I have been missing meditation for blogging. Feels like Sophie's choice. What is the the ultimate purpose of meditating anyway? For me, not that it always works, mind you, it's to get myself producing theta brainwaves . (Click on this link. Love the pictures and they got buried). Brainscans of Tibetan monks meditating in caves for several years at a time, show that they produce theta waves. With lots of help, sometimes I think I can get to theta. The question is, what are my choices when I get there?
Here are the guidlines I am currently using. No science involved, all speculation.
1. Practice getting yourself to a state where you are producting theta brainwaves. In the past, this has taken a lifetime of meditation. Now you have options. Use all the technology that you can get. See a shaman who is interested in the light. Do biofeedback. Color mandalas. Recite the Hebrew Alphabet. Tone. Do whatever works for you.
2. When you are able to access this state, you have the opportunity to connect to universal life force energy and wisdom. See Elmer Green. You can simply hang around in the bliss and contribute to the good energy here on earth, like the birds and the dogs and all the sweet creatures that have no frontal cortex. That's always very relaxing,
3. You can go a step farther, since having a frontal cortex gives you the ability to be conscious. This is what makes humans unique as a species and as individuals. Consciousness helps you to form and funnel universal wisdom into existence in time/space, to create - adding to what is.
4. Try not to get too big for your britches when you land a thought. You may not have originated it. Heed Elmer Green's warning. Don't get caught up in "glamor and illusion"
Esther Hicks, channeling Abraham, says that entering into the state where you have access to universal wisdom is a bit like visiting the Library of Congress. It helps to know what book you are looking for. You don't just say to the librarian, I'd like a book. She will undoubtedly ask you to be more specific.
The trick is to strike a balance between tapping into universal wisdom and sanity. John Nash's experience in "A Beautiful Mind" is a great example. He says that he didn't know that he was delusional, since his delusions seemed to come from the same state of mind that supplied his brilliant and original mathematical constructs . Be sure to tell me when I start sounding psychotic.
Given that schema, my instructions to myself are to meditate until I am connected, get the thought stream flowing, and then do something constructive/creative with the material that is available.
Writing in my blog, therefore, takes precedence over meditation. It's one step further along in the process. It's what I can do with my unique little mechanism
at my particular state of development.