Meditation Case Studies: Concise Explanations of Phenomena Encountered on the Spiritual Path - Softcover

Bodri, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998076457 ISBN 13: 9780998076454

Publisher: Top Shape Publishing LLC, 2017

Synopsis

Ordinary people often experience unusual mind-body phenomena due to meditation practice such as hearing voices, seeing visions, dreaming colorful scenarios, and feeling inexplicable energy sensations or strange movements inside their body. This book explains most of the different types of strange experiences that usually happen to meditation practitioners, called Mara or illusion. It offers both scientific and transcendental explanations so that people can easily understand what they are mentally experiencing.

For instance, covered are explanations for unexpected sensations of warmth or coolness within your body (and thirty-four other types of physical sensations), unusual internal vibrations, changes in respiration, skin problems, emotional outbursts, the hearing of voices and seeing of visions, hearing music within your head, sexual fantasies and the random come and go appearance of small psychic abilities. An emphasis is placed on why feelings of internal energy arise within you, and how they appear in various forms, due to prolonged yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices.

Included is also an excellent primer on how to practice basic witnessing meditation, also known as vipassana. Additionally there are lessons on how to use wisdom analysis and other modern techniques to dissolve stubborn mental afflictions that bother you, and how to change long-standing habit energies. Over thirty types of quieting ”emptiness meditation” practices are described along with powerful auxiliary methods you can use to help eliminate nagging psychological issues. These techniques would be important for your practice.

In addition to a dozen case studies of meditators who experienced curious phenomena due to their practice, many additional visionary and auditory experiences, both real and delusory, are described that commonly occur to ardent practitioners in many religious paths. There is a translation of the 50 Deva Mara Delusion States chapter of the Surangama Sutra. This valuable information can guide you through many normally inexplicable meditation and spiritual experiences regardless of your tradition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Top Shape Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998076457
• ISBN 13: 9780998076454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290