Meditation`s Secret Treasure: Awakening to the Mystic World, Strasnick Phd Steven

In repeated visits over an extended period, the author experienced over seventy strange visions and apparitions. These led him on a journey across multiple realms and worlds, ultimately taking him into the celestial chambers of a mysterious white-bearded presence, where a final secret was revealed. The complete chronicle of these travels is presented in this series.

And every bit of it is true

You Will Learn:

• The truth about meditation and the doors it can open, including not only how to do it but also how not to
• Revelations about the forms of spiritual being, including the many faces of the Soul and its hidden lives in other worlds
• The meaning of the mystic teachings in the Taoist classic, the Tao-Te-Ching, by Lao Tzu
• What it is like to experience the esoteric realms and transformational energies described by spiritual alchemists, including chakras and Kundalini-like events
• New techniques for uncovering the meanings hidden in your dreams and visions. You can use these to journal your own encounters
• How to use methods developed in I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, to chart the progress of your spiritual journey by matching its diagrams of energy patterns with the imagery in your visions and dreams
• The teachings of several other authentic spiritual explorers, including Ken Wilber (integral and transpersonal philosophy), Sri Aurobindo (integral yoga and Hinduism), Michael Harner (contemporary Shamanism) and C.G. Jung (theory of archetypes and collective unconsciousness)

This Book Gets You Started

This first book covers the initiation events of the first few weeks of the authors meditational experience, describing how visions tested and prepared him for more far-ranging travel and deeper revelations. It presents everything meditation beginners need to start their own practice, while introducing the mystical teachings of Taoism.

Topics include:

• The authors meditational methods, as well as a detailed discussion of their philosophical underpinnings
• The layered nature of the Self and the components constituting the experience of selfhood
• The phenomenon of emergence and its relationship to consciousness
• Jungs concepts of the Anima and Animus
• The different types of visionary consciousness and the doors between realms
• The possibility of psychic precognition and whether meditation can help develop it
• Strange mystical events from the authors past, including his childhood encounters with occult entities and his experience of the void
• The visits by mysterious Watchers who evaluated his practice, later leading to his first meeting with the Teacher, who was destined to accompany him on many of his visionary travels