Discussion Post I submitted for my Atlantic University TP6100 Course – February 29, 2020.
I completed my psi experiment using meditation this morning (thank you, Loyd, for the extension). I incorporated my experiment into my daily routine of meditating 25 minutes a day in a quiet space I’ve created in the attic. Typically this is done in the morning following a workout, shower, and quick chakra clearing. I set the timer of my iPhone and I use a Muse headset to record my brave waves (I’m a gadget guy, I can’t help it!).
My meditation is broken into three elements. The first 4 to 5 minutes is spent on what Jack Kornfield describes as “Lovingkindness meditation” (2004, pp. 63-29). I start by sending lovingkindness to myself and then visualize each member of my family, sending prayers and blessings as well, and then finally to those people I know in my life who are sick or suffering. I play relaxing music during this period.
For the next 12 minutes or so is do a “Heart Coherence Guided Meditation” based on the teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza (https://youtu.be/HAAXxkZ4beM). The meditation walks you through focusing on the space between various body parts and then integrates you into space in general. Towards the end, you think of an intention that you’d like to manifest using the Quantum field. When I began the meditation, my intentions were longer-term, such as the career change I’m making and various areas I’d like to move.
On Wednesday, however, I realized that I should use this part of the mediation to try to manifest something more short term as part of my psi experiment to see if it occurs. So, for the final 4 meditations, my intent was to receive a message from an old friend from New England whom I used to correspond about a decade ago. I envisioned myself reading a message from them and what it might say.
The final 8 minutes are what I call “freeform” meditation. I don’t use any music, and typically I try to anchor myself with either my breath or the noise of propane gas furnace when it’s on, which is in the attic as well. I often must fight the “monkey chatter” and my constant logistics that creep in.
1) Do psychic events identify themselves before the fact, or only after the fact?
I believe psychic events can identify themselves prior to the fact but the person must be keenly intuned to pick it up. It’s similar to the technique of foreshadowing in a book or movie. If I’m really into a film and I see something that seems a bit random or out of place, I will note it since as Hollywood doesn’t waste a penny on anything that not relevant to the storyline. Most times, however, I don’t pick up foreshadowing until after the big reveal towards the end.
That’s my sense of psychic events as well. Intuitively, you may note something ahead of time, although you’ll likely dismiss it, and it doesn’t make sense until you have the benefit of looking back.
I didn’t experience anything remotely psychic during the Lovingkindness portion of my meditation. I attribute this to the fact that it occurs in the first five minutes when my mind is still settling down, and I am directing my mind to envision specific people so there is little opportunities for any ASC.
My attempt to manifest a correspondence could be considered identifying a psychic event before it happens, but only if it actually happens! As of the writing of this post, my friend has not written to me yet, and probably won’t. But if it happens, I could say that the psychic event was the result of something I did previously, although, I still wouldn’t know until after the fact! So, it’s a bit like the chicken and the egg, I suppose. In the end, if my friend does correspond with me at some point in the near future, it will have a huge impact on me. First, it will be nice to hear from her, but it will also reaffirm that all of this is real and that I can use the Quantum field!
2) Does a particular state of consciousness seem to be especially conducive to psychic experiences?
During the freeform phase of my meditation, I experienced something very close to dreaming. It’s actually more like the hypnagogic state, and it occurred nearly every day of the experiment where I am fully lucid one moment, and then a random scene or phrase will enter my head as I enter this altered state. The experience is typically very brief, and there have been times in the past where I’ve fallen asleep at this point. It’s why I no longer meditate while lying on a bed.
On Sunday, for example, I suddenly found myself at the corner of 6th and F, NE, in Washington, D.C. where I used to live back in the 80s. On Monday, as I thought of our psi experiment, I ended up in a classroom with a professor was leading us in a presentation. At the end of the class, I turned my psi project into him, and I said, “ I tried to follow the directions, I hope it makes sense.” On Wednesday, in my dream-like state, I was once again in a classroom setting but this time I was teaching foreign students and was trying to explain to them how they had misinterpreted a statement I read from a history book. On Friday, my theme of psi experiments continued and this time I found myself on a panel of judges like those during the Olympics for figure skating and gymnastics. I gave someone an 8.4 for their psi experiment (I wonder what the Russian judge gave him?!). These may all be cases of “day residue.”
I did have two experiences where, in this state, I didn’t see images but instead I suddenly said random phrases. One was, “that’s wealthy,” and the other, “I’m not saying they’re in front or behind.” I have no clue what it means, but maybe it will make itself known in the future, and I can declare it a psychic event.
Most of my meditation time is spent with me fighting my critical mind. The following two charts depict the day when I was most relaxed, February 26, and spent more time in an ASC. And the other is from yesterday, February 28, when my mind was racing as I had a lot to do before the end of the week.
3) How can I work with and/or explain the meaningful experiences I have in altered states that do not prove to be psi?
In retrospect, the most meaningful experience I had with my meditation experiment is achieving a dream state without going to sleep, which I hadn’t notice previously. The visions and phrases I experienced have meaning for me in the same way that dreams reveal what’s happening in one’s subconscious. So, I will now also jot down in my journal anything that comes up during the hypnagogic state I experience during my meditation, and I can apply dreamwork techniques to these to see what they may be saying to me.
Finally, there are countless meaningful benefits to meditating regardless if it produces a psi experience or not. It lowers your blood pressure, helps you connect to greater consciousness, brings peace and stability to your life, and provides a slice of sanity in a world that seems more and more devoid of it every day.
Reference
Kornfield, J. (2004), Meditation for beginners, Denver, CO: Sounds True, Inc.
Ken Yang (2019, May 3). Heart coherence guided meditation Dr. Joe Dispenza. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/HAAXxkZ4beM