MEDITATION
By George Naylor CSNU

It is important to attune yourself correctly. What is meditation and how does it affect you? To find the awareness that you are searching for, it is imperative that you find that point in your conscious thoughts where you can be still in your mind. Remember that you can not have a blank mind! There is no hard and fast rule to meditation only that stillness and calmness that is going to make you use that sixth sense as it is meant to be used. There are several exercises that one can use to find the awareness of that sixth sense. However, there is a set preparation that will help you meditate.

PREPARATION

The main point is to be comfortable. However, not too comfortable so that you fall asleep. The chair that you choose is to be a hard chair, preferably a dining room type chair. When you have realised your potential of that of meditation you can sit wherever you like! When we talk about comfort remember that the Red Indians would sit cross legged on a rock for ten days or more and not move a muscle. Indeed, they were a very spiritual race of people! I do not advocate sitting on a rock but I do insist the we use hard backed chairs. What you eat is entirely up to you. There are several lines of thought on what one should eat before sitting in meditation. Lets dispel those myths at this point. If you feel that you can eat a full blown mean before sitting, DO! The days of self-denial have gone. One International medium I know eats twice as much as anyone I know and sometimes has a bottle of wine before doing a service. So you see that it does not follow those rules that have been passed down through the generations. If you feel comfortable then so be it! But please do not DRINK anything but water before meditation. That really is the main points covered for the physcial preparation. Now we come to the important point-preparation of the mind! How does one prepare the mind? I can only give you my view and I sincerely hope that it is of help to you, but before I do this I want you to remember this it is important that if you feel more comfortable using your own methods then by all means use them! Firstly I try to imagine that my thought processes have become aware of everything around me. The room, the people, the colours and the noises. I then close my eyes and listen with my thoughts to whatever is around me at that point in time. Remember that this is second nature to me now, so whenever I make contact with spirit we are talking milli-seconds of thought transference. Do not be put off by that statement it sounds harder then it really is. Really it is best to try to imagine an object so that you are focusing your thoughts on a central theme.

MEDITATION EXERCISE

When one first commences meditation there is much to be said for concentrating your mind on a red rose! If you cannot imagine a rose, concentrate ona scene you yourself like best. However, I do suggest we keep to the same pattern because this leads to self discipline which I am sure you will be well aware of by now! It is the most important facet of mediumship and will always be uppermost in all that we do. If you had difficulty in imagining a red rose, try to imagine that you are imagining a red rose. In other words, you are not seeing a picture of a rose, you are sensing a red rose. Let us together take a look at this rose. Firstly inspect the head of the rose. Is it a full rose, is it a tightly budded rose, is it a deep red rose, is it an unblemished rose, it is a rose covered in dew, is it a rose that is vibrant, is it a rose of character. You see there are so many things to look for. Now let us go on to the stem, of the rose. Is it a young stem, is it a long stem, is it a sten with a bend in it or is it a straight stem. Has it got many thorns on it. Once you have got the feel of the rose go back to the head. Let the closed flower open, vice versa for the open rose! Stay with the head of the rose, go inside the rose. In other words get to know your rose so that there comes the day when yuo can sit and immediately your rose is in your mind. That is the start of your meditation, try it even if those amongst you do not use this method. Indeed, I am always on the look out for other methods, especially those that make meditation easier for oneself. As one makes progress with the rose, eventually spirit will make contact. Remember we have already carried out a meditation exercise and each of those who were sitting had a contact be it a colour or a word or even a full contact. Remember keep it simple and you will have a pleasant surprise. This type of meditation exercise is ideal for sitting on ones own. Go with the flow of your thoughts! Remember that everything that is taking place is by thought on both sides of the veil. I can not stress too much the importance of discipline. Discipline is essential to all your contacts, if you have not got it then go back to square one because I can assure you that spirit will suddenly not be working with you. I quote this from experience!

OTHER EXERCISES

We are already carrying out an exercise using golden light to fill ourselves with. You see it is still meditation so those of you who wandered off into other spheres remember you will come unstuck because it leads on to other points of development within your mediumship and believe me, if you are not doing it correctly, then you will not develop your potential correctly. Another exercise that you can carry out on your own is that of going into a garden or a wood. Once again, place a picture in your mind and look at all aspects within the picture. Listen for noises, look at colours, look at all the objects. You may be sitting by a river. Really get into the thought if necessary go for a swim. Indeed, make your thoughts a living material part of your personality! I feel that there are so many things to concentrate on that I will only bog you down at this stage of your development. Remember we can all learn from each other, so at some stage we will all have one evening where we will debate what we have covered. The work with the spirit is always progressing. Quality is the keyword in this instance! So now we have quality to go with our discipline!

ADVANCEMENT OF MEDITATION

Really then focusing of the thought processes on an object is to give mental relaxation. You will find that after six months you will not necessarily need to concentrate on anything at all to meditate. Unfortunately, the teeachings of mediumship over the years, has always been passed down from one medium to another. So it is natural that set ways have become prevalent in the teachings of development. It is unfortunate that there never has been a set of rules for meditation. However, we could carry out exercises like they do in the Far and Middle East, where they carry out rigorous physical exercises to the extent of tiring themselves out totally before they sit and meditate. We of course, carry out fasting to the extent that they do! Somehow I do not think that these two points would even cross our minds. You see what is good for one, is not necessarily good for another person! We in the West have found a more beneficial way to prove ourselves in meditation. There is going to come a time when we sit and have to close our minds off from the outside world and link with the spiritual levels. This is our ultimate aim. Remember, know yourself and love yourself and you will find your GOD! So, now we have something else to add to our DISCIPLINE and QUALITY - KNOW YOURSELF! So how do we advance our thoughts to the higher realms of meditation? Simple it comes with your development. You may not think that you can develop any further. I can assure that you can. Just have a little faith, and keep working at your development. by meditation. Please bear in mind that you may if you so wish, meditate on your own time anywhere, and at any time. Whatever you do please do not become a "dripping psychic". By this I mean one who is constantly giving out messages. However there is NO harm in it as long as you do it in the confines of privacy- NOT IN THE CHURCH!!! Needless to say that does not include messages within the circle-when we reach that point in time. Remember DISCIPLINE!! If you feel that you are personally not making progress please be patient as time is one thing that the spirit people have. So here we have to rely on blind FAITH. Now we have DISCIPLINE, QUALITY, KNOW YOURSELF and FAITH. All of these topics will come together as your mediumship develops. There are several different exercises that you can carry out, one of course is that of leaving your body. Remember it is your mind that leaves your body. You are not on an astral-YET! That is an entirely different topic, but we will cover it at a later date.
Push your mind out into the universe it will unfold your latent qualities. As we have already carried out this exercises over the next few weeks that you can read at your leisure. Remember we have six months sitting before we start to make full contact with the spirit world. It is imperative that we are all at a onement, that the power we refer to is built up so that we can feel it, sense it and use it to develop faculties that we have long since forgotten. We must be a unit that works in unison and together. I can not stress the importance of this and if necessary I will repeat it over and over again until we all know the importance of our development and development circle.

REMEMBER DISCIPLINE, QUALITY, KNOW YOURSELF and FAITH

Also remember that there is only one leader of a circle! That means that you do as you are asked. You will all be saying to yourselves-"oh here is another ego trip". You could never be so wrong, To my mind, spirit comes first and we come second.  However let me qualify what I am writing. I will jump on anyone who does not conform. I am sorry the circle is not for any one person but for all who sit in it. That is why it is a development circle and not an open circle. So the ground rules are as follows:
    a)  Follow all instructions to the letter
    b)  No talking between yourselves when the circle is sitting.
    c)  No giving messages to each other unless instructed to do so.
    d)  Never listen to other people in the circle that are giving messages without the leaders permission.
    e)  Arrive in time to gain your peace and tranquillity before sitting.

I give fair warning now. If you are not prepared to carry out the following then you are sitting for the wrong reason and I will ask you to leave the circle. Please also remember that you will not  all be working with mediums in fact that is the furthest point in my thoughts. However, you all have the talent to obtain working the paltform or rostrum. For those people that know me and have worked in my circles know that I will not stand for any nonsense.  You see where the SPirit is cincerned that is my first love and I know when to laugh and when to be serious. Maybe i expect too much! However, you also will be able to do the same-I hope!

It is imperative that we are of one mind! What do we mean by this statement? Well if we all work together there will be harmony, if we do not then it means we are wasting our time. I am sorry if you can not understand this point, but you are going to have to accept it for what it means. We are a tem, and it is not on an individual basis. Remeber we do not know it all apart from the fact that spirit work in harmony with us and that the best results will come only when we are in total harmony.

I know that each and everyone of us has that innate ability to link with the spirit! However, please remember that we are all at differing levels and in this DEVELOPMENT circle we go with the slowest developer!

I wish you much sucess in your endeavours and when the year is up, let us see the progress we have made.

There will be some more notes on the exercises at a later date, but your next set of notes which I hope to produce will be on trance work.

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