A friend said meditation often seems to him a waste of time, and I sense that you wish to comment.
Meditation isn’t the right tool if you aren’t using it on the right job. You can’t tighten screws with hammers, or pound nails with screwdrivers. At least, not very efficiently! But this hardly exhausts the subject.
Meditation is one tool, Intuitive Linked Communication is another. Applied logic is a third. Careful analysis is a fourth. Careful observation is a fifth. Different tools for different jobs, and different combinations of tools for different jobs.
Suppose you are living your life taking the 3D world as all there is, taking your varying moods as if they were a stable platform, placing all your attention on the external world and not even realizing that your internal world is primary. Meditation may help you stop the machinery long enough for you to realize that there is more going on than you realize. Silencing the noisy clanking and banging and whirring may let you hear the birds singing. It may be a revelation, a revolution.
Or suppose you are well aware of the inner world and are somewhat unaware of the outer world. Your internal trance, your daydreaming your way through life, may need a corrective. Mediation may be such a corrective, but maybe an experience of ILC, or a course of logic, or applied effort at acquiring a skill, say, may be more helpful. And so forth.
It creates confusion when people don’t differentiate between different starting points, which may include:
- Needing to clear your mind of chatter
- Having an endless calculating machine operating
- Ceaselessly collecting the data presented by life
- Needing to slow down an internal daydreaming trance
An analogy would be, taking psychotropic drugs. The effects of such pharmacology will vary not only by the circumstances in which it is used but – and primarily – by the person who comes to the experience! Compare the results obtained by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzger on LSD, as opposed to Ken Kesey, say, or musicians on cocaine or marijuana. These are all creative people, but what they brought to the experience couldn’t help affect the experience they received. It’s only common sense, after all. So if meditation does nothing for you, or perhaps no longer does anything for you, why persist in it? However, that doesn’t mean, forget about internal exploration. It means, try a different kind of tool.
For years, people would ask me if I meditated, and were puzzled when I said I did not. It was only last year that I realized that I didn’t need anything to wake me up to the fact that I as observer was other than appearances. I needed a way to better interact with the world. I needed to develop logic, and needed to apply it to the world around me.
Everybody’s life may be looked at as a problem to be addressed, a puzzle to be engaged. You are always trying to accomplish a task some of which is invisible to you. The lapse of time makes it clearer what your life was about, but doesn’t not necessarily make clear what it is about.
In other words, where we have been is always clearer than where we are, let alone where we will be.
Isn’t that your experience? Moments of clarity alternating with moments of opacity? And of course the proportions of each vary, by the individual and perhaps also by the moment. Meditation is not going to be productive for everybody, nor is it necessarily going to be effective for any given person forever. There is no guaranteed path to heaven.
I get the image of a priest saying his breviary, the prayers he is required to say every day.
Yes. Such practice may concentrate a young man’s mind on the continual existence of the non-physical world, may serve to help him remain on a path of consciousness. But such practice can degenerate into mere rote, accomplishing nothing. Do you have any reason to think that meditation per se is any more universal, any more infallible?
Nor is ILC for everyone.
Nor psychotropic drugs, nor any conceivable path. Don’t put your trust in a method, any more than in any particular creed, to bring you infallibly home. Sincerity and persistence will always bring you through.
Your means of deepening your conscious connection to your non-3D self will vary; the connection itself does not vary. You need not fear becoming unanchored. It’s just a matter of allowing, not of forcing. So, doing what you are led to do (following the pattern of your life) will always result in your pursuing the right path for you. The thing to monitor is your intent. Intend, and your inner life aligns in turn, obviously.
I know that “obviously” refers to inner and outer being parts of one thing, hence never decoupled.
They may appear to be decoupled, because there is a lag in manifestation to the degree that there is a separation between intent and resolution. Intend consistently and alignment follows consistently. Waver, and what can you expect but a wavering result?
Intent that wavers brings irresolution in its wake.
Rather, it is irresolution. What it brings in its wake is the appearance of separation, to which the conditions of 3D life renders you susceptible anyway.