Only for people who believe in meditation, visualization, and stuff like that...What do you think this means?

Question

Usually when I meditate I cross a swinging bridge, but tonight the bridge was arced and sturdy. And everything in my meditation was easier to do tonight, but I haven't done anything different. I mean, I'm in the same place, I sat in the same position, and it was the same time as usual. I also envisioned a deity, which has never happened before. I'm not a polytheist or a member of any specific religion, in fact, I'm pretty much agnostic.
The meditation I use is a little hodge podge. It's mostly a Wiccan meditation with a little from a couple of other systems thrown in, in case that helps. Please, serious answers only.

In the books I got this from, it is listed under the heading of meditation, so that is what I refer to it as.

Answer 1

You have constructed a stronger bridge for yourself, meaning you have moved closer to and developed a deeper relationship with your higher self. The deity you saw is probably a representation of your higher self.

Relax and enjoy your next level of attainment in your meditations.

Namaste

Answer 2

This reminds me of my experience with meditation and seeing a "ghost." The fact is I am not sure if I saw a ghost or merely daydreamed the experience. What I do know is that it did not happen until I had spent nearly a month in relatively strict ascetic stoic meditations with some elements of yoga meditation (pre-pop-yoga movement). Not having had any sexual activity of food indulgence for over a month, seeing a face surface out of a wall did not entirely surprise me, but what did bother me was the look of dismay of the ghost at being noticed and how it turned and fled. There was no clear message from this event, but it bothered me enough that I decided I needed to give up being so austere with myself and enjoy some ice cream... and do some other things. Anyhow, it could have been a hallucination what with me punishing my body as I was with deprivations... Obviously, hallucinations may be achieved other ways, so I wouldn't discount that possibility either - particularly if there was no real meaning ascribed to the event that you'd need to ask random strangers what it meant...

Answer 3

(I have a lot of experience with meditation, but only a little with visualizations; so this is offered just as the impression I get.)

Sounds positive. Sounds like some part of you is growing in strength and clarity.

If it continues to strengthen and stabilize, at some point I would consider seeing what it is like to view the meditative scene from the perspective of the deity ... similar to what I understand Tibetans to do in "deity yoga" ... seeing what feelings or understandings come up when you identify with that figure in your vision.

On the other hand, I am reminded of an (exaggerated) expression sometimes used in Zen: "Yesterday's enlightenment is today's poison." By that they mean we can end up getting in the way of our own growth process if we try to insist on getting a past experience to happen for us again exactly the same way.

And the Christian principle of "testing the spirits" I think is wholesome -- namely, not to judge something necessarily good or bad by itself, but to see if the effects from it in our life seem positive.

I have often found myself making the same effort from one meditation to the next, but having very different results. It's not a just direct reflection of our conscious expectations. Other, non-conscious yet intelligent processes can come into it (like the non-conscious part of us that creates our dreams).

Best wishes.
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Answer 4

I agree with Poorna, that it is neither good nor bad, and you should keep up your practice. As for the practice of meditation itself, it depends on where you want to get. If you point your car towards California, you are not going to arrive in New York. It is most important that you supplement your meditation with study and this way you will be sure to attain your goal. More succinctly, you should have a particular reason for meditating, if it is to have far-out experiences and some kind of mystical, fantastic visions and this kind of thing, that is what you will get; and it will, most likely, be some kind of Alice-in-Wonderland sort of experience like being drunk or going to the movies, which, in the end, is "worldly," and is not at all going to bring you deeper or more profound experiential wisdom, which can have a positive influence on your actions (like increasing them with equanimity, love and compassion) and thereby, increase your feeling of well-being and reduce your experience of suffering and enable you to be of benefit to others and so forth. The hodge-podge approach can only get you so far, too; and sooner or later, you are going to come against the metaphysics of a particular practice and have to make a choice. After all, you can't ride more than one horse at a time! Study. Study. Study. This is of critical import and something that is of enormous benefit to your mental continuum - which will, beyond doubt, increase your wisdom - both intellectual and experiential. Please remember, meditation and study increase your wisdom, which informs your actions, which improves your wisdom and helps modify your behavior, and these, alternately, reinforce one another like the two wings (method and wisdom) of a bird help it fly across the ocean (of suffering.) Best wishes for your true happiness.

Answer 5

Meditation is consciously watching your mind.
Or focusing your mind on particular point.

For a beginner, first he will go to sleepy stage where he may start dreaming.
Once his body sets in tune with routine, regular sleep, then he will become more conscious.
In this state, dreaming will not be there, and he will become more sensitive to sound and whatever he has collected all through the life( in his subconscious) will come out one by one.
In this state he will be little bit tensed, irritated even he may get angry for no reason.
He has to wait with patience.
This is called process of cleansing the mind.
Till one attain this state, one should not give any importance to anything that happens while meditating.
Now what you have experienced implies that you are moving to next state of conscious.
You have lost the consciouness and gone to sleepy state thats why you are getting some visualization.
confusions, desires of your mind only coming as visualization.
So dont try to find any particular meaning.
It is meaningless.
Just put it aside and go on meditating.
Anyhow you are on the right path.
I am meditating for the past 15 years.
All the best.

Answer 6

I think that since you have meditated before, perhaps that your meditation has become more effective with practice. Perhaps visualizing a deity also helped. I also think it is more important what YOU think than what anyone else thinks.

I think that visualizing a deity seems like part of the change in you meditation. I would try it again when you feel the spirit is moving you, and visualize the deity again, and see what happens. Meditation and visualization are learned each day. I think you are on your way and doing a great job!

Answer 7

When we do a thing at approximately the same time, whether once a day, or a week...it sort of sets up an energy pocket (very simple terms here). This is like putting your DVD player on PAUSE. It stays ready for you to return.

Mind is elastic, thus highly responsive, and once you start to exercise it, you "stretch" it into more and more creativity. You don't just "envision", you create. The forms you see are your creations, or your thought-forms.

I would allow the visions to continue "evolving", but with the understanding that "I am doing this." I would not be concerned about deities, or other things that seem to contradict...this shows me that mind is responding.

Answer 8

Meditation in a harmonious place is an easy way to have contact with God. Meditate some more. Practice makes perfect.

I am a convert to Wicca from Old High Church Lutheranism. I accept Jesus as a great Gnostic teacher and thank Luther for allowing me to understand there is direct communication available to the individual. The One is seen in many faces, or masks, tailored to the individual worshiper. I know Buddha, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato etc and accept them all as fellow seekers of the Light of Higher Knowledge.

I like to take Rand ,Aristotle Emerson, Thoreau, Melville,Gnostisism, Luther and run them through my blender. Take the best from each and continue to seek the One.

I prefer the Celtic traditions of the seasons and holidays and the astrological side of Wicca. Harmony in Nature, God in Beauty. The threefold rule etc. I worship the Muses, Dianna and Apollo. Mars and Venus. Same God just different ways of communication with us mere humans.

Merlin is my patron guide.

Seek and you will find.

Astral Dreaming is within your reach.

Kant said, "Dare to Know".

Answer 9

Darling, that is no meditation. Meditation is to focus your mind into expanding your consciousness. What you do is to visualize things to try to experience paranormal visions, etc. That is no meditation.

Anyway, it means nothing. You just had a wake-dream. And I am being serious. I do meditate, and what you describe is no meditation at all. You did not have a supernatural contact with a Divinity. You just experienced some of the content of your subconscious.

Edit: About the interpretation, I agree with Fluffy Wisdom.
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Answer 10

You've been in the process of (although you might not know it) training yourself to higher consciousness and it sounds like you are doing very well. It's going to continue to get easier too. You are awakening things - abilities - in your subconscious mind that will prove to serve you well. I encourage you to keep on with this because you are doing yourself a lot of good as you will soon see. Your visions will get more intense, you will, if you haven't already, start to become aware of astral travel. This is all good. ALL good. :)