Q & A on Secret Guided Meditation Techniques
The purpose of this article is to explore some of the inner realities that appear in the process of focused meditation in it we discuss transcendental meditation Zazen - the Zen approach to introspection, Taoism, Buddhist approaches and guided meditation, as well as yoga mediation, the chakras and more
Definition: Mystic meditation – A type of meditative practice that not only brings the meditator into an altered state of consciousness, but gives them a sense of connectedness with an authentic reality, that transcend the senses and all mental concepts and or brings them to God Realization, and the transcendence of death.
Q. How does this type of meditation help one to transcend death?
A. Death is probably the ultimate fascination: what is it? What happens when it arrives? What does it look like? How will it come to me and how will I face it? Many involved with mystic mediation believe that regular meditation under the guidance of the appropriate teacher can help an individual answer many of these questions.
Q. Please explore this further?
A. In many mystic traditions the body is viewed as vehicle within which the soul, life force, or in Asian Qi (chi) resides. When you look at a living person sleeping or a lifeless body they appear the same. The difference between the two is that the sleeping individual has active Qi whereas the dead body is devoid of Qi. (See the Level: Qi).
Q. How does meditation relate to Qi?
A. From the mystic perspective Qi is life force. Thus the ability to flow in rhythm with Qi and at times even harness it to our intention can create great freedom, love and wisdom and even an experience of the divine.
Q. Please return to the discussion of mystic meditation and transcending death?
A. I'd rather use different terminology than "transcending death" to describe this experience. What many of these mystic traditions are discussing is the idea that one can experience what a person experiences during and after death and yet the person experiencing all of this is still alive and in a meditative state.
Q. What is the process within which this process takes place?
A. It is taught that through meditation the individual first draws his or her attention inward from the external world into the internal reality of the focused mind. At the next level the individual transcends the mind. This is done by drawing the Qi up from the body to the portal where body, mind and Qi or spirit link. This may be a different location depending on the culture and the particular teaching. Often it is a place called the "Third Eye" a non-physical concept that exists between and an inch or so above the two physical eyes. Many mediation techniques use the third eye as a focal point for the inner attention.
Q. Is this what is meant by the saying "Meditating on the Third Eye?
A. Yes.
Q. How can we meditate on something that isn't really there, we do not understand and cannot really name?
A. I don't have an answer for you other than that it is something you just do. You are conceptually meditating on that which is eternal, infinite, transcendent, unlimited, and nameless and without any boundaries?Â
Q. So you are saying that when a person dies the conscious spirit or life force is withdrawn from the physical plane up through the eye center?
A. In mystic meditation the same process takes place but the silver chord to the world is not broken as it is when a person dies and leaves this world. In mystic meditation the meditator in truly in the world but not of the world.
Q. Where are they?
A. They are in an altered state. (See the Level: Altered States of Consciousness). They are in a realm of transcendental consciousness distinct from what we perceive to be physical reality.
Q. This seems like a paradox. It is obvious that a person is either dead or they are not dead?
A. It is a paradox! The concept of dying before one's death seems paradoxical and yet it is a fundamental aspect of mystic meditation.
Q. These mystic teachings are essentially saying that in the deepest and most profound of meditative states I can experience what someone experiences when they die and yet I am still living?Â
A. Yes. Your Qi is going out of the body completely and yet it still has a pre-microscopic, pre-atomic link at the third eye.
Q. What is this experience of dying while living like?
A. According to various classic writings on this subject, including the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" when we are in the waking state, our attention and sensory focus is external. Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are our links to the world. When we go into those inner places that exist before and beyond the world of phenomena we close down our connections to the world and open another window, the window of our true nature, the window of dying while living.
Q. And what happens now.
A. The Qi and our consciousness with it are is drawn inward from the illusion of the world and the outer senses and is able to experience the bliss of what lies within.
Q. Does this connect in some way to the concept of Wu Wei (The action that has No-Action)?
 Q. Through mystic meditation you are able to live life effortlessly and watch the world as if it is nothing more than a movie. (See the Lesson: The Law of Attraction)
Q. Who knows if any of this even exists? Mystic meditation? Dying while living? Third Eye? It might all be a big story, a myth?
A. You are correct. Who really knows if any of this really exists? Still there are many important spiritual teachers of all faiths and denominations throughout history who speak of these things. The Bal Shem Tov in Judaism, Meister Eckhart in Christianity, Rumi in Islam, and Lao Tsu in Taoism.
They have spoken of inner spiritual regions, the true here and now, etc. In some of the shamanic traditions they speak of these inner journeys as the experience of the macrocosm in the microcosm.
Q. If it were true that one can die while living what is the purpose and the benefit of this type of this experience and the meditation that brings this experience forward?
A. You will come to know all of the subtle worlds, inner treasures, and the sound and light that is the Divine. You will fully understand the saying ", The human body is the true temple of God" and understand that all outward rites, rituals and religious ceremonies can at best remind us of the divine. At this moment you will truly understand the concept that many important spiritual teachers celebrate, the ability to live in the world without being of the world
Definition: Mystic meditation – A type of meditative practice that not only brings the meditator into an altered state of consciousness, but gives them a sense of connectedness with an authentic reality, that transcend the senses and all mental concepts and or brings them to God Realization, and the transcendence of death.
Q. How does this type of meditation help one to transcend death?
A. Death is probably the ultimate fascination: what is it? What happens when it arrives? What does it look like? How will it come to me and how will I face it? Many involved with mystic mediation believe that regular meditation under the guidance of the appropriate teacher can help an individual answer many of these questions.
Q. Please explore this further?
A. In many mystic traditions the body is viewed as vehicle within which the soul, life force, or in Asian Qi (chi) resides. When you look at a living person sleeping or a lifeless body they appear the same. The difference between the two is that the sleeping individual has active Qi whereas the dead body is devoid of Qi. (See the Level: Qi).
Q. How does meditation relate to Qi?
A. From the mystic perspective Qi is life force. Thus the ability to flow in rhythm with Qi and at times even harness it to our intention can create great freedom, love and wisdom and even an experience of the divine.
Q. Please return to the discussion of mystic meditation and transcending death?
A. I'd rather use different terminology than "transcending death" to describe this experience. What many of these mystic traditions are discussing is the idea that one can experience what a person experiences during and after death and yet the person experiencing all of this is still alive and in a meditative state.
Q. What is the process within which this process takes place?
A. It is taught that through meditation the individual first draws his or her attention inward from the external world into the internal reality of the focused mind. At the next level the individual transcends the mind. This is done by drawing the Qi up from the body to the portal where body, mind and Qi or spirit link. This may be a different location depending on the culture and the particular teaching. Often it is a place called the "Third Eye" a non-physical concept that exists between and an inch or so above the two physical eyes. Many mediation techniques use the third eye as a focal point for the inner attention.
Q. Is this what is meant by the saying "Meditating on the Third Eye?
A. Yes.
Q. How can we meditate on something that isn't really there, we do not understand and cannot really name?
A. I don't have an answer for you other than that it is something you just do. You are conceptually meditating on that which is eternal, infinite, transcendent, unlimited, and nameless and without any boundaries?Â
Q. So you are saying that when a person dies the conscious spirit or life force is withdrawn from the physical plane up through the eye center?
A. In mystic meditation the same process takes place but the silver chord to the world is not broken as it is when a person dies and leaves this world. In mystic meditation the meditator in truly in the world but not of the world.
Q. Where are they?
A. They are in an altered state. (See the Level: Altered States of Consciousness). They are in a realm of transcendental consciousness distinct from what we perceive to be physical reality.
Q. This seems like a paradox. It is obvious that a person is either dead or they are not dead?
A. It is a paradox! The concept of dying before one's death seems paradoxical and yet it is a fundamental aspect of mystic meditation.
Q. These mystic teachings are essentially saying that in the deepest and most profound of meditative states I can experience what someone experiences when they die and yet I am still living?Â
A. Yes. Your Qi is going out of the body completely and yet it still has a pre-microscopic, pre-atomic link at the third eye.
Q. What is this experience of dying while living like?
A. According to various classic writings on this subject, including the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" when we are in the waking state, our attention and sensory focus is external. Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are our links to the world. When we go into those inner places that exist before and beyond the world of phenomena we close down our connections to the world and open another window, the window of our true nature, the window of dying while living.
Q. And what happens now.
A. The Qi and our consciousness with it are is drawn inward from the illusion of the world and the outer senses and is able to experience the bliss of what lies within.
Q. Does this connect in some way to the concept of Wu Wei (The action that has No-Action)?
 Q. Through mystic meditation you are able to live life effortlessly and watch the world as if it is nothing more than a movie. (See the Lesson: The Law of Attraction)
Q. Who knows if any of this even exists? Mystic meditation? Dying while living? Third Eye? It might all be a big story, a myth?
A. You are correct. Who really knows if any of this really exists? Still there are many important spiritual teachers of all faiths and denominations throughout history who speak of these things. The Bal Shem Tov in Judaism, Meister Eckhart in Christianity, Rumi in Islam, and Lao Tsu in Taoism.
They have spoken of inner spiritual regions, the true here and now, etc. In some of the shamanic traditions they speak of these inner journeys as the experience of the macrocosm in the microcosm.
Q. If it were true that one can die while living what is the purpose and the benefit of this type of this experience and the meditation that brings this experience forward?
A. You will come to know all of the subtle worlds, inner treasures, and the sound and light that is the Divine. You will fully understand the saying ", The human body is the true temple of God" and understand that all outward rites, rituals and religious ceremonies can at best remind us of the divine. At this moment you will truly understand the concept that many important spiritual teachers celebrate, the ability to live in the world without being of the world