Spiritual Attunement through Meditation
Aug 28, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation. Episode #139: The What and Why of Meditation, From the Edgar Cayce Readings. Today I’ll be Sharing information from the 1975 book titled Meditation and the…
In each case, the focus is upon an attunement process, which involves the aligning or harmonizing of the body, mind, and soul of man.
Such an attunement makes it possible for man to attune the spirit within to the universal spirit.
Reading 281-41 says, Reading 281-13 says, says, meditation is emptying self of all that hinders the creative forces from rising along the natural channels of the physical man to be disseminated through those centers and sources that create the activities of the physical, the mental, the spiritual man.
properly done must make one stronger mentally and physically.
There are certain concepts expressed in these definitions that should be emphasized.
First is the word natural.
Meditation is not to be understood as an attempt by man to create physical, mental, or spiritual experiences that he is not meant to have.
The creative energies within man seek to flow upward and lift his consciousness.
The drive to raise one's consciousness is just as natural, or indeed more natural, than the physical drives of the body, such as hunger and thirst.
Reading 5754-3 says, don't seek for unnatural or supernatural.
It is the natural.
It is nature.
It is God's activity, his associations with man, his desire to make for man a way for an understanding.
A second significant concept in these definitions is that there exists that which can hinder or block man's contact with the spiritual source.
The process of meditation relates directly to how one can deal with these hindrances.
One might think of such hindrances as the accumulation of thought forms, desire patterns, and their accompanying physical processes.
These limiting and selfish patterns are built throughout the history of the soul.
Meditation is emptying self of all that hinders or letting go of our involvement with those patterns that would limit us in favor of a higher pattern that will restore the awareness of our true nature.
The readings indicate that these same thought patterns, which create an obstacle in meditation, are involved in the process of the attraction of the soul back into the earth time and again.
As we deal with these patterns in meditation, we are beginning to free ourselves from the cycle of incarnations.
A definition of meditation from The Secret of the Golden Flower emphasizes this point.
The circulation of the light is not only the circulation of the seed blossom of the individual body, but it is even the circulation of the true creative formative energies.
It is not a momentary fantasy, but the exhaustion of the cycle of soul migrations of all the eons.
Perhaps the most concise yet comprehensive definition is that meditation is the practicing of the first part of the great commandment.
In each case, the focus is upon an attunement process, which involves the aligning or harmonizing of the body, mind, and soul of man.
Such an attunement makes it possible for man to attune the spirit within to the universal spirit.
Reading 281-41 says, Reading 281-13 says, says, meditation is emptying self of all that hinders the creative forces from rising along the natural channels of the physical man to be disseminated through those centers and sources that create the activities of the physical, the mental, the spiritual man.
properly done must make one stronger mentally and physically.
There are certain concepts expressed in these definitions that should be emphasized.
First is the word natural.
Meditation is not to be understood as an attempt by man to create physical, mental, or spiritual experiences that he is not meant to have.
The creative energies within man seek to flow upward and lift his consciousness.
The drive to raise one's consciousness is just as natural, or indeed more natural, than the physical drives of the body, such as hunger and thirst.
Reading 5754-3 says, don't seek for unnatural or supernatural.
It is the natural.
It is nature.
It is God's activity, his associations with man, his desire to make for man a way for an understanding.
A second significant concept in these definitions is that there exists that which can hinder or block man's contact with the spiritual source.
The process of meditation relates directly to how one can deal with these hindrances.
One might think of such hindrances as the accumulation of thought forms, desire patterns, and their accompanying physical processes.
These limiting and selfish patterns are built throughout the history of the soul.
Meditation is emptying self of all that hinders or letting go of our involvement with those patterns that would limit us in favor of a higher pattern that will restore the awareness of our true nature.
The readings indicate that these same thought patterns, which create an obstacle in meditation, are involved in the process of the attraction of the soul back into the earth time and again.
As we deal with these patterns in meditation, we are beginning to free ourselves from the cycle of incarnations.
A definition of meditation from The Secret of the Golden Flower emphasizes this point.
The circulation of the light is not only the circulation of the seed blossom of the individual body, but it is even the circulation of the true creative formative energies.
It is not a momentary fantasy, but the exhaustion of the cycle of soul migrations of all the eons.
Perhaps the most concise yet comprehensive definition is that meditation is the practicing of the first part of the great commandment.
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