Thread: Meditation experience

Sounds great. Congrats. You will have lots of bizzare things happen while in meditation. They can only be beneficial. Just keep on going and don't give up. You may want to get some books on meditation, my all time favorite is 'play of consciousness' by muktananda.

What forms of meditation do you personally find beneficial? I am not very religious (sort of christian) but I definitely respect the art.

I have been interested in Meditation.
But have heared that it is used in New Age.
Just like Astral Projection, it is religious.
And i don't want to be involved in such things.
Like a spirutal experince, that isn't real.
I'm christian, not a prist, but christian.
So when I read this thread, I thought I might could have some suggestion of meditaion =)
Meditation is not just a sentence, but may be i could have some countersigns ?

Mr. Redd - When it comes to increasing your dream recall and chances of lucidity, i think the best meditation is one pointedness. Basically it is just keeping your eyes and attention focused on a single point while being relaxed. I actually use a freckle on my hand because it is always with me in my dreams so I can easily practice the meditation when I'm lucid. As far as normal meditation I just close my eyes and repeat a mantra. Mantra is extremely important part of meditation, you can also use one when doing one pointedness.

groffse - Meditation doesn't conflict with religion because its a physiological process, you don't have to associate spirituality or religion with it at all. Like meditation, dreaming is also a physiological process, and its been shown that many of the same chemicals are involved in both of them. I don't know of any religion that is against dreaming. It would be pretty strange if there were any, since dreaming is a necessary part of our bodies functions.

Very interesting lucid4sho, I will have to look into these mantras.

Ya, and don't be concerned with what mantra you choose, you can make it be whatever you want, just something that isn't going to get annoying. The purpose of the mantra is to replace thought, there is no power in the mantra itself, just the fact that you use it to replace idle thinking.

Yeah I don't think I will develop the ability to focus my sight on something for a while. For right now it seems sound is the easiest for me. Thanks for the advice by the way.

You really should avoid using music as your focus of attention - doing so is really not any closer to meditation than watching a movie or TV show. Music (also human speech) hijacks your attention and in doing so makes meditation impossible (well, very difficult anyway). Using a mantra as lucid4sho mentioned (try the word "one") or focusing on your breath are two effective, traditional techniques.

As far as your strange experience, it sounds like you fell asleep. That's all cool for WILD or whatever, but while meditating you should be sitting upright with your spine erect.

I was sitting upright with my spine erect.

Astal Projection is religious,
it is used in New Age. (Not new for you i think)
And Astral Projection is via lucid dreaming.

Originally Posted by groffse

Astal Projection is religious,
it is used in New Age. (Not new for you i think)
And Astral Projection is via lucid dreaming.

Never heard of new age.
AP is not necessarily related to lding.
AP has nothing to do with religion, its
a real occurrence governed by science,
just like lucid dreaming.

Unlike lucid dreaming, astral projection has never been verified by science.

Ya good point. Well not that we know of at least. I'm just making a hypthosesis based on experience, it seems to me to be governed by scientific laws.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ral+Projection

If you read this thread, you will may be get a little better understanding of AP.

I know all about AP first hand. What difference does it make where the term AP originated, I bet people have been doing it long before recorded history.

groffse- if it is beneficial to somone, who cares if it is religious based or not, new age-ey or anything else. i wish people would look at how things benefit others before taking a stand against something based on their personal religious beliefs.

Wow groffse get a life. Dreaming does not have to do with religion and neither does Astral Projection.

groffse, meditation is about being calm, relaxed, and at peace. it has nothing to do with religion. albeit buddhists use it, and also new agers but that doesn't mean that ONLY they use it. meditation is for everyone, just like dreaming and sleeping. don't be put off by meditation just because people whose views conflict with yours use it.

Astral Projection is used in a religion, that I don't belong to.
If you was christian, you woulden't use the Koran.
So may be I have been a little abstruse, but I don't want to move over to another religion. So my point is there are things I can't do when i'm christian.

well, were all so proud of you for your moral stance.

Originally Posted by groffse

Astral Projection is used in a religion, that I don't belong to.
If you was christian, you woulden't use the Koran.
So may be I have been a little abstruse, but I don't want to move over to another religion. So my point is there are things I can't do when i'm christian.

People have naturally done AP since childhood.. how do you explain that?

its something your brain is capable of. Don't you want to explore that?

Originally Posted by groffse

Astral Projection is used in a religion, that I don't belong to.
If you was christian, you woulden't use the Koran.
So may be I have been a little abstruse, but I don't want to move over to another religion. So my point is there are things I can't do when i'm christian.

Then you better go get your foreskin reattached since thats a Jewish practice!

I've read about AP, it is to explore other worlds.
Like a spirutal experience to people.
It isn't just for fun!

still..

people natural AP since a child.. what does that make the child?