Meditation has never been easy for beginners even for many of those with long experience. Here, I attempt to present a way that, with my over thirty years of experience, I consider to be the easiest and more effective way to succeed. There are a variety of methods proposed by experts, such as concentrating on one subject or on counting your breathing from one to four and repeating it. All these methods are aimed at clearing your mind from any other thoughts which may cause some degree of mental relaxation. As you choose and advance in any of these methods, you would be able to bring down or totally eliminate your mental depression, bodily pain, anxiety as well as fatigue from your daily work whether it is mental or physical.
It won't be easy to achieve these aims. It requires years of serious practice. It demands absolute concentration, unshakeable discipline, continuity and determination for success. These are necessary because unconsciously we have given our mind a total freedom of thought on whatever, whenever and wherever it may desire to extend. It won't be easy to harness its floating and restrict it only to one thought, one place or one situation.
The meditation methods mentioned above, if mastered, may achieve the goals mentioned above to different degrees. These goals all are related to our mental, physical and material world. The practice also discipline our mind and bring it under our control. The latter is the most resourceful attainment we may achieve. However, none of these practices extends the mind beyond our material environment and mental conditions associated with it.
The mind, which is the same as the soul or spirit, is a matterless entity with incredible capacity to expand beyond our body and our material planet into the materless world which also embodies the whole of the material Universe. The mind resides within our brain, as sitting in a pilot's cockpit controlling our physical and mental functions. To reach any distance beyond our planet, we must transcend our planet into the unlimited outer space including the whole universe. It is the only way we can reach galaxies, stars and other planets and have contacts with other civilizations. The idea of being able to travel physically to other planets outside of our solar system in the search for other civilizations is nothing more than just a wishful thinking. If we consider a spaceship with an incredible speed of 200,000 miles per hour, equal to ten times going around our planet in one hour, will take 2,200 years to travel a distance of just one light year which has a speed over 180,000 miles per second. The closest star to our planet is many light years away. For the same reason no one or being from any other planet is able to visit us by any kind of spaceship. The UFO stories do not make sense unless they are of our own creation. Therefore, meditation to transcend is the only way to reach the extremities of the Universe. This is possible because once the mind expands beyond the material world, the elements of time and space disappear. Within the sphere of the extension of the mind you can be any place in a matter of no time. This means you may travel thousands of light years at a glance so to speak.
This was the sole purpose of my attraction to meditation. The idea didn't come to me from nowhere. Based on the experiences of my childhood and further studies when I became older, I knew there were likely thousands of individuals in this planet capable of transcending to outer space and some landing in other planets with its own civilization They have been able to communicate with them and were still doing so. I later, by my own experience, learned that there are very many beings from other planets here on Earth interacting with our people and helping them to a better way of life as much as they can. Under the present limited scientific knowledge, this is almost impossible to understand. When you transcend to another planet you may live there and interact with its people, appearing under our standards of time, to amount for years, but when you return to your body, no time has past from the time of your departure. I know it is almost impossible to understand but I know it is true because I personally have experienced it.
Now that I have described my purpose for meditation, I can explain the process by which I started it, improved it and reached the best and easiest way that it can be done. From my childhood I was familiar with the extraordinary results of transcendental meditation since my father had oriental friends, particularly from India who visited him now and then and stayed with us for a day or two. These were people called fakir who through meditation had been able to gain the power of seeing the future of an individual by just looking at him or her. It was one of these fakirs who after looking at me pointedly, when I was in the process of serving tea for him, told my father that I will gain access to the world beyond ours and cause transformation in the civilization and way of life. I was only eleven year old and did not really understood the meaning of his statement at the time. I didn't know what my father thought of this but he later on told me to forget what the man had said, it didn't mean anything. I did forget all about it until about a year later a gypsy fortune teller came to our house, on my step mother's invitation, to tell her fortune. By my mothers insistence she also looked at mine. To my surprise and amazement, by opening and placing her fortune-telling cards one by one on the floor, she end up telling me nearly the same prediction made by the Indian fakir. My mother dismissed her claims which made the gypsy woman upset. Leaving the house, while passing by me, she murmured “ You should believe and remember what the cards have revealed.“ My step mother later on told me, laughingly, not to pay any attention, they just say these things to make some money. However, I never forgot the two predictions. It remained an important force in directing me to meditation. It fortified my determination to continue and go back to it each time after I had given up because of not having any success. Some fifty years later, when I first succeeded in my transcendence, I realized the truth about the two predictions.
Initially, I had chosen to go to the top of a hill in the farm I owned next to my house. It was surrounded by trees and plants. There was a rock on the top of the hill and I always sat on it in the evening concentrating on the horizon until the sun would go down and darkness would envelop the surroundings. I continued this practice, for twelve years, on and off, without success. In 1968, when I was in Colombia on a research project in helping the municipal governments to modernize their administrative and financial sectors, I was asked by the Colombian government if I would go to the Putumayo Amazons and try to establish a municipal government for some 20,000 frontier people and incorporate in it some 200 Indian tribes. I found it a unique opportunity to visit a rare region of the world untouched by modern civilization and technology. I accepted and was send to the locality by a helicopter since there were no roads for other kinds of transportation. The name of the community I created was Puerto Aziz on the bank of Putumayo River which now has over a quarter of a million population.
I spent over five weeks in the wilderness of the Amazons submerged in its dark nights , solitude, away from all amenities of the modern world. I was entertained and at times frightened each night by the sounds and cries of the creatures in the jungle surrounding me. The immense differences between the two worlds of modern-industrialized and old-primitive-traditional had attracted my attention. In the peaceful and dark nights of the jungle, I was continually reminded of the extensive poverty, despair, fraud, and corruption I had witnessed in the so-called civilized world, along with unrelenting human thirst for material gains. With the passage of every night in the solitude of the immense jungle, I had become deeper and deeper involved in these thoughts and started to think why there was so much injustice in the world where there is enough for everyone to live comfortably. The sounds of jungle had turned into some kind of message and cries for help and direction. I was driven closer and closer to the primitive jungle life.[1] I paid more and more attention to my surroundings trying to extract some meaning from them. It seemed that the nature through all its creatures and way of life was trying to convey a message to me. On occasions it appeared as a form of command penetrating my soul and creating a distinct feeling that I was not alone, someone or something was with me and within me.
As the nights with solitude passed, my inner feelings became more and more vivid. Besides all the creatures of the jungle and its total being, I developed an increasing sense of a companion with me and within me. It was an extraordinary feeling. This companion not only directed me in my thoughts but focused my attention directly on the primitive and natural world around me. The jungle nights became less and less frightful and the sounds from its creatures appeared normal and less disturbing. Gradually within a few weeks, I began to look forward to disappearance of the sun and gradual dominance of darkness and the nightfall. I grew anxious for the companionship of my „inner thoughts“ which not only became increasingly distinct from my own, but clearly responded to my thoughts and provided me either with answer or directed me where I would find one. „Could this be my Creator?“ I asked myself evey time. The answer always was „Who else could it be?“
When I left the Amazons I had developed a distinct feeling, through my inner guidance , against so-called civilized world and how by materialistic drive it had disturbed and often destroyed the natural order and balanced forms of life. It had polluted the air and water, devastated the environment, wasted and depleted natural resources, and above all derailed and degraded human character and quality, and its natural harmony with its fellow humans, the environment and the rest of the nature.
Capitalism, which is based on materialism and drive for profits, seemed to be the prime cause of this devastation. In the environment of Amazons, life was organized in its eternal existence. It provided materials for the needed consumption by the nature's creatures and it renewed and restored deficiencies created by the use. In the civilized society, on the other hand, not only the used natural resources were lost forever but a tremendous amount of waste materials — garbage, industrial, toxic, and atomic wastes – where left in their place. Furthermore, capitalism had allowed the wealth and resources to be accumulated in the hands of a few, leaving an immense sector of human race in poverty, despair and servitude. They were denied equal opportunity of access to the same resources to sustain a decent living standards.
When I returned to my academic life in 1969, my inner feelings were quite different. The civilized world did not look the way I had visualized before. The voices of Amazons nights were still in me and would haunt me nearly every night. Sometimes, I felt that I had brought with me the spirit of the jungle, its creatures, its orderly mission and its eternal balanced process of life. As a refuge, I became inclined to spend more and more time in the woods of my farm, ending at the top of the hill, sitting on the rock more like the old days but with quite different feelings. By no means did this replace the majesty and serenity of the Amazons, but during the sunset, I enjoyed siting on the top of the highest hill watching the nature gradually plunge into darkness. I listened to the sounds of the nature as I used to do in the Amazons jungle – the sounds that could not be heard by ordinary people.
Before the Amazon experience, I had been many times around this farm and walked in the woods and over the hills. I had never developed such feelings. Now suddenly everything had become different. The nature had acquired a new life and become a part of me, united with me. I felt among friends – trees, shrubs, animals and all others. I had a feeling that they all felt my presence and I was among friends.
Years passed and during this time, often at dusk, I would have certain strange feelings within me, like someone or something was directing me to go out in the farm, climb the hill and sit on the same rock and remain alone and concentrate on the horizon. Often, following my inner inspiration, I would remain in solitude for hours. All this time I would try to concentrate and penetrate what my eyes could see on the horizon.
This was the way I was introduced to meditation. It had become a pleasure and I continued for years with the aim of reaching the unknown. I had no idea what that unknown would be. But I knew there was something there, far beyond that colorful sunset horizon, to discover. At times in later years, I would feel as floating in the air, losing my hold on the ground. As the years passed, a feeling of anxiety and expectation developed within me which gradually reached a dominant level. The hours spent alone became increasingly exciting and a sense of inner fascination consumed me. As the days and weeks passed, I developed a feeling and much later a belief that something extraordinary was going to happen and I was going to be a part to it. Then one evening, to be exact on the fourth day of October, 1974, after some sixteen years of meditation with dedication and inner devotion, the moment arrived and my belief became reality and the door for the secrets of the Universe were opened before me.
First, I felt like I was becoming weightless, then I felt being lifted from the ground raised up in the air. It was a pleasant yet strange feeling. While in the air, I could see mysself still sitting on the hill. Suddenly, everything disappeared and I was plunged into the absolute darkness of space moving with infinite speed toward a destination I knew nothing about. In the extreme darkness of the space, I was not scared but astonished. From the absolute darkness, planets appeared, and in a matter of no time, became magnified to enormous size, bypassed me, diminished in size and disappeared in darkness. Soon the number of planets pasing by decreased and then no more appeared.
Now, I was alone, traveling through space in pure darkness. Not only I wasn't scared, but I had a feeling that somebody or something was with me, very close to me, making me feel secure. Soon, I arrived in an environment that was not dark but also didn't have any source of light. I came to a halt. I felt exalted with lightness and joy in me. I felt the Creator's presence, not only all around me but also within me. There was in the air a sense of enormous authority and an environment of full kindness and affection. Then in full clarity and authority it was suddenly revealed. „Welcome to the Center of the Universe and My close presence. Here is the eternity, the ultimate in life, its purpose and existence.“[2]
I clearly understood that the Creator is a totally secular being and has no relation to any religion practiced today. Even in highly technological and scientifically advanced societies of today, very few people truly understand the true nature and essence of the Creator. It is the pure living energy, highly conscious, creative and intelligent, timeless and boundless. It is labeled erroneously by the scientific community as „Dark Energy“ but Its true nature has not been „so-called scientifically“ discovered yet.
When my mind was extended beyond my material body and the physical environment, it became boundless, expanding to infinity. I was also freed from the element of time which is connected to matter. I fell into an environment where there was no time only eternity. I could be everywhere or anywhere in a matter of no time and always with my Creator who had the same materless characteristics and essence. Right after revelation, suddenly I felt myself in my physical body, sitting on the top of the hill on my farmland. The sky looked the same as when I had left it behind. The sun had gone down, leaving a trace of light still glowing in the horizon. Its reflection on the far away clouds produced striking colors which were getting darker and darker as the night was falling upon my surroundings.
I was astonished. The cloud formations and the horizon appeared nearly the same as I had left behind. It seemed that no time had elapsed, yet, it was like I had been traveling and visiting places in the boundless space for years. I found myself full of new knowledge. I was not the same person sitting on this hill just a few seconds ago. First, I felt the Creator's presence in my mind in a way I had never felt before. Second, I had acquired an immense knowledge of the Universe, its unity and organized life from its highest being, the Creator, to its smallest particles, and how the creation, evolution and life of every part were in harmony, connected and depended on the rest. I had no other explanation but to conclude that when my mind expanded outward into the outer space, it assumed its boundless and materless, and thus, timeless nature. It was under these circumstances that I could rationalized traveling millions of light year distances and being downloaded with such an immense knowledge not discovered by our sientific community yet, and may not be discovered for many decades to come .
A year later, l sold the farm and moved into a new house and after a year of experimentation with different forms of meditation I selected my present form which I found logically and otherwise more appropriate and preferable to all other forms used at the time. If you decide to meditate or have been already practicing it, this is the form I would recommend to try. I lie preferably on a carpeted floor than a mattress, head toward North and feet pointing to the South with my arms resting on my sides. In this position, my body lies in the direction of the Earth's magnetic lines in a way that minimizes their effect in the body. This position also allows the body to use much less energy than any other position, making concentration easier. After taking your position close your eyes and clear your mind of all thoughts. Simply make it blank. This won't be easy in the beginning; all kinds of thoughts would invade your mind. You should close all the doors and not let any enter it. First try to keep your mind blank for a few seconds and then add more seconds. One of the best way to practice this is when you go to bed every night. lying down on your back and your arms on your sides, try to empty your mind of all your thoughts. This practice would have also some collateral benefits; it will reduce your anxiety, depression, fatigue and mental pressures; it will provide you with a sound sleep. Often time you will fall sleep while trying to make your mind blank. Soon you will learn how to maintain your mind blank for an extended time. I started to practice this type of meditation in 1979. It was effective for relaxation and reducing pain and stress but my purpose was to transcend into outer space as I had done it once before. With this aim I faced failure after failure but without giving up, because I knew it can be done. It took over five years until, in 1984, which I finally succeeded. This is just to show the extent of determination and discipline you need to have in order to succeed. Once you succeed the next one will be easier but still may take a substantial time and the same determination and discipline.
I would like to present one of my successes under this form of meditation details of which with the whole story can be found in my two books on this subject. My purpose was to meet a girl by the name of Ziba who was temporarily gifted to me by her parents who were also my host and hostess on planet Zoras which I had visited a year before. She had lived with me for about eleven months and was taken back by her parents to her planet because of mounting possibilities of her being discovered here by authorities and becoming subject to unaffordable hardships. She had promised to look for me every Tuesday in outer space and helping me to transcend.
On the night of meditation I had several problems utterly disturbing my mind making it extremely difficult to concentrate. I prepared myself for meditation, turned off the lights and lying down on the place I had prepared for this purpose in the middle of the living room. The time was 3:10 a.m. I tried to send my mind out into the boundless space in absolute darkness searching for Ziba. It was a night of big mental struggle. Despite my undisputed devotion and love for her, it seemed so difficult to move totally away from the painful events of the day. I would kick them out of my mind but they would turn around, reclaim and repossess my thoughts. I don't remember exactly when I was finally able to empty my mind of all thoughts and concentrate my efforts to transcend or how long I had remained on this stage of meditation that I found myself in a world of fantasy. Colorful figures were moving around me with delightful and soft sounds of music. They did not seem to be human figures but rather multicolor silhouettes at times appearing as humans and then changing shapes and always in motion. I felt joy and pleased by being surrounded with such creatures in a delightful environment. Gradually, the bright pleasing colors transformed into darker combinations. I became conscious of changes when colors slowly faded into darkness, and musical melodies into silence. Soon I was submerged in total darkness which I felt extending to infinity in a cool and chilly environment. I felt afraid. I could move around but every point of pause was the same as before, an environment of total darkness and absolute silence with a sense of infinity. I got the feeling that regardless how fast and in what direction I moved, I wasn't going anywhere. Despite this feeling, as a human being in desperation who would resort to any means to survive, I tried to move in one direction and then in another without any result. I had no hold on anything and felt suspended in the space. I screamed and screamed for help but no sound came out of my throat. Shivering from cold, I thought this was my end, to banish in darkness and silence into infinity without leaving a trace behind.
I remained at this stage of suspension and had reached a level of total helplessness when suddenly I saw a vague light in the horizon. I was overjoyed despite the fact that it did not promise any relief. The vague shadows became brighter and brighter and dark environment lightened gradually, ever expanding and approaching while turning into a combination of colorful moving and intermingling clouds. I felt warmth around me, the chill had disappeared. But all this transformation formed just a spot approaching me. The rest of the environment remained in total darkness.
Gradually, I was engulfed by the clouds. I felt conveniently warm. Slight aroma of a perfume was in the air, the kind that one smells when walking in a garden of flowers. I felt that some beings or things were touching or moving closer to me. But being relieved from that awful darkness and suspension was such a joy that I was not much concerned yet with such movements around me until I felt someone or some being softly and delicately held my hand. I turned around and could not see anything in the thick fog that had surrounded me, but I felt my hand still being held.
„It is me Reza,“ a delicate voice exclaimed, a voice very familiar, a voice I could never forget, the voice of my beloved Ziba. „Ziba!“ I cried with utmost amazement „Is it you? Where are you? I can't see you.“ I continued looking while turning around and around. The hand in my hand sure felt like that of Ziba; the hand that I had held a thousand times before. I pulled her closer, I could feel her but I couldn't see her.
„Where are you? What is going on?“ I questioned. „I can't see you. I know you are here. I feel you fully, but I can't see you.“ There was a long conversation between us which is not relevant to the subject presented here except that when I explained the events of my journey to her, she told me that I was traveling all the time and passed through these environments until I reached her. Then it came time to say goodbye.
„I have to go now, Reza. I will guide you to my planet and my house in our next meeting. It won't be so hard.“
„But, how would I know that you are here waiting for me?“
„Every Tuesday, Darling, every Tuesday.“ She repeated while embracing me and kissing me goodbye. I didn't want let her go but she just evaporated right between my arms. I opened my arms and was engulfed in the same dense fog as before but in a little lighter environment.
While I was quite astonished of sudden disappearance of Ziba and pursuant changes, the fog around me had gradually cleared. To my great surprise, there was a huge door, more like a gate, right in front of me. The outer surroundings were still submerged in darkness. Fearful of falling into the state of darkness as I had experienced before, I was pleased to see an exit regardless what was to be found on the other side. I thought it could not be worse. The gate looked huge and heavy. I put my hands on both parts of the door to push it open but as soon as my hands touched the gate it opened readily half way. I was anxious to see the other side. It was also dark with one exception. I was facing the night sky with many stars blinking in far distances. I couldn't step in a boundless sky. The fog and the light had disappeared behind me and a full darkness had taken their place. I realized that either way my chance of survival was quite slim. At this moment the gate started to close. I desperation, I tried with all my power to hold the gate open. My efforts were useless and the gate kept closing. It was during this helpless struggle that I became conscious, finding myself lying down on my meditation mattress in my living room. I felt relieved. It took a few seconds to collect my thoughts and get rid of my fears.
It was 3:13 in the morning. Exhausted, I walked toward my bedroom for a good rest. I remembered once Ziba had told me that when you decide to travel into outer space, you never know where you are going to end up. There are so many terrifying and horrifying places in space and there is always a chance that you may end up in one of those. However, if you continue the experiment and you reach some desirable or fascinating place, then you have a destination to aim for in your next meditation and have a good chance to avoid straying into unknown wilderness, unless you desire to seek places beyond what you already have discovered. She had told me that this is what most people in her planet do every night and that is why they have discovered so many planets with life and civilization, some even more advanced than theirs.
As any teacher, I would like some feedback from those who decide to experiment with my proposed form. You can place a comment on my website or e-mail me getting my s-mail address on its opening page.
References:
1. For details of two transcendence events and other materials presented in this article, see my book Passage to the Heaven, pp.18-36 and pp.359-376, by visiting my website www.democracywhere.com
2. To understand the secular nature of the Creator see „The Universe Long Before the Big Bang“ and other relevant articles by visiting www.ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dr._Reza_Rezazadeh
Dr. Reza Rezazadeh, Professor Emeritus
University of Wisconsin
1080 Eastman Street, Platteville, WI 53818.