07-23-2015, 05:30 PM
I would try to get into the meditation practices of the far East (Buddhism). I find that Zen in particular gets to the root of reality. That stuff that you mentioned has a lot of illusory material that you have to sort through just to get a nugget of truth. I find that a lot of that stuff also has been influenced by negative entities either directly or indirectly (such as in Aleister Crowley's case).
As I've mentioned on other threads, I use a meditation technique called shikantaza. It's from the Soto school of Zen Buddhism. I've been practicing it on and off since about a year, but just in the last month or so, I've been at it pretty steadily. But I never realized at first that I was doing it wrong. The whole point is to let the thoughts flow freely in and out. Don't try to stop a thought or try to enhance a thought. Just let them flow freely, but try to practice not clinging to the thought. For example, if you start to feel oneness, don't try to accentuate the thought, just be completely detached from it. The strange thing is that when you have this attitude of non-attachment with your thoughts while meditating, it actually increases your sense of blissfulness during the period of meditation. Just remember that the non-attachment is a deep quality. If done right, it's not something that you can put your finger on while meditating. And it's not repressing your thoughts the way Ra advises us not to do. Let the thoughts flow, but with detachment. Don't get caught up in the experience because that actually makes it go away.
That other stuff is just filler (Golden Dawn, etc.). You want killer.
As I've mentioned on other threads, I use a meditation technique called shikantaza. It's from the Soto school of Zen Buddhism. I've been practicing it on and off since about a year, but just in the last month or so, I've been at it pretty steadily. But I never realized at first that I was doing it wrong. The whole point is to let the thoughts flow freely in and out. Don't try to stop a thought or try to enhance a thought. Just let them flow freely, but try to practice not clinging to the thought. For example, if you start to feel oneness, don't try to accentuate the thought, just be completely detached from it. The strange thing is that when you have this attitude of non-attachment with your thoughts while meditating, it actually increases your sense of blissfulness during the period of meditation. Just remember that the non-attachment is a deep quality. If done right, it's not something that you can put your finger on while meditating. And it's not repressing your thoughts the way Ra advises us not to do. Let the thoughts flow, but with detachment. Don't get caught up in the experience because that actually makes it go away.
That other stuff is just filler (Golden Dawn, etc.). You want killer.