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How to use the meditations

1. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.

2. Read through the whole meditation a few times, then put it down.

3. Sit in a position both comfortable and alert.

4. Allow the meditation 10 minutes or so in your imagination. Do not give up before this time; stay with it.

5. Allow another 10 minutes for recording what happened. Allow events to develop as you record.
  MEDITATION 23
QUESTION TIME

If you had one question to ask God, what would it be? Any ideas?

Or perhaps you don't believe in a god; or not one you could name. Yet you still have questions.

Questions about – who knows? Do you?

Knowing your questions is important. If you don't know the question, you may not recognise the answer.

So today is question time – something you might want to ponder before starting the meditation.

As they say: ask a question, and appear a fool for five minutes. Don't ask a question and stay a fool for life.



IMAGINE

Imagine you are climbing a hill.

Go there now, and start walking. Is it an enjoyable climb – or a difficult one?

How are you feeling? And what questions do you carry inside you?

On reaching the top of the hill, you encounter something or someone.

Who or what do you meet?

It is to this figure, you put your questions. Perhaps you explain them as you do. And then you wait – you wait for an answer, however it comes.

It may be one word. It may be a sentence. It may not be words. But you wait. You ask your question and you wait.

What happens?

And later, you walk back down the hill. How do you feel?



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