I’ve written a lot about meditation before, and in this post I’d like to talk about something different that I do from time to time. You see, where many people like to go to a movie or watch the television, I use my meditating power to create my own “holodeck in my mind” to do anything I want to do.
I call this a “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” meditation, because I start by closing my eyes, start meditating in something like a savasana style, and then mentally go out through the back of a closet in a house I used to live in.
A cavern with a recliner
Once I come out the other side of the closet, I come to a path, where I take an elevator ten stories down into my mind, and that brings me to a Star Trek-like holodeck, as shown in this image:
As shown, the holodeck has a virtual recliner where I can sit, relax, and start doing anything I want.
Do whatever you want in your personal holodeck
In the holodeck I can do whatever I want, but I usually invite all the dogs I have known in this lifetime (like Zeus) to appear, and then we have some bones and pets, and then they run free in a big, open field:
While they do that, I sit in my virtual recliner, close those virtual eyes, and do whatever I want to do that day. I can go deeper into my meditation, fly, and generally do anything I want.
You get faster over time
This used to take a long time to achieve — 30 to 40 minutes or more — but now, when I’m feeling good, I can get to the holodeck in a minute or two.
So I guess the moral to the story is that if you work at this consistently you can get better and faster at it, and use it however you want to. I suspect most people would go to a beach or maybe somewhere back in time, but this is where I usually go.
This reminds me of a quote I saw in a Ram Dass book: “Just as water wears away stone over time, daily practice thins the veil of illusion.”
Meditating can be fun!
As a last note, I’ve written this before, but meditating can be fun, and this shows just one example of what you can do!
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