Images and Visions in Meditation: How Not to Deceive Yourself

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationImages and visions during meditationStates and effects of meditationF/Friend / friends

What is said here

• 00:00In the previous video, you said that people can see spiritual worlds, images, or visual impressions without even realizing that is what they are.Spirit
• 01:30Look, the main issue that arises with different kinds of perception is the desire to prove that you see something, or interpret it so…Spirit
• 04:19“Do you know what it was?” You would say, “No, I do not.” That would not upset you. But if someone says, “I saw a city in the spiritual world,” you start wondering whether they really saw…Children · Spirit
• 05:43Who is better or more impressive: someone who makes fifteen basketball shots in a row without missing, or someone who does not? Society says the one who makes the shots is better.Spirit · Atlantis
• 07:06People who see nothing say, “That is all complete rubbish and nonsense. You made it all up. It is schizophrenia.”Friend / friends · Spirit · Wife
• 08:26Approach spiritual vision very calmly. It should become ordinary.Spirit · Health
• 09:50Did you see that so you could avoid bankruptcy, or so you could understand the process and be ready for it?Garden / plants
• 11:16You need to be able to live with any information or vision. You need to be ready to live with that information. Of course, people want to see something so they can make use of it in a basic way.The Pacific Ocean
• 12:34I do not know: have you been to the Pacific Ocean? Suppose you have not. What difference does it make if you realize, “I have been to the Pacific Ocean”? So what? What does it give you?The Pacific Ocean · Time · Olya (meditation channel participant)
• 13:58With my whole system, I tried to show him that his business would not work out. I asked leading questions, but he was so immersed in his own ego that he did not want to listen at all.Olya (meditation channel participant) · Ego

Claims made here

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• 01:47

  People try to stand out through what they perceive, to distinguish their ego within their ego system.

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• 02:56

  Think of a child coming to ask, “What does this word mean?” I have four children, for example. As they grow and change, you relate to them as they are now. My youngest—

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• 05:58

  So there are two major aspects to observing the spiritual world.

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• 06:27

  People whose spiritual perception is broader do not perceive that way because they wanted it through their ego system.

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• 07:37

  People confuse spiritual vision with something unreal, with fantasy.

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• 08:51

  Seeing itself was what mattered, rather than why it was needed or what to do with it.

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• 13:22

  You would get tired of it, because at some point your ego system would say, “Why do I need all this?” That is why so many people do not pursue self-knowledge.

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• 13:34

  As soon as they discover the truth, as soon as they have been told fifty-six times that it is their ego, they say, “We are not going in that direction anymore.”

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• 13:45

  “Let's go somewhere they will tell us it is not our ego.” Someone recently visited me who had also visited about a year ago and told me about his business.

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• 15:31

  My point is that seeing something in the spiritual world does not mean a person has developed or grown stronger.

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