Silva Mind Control at Mindvalley.com

Vishen Lakhiani (mindvalley.com/ultramind/sales); Crystal Q. (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

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The Silva Ultramind System is a 28-day online program hosted by entrepreneur, Mindvalley founder, and Silva instructor Vishen Lakhiani.

In just 15-20 easy minutes a day, be guided through The Silva Method’s signature tools and training for harnessing the mind’s altered states of consciousness.

As one progresses, one starts channeling inner powers in often surprising ways. For instance, intuition and creativity will flourish. Ingenious solutions and aha moments will rush into the mind. One will feel greater outpourings of confidence and self-love.

By the end of the program, one will have total mastery of the mind’s full scope of abilities -- and in turn, a clear path towards one's fullest human potential. mindvalley.com/ultramind/sales

How I became enlightened: my awakening 🙄

✨Demystifying Reality✨ (@demystifyingreality) TikTok | ✨'s Newest TikTok Videos

I may still be full of ego, as my profile pic shows

(Demystifying Reality, August 7, 2022) TORONTO, Canada - This is my spiritual awakening story. I like [YouTube salesman] Aaron Doughty. Well, it all started when I saw The Secret. I'm the only one who saw it. Well, I'm not, but I felt like I was. So I started to "manifest" stuff I wanted. And I got it. Not exactly the stuff I wanted, but close enough.

Demystifying Reality (@demystifyingreality) TikTok

Like, I wanted this one exact car. Then a long time later my parents gave me their old car. Close enough. It's a car. Then I liked this guy, and I dated another guy. It's a guy. Close enough. Then, like I wanted a bunch of hits on my social media and stuff, and here you are watching my video as I explain reality. I totally know how to manifest shit. Then, like, I also want... Earth is like a school, you know? We're here to learn stuff. Mmm, like, I'm learning. Now I'm embarrassed because I made this dumb video, and people are telling me I have more than 11 views now, so I'm going to take it down and watch more of Aaron's videos to see how he handles fame...*

[What does an airhead think about? What thoughts run through her mind as she babbles and tells of the most significant thing that's ever happened to her in life? Manifestation my butt. "Well, it wasn't exactly like that one, but it counts anyway!" OM🕉, do people like this really exist, is she kidding, is this all a joke, is she still talking?]

Video Chapters:

• Intro: 0:00
• Backstory: 0:36
• The surface part (my first manifestations): 1:33
• The deep part (realization of the soul): 14:20
• The dark part (what we don't know...): 18:50
• The light part (earth school): 23:46
• Outro: 24:44

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*Celebrity voice impersonated/mocked from what we remember her saying because Demystifying Reality mystified us by suddenly yanking all her YouTube content just when readers became interested in watching her trainwreck of an assertion that she's awakened. Wow. Some people. She'll be back. Catch her on TikTok. She'll be all right by the maxim, "A fool who persists in her folly will be saved by her folly" as she's now starting to realize. We're not being mean for mean's sake.

Bates: How to not need glasses (video)

Bates Method; Nathan Oxenfeld (integraleyesight.com); Ananda, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Certified Bates Method Teacher Nathan Oxenfeld guides us through a simple daily vision improvement routine. All of the practices shown in this video are meant to be performed without wearing any glasses or contacts.

Give Up Your Glasses for Good (Oxenfeld)

Most of the practices mentioned have their own instructional videos: Search for "Bates Method 101" on YouTube, or visit integraleyesight.com/batesmethod101.

Click here to get a copy of Nathan Oxenfeld's book Give Up Your Glasses for Good: Holistic Eye Care for the 21st Century, which contains step-by-step instructions for all the practices in this video and more.

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How to Astral Project in one day (video)

Aaron Abke (@aaronabke); Manuel Loigeret; P.at Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

How I learned to ASTRAL PROJECT in ONE day

I (Aaron Abke) do not monetize my channel or receive any funds from YouTube for the content I create. If you have found this content beneficial and would like to support it financially, you can visit Patreon (patreon.com/aaronabke) to pledge whatever small monthly amount you wish. Any pledge is much appreciated.

• Ananda Meditation App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ananda... 

Ananda helps users meditate, focus, and relax with progressive binaural tones and high quality peaceful sounds. Enhance your brainwaves. Choose from one of Ananda Premium’s numerous binaural programs to focus, relax, meditate, or get the most out of a nap. Each program comes with binaural beats designed to help you reach a specific mood or state of mind.

Discover a new ambiance every time. Each session provides a subtly fresh, new ambiance. A unique combination of nature sounds, chants, mantras, and peaceful bells is generated on top of binaural tones every time you start Ananda. 

Recharge and feel good. Take a break at home, at the office, or in the subway. Even a few minutes of Ananda will get you refreshed and ready to deliver your best while staying calm and zen. More

• #AstralProjection #AstralTravel #OutOfBodyExperience

Dhammakaya: Meditation Made Easy (video)

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Meditation allows the mind to move less so that it finally stops wandering. With concentration it intensifies and becomes able to see reality as it truly is. This insight is liberating -- as the Truth sets one free.

Meditation is not mere relaxation. A well-centered mind is the gateway to happiness, wisdom, and eventually complete freedom.

Meditation is the gateway to other realms and to the timeless nirvana (nibbana). What is nirvana? It is the condition beyond the cycle of samsara, which is the round of rebirth and suffering.

(meditationthai.org)

Meditation bridges samsara and nirvana so that one experiences them together -- free from suffering within the round. One does not wait to be "reborn" in nirvana the way one must await rebirth in any of the many heavens. Nirvana is to be experienced here and now.

All buddhas of the past as well as followers of the Dharma who mastered the highest levels of meditation are able to enter the condition of nirvana which, while it is achieved in samsara, leaves it behind.

The center of the movement is a massive world stupa on the outskirts of Bangkok with obvious space (heavenly deva) influences (dmc.tv).

• DHAMMAKAYA is a lay meditation movement that originated with Thai Buddhists and became a worldwide organization providing meditation instruction, bringing together traditions and Sanghas (monastic orders) in harmony for the benefit of keeping the Buddha's message regarding enlightenment alive and making it relevant in daily life.

THE TECHNIQUE

Wisdom Quarterly

The simplified Dhammakaya ("dharma body") meditation technique is straightforward. One visualizes a small, clear crystal globe vibrating the soothing mantra Samma Arahan ("right enlightenment," /saa-MA ah-rah-HAN/). The crystal is first visualized floating outside the nostril (right side for males, left side for females due to subtle nervous system differences). It then enters the body, still vibrating, until it stops at its second station up the nostril. It then moves to the center of the brain. The mantra is recited in sync with slow, natural breathing, inhaling the first word and exhaling the second, stopping at each of seven points in the body (as shown on chart). They are considered dantian, but their exact location is unique to this system. Attention and the visualized object finally comes to rest at the center of the body just above the bellybutton. It is useful to wear all white and often helpful to sit in guided visualization until one becomes accustomed to entering a meditative state.

(Meditation Thai)

• Service to humanity is honoring the Buddha

Tibetan monks: Meditation and Science

History Channel — This clip is from a documentary about a Tibetan Buddhist monk who thought to have somehow mummified himself through meditation. It is all speculation, of course, since tumo is barely capable of drying sheets. But the body has been miraculously preserved without any external help. Scientists set out to discover what happened. The documentary shows Buddhist monks preforming meditation under clinical test conditions and discusses the results.

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Help with Meditation/Concentration

(zshare.net) There's nothing like starting off the day with meditation. Whether it's five hours or simply five minutes. The important thing is to start. After 21 days it will be a habit. There are many positive benefits to amaze one. The entire day becomes different. And there are many ways to meditate. Find the way that suits you best. Working on oneself is always an "inside job." One simply needs to kick it off. If you succeed in meditating by enjoying this track, excellent. May you have peace and joy, friendship and fun: Live your truth, the truth, making it your ultimate statement.

Afternoon Concentration

Enlightenment is not an "achievement." It is a realization of what already is. Our lives are a journey from knowing, to not knowing, to knowing once again. In meditation it becomes possible to move the other way around from subconscious, to self-conscious, to superconscious. This may be called rapid evolution, self-realization through self-transcendence, going from the limited to the unbounded. It is available now. Practice peace.

What's Your Favorite Meditation?

Text: Holly Lebowitz Rossi (BeliefNet.com, 8/4/09)

I've been a less-than-successful meditator lately, finding myself caught in a session-ending swirl of thoughts every time I've gone to sit quietly for even a few minutes. So I think it's time to kick up my game and find an appropriate meditation CD, download, or even DVD.

Here's the thing: I have a lousy history with such products. The last one I had was a heart meditation that left me gasping for breath. My heart felt like it was going to fly out of my chest. Before that, I tried a chakra-cleansing meditation that got faster and more manic as it moved up the chakra ladder. I was laughing out loud by the end, which was entertaining but not exactly theta-wave inducing.

Other than enjoying my teacher's short, beautiful guided meditations in yoga class, I've always kept my own meditation counsel, until now. It's guidance time. My first stop might be one of the:

• The health and wellness downloads Beliefnet offers through our partnership with iAmplify
• The breathing exercises from Dr. Andrew Weil are intriguing
• Jack Kornfeld's "Meditation for Beginners"
• Louise Hay's "Meditations for Personal Healing" from the Meditation downloads list.

I suspect the best course will be to try a few and see which one is the best fit for me. More>>

• Do Americans still pray meditative prayers? (Examiner.com)

"Om mani padme hum" (mantra video)

Meditation Guide: 7 Steps

7 steps to establishing a great meditation practice
(Examiner.com, July 23, 2009)

Meditation is like a vast unexplored continent. The farther one travels, the more splendor and beauty one will see. To begin the great adven-ture, one must prepare for the journey and bring appropriate equip-ment, clothing, and fuel. A well equipped expedition will ensure minimal setbacks and may determine the entire success of the journey.

Here is an inventory list of some "equipment" needed on a meditation journey in order to establish and maintain a successful practice.

1. Set the intention: Be clear and realistic with expectations [or drop them altogether]. Ask, What am I willing to sacrifice in order to set aside the time necessary to meditate?
2. Create the atmosphere: Dedicate a little corner, mat, or chair for meditation, using it only for this purpose. Put on some music, make some tea, develop a meditation ritual. This is not sitting on a cushion with lit candles and incense; it simply means establishing a special place only for meditation.
3. Set aside a time: This may sound obvious, but have a specific time of day when it is possible to be alone in relative quiet. Guard it from disturbances, and protect the inner peace gained.
4. Unplug: Turn off the phone, the computer, the TV. Free of these enslaving distractions, it is possible to get to know some outer peace and quiet to dedicate to meditation.
5. Stay consistent: Diligence is the main thing. Inconsistency is a major stumbling block for any practice. Developing a good habit is crucial. But how? It takes three weeks of doing the same thing over and over again for body and mind to adjust. Then it becomes easy and natural.
6. Keep a diary or journal: After every meditation session, take a few minutes to jot down the experiences, bodily sensations, mental imagery, or thoughts. As one looks back to check on progress, one suddenly realizes -- it's right there in your own handwriting -- something is happening. Progress is being made. It's also a great way to share experiences with others if that comes up. Keep a record of the day, time, and duration of the meditation.
7. Experiment: Start now. Just sit. There are many different types of meditation. [The Path of Purification suggests which personality types will benefit most from which types of meditation, but experimenting proves useful. There are free teachers like Goenka and books at the library and bookstore. And nuns and monks in American temples and on video and on the Web. Come to these resources as someone who already sits.] One never knows which one will work best until one tries. Among the many types, the most common are: guided visualization, mindfulness, calming music, sitting silently in nature, Tibetan singing bowls, walking, slow repetitive movements [Tai chi, yoga, Chi gong, dance, fencing, martial arts], mantra repetition, and watching the breath.

More information on the magic of breathing exercises:

• Beginners: Calm the Mind and Increase Well Being
• Three Easy Breathing Exercises for Beginners

Or visit Vlad Moskovski's BLOG to find many articles on meditation techniques, the Law of Attraction, personal development, inner peace, yoga, changing moods and emotions, intuition, and much more.

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Datta: The "Ahh" Meditation

This guided meditation uses a simple mantra to enhance the areas of health, wealth, friendship, love, spiritual experience, and more.

• tinyurl.com/mantrapower
• SivaBaba.org

Dattatreya Siva Baba gave the "Ahh" meditation to Wayne Dyer over ten years ago. This is the revised and advanced version. Baba talks about the transformation of procreative energy to become energy to create anything you want.

Benefits of Meditation (Law of Attraction)

Use the Law of Attraction through meditation to create the life you dream of. While most Law of Attraction has been subverted to simply advance greed while thinking one is being spiritual, there is an undefiled source for this information. It was originally in the movie but edited out of the final edition that spread around the world. The principles are vital and important.

The universe is not an ATM. The sales job that continues in countless books and offers is deceptive. It has enriched salespeople without fulfilling the promise of a self-directed life for buyers. Motivational speaking falls short. Wishing and hoping and believing disappoint.

"Abraham" (as channelled by Esther Hicks) explains why the essence of the message was removed from the movie, revealing the "secret."

• Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction

Meditation: Loving Kindness

More on insight and loving kindness (CD)

Metta Meditation
GOENKA: Vipassana Research Institute

Aham avero homi, abyāpajjho homi. Anīgho homi, sukhī attānam pariharāmi.

"May I be free from animosity, free from suffering, free from trouble. May happiness be with me always."

Mātā-pitu-ācariya-ñāti-samūhā, Averā hontu, abyāpajjhā hontu. Anīghā hontu, sukhī attānam pariharantu.

"May my mother, father, teachers, and relatives be free from animosity, free from aversion, free from trouble. May happiness be with them always."

Ārakkhadevatā bhūmatthadevatā rukkhatthadevatā, Ākāsatthadevatā, averā hontu, abyāpajjhā hontu. Anīghā hontu, sukhī attānam pariharantu.

"May all guardian deities, earth-bound deities, tree-bound deities, sky-bound deities be free from animosity, free from aversion, free from trouble. May happiness be with them always."

Puratthimāya disāya, puratthimāya anudisāya. Dakkhināya disāya, dakkhināya anudisāya. Pacchimāya disāya, pacchimāya anudisāya. Uttarāya disāya, uttarāya anudisāya. Uparimāya disāya, hetthimāya disāya.

"In the direction of the east, in the direction of the south-east, in the direction of the south, in the direction of the south-west, in the direction of the west, in the direction of the north-west, in the direction of the north, in the direction of the north-east, in the direction above, in the direction below."

Sabbe sattā, sabbe pānā, sabbe bhūtā, sabbe puggalā, sabbe attabhāvapariyāpannā, sabbā itthiyo, sabbe purisā, sabbe ariyā, sabbe anariyā, sabbe manussā, sabbe amanussā, sabbe devā, sabbe vinipātikā– averā hontu, avyāpajjhā hontu, anīghā hontu, sukhī attānam pariharantu.

"May all beings, all living creatures, all creatures, all individuals, all forms of life, all women, all men, all those who have attained purity of mind, all those who have not yet attained purity of mind, all devas, all humans, all non-humans, all celestial beings, and all those in states of woe be free from animosity, free from aversion, free from trouble. May happiness be with them always."

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• California Vipassana Center, P.O. Box 1167, North Fork, CA 93643, Ph: (559) 877-4386, Fax: 559-877-4387 info@mahavana.dhamma.org
• Southern California Vipassana Center, P.O. Box 486, Joshua Tree, CA 92252 Ph: (760) 362-4615 info@vaddhana.dhamma.org