Path: typhoon.sonic.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!news.lattis.xara.net!not-for-mail From: The incredible Sulk Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.consciousness.mysticism,alt.magick,alt.magick.tantra Subject: Re: Using Candles as a Meditation tool Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 09:48:54 +0100 Organization: None. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3987E076.FE508E33@Nospam.shaman.co.uk> References: <20000717192130.27120.00000131@ng-md1.aol.com> <8m2p4v$fpp@bolt.sonic.net> <8m2rqg$76t$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> <8m7qsk$gbn@bolt.sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: anson.templar.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:24745 alt.consciousness.mysticism:42243 alt.magick:206445 alt.magick.tantra:16436 Surely the point of the exercise is to singlemindledly drag your conscious attention to one completely irrelevant object. Then as you realise that it is just you, staring stupidly at a candle, you can become ware of the greater picture. What it is that constitutes the 'you' that is staring. You want to become aware of yourself as a total senstaion, not as a normal human being. Since our worldview is dominated by our sight and by oiur conscious babbling, any means that stops the babble and overloads the eyes, will allow the oher aspects to come through. Once you have the whole system in balance, you can travel through the world - slip through the definitions from one view to another. THAT is where the primary patterns are to be found and used. Ad hopefully arrive at a better definition that aligns your feelings with those of the world, and become, fo the moment, excatly who you want to be.