I decided to attempt a self-induced regression into the past. The procedure is adapted from what is given in a book. The body is made to relax completely but at the same time is alert without allowing it to sleep. The whole body is enclosed in a cocoon of alertness. There is no thought or image within that cocoon of body and mind. The empty space of the cocoon can expand endlessly into the whole universe and beyond. When a sort of reverence with euphoria enters that expanded space in the mind one is in a state of infinite expansion.
But what has that to do with regression? No incident of the past is coming to the mind, nor is the mind projecting into the future. I don’t find any, even after several attempts.
Of course, the procedure is very very pleasant and nice!
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Mental space expands endlessly when no thoughts are present in the mind. Alert attention without an object is then possible. Thoughts otherwise interfere with attention giving it an object.
Gods are, I think, toys for the mind/thought to play with so that attention can be made free to be diverted towards the infinite space of reverence.
I notice that disturbing thoughts come from restlessness – the restlessness created by the discomfort of the body in which the mind is imprisoned. One has to therefore go beyond the restlessness. In other words the attention has to function in spite of the restlessness, if the restlessness itself cannot be contained for some reason, may be congenital defect or due to chronic sickness. It is clearly difficult.
When thoughts are absorbed in the toy viz. a conceptual god, the mind freely expands. Expands to reality?
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