‘light’ ahead. The stream moves very fast, and there is a light ahead that you move toward without getting any closer. At the same time, while in that stream, I need to remain in a state that allows me to hold it and stay aware of it.
Entering that stream is a fairly profound meditative process. People reading this material will perceive different layers:
- You can be in the kitchen eating sausage, skimming this text, and still experience a flash of silence.
- You can tune in exclusively to the stream I am experiencing, focus on the movement through a black-and-white space, and remain in it.
By joining the meditations on my channel, you enter such a broad range of states for connecting with yourself that each day you can reach a different breadth of perception—from perceiving and sensing your physical body to full spiritual perception and spiritual vision.
Spiritual vision itself has different layers of perception:
- Seeing a particular world or layer is one thing.
- Acting within that layer is another. There is a big difference between being able to act in that space and simply watching television.
The next time you experience or see something in a meditative state, remember this material and go further, regardless of whether what you saw frightened you or delighted you. Go deeper still, neutrally, entirely without emotion, solely to explore the truth, rather than out of a desire for an experience within your own system.
If the only thing drawing you to meditation is the pursuit of particular sensations, it is worth looking at which feelings have power over you in that case. If it is a physical sensation, that is a direct physical dependence, just like a dependence on sweets, food in general, physical intimacy, or various intriguing relationships.
Truth alone can be the driving reason for coming to meditation. Someone may say that people can be driven by a desire to change something. Indeed, many people come to meditations because something unpleasant is happening and they want to change it. People come with a specific request, a problem, or an overwhelming desire. Others come out of an impulse, and this is visible in the spiritual world. They have no clear description of a need or a request. They simply have an impulse; they know this is something they need to do and experience.
To truly enter the meditative space, you need willpower and a whole range of knowledge—in this case, not intellectual knowledge.
You have the opportunity to work through a good series of meditations posted on the channel in the appropriate sequence. Take one or two meditations a day, in the morning and evening, and watch them in order. On the days when I hold open meditations, join those too. This will bring strong, genuine forward movement—a movement of love and happiness.
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