Meditation: Integrating the Universal and the Personal
This article titled ‘Meditation: Integrating the Universal and the Personal’ was written by an Enlightened person through the Inner Light and Sound Meditation around the year 2000.
Meditation allows us to have access to a faster dimension, that of the Light and S ound. This new dimension is not only faster than the one we knew before Initiation, it is also massive and “gets bigger” as we progress through the Initiations to Enlightenment. Of course, it isn’t really getting bigger, it just appears that way, as the limits of creation are transcended and we have access to greater and greater levels of consciousness, until they are all transcended. This progressive expansion and transcendence brings about a process of enquiry, a wonderful opportunity to be consumed by the Light and Sound, and so “become” the knowledge that it holds.
The Light and Sound we all witness is the same – untainted by our apparent individuality. Within each aura, the luminance and resonance of the Light and Sound precipitate to form the Kundalini Energy, these liquefy to form blood and solidify to form flesh. Sounds a bit yucky – but a magical process occurs as luminance and resonance literally become the human physique. The individuality of body and emotion we each display actually arise from the Kundalini Energy, and ultimately from the light and sound itself. There is no uniqueness for personal identity – although we can have a lot of fun with “apparent” uniqueness.
Uniqueness is in what lies beyond the Light and Sound. As we become consumed by increasingly faster dimensions, rather than simply observing or being overwhelmed by them, that process of enquiry becomes a massive expansion of consciousness. We then have a choice – explore that massive state, or in effect ignore it (by this I mean, to carry on with life, unaffected and unchanged by what is happening to us in meditation). The first one is much more fun and brings the opportunity for the love that exists on the higher levels to bubble through our personal self: the mind, emotions and body.
Not only is this delightfully enlivening and exciting, it also has the added benefit of making the personal self more stable. This is because a greater and greater part of us, by proportion, is rooted in the deeper levels of consciousness, unaffected by the turmoil of the mind, emotions and physicality. This in effect causes our sense of identity, of who and what we are, to be rooted within the environment of the Light and Sound, rather than that of the many small environments that make up the sensory world. The intention here is not to become unemotional, but to be able to experience the whole range of human emotions without being consumed by them. The emotions exist within a very small space compared to the levels of Light and Sound. If we can remain rooted in the Light and Sound, we will not be overwhelmed by our emotions or thoughts, and we will more readily put them aside when we sit to meditate.
So how do we explore our state of consciousness? Primarily this is done in meditation as we traverse these subtle energies. However, outside of meditation, as we bounce from the edge of our state back to the minutiae of our lower self, we can consolidate what is happening in meditation. During our everyday life, outside of meditation, realizations will often be sparked as our true self – the Light and Sound – influences our personal self, allowing us to perceive form without the barrier of sensuality.
As you are reading this glance around the room now – you will see colour, shape, movement, angles and dimension; you will use comparison, separation, concentration and imagination to piece together what you see. But, you may also be aware, consciously or unconsciously, of the subliminal meaning of the environment you are in, and your relationship to it. If we are intuitive in this situation, realizations will materialize, like pennies falling into the ether. Making the space for this to happen is one very important way to explore your state of consciousness.
Over time our relationship with the Light and Sound will change, and this in turn affects our relationship with the world at large. This process is actually ongoing, from the moment we start to meditate on the breath, continuing well after Enlightenment. As our relationship with the Light and Sound changes, so we will change mentally, emotionally and physically. Our awareness changes from looking at the Light and hearing the Sound to becoming the light and sound.
Our centre has relocated! The more we become consumed by the Light and Sound, the greater our centre will be, the greater our realizations and the greater our personal well-being as the fullness of this faster dimension plays out through our personal self – the mind, emotions and physical body.
Some kind of adjustment is needed to balance this change: we know this balancing act as personal change.
Without personal change, which in effect challenges our prejudices about ourselves and our world, the Light and Sound remain an inner sanctuary, rather than a catalyst for personal realization and the blossoming of the spiritual person. Amongst other things a spiritual person is, to me, someone who is able to be both intuitive and philosophical in an easy, natural way, during their everyday life – and who is able to revel in what can be the turmoil of the lower vehicles, without falling into the trap of being consumed by them.
It sounds a hard task – but the tools we have are excellent!
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