Opposing Forces

One question that might arise concerning the concept of Active Meditation is; How can you advocate the idea of sitting quietly, attempting to find your center which would seem to be a state of being inactive and still call this active? There are only two things in the Universe that don’t move, the Infinite and the Observer. But, even these aspects of existence are not actually dormant which would mean that they would not exist at all. Thus, as it says in the Gita, it is not really possible to sit and do nothing, nor should you endeavor to do so for a sustained period because if you were successful at reaching the ultimate goal of doing nothing you would cease to exist.

One of the primary goals of Active Meditation is to simply switch your awareness from the motion of the physical, to that of the motion of the higher forms. When you watch a wheel revolve, you will notice that the speed of the rotation where the tread meets the ground (the physical plane) appears to be much faster than the speed of rotation at the hub of the wheel. Thus, by moving your attention towards the hub you will find that your physical activity will slow down but it is impossible to actually “stop” the motion completely.

As you move closer and closer to the hub of the wheel, you will actually become aware of the sensation that time is slowing down. At the very center of the wheel it seems to come to a complete stop. You may come to be aware of the nature of time as it is relative to the density of matter and spirit. The effect of this situation becomes very apparent when you are in the presence of greater beings like Mary, Jesus or the Father. In the state of ecstasy time appears to come to a complete stop.

To put this phenomenon in the context of physics, based on my own experience, if you slow down the denser motion through meditation chanting or the like, mass becomes less and energy is increased. As this happens you will feel this rise in energy which must be dissipated or used in some way. The use of the energy is what I am calling Active Meditation in that when you reach a certain level of awareness, you can learn to manipulate this higher form of energy.