Meditation for Beginners E-Book

Harry Eilenstein

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 83

Beschreibung

Meditation is essentially the coordination of two states of consciousness with each other: waking consciousness + subconscious = dream journey. waking consciousness + deep sleep = silent meditation waking consciousness + ecstasy = one-pointedness waking consciousness + collective subconsciousness = invocation There are also (for advanced practitioners) combinations of multiple consciousnesses, such as in mandala meditation. There is also the opposite of coordination, i.e. the disruption of the integrity of consciousness as in sleepwalking, trauma, hypnosis, etc. In meditation there are a variety of tools such as words (mantras), imaginations, postures (asanas, mudras and others), breathing rhythms, symbols and so on. There are also different dynamics such as associations, analogies, identifications and the like. This results in a multitude of possible meditations and a colorful variety of possible experiences such as meeting one's own power animal, one's own soul or a deity. Nevertheless, the main features of meditation can be traced back to a few simple basic structures.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

What is Meditation?

Types of Meditation

The Map of Consciousness

The Forms of Consciousness

The Coordination of the Forms of Consciousness

The States of Consciousness

Waking consciousness

Waking consciousness and subconsciousness

Waking consciousness and deep sleep

Waking consciousness and ecstasy

Waking consciousness, subconsciousness and deep sleep

Waking consciousness, subconsciousness, deep sleep and ecstasy

Waking consciousness, subconsciousness, collective subconsciousness

Waking consciousness and God

Disturbances of the Coordination of Consciousness

Trauma

Collective tra7uma

Psychosis

Schizophrenia

Sleepwalking

Hypnosis

Mass hypnosis

Addict and ascetic

Perpetrator and victim

Star and fan

Aids to Meditation I

Concentration

Imagination

The outer perception

The transition to the inner perception

The perception of the psyche

The transition to the soul

The perception in the soul realm

The transition to the deity realm

The perception in the deity realm

The transition to unity

The perception in the unity realm

Summary

Symbols

Breath

Mantras

Chanting

Group chanting

Posture

Movement

Chakras

Kundalini

Visions

Perseverance

The Meditator

The body

The life force body

The three allies

The inner man and woman

The soul

The protective deity

God

The "umbilical cord"

Aids to Meditation II

Group

Guru

Initiation

Trust

Dynamics in Meditation

Association

Analogy

Identification

Analysis

Dissolution of boundaries

Divinity

Unity

Experiences in Meditation

Presence

The kundalini

The milk of the sky cow

Joy

The astral journey

The three allies

The relationship mandala

The shadow

The soul

The two siblings of the soul

The incarnation archive

The abyss

The protective deity

Magic

The One-All-Only

The Style of One's Own

The Fruits of Meditation

First Steps

The dream journey to one's own center

A mantra meditation

An invocation

The silence meditation

Book List

I What is Meditation?

First of all, "meditation" is a difficult concept to grasp – in conclusion, meditation only takes place in consciousness. The meditator just sits there doing nothing and you cannot see what is happening inside. After all, it is obvious that meditation has something to do with consciousness.

A second aspect of meditation is that it seems to do good and keep people fit inside. So meditation seems to be for the consciousness what sports and a good diet are for the body. Ideally, therefore, meditation should also be "fun for oneself" and "taste good".

A third aspect is that meditation is a part of religion in various forms: contemplations, meditations, prayers, obeisance, yoga, pilgrimages, and so on. All these variants have in common that one directs one's own consciousness to something "higher".

Finally, the fourth side effect of meditation is that it enhances the magical abilities of the meditator – which is interpreted and evaluated very differently depending on the religion.

Compared to religion, meditation has another peculiarity: It often follows certain rules, but it is mainly oriented towards one's own experiences – it is about achieving and experiencing something specific in a very concrete way.

II Types of Meditation

There are many different types of meditation, which also have different effects. Just as in sports training one can exercise different muscles and learn different skills, so in meditation one can pursue different goals.

These different possibilities can best be described by an inner map. This map is the consciousness of man, that is, his psyche in a comprehensive sense. The different places on this meditation map are the different types of consciousness that exist.

II 1. The Map of Consciousness

In order to understand the map of consciousness, that is, the land through which a meditator wanders, it is necessary to describe the individual forms of consciousness in more detail.

II 1. a) The forms of consciousness

One can distinguish six forms of consciousness, four of which are "internal" and two of which are "external". These forms of consciousness normally work together in an effective division of labor.

The four "internal" forms of consciousness

The following four forms of consciousness, which are also the commonly used forms of consciousness, are located within the psyche:

Waking consciousness: Waking consciousness is the consciousness that is present while awake and that makes the decisions.

This consciousness can be thought of as an office where all information relevant to the current situation is received and processed.

Ecstasy state: The ecstasy state occasionally occurs when a situation becomes more extreme, i.e. when the waking consciousness is characterized by lust, fear, greed or by a high level of concentration. Consequently, ecstasy occurs during orgasm, panic, meditation, etc. Traumas can also lead to a "negative ecstasy", in which the waking consciousness of the person concerned becomes "blind", so to speak, to the variety of the situation and the possibilities in it. The state of ecstasy is completely focused on a single content of consciousness.

The ecstatic state can be thought of as the bright lamp on the desk in the office of the waking consciousness, illuminating with a spotlight only what is most important at that moment.

Subconsciousness: The subconsciousness contains all information, all perceptions, all memories. These informations are charged with more or less emotions or are completely neutral. They are ordered by associations, i.e. the memories on a subject are all linked together and in this way form a symbol that can be experienced, for example, in a dream – which is why this consciousness can also be called dream-consciousness.

The subconsciousness can be seen as an archive, which sends the data to the office, which are requested from there, because they are needed in the momentary situation. The archive can also send information to the office on its own initiative – that appears e.g. as an intuition.

Deep sleep: The deep sleep consciousness is empty, without content – it is only aware of itself. This consciousness is like the clay from which the statue is formed, like the silence in which the sound can resound, like the canvas on which the picture is painted.

This consciousness can be thought of as the house in which the archive of the subconsciousness, the office of the waking consciousness, and the desk lamp of ecstasy are located.

These four forms of consciousness can be distinguished by the number of their contents of consciousness:

deep sleep:

no consciousness content

subconsciousness:

all contents of consciousness

waking consciousness:

several contents of consciousness

ecstasy:

one consciousness content

The two "external" forms of consciousness

These two forms of consciousness, that are not limited to only one person, are less well known and cannot be experienced as easily as the four "internal" forms of consciousness.

Collective subconsciousness: The collective subconsciousness is based on the telepathic linking of the subconsciousnesses of several people.

The smallest unit is the family – the structures in this "cell" of the collective subconsciousness become visible e.g. in family constellations.

The next unit is the clan – so to speak a cell group in the collective subconsciousness.

The next larger unit is the people, i.e. the members of a culture – this is, so to speak, an organ in the collective subconsciousness.

Finally, the comprehensive unit is mankind – the entire collective subconsciousness.

The collective subconsciousness, like the individual subconscious, is structured by associations. The units that are created by this are symbols in the individual subconsciousness and the deities in the collective subconsciousness.

One can conceive the collective subconsciousness as the city in which the house with the archive, the office and the desk lamp of an individual person stands. This house is telepathically connected to the other houses – by telepathic telephone lines, so to speak.

Total consciousness: The total consciousness consists of the collective subconsciousnesses of humans, animals, plants, minerals, etc. Also in the collective subconsciousness of other living beings than the collective subconsciousness of the human beings there are deities – the mother-goddesses of the different animal species, the elf of a plant species and so on.

This total consciousness can best be called "God". When confined to the earth, it is sometimes called "Gaia".

II 1. b) The Coordination of the Forms of Consciousness

These six forms of consciousness can be coordinated with each other in various ways – this is the actual activity of a meditator by which he can achieve "altered states of consciousness". This coordination of different forms of consciousnesses with each other is what a meditator does in the "land of consciousness" while he is traveling there.

This coordination is like tuning an instrument – after meditation everything is in its right place, in the right state and organically connected with everything else.

So meditation is actually something very simple – even if there is a variety of methods.

Each of the four "personal" modes of consciousness has a certain frequency, which form octaves to each other (double frequency):

deep sleep

3 Hz ( 2 - 4 Hz)

dream consciousness

6 Hz ( 4 - 8 Hz)

waking consciousness

12 Hz ( 8 - 16 Hz)

ecstasy

24 Hz (16 - 32 Hz)

One can imagine the processes during meditation as a tuning of two consciousness frequencies to each other. In a dream journey, for example, two vibrations of the waking consciousness would vibrate together with one vibration of the subconsciousness.

This connection can be clarified most simply by a diagram: