Tag: higher consciousness

Unlock Secrets to Spiritual Development with Cosmic Energy

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Cosmic energy meditation is a style of meditation that utilizes visualization techniques to help practitioners focus on deep experiences of spiritual discovery and evolvement. If you’ve not heard of it, but find yourself reading this article, chances are good that you’ve already been developing a spiritual meditation practice on your own.  Perhaps when you looked to the internet to help you expand and deepen that practice, you encountered a wealth of interesting information about mindfulness and mindfulness meditation before you came across this article. Or, perhaps the opposite happened, and you’ve found this article because you’re curious why everyone you…

How to Use Sacred Sound to Develop Higher Consciousness

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In our modern world, chaos and distractions abound. Life literally feels “noisy”. People crave inner tranquility to squelch the inner chaos that rises up daily in their minds and hearts. We want relief, and we want it NOW. Unfortunately, that’s just not how inner peace works, nor has it ever worked that way. This quest for inner harmony isn’t new. The search for sustainable inner peace has always been a part of the human experience. And Sacred Sound has always been a method for developing it in cultures all around the globe. In this article, we will delve into the…

What Is Spiritual Alchemy and How Can You Practice It?

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Like ancient Egyptian and Greek scientists before them, European scientists and philosophers of the Middle Ages believed that everything in the world was made up of four basic elements: earth, air, fire, and water.  They saw these four elements as having specific qualities and properties that could be manipulated to create new substances. As a result, the early chemists, or alchemists as they came to be called, became focused on turning base metals, such as lead, into higher metals, such as gold. This sounds like the pursuit of wealth and power. And given human nature, for some of these alchemists,…

How I Changed Everything in the Universe, Including Meditation

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This is a true story about how I changed my meditation practice and everything else in the universe in one simple step. Well, one simple jump, anyway. In an effort to overcome fear of something entirely different, I jumped out of an airplane because I thought skydiving would be scarier. As it turns out, I was wrong: skydiving was way less scary than the thing I was avoiding. But the point is that the overarching result wasn’t what I expected. I sought to overcome fear, but instead I learned  first-hand how everything becomes different when seen through the lens of…

What Is Higher Consciousness and How to Achieve It Through Meditation

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Have you ever wondered about higher states of consciousness? What they are, and how some people reach them? Do you ever wonder if you could reach a higher state of consciousness yourself? And if you could, what would that look like? Many people have different notions or ideas about what it means to achieve states of higher consciousness.  Some imagine yogis living high in the mountains, devoting their lives exclusively to the pursuit of higher consciousness. Others imagine it as a spiritual practice that leads to a sudden and complete awakening, or so-called enlightenment. And of course some people think…