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1.3 Meditation and Prayer Meditation is important - everyone should take time to get in touch with their inner selves which leads to the attunement with their brothers and with God. A short time morning and evening, or at times of stress, just sit quietly away from noise and distraction. If there is a pleasant scene to look at that is good, or a favourite picture; the eyes will gradually close to the scene as the attunement takes place. Darkness is not necessary, just avoid glaring lights or sun. Thoughts will arise, if they are worthy 1ook at them, they can be dealt with later in your working day. Put trivial thoughts aside, no need to waste any time on them. Decide before sitting down what it is you would like to accomplish that day, physically and spiritually. Meditation periods (initially no more than 10 to 15 minutes morning and night) will give more strength and determination to help you to carry through your desires. In the evening, before night rest, see what the day produced and note where corrections are needed or more effort should be expended. It is all peaceful, all calm, the attunement will gradually bring to you all that you need to live a balanced and useful life. Therein lies our true happiness. (28.1.85) To integrate the bodies is a very tall order indeed as the lowest level is the most influential until you manage to overcome it. Materialistic outlooks prevail which affect the emotions, then comes the mental and then spiritual. Each is tugged at by the other. No one body should be worked on at the expense of the others, simply apply an overall influence on them all with an equal emphasis to each in turn. To worry more re emotional will tend to detract from the others. To give more to the spiritual or etheric, even if it is uplifting is still leaving an imbalance. Part of each meditation period should be specific, i.e., specific thoughts on each body. Daily reiteration of goals and proper attitude to and from each body will bring about desired results and will contribute towards balance. The point is that you don't do the balancing, you maintain the correct input, and the spirit, your spirit, does the balancing. After all, how could any earthly person do such a thing, think of yourself as a computer - well you provide the input (meditative thoughts, goals and resolves - briefly!) and your calculator does the work. Put your fingers in the works and you end up with bent keys as well as fingers; so just read, cogitate (know thyself), meditate and do, the results will occur from that. You keep the input balanced in thought/word/deed, and your bodies will in good time come closer to being balanced. (12.4.85) Question Does major development come from within, e.g., meditation? Answer Development comes from many sources. Again it is because of Man's numerous bodies. Meditation mainly serves to harmonise the effects of each day's events, surroundings, etc., and they are distributed to the relevant areas. Meditation assists in quietening the whole of your being so that work can be done (within) from the extra sources, such as from your "super" senses, God's healing rays etc. But the major work is done in your physical everyday life with your conscious senses. (8.6.85) We cannot always aid others in any way save with our prayers and good thoughts. But these are beneficial and can serve to lessen the degree in which the recipient may stray, or suffer. God's Will is divine but can always be tempered by the prayers and goodwill of others. However, all must live out their karma, the thing that is taken into consideration is the care, or love, or even the compassion the errant one has stirred in others whom he had contacted along the way. Each prayer from them then is a credit towards the balancing of justice. Pray by all means for the poor lost souls, so many of whom have no-one to care about their fates, or often no-one who is able to comprehend the trials of their loved ones after they have passed beyond, in a very unprepared and unknowing state. We help as we can but it is a sad sight to see the wanderers clinging to the mortal side, refusing to believe or not daring to acknowledge the changeover. (26.2.71) Prayer by everyone is necessary. It is plain that many, even most, will never change. Many, even the innocent, cannot be saved (though the innocent are pure, they are often unaware). It is possible, as God has not given to everyone the ability to know these things, and so those who do know must go forth and preach so that as many can be salvaged as possible. He denies them not because of their ignorance, but none can survive unless they do realise, if not what, at least that a change must be made. To be aware is a responsibility. I am not stressing too much, believe me, the importance of prayer. The psychic forces of good must flow out to try to combat and alleviate the miasma that surrounds the world. It chokes even the good, you know and can do battle. The unknowing ones can go down never realising what has happened to cheat them. So you must all pray that you may save a few of these at least, as well as yourselves. All will be needed, either to turn the tide or to begin again after the disasters. (19.2.71) Contemplation, meditation, visualisation and many others are all in the same category. They are all attempts to contact the inner - the whole inner preferably - for to attempt to narrow one's sighting may exclude the very thing you wish to or should see. None of these things are impossible to do, especially when the way has been cleared by the removal or control of the ego. There is a difference between wishing to do what is right by oneself and others, and wishing to control all actions i.e., many persons dress and behave in such a way as to elicit certain emotions and responses from those about them. That is ego. So an exercise to do is to see how to live in harmony with oneself and the world, by disposing of ego. With the ego no longer forming a film across the eyes, or blinders to each side, one can truly see. There is no hocus pocus, there is only, within oneself, the right condition, the correct attitude. (14.8.87) Where are the mystics for you all to contact? There are many on your earth and not necessarily in remote areas. But they are seldom in the crowded centres either, because of the maelstrom of noises, both physical and ethereal. At least most more advanced persons do not give out great jagged energies when thinking or meditating. Yes, meditation is so misunderstood by many and it becomes a form of prayer, of supplication, thought-desires, and begging -despairingly; but all active. And meditation is none of those things, so the air-waves can become very crowded indeed. Peaceful emanations can crowd the ether, but it wouldn't seem so - it would be an orderly procession of calmness and great love. For trust and belief are love. Even the sound of the word 'crowd' isn't peaceful. So when the whole of one's nature becomes peaceful - not negative to desires or divorced from desires, wants and needs; but handling everyday living in peace and tranquility, seeing each task as a privilege; each need to fix or repair or beautify some area as a natural consequence in gardening our lives and our surroundings. When demands come, however falsely or invasively we see them as just another task to see to, calmly and with gratitude that we are healthy, wealthy and wise enough to have been given such busy items to attend to. Not for us the Lotus Position in the cave or on the hilltop, that is for those who are here by error - generally theirs. Or for the soul on its last earth sojourn. But you and I are the dwellers when we enter a world, and as such we need to see all before us as a pleasure - it's a pleasure to do it again and again; or a pleasure to get it over with. (You see, I won't let you be negative about what you don't want to do.) If you do all things in the right temper, inwardly and outwardly, the connection to a mystic will automatically be made; and even if you never see that mystic there will come to you thoughts and teachings to strengthen and uplift your spirits and vibrations. In time you may even become aware of those vibrations, but there will be no need to wonder who? or where? for more often than not it would still be more possible for the connection-flow to remain active to you. The mystic may benefit from your attitude to life, which goes to him automatically, and only on that basis. (1.9.87) Question Is there a right way to meditate for our fellowman. Is it best to direct loving, peaceful thoughts towards man, either singly or in groups, and to the natural world, and can this be completed by visualising oneself as a channel for love, flowing into the spheres around us, i.e., trying to keep the mind clear of all extraneous thoughts? Answer Meditation is an individual exercise, undertaken by many individual beings for many reasons. We might suggest a good goal to have in mind, even perhaps a helpful way of entering the meditation, but each individual then should interpret that into their own particular nature, within reason. Each needs to acquire a degree of discipline, but to a balanced degree. A guru devoting one's life to a form of meditation may become as unbalanced as he chooses. That is not our suggestion - he adapts what he does to what he wants. We suggest sending love nightly, a guru may do so for as many waking hours as he chooses. For your answer then we suggest doing that which feels right and natural to you. When healing is being accomplished through an unhealthy channel, we use those vibrations that are available, even a sick, though very weak vibration, can be used, it is just a case of adapting to what is there. It is much like driving a sturdy vehicle over poorly made roads, it is done carefully, the road is not damaged and nor is the vehicle. A rather poor analogy for it is very simplistic; because the will and the intention have as much influence as anything else. So if you can send love and peace without having to divert energy into keeping your mind clear then do so, even if only for a few moments at a time. For one is able to be better doing that at times because of physical, perhaps emotional conditions. Your will is there, your love and intention, so it shall not be wasted. If one must spend more time at discipline, so as to have a clear channel, then not much will go out, it will be directed inwardly. No matter how busy a person, a clear thought of caring has as strong an impact as the careful, clinical approach. (17.2.88)
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