Making Ripples

If you search for types of meditation on the internet, you will find at least 23 different types of meditation. One of the definitions of meditation that makes sense to me is this: Meditation is a practice of concentrated focus upon a sound, object, visualization, the breath, movement, or attention itself in order to increase awareness of the present moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth. I think I have found another, and simpler definition, achieving stillness.

Over the years, I have tried several types of meditation, and I concur that the desired result is peace of mind and awareness of the present moment. The other night I was trying to go to sleep after a busy day, and I realized that although my body was tired, I was being bombarded by thoughts and images of things that seemed so important that I could not turn them off.

As I scanned this rush of ideas and images, I realized that they were not my thoughts and images, and they were coming from the beings who surround me and accompany me through life.

Instead of fighting this rush of unwanted communication, I decided to concentrate on what “I” wanted to achieve. The concept that came to mind was “stillness.” This is not an absence of physical movement but more of a complete freedom from disturbance when we can self-reflect and actually perceive the absence of thoughts.

With my eyes closed, I began to listen and observe the thoughts that were crashing in on me. I put out the intention that there would be stillness and merely acknowledged any thoughts that popped up. Within a few minutes, it got very quiet, and I just lay there enjoying the silence.

Suddenly, I found myself very much in present time and postulating solutions to several issues that I had not had time to address over the past few weeks. This resulted in a rush of activities that were very productive and left me feeling good about myself and life in general.

I have repeated this over the last few days and have come to the following conclusions. Meditating on “stillness” puts a pause on the random spiritual activity that accompanies me through life. My spiritual companions, if not gently controlled, will chatter amongst themselves about what I am doing and thinking. I pick this up as a constant form of distraction and normally try to ignore it as I go through my day.

It serves as a running commentary on everything I do, from eating breakfast to delivering a counseling session. When I am truly focused, as I am when in session or when designing something, the comments are generally helpful and focused on what I am doing. When I am just meandering through life and not particularly focused, their ideas are a constant distraction. “Oooh! Look at that!” “Let’s eat!” “I want to take a nap” “Let’s read a book on Kindle”!

Once I was able to achieve stillness for myself, I realized that my clients who are having difficulty achieving stable gains from sessions are being continually besieged by random thoughts from their spiritual companions. I can get them to focus while they are in session and we are talking, but as soon as I take my attention off them, their spiritual companions take over again.

Once I was able to achieve stillness, I realized that this increased my perception of the beings surrounding my clients. I could actually perceive beings moving in on my clients when I was not directly engaging them in a process. This also applied to people I was talking to while shopping. If I was not impinging on a person with my directed communication, they were generally being affected or being run by a committee of spiritual beings who were running the show.

This was definitely evident in a tax professional we are using. He is very pleasant, but if you ask him a technical question, one or more of his spiritual companions takes over and delivers a five-minute lecture on the topic and why it was developed, and what exactly does it mean. We have to impinge on this person to get him back in control and solving our tax problem.

We will always have spiritual companions around us, so it behooves us to find out how we can manage them and avail ourselves of their help when we need it. If we practice achieving stillness when we need to focus, I feel we will unlock the full potential of our spiritual power.

In PART TWO of this series, we will look at the possibilities of achieving stillness as a regular ability we can bring to bear on everyday problems.

As you will eventually discover, the term afterlife is a misnomer, and that is why I put ironic quotes around the word in the title. You are a spiritual being, and as long as you keep on having one human experience after another, you will keep on experiencing after-lives or between-lives periods.

As soon as you start doing Spiritual Rescue Technology sessions or any other kind of past life explorations, you discover you have definitely lived before and have managed to forget the really grubby parts of your previous experiences. After all, who wants to remember lives spent in prison or slaving on an endless construction project? Being immortal has its downsides as you can collect a lot of experience making mistakes.

Even collecting memories of lives you spent exacting revenge and getting even for past insults can be boring, so self-imposed amnesia seems to be the preferred way to start each new life. After all, infancy and early childhood are difficult enough without being burdened with regrets from former lives. A fresh start as a clean slate with no memories seems to be the preferred state of most children, at least on this planet.

Those fortunate few who manage to retain skills from previous lives gain a degree of celebrity that can be hard to manage and imposes a burden of hard work and dedication on a child who would otherwise be playing with toys and engaging in mindless pursuits. While the rest of us were frolicking and daydreaming, those children afflicted with past-life memories were composing symphonies, painting masterpieces, and performing on various stages. Some were entering universities and earning degrees at the tender age of 9 years old or earlier. Searching the internet for “youngest college student” produces a score of names of these young overachievers.

So, does knowing your true past and retaining your memories into your next life help you succeed in living a life of power and prosperity? That depends on what you want to do with your next life. Do you want to go in blind and hope for the best, or do you want to retain enough of your past experience to be able to choose parents who will appreciate your talents and will support you in your endeavors? Unless you learn how to manipulate infant gender, you will have to accept the child your new parents produce, so you could locate the perfect parents and end up in a body that is a different gender than your present one.

There are a lot of choices to be made in selecting new parents. Do you want wealthy parents who can provide for all of your material needs, or do you go for supportive parents who are spiritually aligned with you and will do whatever is necessary for you to achieve your goals? If you are to live an extraordinary life, choosing parents who home school you is one way to get a great start on that life. You will certainly enhance their lives, but they will be facing challenges requiring the ability to think outside the box. Choosing parents who are spiritually aligned with you is probably more important than their material wealth.

If you are not their first child, you will cause unbelievable stresses in the fabric of family life unless you are adept at managing older siblings who are not as gifted as you are. If you are the first child, you will need to develop skills in managing your younger siblings, so they do not suffer from the difference in your abilities.

Your next life can be spectacular or rewarding in other ways, depending on what you wish to accomplish. It all depends on the challenges you wish to undertake. The choices are essentially unlimited. You can choose to become a child guru or prophet if you want to instead of becoming a talented virtuoso in some other field. You can also decide to remain hidden from view during childhood and only emerge when you reach an age where you feel you can command respect as a young adult. This latter choice may be more difficult than being a prodigy, but you may have a career path that favors stealth as far as revealing your capabilities at an early age.

The point I am trying to make is that you will determine the course of your next life by the choices you make now, and you can prepare for your next life, your afterlife, by increasing your spiritual awareness this lifetime.

Your spiritual companions can be viewed as angels or demons or unnameable horrors. They are all immortal beings, just like you and I, except that they have had a rougher time of it than you have. We know this because they can no longer bring themselves to run and manage bodies. They are as real as anything else in this universe, and they contribute to your life in proportion to the responsibility you can take for them. You cannot escape them, and you need to learn how to utilize their special skills to achieve your goals in life. As a trained engineer, I view spirits as the ultimate resource for getting things done as well as the most pervasive barrier to success if they are not properly managed. As a spiritual researcher, I found the key to working with spirits was understanding they are like us, and they are willing to help us if properly motivated.

Since time began, we have all spent an amazing amount of time degrading ourselves while pursuing sensations and playing zero-sum games that have diminished us from our earliest heights of power. Some of us can still animate and manage bodies, while others can only ride shotgun and spend their time critiquing how we manage our lives. Some are helping us, and others are quite frankly messing with us. Others are just along for the ride.

We make our way through time and space of our own creation, and we drag along with us a collection of spirits who have attempted to overwhelm us and whom we have overwhelmed. Almost every act of creation has bound us inextricably to other beings. Those who sought a unity with us are still powering our dreams and everyday activities. Those who sought revenge or retribution are plastered on us like barnacles, slowing our progress and disrupting the harmony of our existence.

There are a larger group of spirits following on our heels, attracted by the commotion we create with our lives. They drift in and out of our lives and add flavor to our personalities with their competing intentions and purposes. If we are driven to create with a higher purpose in mind, we attract those spirits who have similar purposes. If we seek sensations, we attract spirits who pander to those sensations, and our lives become a search for more and more sensation.

If we perceive ourselves as messengers of some God, we attract spirits who follow that God, and we speak with authority as spokesmen of that God. If we have found a pattern of living that brought us power, we usually collect kindred spirits who magnify that power and we act in concert to maintain that arc of life.

If we have not found a satisfactory pattern for life, we lose all belief in ourselves or in a higher power, and we may seek answers in victimhood.

In the study of Spiritual Rescue Technology, we find the spiritual rules to releasing ourselves from past mistakes and working with other spirits to rehabilitate ourselves and create a future more to our liking. The first and most basic rule is that we are constantly affected by the spirits who surround us, and we either take responsibility for them and manage them, or we are the unwilling effect of their intentions and desires.

Since they all possess life force, they can be a tremendous resource for us and help us achieve our mutual goals if we manage them well. Managing spirits is a skill that can be learned and a team of spirits working in harmony is a beautiful thing to see. It is also extremely rewarding for all concerned, both for us and for the spirits who choose to work with us.

No matter what people call them, if you can harness the skills of your spiritual companions and apply them to real-world problems, you will create results beyond all expectations.

Read my book, Talking To Spirits, and see how it can be done.