There will be a constant upward flow of energy coursing through your entire system. When you get really open, it will flow out various energy centers like your heart, the point between your eyebrows, and the palms of your hands. You will become a being of light, a being of energy. That is when the energy is free to flow—when it is not obstructed by

Thus the entire universe was without form for about 380 thousand years. After that, the radiation cooled down enough to where the fundamental forces of gravity and electromagnetism could pull the subatomic particles together to form the first atoms.

Once you create thoughts about what you want and don’t want, and how to force the world to be that way, you will never be okay inside. You will lose much of the great power of abstract thought because you cannot abstract from yourself. Life will become a battle between reality and your mental preferences. This use of mind is called the personal min

Some people turn mala beads during meditation, others do mantra. These are just ways to help keep your consciousness on something other than your wandering thoughts.

There is a higher level of our being, and those lower energies can be raised up. You have access to a much higher way to deal with inner energies than to simply step aside and let them express. That doesn’t mean they should be suppressed. Your choices are not limited to expression or suppression. As we will discuss, there’s a third choice, transmut

This is a very important spiritual practice. You should be able to look back on your past and say, “Thank you.”

The truth is the whole world is a giant Rorschach test. The world is a flow of atoms unfolding in front of you. It’s no more personal than the inkblots. But it’s hitting your samskaras, and that stimulates stored mental and emotional reactions. Now, instead of experiencing what is passing by outside, you are experiencing the likes, dislikes, belief

The reason you sit down to meditate is to learn how to remain conscious inside while your mind creates thoughts and your heart creates emotions. Whatever is going on in there is fine—as long as you can objectively observe it. This is called mindful meditation.

Our scientists have shown us that the whole universe comes down to energy. Thoughts and emotions are simply energy vibrating at such high rates that machines can’t detect them.