Meditating with others.

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

A couple times when I was meditating recently I suddenly saw friend of mine in a vision and that friend was meditating with me!

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

This morning I meditated with a friend. The meditation went better.

[mccoy]

Undoubtedly groups meditations are better, a group being defined by more than 1 person.

I've tried my best to plan to be able to meditate with someone else (wife and son) within the family but my plans have been culled. My wife started to 'hear voices' and was scared, my son is autistic and cannot grasp mental abstractions.

Going on stubbornly on my own.

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

Undoubtedly groups meditations are better, a group being defined by more than 1 person.

I've tried my best to plan to be able to meditate with someone else (wife and son) within the family but my plans have been culled. My wife started to 'hear voices' and was scared, my son is autistic and cannot grasp mental abstractions.

Going on stubbornly on my own.

I wonder how close u live to a large city in Italy? Aren't there meditation groups of some sort anywhere around?
I have been meditating so many decades now that it just comes natural without meditating with others. Although I still enjoy the different experiences i have with others I meet and it is especially beneficial for me during long meditations.

Were the voices your wife heard of an unkind nature? They  could b spiritual guides. i remember falling asleep once during meditation. A soft kind voice said "Steve" I woke up and had no inclination to fall back asleep after that !!!  Hoping to hear more voices!  ♡♡♡

We hear a lot things while meditating. Just as we hear voices when in our daily routine we will also hear a lot of things in our interior life as well. If they r not significant it is just best to come back to our practice. No big deal and just something we get used to. It seems nice that your wife is in tune to 'realm' others may not be.... just not to get overwhelmed by it all.

[mccoy]

Steve, I'm not close to estabilished SRF centers now, although I must say I'm not being actively trying to meet regularly with other devotees. Some lazyness is probably involved but the work schedule is demanding, to me there is no time out of job, since I work in part at home and have always some backlog. When I can detach from the job there are chores and errands to do. I never go out for the mere purpose of socializing, so it is not that I can take time out of such activities. But I do take some time to log into spiritual fora, this is my form of socialization which also optimizes time since there is no travel to the socialization place.

I must ask my wife which voices she heard, if I remember well it was children's. Probably she wasn't much interested into meditation, so she took the opportunity to quit.

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

Undoubtedly groups meditations are better, a group being defined by more than 1 person.

I've tried my best to plan to be able to meditate with someone else (wife and son) within the family but my plans have been culled. My wife started to 'hear voices' and was scared, my son is autistic and cannot grasp mental abstractions.

Going on stubbornly on my own.

Like most qualities we have as individual beings unique in our expression stubbornness can be both good and bad. it has helped me stick with a routine and continue meditation throughout the years but also it has made me a rather stick in the mud over some things i have held too. Sometimes we are called to let go of people and times as well. They may no longer serve to help us or we only enable the bad qualities in them by sticking it out. Over the years u come to recognize such things and try to avoid being an old fossil.

One very important part of meditation i have found and that is meditating with those who are in enlightened spiritual state or more awakened then ourselves. Thus i am always grateful when i have meditated with for instance: Amma, Brother Bhaktananda and Daya Mata. i have heard quite a few reports from friends of the elevated state they felt themselves in while being in the presence and meditating with Amma. i also had some very interesting experiences 'meditating with' Paramahansa Yogananda at his crypt in Forest Lawn at Glendale California.

[mccoy]

The crypt in Glendale is a fabulous place where to meditate, I concur!

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

The crypt in Glendale is a fabulous place where to meditate, I concur!

I have some 'small desires' one of them is to get back to that  maussoleum and meditate with Paramahansaji one more time before leaving the earth plane. I had some very unusual experiences there that were miraculous in worldly terms. Today i meditated several yards from Amma for hours. There is nothing or no one that can compare with the elevation one quickly rises to in the presence of such an enlightened being and there was nothing like the experience of being in the same vibration that Paramahansaji left behind at his crypt at Forest Lawn. I would b interested to hear about your visit there McCoy.

[mccoy]

Steve, I've been there just once, together with other devotees during a convocation. We sat on the ground to meditate and I remember the extraordinary feeling of peace that fell upon me in that occasion.

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

Steve, I've been there just once, together with other devotees during a convocation. We sat on the ground to meditate and I remember the extraordinary feeling of peace that fell upon me in that occasion.

Dr. Lewis is buried at Forest Lawn also and the ashes of nuns and monks are at the far left hand side of the enclosure where P.Y.'s crypt lies. Also Daya Mata is near the entry door closest to P.Y.'s crypt. At one time I spent quite a lot of time on those grounds. I was truly blessed being there. I believe a girl friend thought I was morbid. However since she never seemed to be friendly a short time after-till now-i may have been blessed by having her taken out of my life from forces higher then myself. It is a practice of monks to do spiritual practices at burial grounds and I spend quite a few years with a girl friend who liked to spend hours at cemeteries and to commune with the spirits their. We r reminded of spiritual things at cemeteries since the physical body has released into a spiritual body.

I believe there is something to meditating with trees as well-a practice I have been much more involved with since being in Michigan. I know that we need wood but I really believe that 🌳 trees are living spirits themselves and it is blessing to have them around...they always seem to help meditation.