This meditation comes from the teaching of Rudolf Steiner and is especially fruitful if you have something that already lives within you as a question -- you would recognize it as a feeling of a pressing need, a charged feeling of desire to experience or to know that would be associated with it.   Repeat or hold or experiment with any state at your own leisure.

          Set aside time to shut out the outside world so that you will not be disturbed, and allow yourself to stretch and then melt into a delicious time of comfort and relaxation.   When you are ready, and you are either sitting or lying down with your eyes closed, first, just notice your breathing, and with each outbreath for a few moments, allow yourself to let go all the recent cares and concerns.  When you are ready, take a deep slow breath, which you will hold through the following activity:  starting with your feet and including your whole body, tense up all your muscles, making them tighter and tighter, almost as if to sit up or get up, shoulders and feet slightly lifted from the surface of your place of rest ..  HOLD IT ... .  Tighter still.  And when you cannot hold the breath a second longer, .. release the breath explosively and let go all the tension in one blow, falling into a state of sumptuous relaxation and peace.   Bones and muscles merge with the surface that supports you.  Let your consciousness rest in the felt rhythm of the breath, sinking into slower, softer .... . quiescence of body, breathing, mind. 

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          Imagine you are floating on your back, effortlessly held aloft in a spacious, beautiful body of water -- maybe a blue-green lagoon with white sand or a sparkling lake.  Gentle, healing,  nurturing -- a holy place of sanctuary and peace.  It feeds your soul to be in this special place!  With your eyes closed you can feel the warmth of sunshine softening the eyelids.  The water and air are the perfect temperature and pristine.  If your ears are cushioned underwater, you may notice the roar of silence or possibly distant sounds that blend into tranquility around you.  With a sense of all the time in the world, you float  suspended in this very safe and luxurious environment.  

         Limbs stretching languidly blend with the water, till you cannot tell where your body ends and the soothing water begins.  In the warmth of that soakingly feel-good light you bring to mind something of great interest to you, something that calls you, stirs you, compels the need for an answer, understanding, insight, a new sense of direction or resolution.  In some way make this into an image or an experience.  It could be and probably is a lived question, something that presses for completion or birth.  This may be in the form of a memory or an imagination of the past, present, or future, or outside time altogether.

          Feelingly imagine or sense or reach for the clear awareness of a reverenced and eternally loving Presence in whatever way you would recognize as Spirit, Oneness or a Holy One, most beloved, who follows you, your unfolding life, your very own eternal beingness ever "with long, affectionate glances of inexhaustible love" [Wm. Blake].  You have a distinct awareness of this Presence, as well as a sense of spaciousness in the simultaneous encirclement of intimacy.  

          You direct your powerful memory / imaginal concern or desire to this sacred Presence in the same way you would ask a question of someone in the ordinary course of your earthly life.  And just as in that case, you release it [ask your question] knowing full well without even thinking that your Beloved will naturally respond.  And emptied of your proffered image, you wait for that response.  The depths of your emptiness and gentle expectancy might be described as pregnant with the quiet of waiting for an echo of response or resonance.  Whatever next comes to you is what you are waiting for.  Sometimes this flows out of the depths of silence back to you as easily as the inbreath follows the outbreath.  

          If it does not come back to you in any recognizable way in the instant, just as happens when you write a letter to a beloved, then you let it go, let it rest until heshe finds you in the natural course of things over the interim.  Letting it go is essential, so it can come back to you as a gift sourced in The Other, that Holy Living Presence.  It will be whole, of a piece, possibly an image.  It is often quite other and unexpected and rich with meaning.

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          Enjoy this sacred time and place and when you are ready, offer your gratitude to Spirit, release it, and once again, bring your attention back to your deeply relaxed, quiescent breathing.  From the breath you will again become aware of your resting body, feeling energized, renewed, ready to enjoy the rest of your day or evening.

          Often it is helpful to write about what you experienced, even if nothing profound connects for you at first.  Sometimes in the writing itself comes your hoped for answer or insight.

. . With great gratitude and peace. 

Thanks be to  

Gracious Infinite Spirit,

.. IT IS DONE.

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Partnering:

1.  What I Bring to the Table

2.  What Makes for a Good Fit?

What is a "Project of Transcendence"?

This Consciousness rEvolution Like No Other

The Collaborative Manifestation Project of Transcendence

A Manifestation Meditation 

inspired by / created from David Spangler's book, 

Everyday Miracles:  The Inner Art of Manifestation.

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The Prayer Project

Imagining the First Collaborative Organizing Gathering

Behind this Global Project of Transcendence

The Conference wHerethetwoworldsTouch:  

A Visualization/Manifestation Project

Conference Opening:  At the Podium

A Personal Visualization/Manifestation Project

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