Time and Timelessness

The Eastern philosophies distinguish, rightly, I think, between God unmanifest: undefined and formless, and God manifest and evolving. The first state is prior to time, previous, if you will, to the Big Bang, forever changeless, self-fulfilled, definitionless awareness. The other is God manifest, which essentially is us, the one child of God (there's really only one of us here), manifesting first in an explosion of individualized souls, growing and evolving in form and function, differing in chosen purpose, but cut of the same cloth - a spray of individual water droplets all forming the same wave - creating changes in this realm of time where change can be observed, though it is all happening in this single moment we call now. Time is the measurement of changes that seem to occur in us, with us, and through us, yet we are, in essence, changeless, definitionless awareness, and all that seems to change, be born, blossom, and die, is an appearance, an illusion, but one with meaning, like a sentence full of carefully selected words that together convey just one simple meaning. The individual words, or expressions, or moments of our lives have limited significance, but when they are taken together in a series, they spell out a meaning in their totality that they lack in any other order. Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan Mateus, the brujo, suggested a technique of reviewing one's life, from this moment backward, in order to notice the significance of one's life with adequate perspective. My teacher Paul recommended the same, noting that any incident which brings up laughter or tears in the telling might still need to be further integrated, and also recommended doing a nightly review of the preceding day before falling asleep.

The Role of the Guru

This article by Ram Dass describes what it was like for me to bask in the love of my guru, Jesus, when he came to us as we gathered in a circle for a few blessed months up in Toronto. It is helpful to understand that the role of the guru is to serve as an example of, and eventually, a symbol for, the embodiment outside of us of the Creator's love for us as individuals, and within us as our truest impersonal and limitless nature. This role can be equally played by someone who is incarnate in the body as by someone who has left the body, but whose image and beingness, even if the product of our own imagination at first, can serve as the bridge to our oneness with the infinite, ineffable, unimaginable Divine nature.

This article by Ram Dass elaborates:
http://www.ramdass.org/the-entrance-to-oneness/

Basic Meditation

I will recommend Paul Solomon's Seven Terraces meditation. In addition to using the colors of the rainbow to orient you to the chakras and their functions, it is also sprinkled throughout with guided imagery. When you regularly build an internal world of specific imagery of your own making, Spirit (Higher Self) or spirits (spirit guides and teachers) can both use this structure by inserting symbolic imagery which can be interpreted along the lines of dream imagery (simple, really, when you get the hang of it). In this way messages can be added within the simplicity of the framework of imagery you have built. And since they are guided meditations, they allow you to focus on the verbal content of the CD rather than on creating the entire session yourself in abject silence. A lot of people who have trouble meditating can follow along to a guided meditation with much less difficulty. The original Two-CD set or instant download is here:
http://www.paulsolomon.com/cds_singles.html

This page has a visual description of the levels of the 7 Terraces, and a description of the full Inner Light Consciousness Course on CD. I don't know if you can buy the two CDs, that cover just the 7 Terrace Meditation, separately from the rest of the ILC course, but you could ask the webmaster on the site:
http://www.paulsolomon.com/ilc.html

And here is a page with links to the Edgar Cayce-like readings that Paul Solomon did on subjects such as meditation, sex, relationships, earth changes, etc., all at no cost:
http://www.paulsolomon.com/readings.html

Sun Gazing for Sustenance

I was taught to do this from within one very overcast day in Canada when I was visiting Kay and communing with Jesus. It was near noon; I had had no breakfast; and I was starving, waiting for Kay to finish some business with some friends she was visiting. I even went to a McDonalds, only to find that they would not take my American money (as they were handing me the sandwich bag)!

Finally I meditated while walking, and was moved to feel grateful for the day and the moment. In doing so, I looked up to see the overcast sky with the sun shining behind the clouds. As I gazed at this beauty, I felt the vibration of the sunlight move into my eyes, down through my tear ducts and into my stomach, full-filling me with energy and wholeness as I learned to breathe it down into my body. I lost every trace of hunger and was at peace.

This overcast condition is the only exception I would make to doing this within an hour before sunset and within an hour after sunrise. The key to that is that the ultraviolet index is below 1 (or 0) at those times. If you're ever really hungry, and only have GMO food to eat, remember this story. It's true, I swear. This is another example of something I learned on LSD (while cooking eggs to eat, which, I realized were rubbery Substance, not energy), and later realized without the drug's assistance.