Consistent meditation and intentional breathing practices can enhance our participation with the natural world.

On this page, you will find samplings of various approaches and practices you can explore and experiment with…

There are many more, but these might be a good start.

 

Meditations and Breathing

Adi Da Samraj:

“The true form of the breath is founded in freedom from chronic reactive recoil. And it is consciously established in Feeling-Communion with the All-Pervading Life. Such breathing receives much Life in the vital regions of the body (at the solar plexus and below). Such breathing involves full exhalation of the waste products of the lungs, and it involves full relaxation-release of the Life-Fullness, from or via the vital region to the entire body, and thence, via all relations, to Infinity. Such breathing of Fullness expresses an emotionally free and loving personality, self-released into the All-Pervading Life on which it depends and which is its ultimate and true Identity.”

For children and everyone else – from Adi Da:

“Breathe in the good stuff and breathe out the bad stuff. And when you feel the Mystery real strong, you can tell that you even breathe the Mystery. When people feel the Mystery real strong and breathe It, they say things like ‘God is Spirit’, because ‘Spirit’ is just a name for what we feel about our breath. When people say things like this, they are only feeling very happy. They don’t know anything more than before about Real God. They are just wondering beyond wondering, how the Mystery even goes all through them and doesn’t have any shape or face or up or down or inside or outside.

“Well. When you remember to feel the Mystery real strong, then you can also remember to breathe the Mystery. The Mystery is good, feeling full of light and happiness and love, isn’t It? So when you breathe the Mystery, remember always to breathe in all the good feeling, and breathe out all the bad feeling.

“Breathe in all the happy feeling about the Mystery, and breathe out all the unhappy feelings you might be thinking about, like being afraid, or angry, or selfish, or mean, or just unhappy. Stand up and feel to yourself – ‘Breathe in the good stuff – Breathe out the bad stuff’. And do this feeling – breathing, in and out, again and again. It is good to do this every now and then – every day. It is a way to get to remember the Mystery stronger and stronger. And if you remember the Mystery stronger and stronger, you start to feel so good after a while that it seems like you aren’t remembering and feeling and breathing the Mystery anymore but the Mystery is remembering and feeling and breathing you!”

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Wim Hof Breathing

Here are two simple Wim Hof guided breathing sessions preceded by a tutorial:

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Joe Dispenza Meditations

Sit up or lie down, and try this simple-form Joe Dispenza meditation:

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Meditative Contemplation and Natural Hallucinogens

While non-humans are naturally contemplative, many also access biological substances that produce hallucinogenic states – via the ingestion of fermented fruit and plant alcohols, mushrooms, fungi, barks, seeds, leaves, and flowers, and certain secretions from other animals.

In such ways, many non-humans intentionally enjoy altered states of consciousness. Such chemical and psychic engagement deepens and widens their awareness and participation within their cultures and in the world around them.

Today’s human cultures have withdrawn from profound mystical contemplation,. as well as intelligent use of hallucinogenic substances. We are now in a time where ecstatic states of awareness, whether found through self-transcending contemplation and/or the use of natural hallucinogens, are often feared.

But only if humanity consents to exist ecstatically and blissfully, through all benign and conscious methods, can it fully enjoy life and freedom.

Only a humanity of wisdom and ecstasy can become free from self-enclosure’s fear.

“It is time for us to take a more fundamental approach to our mutual existence. The political approaches are secondary and not radical. They do not solve the fundamental problems, and therefore, all political systems are unstable and ultimately oppressive. 

“We must begin to engage the problems of environment and availability as a fundamental necessity, superior to all political motivations. A worldwide apolitical effort to obviate and reduce the problems of unavailability and the inequalities they create must be begun as the highest priority of mankind.

“The technology of availability can create a solved environment in which all oppressive, salutatory politics is obviated. The anxiety and search for survival is the traditional burden of men and women, individually and collectively. Neither wisdom nor politics is sufficient to the obviation of this burden.

“We must create the solved environment, which is the act of our wisdom. Then we will also evolve a politics which no longer conceals and suppresses the problems of survival.”

     – Adi Da Samraj, 1971

 

Profound self-transcending meditative contemplation and careful, mature, and occasional use of natural hallucinogens (if and when needed) can service the transformation of humanity, informing and nurturing our most direct and radical evolution and growth.