Meditative visions - and other visualisations.

[Matt1]

Having experienced numerous images in mediation it isn't anything of great interest to me. I think people should stop buying into the idea that mediation is this rainbow unicorn experience you do a couple of times a week without really integrating the awareness into your daily life.

Just like most dreams are based on our previous karma, hopes and fears they can provide us with some useful knowledge from the unconsciousness through to the subconsciousness into the conscious although we filler most of this information through our persona.

So it's in the same sense that most dreams aren't massive spiritual experiences the same can be said about airy visions in meditation.

Perhaps the best advice i have read about this subject can be summed up as this,

If you can describe your experience its not it.

I personally think it's great recieving images through meditation, unless you haven't experienced it, you don't really know how important it is to an individual.

I've received images during meditation, which answered/gave me feedback on certain blockages in my daily life. It's a sort of tool that you can use to communicate with your higher self that doesn't infringe upon your free will.

As far as dreams, your higher self can create a dream specifically intending to send you "clues" using symbols. So I think meditation if anything is underrated, people should perform meditation as often as they can. The world would be an easier place to understand.

I am referring to the point of getting caught up in audio/visionary experiences rather than developing the awareness/concentration to the point of samadhi.

Such experiences of the senses during meditation can indeed be a useful tool but my personal feelings and many great meditation teachers also point out is the stage of letting go of such experiences to further ripen your practice.

In the same sense that i don't consider every dream i have as a massive experience nor do i object to the ability to learn from them.