Treasures of the Psyche and the Spirit

As we advance we find other more subtle treasures, pleasures of the Psyche and the Spirit. They are like wonderful butterflies and dazzling dawns, joys of the moment that can influence us a lot.

There was a time, many, many years ago, when almost everything was spiritual. Humanity considered everything as something alive, and saw everything, including itself, as something divine. Through millennia of attempts and failures, man developed a series of techniques to feel in himself and in the world a quality that was considered as the presence of divinity. Today we practice a large number of these techniques as meditation exercises.

Many things to which we attach extreme importance, probably those ancient people lent them, little attention, because they took them for granted. They had a different lifestyle, they lived in greater harmony with nature, they treated stress differently, and some attitudes and experiences were natural to us today, in our industrial culture, crowded and busy, we demand an effort .

For them, contact with nature and the perception of someone of high power was an integral and inextricable part of everyday life. The first reason to think that it was like this is because they developed exercises that have lasted through the centuries. The second reason, and I think it is the most important, is that many children spontaneously have these magical, mystical, spiritual experiences, both with respect to the world and themselves, until they learn to think and to develop in a way that inhibits those perceptions.

These contacts, when they are perfected and clarified, can lead to the experience we call in different terms, such as Mistika, Satori, Kensho, Nirvana or Maravillosa. It has long been discovered that the practice of mental exercises, and sometimes specific physical favors those experiences. Those who have valued those experiences and the inner growth that these techniques have passed on have transmitted them generation after generation.

In some section the path is slippery, some seek the extais for their own benefit, without more, while others go further and use the exotic experience to illuminate their shadows and to impel them towards personal and spiritual growth. Side effects, treasures found along the way, because originally the main objectives of meditation were, and still are for many, the experience of ecstasy and the resulting psychological and spiritual growth.

Although today we separate the concepts of Psyche and Spirit, it is increasingly recognized that meditation is decisive in personal growth. It helps to overcome psychological obstacles and to stabilize emotional reactions, as well as to have a more precise vision, both of oneself and of others.