meditations

There are a lot of people asking for meditations so here is the centralized place for them.

There are a great many meditations, diverse in form, for many varied and wonderful purposes that develop a multitude of different aspects and I want to help open up the wonderful world of meditation to /fringe/.

==Meditation #1==

'''Meditation Name''': Quiet-Mind Meditation (Q-MM)
'''Type''': Concentration, Thought-Control, Entity Detection, Banishing
'''Technique''': Allow your mind to go silent, do not let any dialogues take place in your mind, let no thoughts intrude upon you. Hold your mind in silence for a minimum of about 5 minutes to a maximum of 15 minutes. If you want to go longer that is OK but for daily practice 5-15 minutes will do. If you can make the silent mind your default mental condition throughout the whole day that is even better and you will have more energy to do things without inane internal banter draining you of your vitality.
'''Comments''': This is the most basic and well known meditation which usually precedes many other more advanced meditations. When people think of meditation, this is usually what they know about, even though meditation is so much more than this. I find doing a one-pointedness meditation beforehand easier to clear the mind of invasive thoughtforms or reading 1 to 3 chapters out of an occult book can help. It doesn't always do the job though, like last night for example I picked up an extremely invasive thoughtform from just a few minutes of exposure to a radio and it was very difficult to banish and took about an hour to banish. Radios and televisions are prime sources for nuisance thoughtforms that can disturb the silence and peace in your mind by forcibly repeating themselves in your mind against your will. It can be incredibly easy or incredibly hard to do, depending on what entity attachments you've picked up. It allows you to detect the presence of these attachments because in trying to resist them and keep your mind silent, you can suddenly realize these thoughts are not actually coming from you, but originate as an outside force intruding upon your consciousness against your will. So it serves as a basic entity detection meditation as well although more advanced meditations exist for this purpose and to root out more deeply embedded and less obvious thoughtforms either attached to you or just hanging around in your immediate etheric environment.
'''Featured In''': The Book of Knowledge, Initiation Into Hermetics', and countless other books. You will always find this meditation, under various names, as the start of any serious occult development plan – which is why I'm describing it here first.

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==Meditation #2==

'''Meditation Name''': Void Meditation (VM)
'''Type''': Concentration, Sensory Deprivation, Deep Trance
'''Technique''': Focus your awareness into an empty black void and release yourself from all the impressions of your physical senses. You should feel weightless, sightless, smell nothing, hear nothing, think nothing, only be aware of void. All pains, all distracting thoughts, everything is just gone and voided.
Comments: This is a much more advanced version of Q-MM. It is considerably more challenging to do but a lot more powerful. You do not just let your mind go silent and stop the dialogues from taking place in your mind, you completely block out the impressions of your senses. From this state you are freed from the burden of your physical body and ready to launch yourself into many other meditations as well as to make contact with much more powerful astral entities. It is not uncommon for you to become aware of more complex entities around you and to be pulled out of this state suddenly by them. You are also fully astrally projected in this state, as no awareness rests within your body anymore. Lots of very strange things can happen unexpectedly while you are in this state so even if you have something planned out some entities may interrupt you and you may end up dealing with something you didn't anticipate dealing with when you set out to do this.
'''Featured In''': Some wizard's pastebin and probably some of the various books.

'''Note''': this is also related to the goal of The Arcane Formulas book, void meditation is pretty similar to it, and also so called "Transcendental Meditation (TM)" is pretty much just void meditation.

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==Meditation #3==

'''Meditation Name''': One-Pointedness (1-P)
'''Type''': Concentration, Selective Awareness, Focus, Mental Unification
'''Technique''': Focus on any one thing with one sense and only that one thing. Do not let the mind wander from that one thing. Your mind should concentrate so hard on that one thing that it merges with the object of the meditation. It can be an object around you physically or an object in the astral, or a sound, or a smell, or a feeling, these flowers, etc.
Comments: There are many different meditations that are variations of this type of meditation. I am posting it here in its most generic form because it is a very important meditation but I will probably post specific examples of it later. Doing various types of one-pointedness meditation will massively increase your ability to concentrate and to work with thoughtforms later and focus your will and direct energy. It also will help with telekinesis and feeling yourself in an object such you can move it like its your own body and feel through it and so on.
'''Featured In''': The Jhanas

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==Meditation #4==

'''Meditation Name''': Numbers Meditation (NM)
'''Type''': Thoughtforming, Subconscious Processing, Automatic Mentation, Counting
'''Technique''': Visualize numbers in various ways while keeping your mind silent. Add the numbers up at various increments and do simple math. Use Arabic numerals and roman numerals. Change around the fonts you use, the method they appear, there colours, how many appear at once, the angle you are viewing them, spin them around, etc.
'''Comments''': This is actually a whole lot of different meditations depending on how you use it. You will notice many details of the numbers are subconsciously filled in. When beginning to visualize the number you might not think at all about what font or colour you want to use yet that will be automatically filled out as you will notice and you can look at them closer. This is a basic thoughtforming practice and also serves the purpose of restraining an automatic response; normally when people look at numbers or words they inevitably read it in their minds. You say "ONE", "TWO", "THREE", etc. but in this exercise you are not do to that. You are supposed to just watch as the numbers are added up before you. In doing this you discover a deeper layer of thinking that lays behind words and manage to tap in more strongly into your subconscious powers. Whenever you handle any cash or do any counting during your day, you should attempt to do it via this method. You will also notice that loosh powers up your number thoughtforms and makes them more complex and appear more clearly… if you aren't putting much loosh into it they will be vague and hard to see but if you concentrate on some of your numbers then pour loosh (emotions) into it they will grow stronger quickly (depending upon how well you hold your concentration on it and the intensity of your emotion). Doing this you will learn how to actually use your loosh.
'''Featured In''': ??? (Like every meditation I use, I discovered it independently, but I haven't found any books yet suggesting the practice of numbers meditation even though it's so useful and I use it constantly).

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==Meditation #5==

'''Meditation Name''': Body Awareness Meditation
'''Type''': Awareness-Targeting, Etheric Modification, Energy-Work
'''Technique''': Focus your awareness on a part of your body. Then another part… and another. You may jump your awareness around from one point to another or sweep your awareness through your body. You may also sweep back and fourth over a part to create an effect within the etheric body. By playing around with how you focus your awareness (through feeling by the way, not visualization, although you can combine visualization to the feeling) many effects are produced through the energetic/subtle body.
'''Comments''': Doing this meditation strengthens the astral body, helps you target parts of your body with awareness, and will prepare you for doing operations of all sorts upon your body using the awareness to target the part and then intentions and emotions to make modifications to and program that part. This is essentially what New Energy Ways by Robert Bruce was about and the technique has been expanded on in Energy Work. It makes astral projection easier.
'''Featured In''': New Energy Ways v2, Energy Work

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==Meditation #6==

'''Meditation Name''': Invoking Earth
'''Type''': Trance, Relaxation, Heavy, Feeling
'''Technique''': Relax your body. I suggest letting your arms drop to your sides, then laying down, then raising up leg for a moment and letting it drop, then the other, and so on. Use your intention and if you want some visualization and body awareness to bring in a sedating effect through your whole body. Feel extremely heavy and let your body collapse. Alternatively hold a posture and invoke Earth by making the posture feel solid and unbreakable, intending that you can not change it.
'''Comments''': Very useful for developing finer muscle control, strength, making modifications to your body, resting, fixing posture, and concentrating high levels of etheric energy into yourself for various uses.
'''Featured In''': ???

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==Meditation #7==

'''Meditation Name''': Gathering Earth
'''Type''': Astral-Hands, Earth, Etheric, Feeling
'''Technique''': Project/imagine your astral hands. Now use them to touch anything in your environment around you and feel those things with your hands. Plunge your astral hands through objects and brush them through, collecting energy on the way, and bringing it to your body. You may also do this through your body, gathering Earth energy from one part of your body to another.
'''Comments''': This is useful for supplying more energy to your body to heal it and to the astral body making it stronger. It also helps you feel and interact with things around you via the astral senses and can be used for telekinesis if you just push things around with your astral hands.
'''Featured In''': (Maybe IIH and Energy Work?)

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==Meditation #8==

'''Meditation Name''': Astral Hands
'''Type''': Astral Hands, Awareness, Energy
'''Technique''': Imagine a pair of hands. Keep you regular physical arms still and inactive. Now move about your astral arms, feeling through them and seeing them with your mind's eye. Use your astral arms to grab onto something and pull yourself out of your physical body or to try and interact with and feel and manipulate objects around you both on the astral level as well as the physical.
''Comments''': Very useful for many purposes.
'''Featured In''': Initiation Into Hermetics by Franz Bardon and Energy Work by Robert Bruce.

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==Meditation #9==

'''Meditation Name''': Invoking Water
'''Type''': Trance, Water, Mind-Reading, Creative, Resonance
'''Technique''': Allow your astral body to expand a bit, project yourself if you want or stay within your body but expanded beyond it, and start casting out thoughtforms and sending out pings and trying to tap into thought-currents around you. There are many ways to do this, like projecting a thoughtforming and looking at it then rotating it, or say looking at a wall and then walking trying to rotate your view and see what's around it or near it. Once you start receiving impressions of things you didn't intentionally think of, you have water invoked. Now just let them come in. You should end up getting a slideshow of random impressions. Adjust your emotional resonance to change the general quality of what you receive.
'''Comments''': This is essential for me at this time to survive and is what I do nearly constantly right now. If you can tap into the right currents you can receive huge amounts of energy and healing at the same time, without depleting your energy supplies. By staying in this receptive state, you become open to many things, and receive thoughtforms and impressions and so on from others. A little directing it by the will / fire can help you lock into new things. Occasionally you will receive bad things which you shall have to shut off and banish and then try to turn your focus away from them and open yourself up again to new impressions.
'''Featured In''': ???

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==Meditation #10==

'''Meditation Name''': Astral Pulse
'''Type''': Banishing, Detection
Technique: Imagine a pulse that expands out from you in a spherical manner and then bounces off of all objects near you. Program the pulse with various intentions to create different effects, such as incinerating thoughtforms in the area around you, or detecting and revealing them.
'''Comments''': Do this in your room to see what/who is around you etherically! If the pulse you sent out bounces off of everything and returns and nothing is detected then your immediate etheric environment should be clean. When I do it though, I pretty much always encounter something around me, sometimes a LOT of stuff around me.
'''Featured In''': I just found it out on my own but I've heard of another guy doing the same thing under the name of Gnostic Pulse.

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==Meditation #26==

'''Meditations Upon Books'''
for cultivation of memory, awareness, & intuition

All Fringe Wizards read a great many books but we could be making the process a lot more efficient and productive. Here are meditations I have devised for that purpose:

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Part 5 >>36

==Book Meditation, No Visualization, Reciting==

'''Type 1 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting basic'''

(do this with a book you are just reading now)

'''1.''' Read a sentence.
'''2.''' Look away or close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite the full sentence you just read perfectly.
'''4.''' Read the next sentence.
'''5.''' Repeat - until you can do this easily then move onto intermediate.

'''Type 1 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting intermediate'''

'''1.''' Read a full paragraph.
'''2.''' Look away or close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite the full paragraph you just read perfectly.
'''4.''' Read the next paragraph.
'''5.''' Repeat - until you can do this easily then move onto advanced.

'''Type 1 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting advanced'''

'''1.''' Read a full page.
'''2.''' Look away or close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite the full page you just read perfectly.
'''4.''' Read the next page.
'''5.''' Repeat - until you've finished the book.

Suggested book for practising this on: ''The Kybalion''.

Having read an entire book… proceed with this:

'''Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting basic'''

(do this with a book you read and have not gone back to in at least a few hours or a day, this is using long-term memory not short-term memory)

'''1.''' Recite the first sentence from the first page of the first chapter.
'''2.''' Check for accuracy of recital.
'''3.''' Recite random other sentences throughout the book and check for accuracy, until confident you can quote anything out of the book from memory.

'''Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting intermediate'''

Do as before, but full paragraphs.

'''Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting advanced'''

Do as before, but full pages.

'''Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting master'''

'''1.''' Recite the entire book from memory.
'''2.''' Use a random number generator such as http://www.random.org/ where the minimum is 1 and the max is the number of pages in your book in total then recite
'''2b.''' Use a silly mundane to call out a random page for you to recite, recite the page for him from memory, then show them the page (or have them looking at the page you are reciting while you yourself aren't seeing it) and impress the fuck out of him.

Goals for the above two meditations are:

'''•''' Memorize instantly upon reading, if it takes you forever to memorize a book and then you can recite it all perfectly fine – you still may have to learn to memorize faster so that with your next book you can just read the whole book once and recite the whole thing afterwards no problem.
'''•''' Recite everything accurately and fast, you don't want to make mistakes or struggle to remember it each sentence as you go along reciting it all.

'''Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting basic'''

Find a book you have not yet read…

'''1.''' Look at the cover page or title.
'''2.''' Start "reciting" the first sentence, without having read it.
'''3.''' Check the sentence carefully, not scrolling down to reveal too much at once.
'''4.''' Wrong? Just move on to the next sentence, keep going along until you're eventually accurately "reciting" full sentences before having actually read them.

ProTip: Using trance and the power of faith/belief beforehand to reprogram yourself to be able to do these meditations will make it easier. You should also do quiet mind meditation beforehand and if you want void meditation.

'''Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting intermediate'''

Continue like you were doing in the basic meditation – but full paragraphs.

'''Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting advanced'''

As before but full pages now.

'''Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting master'''

Recite an entire book without ever having actually read it. (Then check through the normal means for accuracy).

Note: at this point you are starting to become practically omniscient and soon will only need the titles of books and samples of text to check for accuracy and you can read any book without actually having it.

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==Book Meditation, No Visualization, Absorbing==

'''Book meditation, no-visualization, absorbing retard'''

'''1.''' Look at a word, hold the thought.
'''2.''' Look away / close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite the word.

'''Book meditation, no-visualization, absorbing mundane'''

'''1.''' Look at a few words, hold the thought.
'''2.''' Look away / close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite all the words (in order).

'''Book meditation, no-visualization, absorbing basic'''

'''1.''' Look at a full sentence, hold the thought.
'''2.''' Look away / close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite the entire sentence. (check for accuracy of course, and proceed)

'''Book meditation, no-visualization, absorbing intermediate'''

'''1.''' Look at a full paragraph, hold the thought.
'''2.''' Look away / close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite the entire paragraph.

'''Book meditation, no-visualization, absorbing advanced'''

'''1.''' Look at a page, hold the thought.
'''2.''' Look away / close the eyes.
'''3.''' Recite all the text of the entire page.

Note: At this point you should just be glancing at a page and instantly absorbing all the information on the page all at once.

'''Book meditation, no-visualization, absorbing master'''

'''1.''' Look at a page, hold the thought.
'''2.''' Look at more pages, still hold the thought.
'''3.''' Look away / close the eyes.
'''4.''' Recite all the text of all the pages you looked at.
'''5.''' Keep going adding pages until you can eventually open up a new book, glance at every single page in the book in rapid succession, then accurately recite the contents of an entire book whose pages you've only glanced – proving you have absorbed into your mind all the contents of the book at incredible speed.

==Book Meditation, Psychomancy==

Lobsang Rampa and William Walker Atkinson and probably other authors familiar to us have described how to do this in great detail and you may refer yourself to them.

To do this you just touch an object, in this case a book, and start to get an idea of what its contents are then you check it.

You can start with mail or notes or whatever.

At first you will get really vague impressions like "it is good news" or "it seems to be about sports". Eventually as you progress with practise you get much stronger impressions, and know much more fully the details of the contents of the thing you have touched. You will be able to know absolutely everything about the object, including how it got to you and who touched it beforehand and what thoughts people who touched it were thinking, what all the text says, and any other information which the object is comprised of or has attached or associated with it.

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==Book Meditation, Visual Recall==

'''Book meditation, visual recall basic'''

'''1.''' Look at a letter.
'''2.''' Recall the appearance of the letter in your mind's eye.
'''3.''' Practise with each latter in the alphabet, until you see each letter easily reconstructed in your mind. Do the same for numbers, roman numerals, other character sets, and symbols you know about and want to practise with.

'''Book meditation, visual recall intermediate'''

'''1.''' Look at a word.
'''2.''' Recall the appearance of the word in your mind's eye.
'''3.''' Do this for long while until you are able to flash words through your mind with great speed + clarity.

'''Book meditation, visual recall advanced'''

'''1.''' Look at several words or a sentence.
'''2.''' Recall the appearance of all those words in your mind's eye.
'''3.''' Do this for long while until you are able to flash huge collections of words through your mind with great speed + clarity.

'''Book meditation, visual recall master'''

'''1.''' Look at page.
'''2.''' Recall the appearance of the entire page in your mind's eye.
'''3.''' Do this for long while until you are able to flash pages of a book through your mind with great speed + clarity.

Goals for the above meditations are:

'''•''' Recall the image with as much clarity / lucidity as you possibly can. Vague shadowy out of focus impressions are not so good, you want to aim ultimately for seeing the words more clear than something you see with your physical eyes. Practise with different fonts, font colours, etc. and even make each letter unique if you can by recalling slight smudges and other microscopic details of the form. e.g. you may view metal numbers such as the ones people have on their houses as address numbers in your mind's eye and include in your recall the details of the rust on it. You can also imagine forms you haven't seen before at all but you can't check them against objects in your environment for accuracy as it's just constructed by you on the spot and doesn't have a physical equivalent in third density.
'''•''' Be able to rotate and view the recalled images 3-dimensionally, seeing it from different angles.
'''•''' Be able to flash these images extremely fast through your mind and still perceiving each one perfectly lucidly. If it takes you like 5 seconds to visualize an "A" and then a "B" then you need to speed up. You may easily trigger a sequence of images flashing through your mind so fast you can end up seeing thousands of them in just a minute and it's a pretty mind-blowing experience to have and will give you an idea of what the "life-review" many people go through after dying is like.

==Book Meditation, Thoughtformed Books==

I will give this exercise a little differently then the above ones, not in steps…

Visualize a book, basically a rectangle, and position it in 3-dimensional space relative to your surroundings. This may be done in astral spaces or in physical space as well. Now just keep working on the book, making it more clear, so that it eventually isn't a vague phantom at all but clearly visible to you. If your phantom book is not solid and your hand passes through it and you don't want it to be that way, meditate upon the spacial sense… press your hands against objects in your room, especially books, and focus your attention very clearly on the impression. Think about it a lot and recall that feeling of pressing up against it. Now apply these spacial properties to your book so you can feel it when you touch it, can push it around and handle it like a physical object, etc. You may then try pushing your book up against physical objects in your room and causing them to be knocked over / pushed around. You can eventually completely objectify and materialize your book such that you will have a physical book which anyone can see and handle AND give it all sorts of magical functions like making it capable of reading itself! People will hear your book narrating itself, probably very melodiously, and the mundanes will be in utter shock! You may also apply such mysterious functions to your book as to make people who touch it put it down and walk away, or feel burned by touching it, or make it so only certain people can read it and it appears differently to others or they will not take an interest in reading it. The book may also telepathically transfer its contents to someone that touches it. Anything you can imagine…

Note: you may also modify physical books however you want and dematerialize them.

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==Audiobook Meditation==

There are some meditations I practise with audiobooks that are worth doing.

'''Audiobook meditation, speech-to-text, basic'''

Visualize each word the person says. This is really challenging if they are talking really fast. As you listen to an audiobook focus on nothing but visualizing each word said as clearly and fast as you can. Say you are listening to a 5 hour long audio-book – you will just be focused on seeing each word as the narrator goes along the whole time and it is a really mentally intense exercise starting out.

Note: before doing this you must do clear-mind meditation, you can't have other thoughts distracting you, you really need to focus.

'''Audiobook meditation, speech-to-text, intermediate'''

Do the same as before except now you are seeing whole strings of words put together in your mind's eye, forming sentences. Probably the older sentences will fade out like a ticker-tape or as if you had a rectangle of focused vision on part of what you're seeing and the other stuff goes out of focus just the way stuff in the edge of your physical vision is out of focus. You should aim to see as long as possible sentences within the visual field of your mind's eye as possible.

'''Audiobook meditation, speech-to-text, advanced'''

You should see an entire page, piece of paper or chalkboard or scroll or whatever else surface you prefer, and as the person goes along narrating you should see each word written down onto there. You should clearly see entire pages of text filled out as the narration goes along, everything being written down by your mind's eye.

'''Audiobook meditation, speech-to-text, master'''

For this you will need to be listening to some narrative, audiobook, whatever – which you have not heard before. This time you should see all the text written down before it's even said. As the narrator goes along actually narrating it, you should see the specific words the narrator is on highlighted (perhaps in a golden glow or however you want to see it) and you should find that the narrator is indeed saying everything you see in your mind's eye.

Note: You can do all of this on people talking to you or on conversations you are overhearing in public. When attempting the master level meditation you could do the following on a person:

'''1.''' Find a silly mundane to talk to.
'''2.''' See with your mind's eye, in the form of text, what they are about to say.
'''3.''' Watch as they say what you just saw with your mind's eye.
'''4.''' Interrupt them at some point to tell them the rest of what they were about to say and spook them. There 2spookied reaction should confirm your success.

Note: If you do the above successfully, you are unlocking an aspect of telepathy and precognition, and may use this ability to receive people's thoughts without them being spoken.

'''Audiobook meditation, seeing the narrator'''

While listening to the narration, visualize the figure of the person doing the narration, speaking. Just keep practising until you see clearly a person narrating. You may create tulpas that act out the narration for you and can do it very passionately. You may also use tulpas to read books for you, books which you may have copies of, or even ones that you don't… if you can try to find out who your narrator is to see if you created a new thoughtform doing a narration or actually managed to remote view the narrator.

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==Book Meditation, Remote Viewing==

You may remote view books and in this way read books you don't have and even find books you've never heard of.

Lay down in bed or get comfortable, close your eyes (unless you're really good at seeing with your mind's eye even with eyes open), now expect / intend / wait for a book to appear before you.

Start reading it. The book at first will be out of focus but it should come into focus as you try to look at it more and more with your mind's eye. The book may also be mutating on you while you're trying to focus in on it, that is, the text and other properties of the book may be changing randomly. With proper focusing in on the book you will be able to view books without them doing this and you will be able to read it properly without its pages changing at random.

In this way I find random books which sometimes contain new concepts which I look up then to check if it's relevant to our consensus reality and I learn new things!

Note: this is very related to astral projection, remote viewing is a form of AP.

I often do find a lot of texts / books / writings that are just gibberish too doing this especially if I am just doing this with no particular text/book in mind at all and just want to see whatever comes to me at random. If you having nothing specific you're trying to go for, you can easily end up finding stuff that's pretty much "schizo word salad", and it's really funny to read.

The more you narrow down your intent the better texts you will find. You can be as vague as "I intend to find a new magic book" or as specific as intending for a book whose title, author, and edition you know already or you may even form an intent along the lines of "a book read by person x I know" and end up finding a book person x has read before. If you are super vague and form the intention of "just finding any random collection of text" then the results will vary extremely. You could also form an intent like this "I intend to find a book that I really need to read right now which is the most relevant to my spiritual growth" and see what you get.

Note that intentions aren't really spoken out like I am putting them in quotes in the above paragraph, they are unspoken things. Catch yourself for a moment before you are about to think out a sentence/dialogue in your mind and you will be able to focus then on the intent behind what you were you about to bring fourth in your mind, then you will know what I mean by intentions. It's the same principle behind why some healers can say something like "stomach, calm down, be strong" etc. to a person and even if that other person doesn't speak their language it will still heal their stomach. It's because the intention and the thoughtforce behind the words is what matters, the words themselves are just a symbolic thing, which have been associated to the meaning and intentions and other thoughts/ideas that correspond with it. Consider the difference between "push" the sound-complex-word, "push" the intention, and "push" the physical fact carried out by movements through the body. Our minds are well trained to recreate the spoken-word "push" but not very good at creating the telekinetic force to cause an object to push because we haven't caught onto subtle things like this. You could at once think "push" in your mind and create the telekinetic force at the same time but you're really doing two things at once and one part is only symbolic. The thing with spells, wherein a wizard says certain words (perhaps in latin or another language), and a corresponding action takes place is they are just saying and doing certain actions to focus them upon what they want to do but there is no inherent power in the specific words they spoke otherwise anyone could just say the same words and have it work for them. Merely imitating a wizard's physical actions or surface appearances isn't enough to do what they do, one must understand the subtle forces of the mind at play. A lot of mundanes who might have in their childhood tried to imitate a wizard and then got frustrated and let down when their imitation produced no results probably developed their scepticism and butthurt over magic in this way.

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==Meditation #31==

'''Meditation Name''': Running Energy
'''Type''': Energy-Work
'''Technique''':

'''1)''' Sit in a straight backed chair with your hands resting on your thighs, palms facing up
'''2)''' Create a grounding chord linking you to the center of the earth
'''3)''' Now bring the earth energy up through the balls of your feet, up your legs, and when it arrives at the 1st chakra allow it to fall down your grounding chord like water. So now you have an upside down "U" of energy going up through your legs and down your grounding chord.
'''4)''' From your crown reach up into the 'universe' with your awareness and find a frequency of 'cosmic' energy you like and invite it down through your crown, into your spine, and on downwards, finally exiting your grounding chord. This should run down the 'back channel' of your microcosmic orbit.
'''5)''' When this cosmic flow is strong, begin to mix it with the earth energy in an 80/20 ratio [80% Heaven & 20% Earth] and bring this up the front channel of your microcosmic orbit. Each time it reaches a chakra as it travels upwards, hold your attention on that chakra until it begins to spin and balance.

'''Comments''': This draws in and collects the cosmic Yang and the earthly Yin, raising the level of loosh in your body which allows for more negentropic results. Furthermore in this you're running your microcosmic orbit in the Yin path (which according to Dawn) is default mode when you sleep or 'recharge'.
'''Featured In''': http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?34696-Breatharianism-and-living-on-Prana-a-how-to-guide

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==Meditation #32==

'''Meditation Name''': Drawing (in) Yin-Yang
'''Type''': Energy-Work
'''Technique''':

Stand astride comfortably, with bare feet directly on the ground. Let your arms hang freely on your sides. Move your hands a few cm in front of your thighs. Feel how energy is freely flowing through the entire body, from the ground to the cosmos and inversely, depending on what you imagine. Next, close your eyes partially and inhale deeper than normal but do not exaggerate the breath. Stop the inhale when your lungs are filled with air. Do not block the larynx or nose. Simply, when the lungs are filled, hold your breath.

Now imagine that an invisible and imperceptible inhale is continuing. This is actually the prana inhalation. Prana is not air, it has no mass and does not occupy space. Prana follows mind's will, that is why it is enough to think that prana flows into your body in order to make this happen. Keep holding your breath while imagining that prana is flowing into your body. After a while, you will notice that you want to yawn. You may yawn but do not inhale. Continue drawing in prana through your imagination of directing it into the body.

When you feel saturated, you can freely release the air out of your lungs. You may have felt tingling of your body or tears in your eyes. Repeat this exercise effortlessly after your next inhalation. Repeat all of this effortlessly but do not force the body to withstand without breathing. This exercise is pleasant and arousing feelings of energy that deeply vitalize the body.

Be aware that prana can be drawn from the sky or the ground. Your imagin-ation decides that because you are directing the drawing of prana. When you chose to draw prana from the sky, you will feel it flowing through the middle of your head top. When you chose to draw prana from the ground, you will feel it flowing through your feet and legs.

You can also draw prana simultaneously from the sky and Earth. This is the most efficient way to saturate your body with energy. In this instance, you are directing the prana flow from above, through the middle of your head top and from below, through your feet at the same time. You have to clearly feel it. Both streams of prana, the upper and the lower, meet in the area of your heart or in another place of your choosing.

'''Comments''': This one is similar to the former one, but more basic in nature. Again it's good for powering up the aura/soul for many things, not the least of which is simply living and vitalized.
'''Featured In''': InediaNonEatingFasting.pdf aka Life Style Without Food by Joachim M. Werdin

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==Meditation #33==

'''Meditation Name''': Conscious Eating
'''Type''': (Body) Awareness, Self-Knowledge
'''Technique''':

CE gives your body exactly what it needs (real body needs) in right quantity and at the right time. Here is how to do it step by step. Let us assume that you feel hungry. Pro-ceed as the following points suggests.

'''1.''' Stop for a while, relax the mind and body and ask yourself: “what is it?”. Now, FEEL the answer, do not THINK about the reason, because you need to feel it. The more feeling there is and the less intellectual process happens, the more Consciousness is manifesting itself. The thinking process (intellect, the conscious mind activity) is a smaller, more limited sphere of Consciousness. Man needs to transcend it in order to better understand the mind and the body. So feel the answer. It is possible that at this point the hunger will vanish and … well, in such a case this is the end of CE.

Another possibility is that a picture or emotion will emerge, because blocked emotions, thoughts, thinking mechanisms, when they are being pushed out, first are felt as hunger. If this is the case and you start to eat, they are being covered with food and put back inside your psyche.

'''2.''' Do you still feel hungry? Go to the next step. Ask yourself, what it is that you want to eat. Scan through different foods and feel what food is most appealing to you. Having found it, imagine for several seconds, that you eat it. Imagine feeling it in your mouth and stomach. Ask your-self again: “what is it?”, and feel the answer. If the hunger vanishes, you can stop here. Also at this moment some pictures or significant thoughts may emerge to help you understand yourself more. Immerse yourself in them, let them fully pass through you, feel them all over the mind and body, so that you understand better what they are all about. After they are gone, they will never make you hungry again.

'''3.''' If the body really needs some substance called food, the hunger you feel will not vanish at this stage, so continue the procedure of CE. Take the food that you feel the body needs to eat. But do it consciously, feel your every move, how you are taking it, cutting it, cooking it, preparing it etc. Use your feelings to carefully observe yourself (deeply feel your-self). Continue to concentrate on the same question: “what is it?”, and wait for an answer with your feelings (it is the feeling to answer, not the mind). At this stage the hunger may vanish and pictures or unusual thoughts may appear. If nothing happens, proceed to the next step.

'''4.''' You are now sitting in front of the food that you feel hungry for. Slowly take a piece, all the time observing yourself by feeling your every slight-est movement and body reactions. Bring a piece of the food to your nose and smell it. Delight yourself in the smell and keep your feelings open for the answer to the question: “what is it?”. You need to feel it, not to find the answer by thinking. Again, the same may happen: either the hunger disappears or emotion, picture, thought appear(s). If not, continue.

'''5.''' Now bite the food. Keep it in the mouth and immerse yourself into feel-ing it. Feel the whole intellect, psyche and body reactions. FEEL, FEEL and FEEL, observe and do not think.

'''6.''' Next, very important, chew it for a long time, never less than three minutes; the longer the better, even a few hours in extreme cases. Usu-ally three to six minutes is enough. Swallow ONLY when it has changed to liquid and changed the taste. Remember, the food you are chewing will change taste once or more. Never swallow it before the taste has changed, else it will not be conscious eating procedure. FEEL, FEEL and FEEL, observe and do not think. When chewing you may start to feel disgusting taste and will not want to swallow it, then spit it out.

'''7.''' Proceed this way with every bite until you feel that you are full. By doing so you are making sure that you satisfy the so-called “real body need” (for specific substances, regardless of what the body uses it for). With CE you are all the time making yourself conscious of the process that you are going through. The process starts by feeling hunger or thirst. As you proceed with CE, you discover what it actually is. If it is not the real body need, you will not force the body to eat what it does not need. The best care for the body is to give it what it needs, when it needs and in the right amount.

With CE you are becoming a non-eater consciously, without fighting or misunderstanding, without making many mistakes. You are discovering the real relation between your body, Earth and your psyche.

'''Comments''': I've noticed when I do this I feel much more energy being gathered from the food as I slowly intake and savor it, also water as well. Often when I am feeling 'low on energy' I'll just intake some prana from drinking water very slowly like this, extracting most(all?) of the energy from it before it even gets down my gullet. I can feel surges of energy up and down my shushumna from the various things while I chew. It really gives now meaning to savoring your food.
'''Featured In''': InediaNonEatingFasting.pdf aka Life Style Without Food by Joachim M. Werdin

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==Meditation #34==

'''Meditation Name''': Antakarana Strengthening aka Building the Rainbow Bridge
'''Type''': Energy-Work
'''Technique''':

'''1.''' Invoke the Soul by speaking the Soul Mantrum three times.

''I am the Soul''
''I am the Light Divine''
''I am Love''
''I am Will''
''I am Eternal Design''

'''2.''' Optional. If working with a Rainbow Bridge group, link Soul Star to Soul Star with your group members whether they are physically present or not.  The group link adds power to your personal process.  Per your preference, you may also link to the Spiritual Hierarchy, and any fully enlightened spiritual masters, saints, angels, ''etc.'' with which you are affiliated such as Christ or Lord Maitreya, Buddha, Krishna, Shiva, Gabriel, Mahavatar Babaji, ''etc.''

'''3.''' Focus your attention in the Soul Star/(Alpha) Chakra six inches above the head. Feel the radiance of the Soul Star and imagine that it is shining as bright as the Sun. In time you will actually feel the radiance of the Soul Star.

'''4.''' Mentally move the Soul Star diagonally forward to a position just in front of the eyes. Then move it straight into the center of the head, and slowly move the Soul Star straight upward to its normal  position six inches above the head. Repeat the triangulation three or four more times. The Soul Star should be moved slowly and deliberately up the shushumna/central channel because it is literally burning away hindering thought forms and emotional blockages to open a channel for the flow of higher energies.

'''5.''' End each session by invoking the Spiritual Whirlwind to clear any loose debris from the aura. Do the vortex for about 5 minutes.

'''Comments''': I also to an itteration through my crown chakra. I do not know why it seems to be a common occurance to drop this from some meditations dealing with the chakras, but it personally does not feel complete without it to me and I see no harm. There is an annimation in >>963 if the instructions or the picture is unclear.
'''Featured In''': Alice A. Bailey's channelings of Djwhal Khul collected in Rainbow Bridge Techniques

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==Meditation #35==

'''Meditation Name''': Antakarana Cleansing aka Spiritual Vortex/Whirlwind
'''Type''': Energy-Work, Grounding, Cleansing
'''Technique''':

'''1.''' Invoke the Soul by speaking the Soul Mantrum three times.

''I am the Soul''
''I am the Light Divine''
''I am Love''
''I am Will''
''I am Eternal Design''

'''2.''' Say:

''In the wisdom of the soul, I invoke the spiritual vortex.''

'''3.''' Visualize a spinning whirlwind of energy similar in shape to the funnel of a tornado. See the whirlwind rotating clockwise (from left to right) as it moves downward through the aura.  The tip or lowest point of the spiritual whirlwind follows the Shushumna/Central Channel. The color of the vortex is usually white. As the vortex sweeps through the aura it picks up loose debris floating in your aura from the clearing work and contacts from the environment and carries them deep into the earth, where they can be utilized by lower evolving life forms. When it drops its energy into the earth, it simply ceases to exist and disappears.

'''Comments''': A new whirlwind must be invoked if you wish to do it again. This process is continued for about five minutes or until you feel that your aura is clear. The size and speed of the vortex is controlled by the Soul. As the whirlwind sweeps debris out of your aura, it also fills it with the light of higher more rarified energies from the highest planes. I made sure this is large enough/wide enough to engulf my entire being, including my aura.
'''Featured In''': Alice A. Bailey's channelings of Djwhal Khul collected in Rainbow Bridge Techniques

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==Meditation #36==

'''Meditation Name''': Antakarana Widening aka Rainbow Bridge Widening
'''Type''': Energy-Work, Attunment/at-one-ment with higherself
'''Technique''':

'''1.''' Invoke the Soul by speaking the Soul Mantrum three times.

''I am the Soul''
''I am the Light Divine''
''I am Love''
''I am Will''
''I am Eternal Design''

'''2.''' Speak the Mantram of Unification

''The sons of men are one and I am one with them.''
''I seek to love, not hate.''
''I seek to serve and not exact to service.''
''I seek to heal, not hurt.''
''Let pain bring due reward of light and love.''
''Let the soul control the outer form and life and all events, and bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the time.''
''Let vision come and insight be.''
''Let the future stand revealed.''
''Let inner union demonstrate and outer separations be gone.''
''Let love prevail.''
''Let all men love.''

'''3.''' Make one large triangle from the Soul Star/(Alpha) Chakra to the Earth Star/(Omega) Chakra.

'''4.''' As you move the Soul Star up the shushumna/central channel, visualize it moving in a clockwise (from left to right) corkscrew motion boring a path through the channel up to the position of the resting position of the Soul Star, six inches above the head. Imagine the channel is being widened as the Soul Star moves up the channel.

'''5.''' It is recommended you end with an invokation of the spiritual whirlwind for 3-5 minutes.

'''6.''' End the process with a prayer for universal good will or peace appropriate to your spiritual background and culture. The suggested closing for ending the process is the Great Invocation.

''From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let light descend on Earth.''

''From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth.''

''From the center where the will of God is known, let that purpose guide the little wills of men; the purpose which the masters know and serve.''

''From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may it seal the door where evil dwells.''

''Let light and love and power restore the plan on Earth.''

'''Comments''': As I do this I take it ''quite'' slowly, it can take me several minuets to do one rep. I also don't stop at the default position of the soul star but build it all the way up to my higherself/monad. As I keep going up the antakarana, through the densities and dimensions, and I get to a massive pool of white light that I connect it into.
'''Featured In''': Alice A. Bailey's channelings of Djwhal Khul collected in Rainbow Bridge Techniques

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==Meditation #37==

Visualisation Exercise - Fire Kasina
(from the 8ch question thread 20)

"stare into a candle flame, right in the brightest part just above the transparent semi-conical part. Staring into it leaves an imprint on your retinas that you can see when you close your eyes. Eventually you'll see a slight shadow outlining the flame, and this is your cue to blow out the flame and close your eyes.

pay attention to the after-image it as it flickers and changes colors and shapes. Sometimes it will vanish completely and come back slowly. Don't try to force anything to happen, just watch passively. Eventually it'll go out completely and won't come back, and that's when you light up the candle again and repeat the process.

Eventually (after a couple of days or weeks of practice depending on how often you do it) you'll figure out how you can "adjust" your attention to bring the blob of color to the forefront, or lose it completely. Its almost like tuning a radio. Practice this tuning ability enough to become really strong and you won't need a candle flame as a "seed" anymore, you can do it purely by imagination.

For reference, the steps my mind goes through when doing this "tuning" runs something like this:
- attention wavers and I start to lose the previous blob of color
- be confused and uncertain about whether I am actually seeing anything or just fooling myself
- realize that either way, there's a distinct "something" in the blackness, however faint, that my attention can be directed toward
- as I direct my attention toward this this thing, it becomes more clearly distinct as a thing separate from the nothingness around it
- what were previously only hints of colors become actual colors
- repeat

A couple of things I have noticed after doing this practice for a while is that It becomes easy to fill your whole field of vision as your lying in bed. Like you can jump into the intense visuals of a dream before you're even asleep, its not a real dream though and I have yet to figure out how to make the transition from this state into an actual dreaming state, but I suspect I can do it by deliberately doing rapid-eye movements. The other thing I found out is I can make fractally/flowerish patterns appear on surfaces while my eyes are open, like the effect you get when high on acid."