By Earth Ally Will Harader ~ Real Meditation [1]

I'm going to tell you something that runs counter to most ideas of what spiritual means. You've been given these images of “spiritual people” who meditate most of the day, and spend their time with eyes half-opened, completely sedated. They have renounced the world, and don't really participate in Life anymore. They speak softly and slowly, and don't really have much passion for anything. This image people are given is one of only numbness, not True Spirituality, which is Passion for Everything.

What's the point of meditation? To calm oneself down enough for self-contemplation? It's useful to a point, but eventually a person is going to have to directly confront what's stressing them out in the first place. Meditation just numbs the mind to the point a little bit of intelligence sometimes pops out, yet it's mostly an avoidance mechanism. It's like what most channelers do, they set their ego aside for a moment, and then pick it up again when done. It's something to numb the pain of their ego/mind, without having to do any real work on themselves. You can't go through you emotional attachments without feeling the emotions. The sense of peace people get from meditation is often an illusion to mask the emotional turmoil beneath the surface.

Same with mantras, rituals, chanting, ceremony, all of those things supposedly spiritual often actually hinder spiritual growth. A crutch is only useful if your legs are broken. When you don't need it anymore, it actually prevents healing. The only way to go beyond unconsciousness is to confront it directly, then it disappears. Many, if not most of these so-called spiritual practices actually feed into unconsciousness. One addiction is just traded for another.

There's only one meditation and that's called being Present. Consciousness is raised through increased Awareness, while the meditation most practice actually lowers awareness. Why else would people have to close their eyes to meditate? Real Meditation is done in every Moment, it's not something you do once or twice a day. If you want to get over your stuff, you have to be there to get over it. Be very aware of what your doing in your spiritual practices, are you becoming more conscious, or are you just stuffing things back down? It's better to be stressed out and paying attention to that stress, than to pretend it doesn't exist. If you want a real sense of Peace, you're going to have to go through everything that makes you not feel peaceful.