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only as integrated and properly aligned with respect to the volitional axis, as everyone who goes to consult him. His very method of "receival" may be traced back as an extension of the initial way in which the whole "foreign" theme of meditation first intersected the framework of the Western Psyche. A couple decades ago the debilitating tension of Western—technological living issued an implicit call to alternative "technologies" able to solve for that specific problem. And if we remember, it was the "Maharishi" style of "Transcendental Meditation" that answered to such a call. Thus we get our impression fo this day as to what "meditation amounts to, through the ripples issuing from impact of that first imported influence. All those subsequent, bandwagon techniques either borrowed or domestically developed took their acceptability— and measured their "correctness"—from that original template. Meditation as understood in the /nitiated Tradition is a technical means of augmenting a general practice of spiritual orientation and whole, mind—body intent whereby the subconscious systems are integrated with coordinate intensification along the conscious Axis to the degree of producing a combustion lighting the filament of that Volitional Line, and "turning on" the spirit—lamp of direct Awareness. The hallmark of such Meditation is a poised, alert receptivity that carries through all actions. Meditation as understood through franchise versions of the Maharishi—styled technique, is a means of rendering the mind-body system passively quiescent. It is relaxative, to be sure, and that answers adequately to what was, in the aggregate, a rather shallow "call". Such a trance-like state of semi—drowsy passivity, however, has come to constitute the standard of all that we think of and accept as belonging to the subject of Meditation. Any number of such methods are bandied about on daytime talk shows, and consumer—consciousness now knows how to "count backward and lower yourself with eyes closed into the deep well of your inner self as well as it knows how to measure out soapflakes in the washer-—cup (It is more than telling that the "Hilarion" material, in contradistinction to the overwhelming body of channeled material the sources of which specifically abjure giving technical instruction, blithely offered just such a "countdown" method of meditation inducing the type of vulnerable contingency—and entranced passivity—optimum for establishing the invitational configuration of "horse and rider"). The West has accepted the technology of meditation from its angle as a relaxative, and has exploited it extensively along such lines. In the process it's come to find out that such techniques can indeed induce a deeper state of "rest", they are, on the pattern of the Maharishi—method, able to establish a kind of minimal, quasi—meditative harmony and integration at the ordinary, low-level of common functioning. This becomes the sum of what we tend to know or expect from the category of meditation. We tend to know nothing of a mind-body integration and harmony established at a higher functional level than that which characterizes the norm, in deeper congruence and alignment through the unitive value of the Conscious Axis itself. With the subject of meditation as we've accepted it and tend to know it, there is no basic reorientation that would belie the standard orientation (in which the self—lumining "light" of the conscious axis is chronically displaced, through its divisive conceptual categories, as "focal reflection" scanning the nocturnal fields of subconscious identity patterns and vital-survivalist imperatives). Rather, through the accepted, passivity—oriented meditative methods it's the autonomic system which is set in ascendancy as the result of effectual submission to the murmur of subconscious processes, the subsequent, diffused focus lowers the light of consciousness gently down to certain, subconscious depths so that those levels and spontaneous springs may be refreshed at the expense of the conscious or volitional system. Rather than /eaving the subconscious processes to their uninterrupted business as in sleep, here those processes benefit from a slightly different order as consciousness slips silently into their field and "loans" them a certain value of implicit unity (borrowed from the conscious axis) which they may momentarily appropriate in more direct manner. Since 49 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm Leaky Submarine