Chapter 7 Avoiding Excessive Thought

The Return of Worldly Thought

Within the meditative experience including the more human entry process your mind may sometimes move back and forth between worldly thought and spiritual awareness. This may occur for only a few moments, and at other times it may be longer. Never think you are on the wrong path. Be patient and persevere. Resist the temptation to think about it. Just continue to repeat and chant the same word or phrase.

Only God Knows

Most often, it is only for God to know the depth and breadth of your meditation. The complete acceptance that His knowledge of your experience is sufficient is a necessary mindset a personal power for avoiding excessive thought and analysis. And from this, you will be able to more quickly experience the reality of your own spiritual nature.

An example of this acceptance is found in the following verse, which is repeated again from page 7 of this Handbook. Here, Paul asks and answers if he were in deep meditation while fully accepting the fact that only God knows:

To accept this concept of God’s knowing as a practical reality Paul continues by describing his own experiences as being not of himself but gifted of God. To do this, Paul did not over-analyze his “self” spiritual or worldly. He simply submitted to the knowledge and sufficiency of God:

Following Paul’s example, you should avoid any attempt to define the impossible a Spiritual Meditation. You can, however, describe parts of the entry process. For if you can describe the great depths of a meditation in detail you probably didn’t have it. This is because that description meant you were thinking and not letting the experience flow naturally. The simplicity here is as Paul described: “I do not know, God knows.”

The foundation of this acceptance lies in the fact that only God knows of all that exists, was created, will be, and is eternal. Men and Women cannot. They can, however, feel the awareness of God, His creation, and His eternity just by abiding in Him and letting it all flow as it will as an experience of the Inner Self.

Another example of a personal acceptance of “this knowledge and sufficiency of God” is found in the experiences of Elijah and Elisha:

Usually, the details of a Spiritual Meditation cannot be remembered— simply because they occur at the maximum depth of an empty mind. This is a quiet and peaceful experience of the self with God—an awareness of His presence and His influence upon you, but again, without a thought of it—just an experience.

One exception, however, is that it can sometimes be remembered, but only as a general concept like love, peace, forgiveness, or others. But only sometimes, and even then, with limited comprehension. There are, however, parts of it that may be remembered as the Holy Spirit works His power within you.

In contrast, the memory of a dream has within it a flow of events and experiences. And unlike a dream, Spiritual Meditation always occurs without any knowledge of the flow of events within it but again, at other times, a partial memory may arise. And that is the richness of it an association and encounter with God driven at the outset by the spirituality contained in His Word: a reading, chanting, or just a simple thought.

Any meditative transformation is not only a receptive experience, but it is also an expression of the self the Inner Self that drives the two-way flow of the entry process. Which, again, is the outward flow of selfexpression and the reception of the inward flow of spirituality gifted by the Holy Spirit making Christian Meditation much simpler than in other religions. Plus, Christianity offers an eternal life that others don’t.

Most of my meditative experiences are quick and easy, usually occurring as Contemplative Meditation. This happens simply because a deeper Spiritual Meditation was not brought upon me. I have, however, experienced many at this level they just don’t occur with any regularity.