“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Many people in a quandary of indecision write to Ruburt. Such a correspondent might lament, for example: “I do not know what to do, or what direction to follow. I think that I could make music my career. I am musically gifted. On the other hand (pause), I feel a leaning toward psychology. I have not attended to my music lately, since I am so confused. Sometimes I think I could be a teacher. In the meantime, I am meditating and hoping that the answer will come.” (Pause.) Such a person is afraid to trust any one impulse enough to act upon it. All remain equally probable activities. Meditation must be followed by action — and true meditation is action (underlined). Such people are afraid of making decisions, because they are afraid of their own impulses — and some of them can use meditation to dull their impulses, and actually prevent constructive action.

Many of my readers are familiar with private meditation, when concentration is focused in one particular area. [...] It is impossible to meditate without a goal, for that intent is itself a purpose. Unfortunately, many of your public health programs, and commercial statements through the various media, provide you with mass meditations of a most deplorable kind. [...]

“MASS MEDITATIONS.”

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(Pause at 10:15.) Chapter 2: “ ‘Mass Meditations.’ (A one-minute pause.) ‘Health’ Plans for Disease. [...]

[...] They involve intense meditation of the body, and adverse imagery that itself affects the bodily cells.² Public health announcements about high blood pressure themselves raise the blood pressure of millions of television viewers (even more emphatically).

A 15-minute daily meditation period would be excellent for three months. Then 3 weeks of no meditation; a month of half-hour meditation, followed by a week of no meditation; and for a year a daily schedule of no more than a half-hour meditation period, these periods to be regular however.

[...] You are trying too hard in that direction, as with meditation. [...] In its own way hypnosis involves a psychic kind of play—meditation involves a psychic kind of play and lovemaking involves a psychic kind of play. [...]

[...] The same thing in meditation—let your inner self play in your meditation and let your body play in your lovemaking.

There is no reason why you cannot progress in your meditations either—the two are so intimately connected and you have equated them in a strange manner in your own mind. [...]

([Ron Labadee:] “Is there any relevance to Oriental forms of meditation?”)

There are to all forms of meditation as there are to all forms of activity. [...]

([Ron:] “All forms of activity or all forms of meditation?”)

Meditation is good for you, and my exercises ... [...]

[...] Also the meditation... [...]

[...] I do not want to shock you, but dictation — continuation of our last chapter (2: “Mass Meditations,” etc.).

Not only does television actually serve as a mass means of communal meditation, but it also presents you with highly detailed, manufactured dreams, in which each viewer shares to some extent. [...]

It is not enough to meditate, or to imagine in your mind some desired goal being accomplished, if you are afraid to act upon the very impulses to which your meditations and imaginings give rise. [...]

(Ron told of his interest in meditation and the feelings of depression afterward.)

(To Ron.) Now to our new student, your reaction, you see, this evening and your lack of reaction also is connected with the ideas that you have received as to the nature of meditation and spiritual knowledge. [...]

[...] Nebene prayed and meditated often, so his framework, you see, is often the same as yours, and those meditative periods provide the necessary conditions on both of your parts.

If you tell yourself that sexual feeling is wrong, and organize your daily programming in that fashion, then when you “meditate,” or dispense with that orientation, you may suddenly find yourself presented with material that you consider unsavory. [...]

[...] At the same time, when he meditates and alters his consciousness, he immediately finds himself with a blinding headache, images of nude women, and fantasies of female goddesses out to tempt him from his celibate state.

[...] You must hold that person in mind so that to some extent love is a kind of meditation — a loving focus upon another individual. [...]

[...] I would like you when you have time to meditate on the various kinds of abundance that you do presently enjoy. [...]

[...] I do not mean my method of meditation alone. [...]

[...] I do not mean my method of meditation alone. [...]

([Ron:] “Within this system of meditation you talked about the creative vitality and the creative energy, that the idea of the end goal is the identity of the source of All That Is ...what is Buddha doing now?”)

[...] Begin if you want then, with what seems to be intellectual meditation, intellectual thought, and then let it carry you away, and it will carry you into a feeling of concept in which you understand a new concept. [...]

You could have “meditated” upon it. [...]

[...] (On his visit Dick told us he has embarked upon the practice of transcendental meditation recently.) You saw also an Oriental version because his daughter (Teresa), who was also connected to him in an Oriental existence, was about to bear a male child.

[...] You will not meet yourself through following any particular specialized method of meditation. [...]

[...] You have meditations for disaster, beliefs that invite private and mass tragedies. [...]