Levels of Personal Meditation

[Ankh]

Do any of you have any thoughts on the stage at which the "trickling into the roots of mind" that Ra talks about with respect to the value of meditation occurs?

Can you quote that session where Ra brings it up?

Yes and gladly, this is 10.14, the description of the famous four exercises Ra suggests, and then the following:

The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.

So the question I'm asking is: does anybody have any thoughts on how this "sinking down into the roots of the tree of mind" maps to the levels of meditation being discussed?

I don't know what Austin thinks, but personally I would imagine that it would be level 4 on his levels of meditation; when silence is obtained, instead of meshing with the Creator, that level which he named as transcendence/explanding, one would instead focus on those exercises Ra gave in 10.14. But I don't know, maybe silence is not necessary, and one can jump right into contemplating those exercises. Ra mentioned only briefly about it:

49.8 - Contemplation or the consideration in a meditative state of an inspiring image or text is extremely useful also among your peoples...

But I am wondering whether holding these thoughts in mind as visualization, would be what Ra called "raising the planetary vibration":

"The type of meditation which may be called visualization has as its goal not that which is contained in the meditation itself. Visualization is the tool of the adept. Those who learn to hold visual images in mind are developing an inner concentrative power that can transcend boredom and discomfort. When this ability has become crystallized in an adept the adept may then do polarizing in consciousness without external action which can affect the planetary consciousness. This is the reason for existence of the so-called White Magician. Only those wishing to pursue the conscious raising of planetary vibration will find visualization to be a particularly satisfying type of meditation."

Anyways, have you tried to contemplate or meditate on these exercises, Jeremy?