Many have well-developed conceptions about a variety of spiritual topics. While we respect people's beliefs, one's mental concepts are never equal to reality. Although one might read abundantly, it is an entirely different phenomenon to personally know something through investigation, experimentation, direct perception, and verification. Unless one has truly lived such experiences, then one cannot conceive anything remotely close to the true reality of such experiences. Unfortunately, many materialistic people deny the possibility of conscious perception beyond the physical senses, even though such states have been extensively documented throughout the world’s diverse religious, spiritual, and mystical traditions. Despite the abundance of such literature, people either blindly accept or reject what they have never experienced. While innumerable devotees venerate and believe in spiritual testimony, the irony lies in their rejection of such experiential possibilities within themselves, primarily due to the conviction that such mystical insights were only accessible to the few through divine grace. Contrary to such assumptions, the founders of religion taught how to experience divinity through practical methods, and by example, the means to convey that wisdom to others. The primary means of such realizations is meditation. Meditation is a state of perception in which all psychological conditions and afflictions cease, so that our consciousness can awaken to its innate nature and directly experience reality. Through comprehending the internal causes of disharmony and discord, the mind enters a profound state of tranquility through which divine insight can manifest. Since the abstract knowledge of spiritual cognition subsists beyond our physical senses, it is necessary to train the body to rest while activating our psychological senses, so that, exercised and developed, our consciousness can perceive the metaphysical truths contained within religious doctrine. For this precise reason, the science of meditation is indispensable. To those unpracticed in it, they can believe meditation is just sitting around thinking. This belief is also extremely far from the reality. In meditation, one awakens beyond the mind and lives the experiences of the inner worlds: the multidimensional structure of reality known as the Kabbalah that we access while we dream. One can even relive their past lives and experience firsthand the disciplines they learned, forgotten through the overpowering transition of death. Rather than believe in or deny the process of transmigration, one recalls and remembers the facts of previous incarnations. Such wisdom goes far beyond any concept or idea, since it is deeply personal, repeatable, and verifiable. Perhaps some have undervalued what meditative experiences can truly offer: vivid, living knowledge of reality, far beyond concepts. However, developing such a skill requires decades of training. Do you have the willpower and self-discipline to master it? Only in that way will you discover the reason why meditation has been highly venerated across the world for millennia, long before even the first religious, spiritual, and mystical writings were well-established, serving as a wisdom tradition on which any esoteric, initiatic order could be founded. Who or what can guarantee that concept and reality are exactly the same thing? Begin Your Journey Beyond Beliefs:Meditation Essentials
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