Meditation on the heart
It was a meditation on the Heart Chakra.
You can find more about it on my other weblog
where I share the professional aspects of my work, while sharing personal experiences here.
I am exploring mandalas at the moment. One of my teachers, CG Jung, when going through a hard time in his own spiritual development used to sit in mediation on a number of mandalas to settle his mind, which was generating all kinds of strange things.
I find the image above powerful, though not technically a Heart Chakra image, as there are eight points at the centre and not two crossed triangles creating six points as in the Heart Chakra image below.
I shared with the students that my own teacher, Muktananda, considered the consciousness of the individual soul, the Jiva or ego self is seated in the heart rather than the head, as we are taught by modern western psychologists.
The next morning, while chanting in the shower, as I often do, I had the most peculiar change in perception of my own being. I was chanting, not from the head, or the throat, but from the centre of my chest, from the heart Chakra.
I am a long way from having made this a permanent shift in consciousness, but it goes along with many changes that are occurring to my sense of self in meditation.
The most significant changes are in the breakdown of the four dimensions of space and time.
The blue of divine consciousness comes smashing through that old reality, giving me a glimpse of a transcendent world.
One of the Sutras in the Spanda Sutras invites you to merge your consciousness with the being of another person for a while.
This has happened to me spontaneously on a number of occasions, without my choice.
I was at least able to withdraw my consciousness from the other people.
I have much more to discover on this journey!
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Last night I woke in the early hours very wide awake which is most unusual.
I had a very long meditation which led to a dream, when I finally fell back to sleep.
I dreamed a group of Indians found me at the coast and decided to take me for a holiday trip to Birmingham with them.
We went into a strange old steam train. It went onto rails which became like the most immense roller coaster, sweeping over the mountain tops.
I guess that is the kind of road I am travelling at the moment, my old western body led along into new dimensions by an ancient family of wisdom traditions and teachings.
I am delighted to have rediscovered Deepak Chopra, whose on-line video presentations are a great source of inspiration to me.
A number of his presentations can be found on my youtube channel
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