Radiance Meditation - meditating for the world

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Contents

Reasons to meditate

Purpose and Principles

Radiance Meditation – Intro

Entering into the Light

Outward Radiance

Radiance from one's being

Recognition & Inclusiveness

Seven Stages of the meditation

Qualities, Ideas, & Visions

Spiritual Qualities

Examples of Invocation

Group Synergy

Meditations for the world

Reasons to Meditate

There are many kinds of meditation and many reasons to meditate. What are the Goals & Purposes of most meditation?

1. Personal reasons – physical, emotional and mental

a retreat from outer life and stimuli

rejuvenates the mind, spirit, and body

helps one relax, quiet the mind, and find peace

nurtures life improvements and self transformations

develops mastery of mind, peace and enjoyment of being

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Physical benefits –

relaxation, lower stress, and improved health

Emotional benefits –

relaxes and reduces stress

enhances emotional awareness

dissolves turbulent emotions, fears, worry

develops inner calmness, harmony, and peace

brings forth deeper feelings and positive emotions

Mental benefits –

improved mental skills of attention, focus, and will

inner-awareness, mindfulness and presentness

self-centering – returning to one's truth and integrity

calms, quiets, and clears the mind

freedom from constant thinking and chattering thoughts

brings clarity and transparency of consciousness

deepens the self-discovery of inner qualities and goals

develops positive self-qualities

brings creative inspiration and spiritual intuition

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2. Trans-personal or Spiritual reasons

entering into higher, greater, or deeper consciousness

feeling connected with all others and everything

having spiritual experiences, insights, and realizations

understanding universal purposes and principles

reaching or realizing the Divine, or Spiritual Essence

experiencing a Oneness of Being

God realization, or Self realization

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3. Meditating for the world

using meditation to positively transform the world

using meditation to help others or send blessings

This can also include personal and spiritual aims for meditation

Being & Doing meditations

There are two basic types of meditation:

being meditations and doing meditations

In a doing meditation the mind is actively doing something, such as thinking about an idea, visualising a positive outcome, or working on transformation. One is meditating for a certain purpose, which requires intentional thinking, visualisation, or some other mental activity.

In a being meditation one is just being and the mind is not intending to do anything. There is no intention nor goal, except just being who one truly is. Just being is aim of this meditation, rather than doing something. The activity of mind is to just be, and the content of mind is just being. There is nothing to do but just be. Conscious being is good enough.

There is a special value in a being meditation. It brings one to the very essence of oneself, to the essential beingness of oneself. Then, from this will come self-discovery, as one's true self will naturally emerge from simply being; without any distraction of doing. So, being meditation is a way to self-discovery, or inner soul discovery, or the discovery of Divine Being.

Being meditation develops our ability to just be, in mind and emotion; rather than habitually having to do something, which is the habit of our thinking and goal-achieving oriented mind. There is great value in just being, without mentally doing. We learn to just relax and simply be, with an unhurried time for self-discovery, or for our inner being to reveal itself. We realize previously hidden qualities of our self, the deeper essences of our self. We also learn it is alright to just be – to just be in the experience of just being, or to just be in the truth of who we are.

In being meditation, we can reach a transparent clearness in mind and heart, in which there are no obstructions caused by obsessive thinking or rambling thoughts. The aim is to be free of the habits of our thinking mind and to be free of thoughts, so that our pure true being is conscious and experienced. Our mind becomes clear and our emotions settle into peacefulness. Thus, in this pure clarity of meditation, in this clear space of mind, our divine essence naturally shines through.

Yet, clearness of mind is not always so easy to achieve, and neither is peace in just being; because our usual habit of mind is to be actively doing something or thinking about something – thinking about or worrying about what happened today or yesterday, or making plans for tomorrow. In general, thinking can be helpful and even necessary in life. But if thinking is a habit that just goes on all of the time and without any focused control, then it becomes an obstacle in the way of experiencing just being.

However, there is also value in an intentional, purposeful doing meditation, in which we intentionally use our powers of thinking and creative imagination, for purposes of personal and even world transformation. In this type of mediation, the aim is to use thought, intuition, and creative visualisation to improve our self, our life, and our world. Also, we can apply the methods of intentional radiance and spiritual channeling for the world.

Thus, there is value in both types of meditation; and neither is superior over the other. Some types of people are drawn to a being meditation, rather than doing meditation, or vice versa, because of personal or cultural tendencies. But both types of meditation are valuable, and both help develop our abilities.

Radiance meditation is mainly a form of doing meditation. Yet, being meditation can also be integrated into this, because spiritual qualities will naturally emanate into the world through our own conscious beingness. As well, we can use a being type of meditation to reach mental clarity and emotional calm, and also to enter into the Light of Being or Spiritual Essence, from which we can then radiate spiritual qualities into the world. In other words, the Source of light, love and spiritual qualities can be found in the peaceful clear essence of just being. Then, from our own spiritual beingness, we can radiate these qualities.

Both being and doing meditations require mental quietude and a clear mind, and thus require a clearing of mind. In order to experience a clarity of pure conscious being, our mind and emotions need to be clear, so that our true beingness can shine through. Therefore, to reach pure conscious being depends on mental clearing and quietude. Likewise, a clear and quiet mind is also essential in a doing meditation, because our mind has to be clear and undistracted, in order to intentionally use thought, visualisation, invocation, or other powers of mind for purposes of self and world transformation.

Purpose & Principles

Our interconnected shared Existence

Our minds and emotions have very real effects on life. This is a key realization. It is obvious that our actions affect others, as well as what we say. But also our mind and emotions affect others all over the world. This is an important idea to realize.

We are all interconnected in mind and in heart. Our interconnectiveness can first be understood ecologically. But also we are all sharing in the same mind, just as we are all sharing the same air that moves all around the planet. We are also connected in heart and are sharing similar feelings, just as we all share the waters of our Earth, as the waters move across the planet. So our very existence is a shared existence with others and with the planet. Every life exists in a shared interconnected web of ecological relationships. Yet this is also true with our mind and emotions, because we also share our thoughts and feelings in a larger web of energy.

All of our individual minds are interconnected in one mind- space of humanity, the mental energy-field of our planet. Thus, whatever goes on with any of us, mentally and emotionally, has an interconnected effect upon the whole accumulated mental and emotional field of humanity, which then also has its affective influence on all individual minds. This shared mind-space of humanity, which we will call the world mind, is the reservoir of thoughts, ideas, and emotions, and it is the shared mental space in which we all think. It is the totality of individual minds and emotions blending all together and affecting one another.

Transforming mental & emotional energies

In our meditation, we can meditate in the mental-emotional space of all humanity, in order to bring spiritual consciousness, intelligence, and also love into our shared world. With spiritual Light and Consciousness, we can transform false thoughtforms and negative thinking in the mental energy field of humanity. We can also share higher energies, qualities, values, ideas with all of humanity. We're not forcing this on anyone; we're just bringing light on these ideas and sharing them into the world.

In meditation we can also work in the emotional energy field of humanity, in which we all live. We are all connected in this emotional field, which is the shared emotional atmosphere of the world. Emotions range from raging storms to serene peacefulness, and from hate to love; and all of these emotions have subtle effects on everyone, even if not always noticed. So we need to help clean up and improve our shared emotional atmosphere, just as much as the physical atmosphere.

Of course we each can be free from negative emotions of the world, if we can consciously maintain positive emotions. So no one has to be stuck in any negative emotion, if one can develop the power of self-integrity and self-consciousness, which can be nurtured in meditation. So even though negative emotions are in our shared world, we each have the potential self-power to be free of any negative emotions and to self-determine what kinds of emotions we will nurture and express in our self.

One way to transform emotional energies of humanity is by visualising the clearing power of Spiritual Light streaming into humanity. We can also visualise love, caring, and goodwill streaming into the world. We can also help by the positive transformations we make in our own self and by emanating spiritual emotions into the world during our meditation.

Conscious meditation in the world mind

The aim of world-service meditation is not about personal improvement or enlightenment, though these personal aims are also important and could well be outcomes of radiance meditation. The fundamental aim of this kind of meditation is world transformation and evolution. The primary focus of this is not on oneself, but rather on mediating between Higher Qualities (from God or from Spiritual Hierarchy) and humanity. Our goal is to participate in the spiritual evolution of humanity, which we can do through the activity of meditation.

In meditation, one becomes a conscious bridge between the Divine (or Spirit) and the shared mind of humanity. To do this, one needs to go beyond personal consciousness and enter into a transpersonal consciousness, while also being in rapport with the greater Divine Consciousness. One needs to break free of limited personal consciousness, in order to expand into Divine and transpersonal consciousness.

It's important to understand the need to be in tune with the greater Divine while also being consciously interconnected in the shared mind of humanity, because this is how to help bring spiritual light, love, goodwill, and other positive qualities into the consciousness of all humanity. One is then participating in the spiritual-mental transformation of the world. So, we need to consciously enter into the shared and interconnected mind of humanity, in order to participate in the spiritual work of world evolution, or the evolution of consciousness.

All individual minds are in one interconnected and shared world mind. This is true for everyone, even though people are not usually conscious of this, and unconscious of being affected and involved with the shared thoughts, ideas, and feelings of all humanity. So not only are we all interconnected in and sharing the same air and water of the planet, but we are also sharing our thoughts and feelings, our minds and our hearts; though for most people this is all happening unconsciously. Thus, our meditation work is to enter into the world mind consciously, to help bring positive transformation in the world.

The 'world mind' is the mind of humanity, which includes the hearts and wills of humanity, as well as everyone's thoughts and emotions. Though of course, not everyone believes or feels the same way. The meaning of world mind is the space in which these many ideas and emotions exist. It's the shared mental and emotional space of humanity.

In our physical shared world, we each have to be responsible for what we give to it or take from it, and whether this is helpful or harmful; and this is also true for our shared mental-emotional world, because our mental and emotional energies are interacting in the shared mental and emotional space. Once we realize all this, we see more of our own responsibility, as well as our opportunity to help evolve the world mind of humanity. So, this is a time in humanity's evolution when individuals need to realize that we all live in a shared world, yet this also applies to consciousness and mind, whereby our individual mind is interrelated with others in a world mind.

Our individual consciousness also needs to be open receptively to the greater Spiritual Mind. Spiritual Mind is meant to permeate into the world mind, producing the spiritual evolution of humanity. Our purpose in world service meditation is to be a conscious responsible participant in this. To do this we will need to be conscious in the world mind, but at the same time conscious in the Spiritual Mind (which includes spiritual love, intelligence, and will). Then from Spiritual Mind, we can share forth inspirational Ideas, Values, Visions, and helpful solutions to world problems.

We then become a conscious bridge between the Spiritual levels of Mind and the world mind, and we will help bring Spiritual Energies, Qualities and Ideas into humanity. Therefore, in meditation we become consciously connected in the Spiritual Mind, in the Spiritual Energies, and understanding of Spiritual Qualities, Principles and Ideas. Only then are we able to bring the Higher-Spiritual into the minds and hearts of humanity.

By connecting and entering into the Spiritual Mind, we are connecting with the Source of spiritual energies, qualities, and inspirational ideas. This could also be understood as God, Who Provides spiritual nourishment and inspiration, which we then distribute out to everyone. By analogy, we first go to the Source of spiritual food, or to our Provider; and then we help give out and share this needed food for everyone in our shared world.

Also, in this understanding of being in a shared world mind, our responsibility is to shift from personal consciousness to world consciousness, with an attitude of world service. In order to be helpful in the world consciousness, we need to have the right attitude and intention, which is goodwill (will-to-good) and world-service. We need to be in an attitude of goodwill towards all humanity, and with an attitude of caring, compassion, and wanting to participate in a higher purpose of world evolution. These attitudes are the right foundation for entering into world consciousness, into shared mind, and into the work of radiance meditation.

Goodwill is our will-to-good. It is a will that is focused and intent on doing good and serving the Good. This is the attitude of will that we need to bring into our service-meditation work, and it's also the attitude needed in the world. So if we bring into world consciousness our attitude of goodwill, the will-towards-Good, this will create positive resonances in the world.

The Divine is accessible

Certain spiritual beliefs are at the basis of all methods of Radiance Meditation. One fundamental belief, or premise, is that there is a Divine Reality. This is called by many names, such as God, Allah, Brahman, or Spirit. The Divine is not separate from us, nor is it distant from us. Rather, the Divine is always present. This is the Divine Presence. The Divine is ever-Present and at all times available. The Divine is radiant and pervading the whole world.

This Divine Reality is involved with our world and with our life. It is the essence of our world and of our lives. But it is not always realized or manifested. The Divine lives in the core essence of every life and everything. But unless actually realized or experienced, one is cut off from the Divine – by one's lack of realization. Thus for many people: spiritual love, spiritual intelligence, and the realization of spiritual purposes is but a potential –yet to be realized. So one of the spiritual purposes of life is to realize and manifest the Divine, the Spirit, God, or whatever name we use.

The Divine has a number of aspects, facets, or attributes. The three most fundamental aspects are Intelligence, Love, and Power. Thus we believe in a greater Intelligence, a greater Love, and a greater Power. And we also believe that one of our human purposes is to access and participate in this Intelligence, Love, and Power. Thus, we have a responsibility in the realization and manifestation of the Divine.

Divine Intelligence gives us a more holistic understanding of life and also higher vision, so that we are able to make right decisions and actions for the benefit of all life. Divine Love unites us all, while bringing greater compassion and caring into the world. Divine Power gives us the will and strength to work on what needs to be done for the benefit of divine purposes. Divine Power also provides the inspiration for world transformation. It also transforms 'ordinary will' into spiritual will, to make positive transformations in the world. There are many other Divine Qualities, as well, to realize and manifest.

Yet, in order for any of these Divine Qualities to be manifested in us and in the world, we need to first become conscious and receptive to the Divine. For if not, then we are disconnected from the Divine and from the Divine Qualities; and it is this disconnect that creates the many problems of humanity. The reason there are problems in people and in the world is not because 'God wills' it to be. Injustice, hatred, violence, conflict, selfishness, and hurtful actions are not part of a 'divine plan'. Rather, these problems are caused by people's disconnect from Divine understanding and love, and by a lack of spiritual consciousness and heartfulness.

Simply put, there is a lack of real love in the world, along with too much selfish thinking. Divine Love is a reality, but it's a reality that is still not completely realized and manifested. Love can spiritually transform the world, but first Love has to be realized. Likewise, Divine Intelligence and Divine Will is also lacking in the world, because of not yet being realized and expressed. So our first responsibility is to realize the Divine in our own self, or receive the Divine in us. Secondly, our responsibility is to express and share the Divine, or help transmit the Divine into the world. This is the work in Radiance Meditation.

One of the beliefs in radiance meditations, or world-service meditations, is that Spiritual Consciousness, Knowingness and Intuition are available to us. Spiritual Intuition is the intuitive knowing of Universal-Divine principles, qualities and purposes. But in order to connect with Spiritual Intuition, our heart and mind need to be at one, working together.

Spiritual Intuition is the same as Spiritual Consciousness. We each have an inherent capacity to enter into Spiritual Consciousness, which is greater and more expansive than ordinary consciousness. In Spiritual Consciousness (or Spiritual Mind), we have access into Spiritual Intuition and Intelligence, where we can realize Divine Truths and Purposes of life.

It is also our belief that, through meditation, we can become mediators between the Divine and the world; to share or communicate the Divine Quality or Vision that we presently realize or have received. We are able to do this because in consciousness we are all connected without any real distance between us. We are all thinking in the same mental space. For in essence, consciousness is shared, and in consciousness everyone is here.

The whole world is connected in consciousness, as well as the whole Spiritual Hierarchy of Greater Intelligences and Beings. So in meditation we are all interconnected and can inter-communicate. This communication requires both listening and sharing. So we need to develop in meditation the ability of deep listening, or intuitive listening, and also develop our ability to share our higher thoughts, realizations, and feelings.

Connecting with the Divine

One of the general beliefs in this kind of meditation is that we each can, in fact, connect with the