Meditation Talk Transcription
Welcome to Release Into Now, week six. Astral projection and conclusion.
One of the things you may have heard about or read about before whenever reading about meditation is astral projection. This idea is that during a meditative state, you can experience different realms or reality, different worlds, and different planes of existence within your mind. Now of course, this experience is intangible to anyone else other than the person experiencing it. To try and quantify, qualify, or gauge your own experience next to someone else’s is not only a diversion an indulgence of the ego, but it’s also an empty gesture. This would be like trying to compare what your dream that night was with someone else’s.
I find the idea and experience of astral projection fascinating and very useful. However, like all intangible experiences, I don’t put any belief or disbelief in these things. I look at that frontier of thought, feedback and experience with simply an open mind. A beautiful palette of our own consciousness which is there for us to explore, experiment with, but not get wrapped up and lost in our own images or our own ego. A very common thing happens to people whenever they start to experience the internal matrix is believing their experience is truth, and gaining some sense of self elevation from the knowing of that experience. Obviously, this is the antithesis of the goal of the entire practice of expanding your consciousness and increasing your mindfulness. Take any of the experiences that you tap into during the deeper and more developed stages of your meditative practice, simply as images of your own mind. Perhaps there is connectivity there with other people, places and things in that mind space. However there’s absolutely no reason to create any type of hierarchy of how you see yourself within the world.
I look at tapping into these states of thoughts as a potential image of my own internal mind. The deeper layers and symbols of my consciousness, which could be a projection of the deepest foundational aspects of my own brain. Also I’m open to the notion of there being shared experience in that space, being able to communicate with other people, and view other things. But like everything in life, I believe and disbelieve everything equally, knowing that my consciousness is simply an abstraction of the world that exists outside of my skin. A morphing, cyclical feedback taken in like a reading on an instrument by my nervous system, processed by my mind’s past experience, imprintation and genetic feedback. My advice in this realm is to not get lost in the path of belief or disbelief of these other layers but simply observe them for what they are, and move forward with the understanding that the unveiling and increasing of what our consciousness even means is a continuously unfolding process.
These experiences can be very helpful. During meditation, you may begin to see colors, shapes, other people, other creatures, all the things that your mind could possibly imagine. With practice, focus, and concentration, you’re able to navigate these things, and decode the symbology and meaning in these things, similar to finding meaning in a dream. As you develop more skill at navigating this space in your mind, you can begin to interact more deeply with those symbols and ultimately begin to unveil the depths of yourself to a degree which you’d never imagined.
Tapping into this frequency of mind is a process. For me, it slowly started as a silver light in my third eye during my meditation. As time progressed, that silver light began to open, to become more three dimensional, and to begin to spiral and expand. I started having slow experiences during my meditations, seeing as if doors were opening, other realms, and completely unique and new universes. Over the years, I’d begin to get more comfortable moving into those spaces until I could do so at will, at any point in time. At this point, in my own personal meditation practice, every meditation session is simply a trip through the astral world. I move through this fractal-based universe in my mind, creating things in that universe and removing them as I please, following my intuition and searching out answers to deeper questions of the universe. Asking deeper questions about myself and decoding and gaining understanding of the realities that are flowing through my life. As I noted before, this type of process takes time. It took me 10 to 15 years and a lot of other experimentation to develop that type of connection in my mind. We all develop at different rates. Perhaps you could tap into that space sooner, or perhaps it will take you longer. As you develop some skill at accessing this world, you’ll see you can discover great things about yourself and some of the most curious mysteries.
During the guided mediation this week, I’ll lead you through a basic process of beginning to identify the frequency and entry point to the astral plane within yourself. I’ll take you through a brief journey of what it would be like to experience moving around in such a space.
One of the most important aspects about all of this work, the entire course and the entire path of increasing your consciousness, increasing your awareness, and becoming more mindful, is to become more what you are. Humans are mimicking creatures, often we’ll identify the first person we encounter that holds some type of knowledge of all the things I’ve talked about throughout this course, as a symbol. That the way that they act, the way that they talk, the way that they dress, or their own unique life view has anything to do or is connected in any way to raising your mind and increasing your mindfulness. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Where someone’s from, how they’re dressed, how they speak, or how they act in life is simply the most skin deep aspect of human nature. True authenticism is derived from where someone’s actions come from, not what someone’s actions or preference seem to be. Speaking more softly or being more intense. Becoming a vegetarian or eating more meat. Wearing yoga pants or wearing a suit. All of that is completely irrelevant. What’s important in this path, is coming back to the self, becoming who you are, finding the deepest and most authentic version of you. Unifying all the parts of your personality, and what you are, and allowing it to grow outwards, and represent who you are in the world. By using these practices, you can become more comfortable with who you are, more open to the world, more patient, and develop a greater vision in what you’d like to become.
Meditation and mindfulness are things to take into your life with you. They’re not simply practices that you do 20 minutes a day and then move on. These things grow into your life. As you find you practice more, you’ll see that you become more aware of your thoughts and others, and able to respond to life in a more patient, rational, loving, and intelligent way. Over time, everything in life can become a meditation. Not in an active way, but because meditation is a frequency of mind. It’s a state of mind, and once you practice it enough, it becomes what you are.
I encourage you to revisit the material over time, and watch how it unfolds and develops as you continue on your path. Everything I’ve outlined in all of the lectures and in the guided meditations, I’ve done in such a way where it distills very large, very complex ideas into much more simple terms. But with that, all of the content in this course is built to continue to unfold, and as you learn, you can revisit it and find that another layer is revealed in each thing. As you learn more, you can revisit the material yet again, and find new meaning in the same material and a deeper layer available for you to discover. As you grow with this course, the course will grow with you. Enlightenment is not a destination. It’s a direction. A direction you can move towards for the rest of your life.
Thank you all so much for taking this course. With the deepest sincerity, I hope that it brings more peace, more patience, more space, and a larger perspective into your life. Please take with you my absolute best and deepest warmth on your path.
Much love, my friends. Be well.