This post will be about meditation and the deeper reasons why I think it is the best tool to study Mind and know Self.
A lot of people see meditation as a passive activity and do not understand the logic behind it.
We are constantly programming our reality with thoughts, which become words and language, which become actions, habits and later our destiny. The idea behind karma is the universal law of cause and effect (aka Newton 3rd Law of Motion which states : For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The statement means that in every interaction, there is a pair of forces acting on the two interacting objects. The size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the force on the second object.) I wouldn't use the word object to describe the universe but anyway he was a genius.
The factor behind karma are performed past thoughts, wishes, actions and deeds. It is our consciousness that is constructing how we are going to be judged. We are free to choose to decode the signal either as a 1 or a 0, and act upon it. But we are not free from the consequences.
You can think of your current life as just one level of the game, or one level of the VR simulation.
But in the end what is our goal : I think it has to do with our collective enlightenment.
And buddhist monks have known this for a long time. That's why they meditate on loving kindness and compassion. Because it's the most efficient and the smartest way for all of us to solve the game and achieve liberation. They are sending powerful energy throughout our collective unconscious , or using R.Sheldrake term Morphogenetic Fields.
There are lots of studies done on meditation. The idea is to have tunnel vision focus on compassionate thoughts. This superhuman concentration shows a significant increase in brain activity in the left prefrontal cortex (associated with self-control, happiness and compassion) and greatly reduced activity in the amygdala — the brain’s fight or flight center. This suggests that meditation can actually make you a happier and more compassionate person.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuroscientists-dalai-lama-swap-insights-meditation/
Due to neuroplasticity it seems that meditation rewires your brain and ability to direct attention towards useful thoughts. It also plays a vital role in promoting neurogenesis :
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/the-neurogenesis-guide-how-meditation-changes-the-adult-brain/
https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050606/full/news050606-8.html
Gamma brain waves are the fastest brainwave frequency with the smallest amplitude. They are associated with the “feeling of blessings” reported by experienced meditators such as monks and nuns, and with peak concentration and extremely high levels of cognitive functioning.
http://www.danielgoleman.info/the-inexplicable-monks-on-second-thought/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1697747/
Throughout ages in India the term Siddhis is widely known.
It relates to superhuman powers that a practitioner of these disciplines gains over time. But it is also strongly advised to the adept not to use these powers to gain followers and to benefit his own ego , or harm others. Otherwise you are just preparing your own doom and destroying all the merits accumulated.
These powers include telepathy, mind reading and influencing, telekinesis, healing, remote viewing and some more unbelievable ones. But it depends on weather you believe that mind is able to manipulate and give form to light.
Here are some links to amazing studies being conducted on extra sensory perception, by scientists and researchers with high credentials.
https://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/search/search
https://noetic.org/research/fomr
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
And above all I really recommend watching this documentary if you are a sceptic but there is a part of you that really wants to believe that these stuff are true.
https://www.somethingunknown.com/
I guess that technological advancements are not the only way we are evolving. I see today's technology really primitive and sometimes pretty useless. We are quantum beings capable of performing miracles beyond what we can imagine. And my final remark will be a quote by one of the founders of quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg :
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
