is meditation spiritually dangerous?

Answer 1

Spirituality is born from a personal occurrence with a divine, mystical, or mediative state of one form or another which inevitably connects a person to All that Is/God/Goddess/Allah/Great Spirit /whatever you want to call it.

Religion is second hand opinion of someone else’s divine experience. I think you will find that religions, and especially fanatical religions, tend to separate and divide people, while spirituality brings people together.

Thank God that Spirituality is on the increase!

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Answer 2

I thought meditation was to spiritually transcend things, dangerous, only if you do it too long, and in your infinite wisdom you have collected though meditation realize that the world is full of ****, then I guess it could. But even the Buddha came to the realization that the purpose of life was suffering and was able to get over it, so I say go for it.

Answer 3

Not if you are meditating on things that are pure, lovely and from God,such as Jesus. If we were to spend more time in quiet and contemplative meditation, we should know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace. When Jesus is the theme, meditation is sweet indeed.

Isaac went out to meditate in the fields (Genesis 24:63) and found Rebekah, whom he later married. The Psalmist meditated on God's precepts and considered His ways (Psalm119: 15).

In fact, just thinking about this has reminded me how good it is to tune out from the daily hustle and bustle and quietly meditate upon God's Word. I'm going to sign off now and recharge my spiritual batteries. I suggest you do the same!

Answer 4

You bring up a good question. Meditation can be very good and even directed to do so in the Bible. But, for the unwary, it could lead them astray into mysticism or worse.

I suggest you meditate on the scriptures, specifically Jesus teachings. Ponder them and focus on the greatness of God. Christ himself went out to the quiet places to meditate and focus on his purpose here. This is where Jesus drew his strength from, his time alone with the Father.

Joshua 1:8
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 48:9
Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love

Psalm 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts; then I will meditate on your wonders

These were from NIV on www.biblegateway.com with a keyword search on meditate. There are more, but I will let you look them up. Also search meditation.

In the New Testament I could not find meditation, but the last scripture I believe sums up meditation as far as I am concerned.

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Answer 5

Let me answer your question with a question. Do you think that having a quiet peacefull mind and knowing youself and ultimately God through your inner self is dangerous? I'm sorry but this is probably one of the most "un-informed" questions I have ever heard asked. I am not calling you ignorant but maybe you need to open your eyes and mind a bit more.

Answer 6

For Christians we read in the Bible that we are not to meditate repetitively. But rather to meditate on the word of God. Fill your mind with Biblical scriptures and think about them.

Which means don't empty your mind but rather fill it and chew the cud on the words you find in it.

My opinion of meditation is that empty minds can be filled with all sorts of instability's and humans need stability. The mind operates in such a way that it needs order to evolve it's thoughts.

I really think that Christians should not be meditating in the emptying sense and I think the bible is clear on this. Meditate on the word of God thinking about what it means and asking God to help you understand with a revelation of truth in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Answer 7

It depends on what you are meditating on!
You could be meditating on murder, so that would = dangerous!
or you could meditate on your faith, and that has been found to be good for you, so really it depends on what way you use it, like everything else in life.

Answer 8

Not at all. Meditation, along with prayer, is a method by which we can transcend the "self" and experience union with the infinite, whether we call that infinite "God" or "shuyata" or "Unio Mystico"

Answer 9

Absolutely not. if it is, then your own mind is also spiritually dangerous. I can't see that meditation is that diffeent to prayer.

Answer 10

Let me meditate on this stupid question for a minute.