Class 5: Receiving Love

Introduction

For those of you who are willing to at least entertain the possibility that life is more than just three-dimensional reality, these next two expansions are dedicated to aiming your personal attention directly toward an encounter with the greater infinite intelligence and creative/loving power of the universe that so many people encounter in meditation.

I am not an esoteric personality - nor do I tend to anthropomorphise spiritual experience. I once worked at as research hypnotist for NIMH and know all too well the human mind's capacity to generate a vivid inner experience that is not reality-based, and think that the experience was real.

So I am not in any way going to push you into any imaginary spiritual experience. I'm a lover of the reality-based spirituality of Zen, and also highly value the questioning mind of scientists in trying to separate imaginary mystic experience from genuine spiritual experience.

Let's not fool ourselves here!

That said, in my experience the reality of this universe in which we live and love is certainly not limited to the traditional Newtonian space-time continuum.

• The controversial yet now quite scientifically-solid Princeton Studies (see http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/) documenting the power of the human mind to impact the physical world has forever clarified that there is more to consciousness and the universe than scientists once thought.

With physicists now insisting that there must be at least 7 dimensions to the physical world, we certainly must at least entertain the possibility that Patanjali and Lao Tzu and Buddha and Jesus and Mohammed and Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti were right -

... there does exist a non-physical reality that we call spiritual - and we can encounter this greater level of consciousness with our personal consciousness.

This is my experience, through exploring inner consciousness with this meditation method. You can also explore - and discover on your own, your unique experience where science meets spirit.

This fifth expansion directly encourages you to shift into receive mode, so that you can open your heart and mind and soul and receive love, healing, insight, guidance and who knows what else, from the greater compassionate consciousness of the Creator of the universe.

• Most people most of the time seem to go around with their hearts closed. Sad but true. What we're doing is actively reversing that contracted habit.

As we'll explore in more detail in a moment, the act of opening your heart to receive spiritual love and guidance is gigantic - and my meditation process is designed so that in just one minute, you can expand your consciousness so that you're ready to open up and receive.

This is why I've designed this meditation as a short-form action that you can do once an hour - even more often when you need to. Habit constantly pulls your attention in fear-based directions. So regularly you need to consciously shift into love-based directions.

What is the "Say it ~ Do it" focus phrase that most powerfully gets this job done?

• "My heart is open to receive ... God's healing love."

Say it to yourself - see how it feels ...