{"id":8282,"date":"2013-06-01T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2013-05-29T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:24:10","slug":"meditation-moment-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2013\/06\/01\/meditation-moment-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Meditation on Oneness<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’s easy to say that we are one, and easy to believe it intellectually.\u00a0 This meditation is for helping us experience that oneness.<\/p>\n

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To begin, I’m going to tell you a story.<\/p>\n

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Last week I had to fly on a plane for the first time in 18 years.\u00a0 While I was sitting in my window seat, looking at my home state through the haze of turquoise sky, I felt my awareness expand the way it does in meditation and trance.\u00a0 I looked at the people on the plane with me.\u00a0 I listened to their voices, their laughter, their breath, and in my minds’ eye I saw their essence, that bright spark of childhood wonder that we never lose, though we might bury it deeply.\u00a0 Maternal love, unconditional love, overwhelmed me.\u00a0 I opened my palms and envisioned pink and gold light streaming from my hand chakras, filling the entire plane with that maternal, unconditional love, and I sat with that feeling as long as I could hold it.\u00a0 In that moment, I felt our oneness.\u00a0 I was aware that I did not know any of the strangers on the plane consciously, but unconsciously, at the atomic level, we were all the same energy.\u00a0 We were all connected.\u00a0 We were all one.\u00a0 And that was a beautiful meditation, so beautiful; I want to share it with you.<\/p>\n

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Read through this meditation once, and when you are ready to try it, close your eyes.<\/p>\n

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Feel in your center the Divine spark, the source of all your love, joy, and growth.\u00a0 Allow that spark to take over your perception.\u00a0 Feel it expand.\u00a0 See the subatomic particles and the energy, like stars in a galaxy, ever moving, ever constant.\u00a0 Like the scene in the Matrix when all Neo sees is green code on black, except for you in looks like white, gold, silver, rainbow stars.<\/p>\n

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See yourself made of stars.\u00a0 See the child you were, still alive with wonder deep inside you, and let her see herself made of stars.\u00a0 Let yourself fill up with her wonder and joy.\u00a0 Let yourself fill up with Love.\u00a0 And now expand that love to strangers.\u00a0 Expand it to encompass the whole world and every one and everything in it.\u00a0 Hold on to that love and wonder as long as you can.<\/p>\n

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Then open your eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A Meditation on Oneness   It’s easy to say that we are one, and easy to believe it intellectually.\u00a0 This meditation is for helping us experience that oneness.   To begin, I’m going to tell you a story.   Last week I had to fly on a plane for the first time in 18 years.\u00a0 While I was sitting in my window seat, looking at my home state through the haze of turquoise sky, I felt my awareness expand the way it does in meditation and trance.\u00a0 I looked at the people on the plane with me.\u00a0 I listened to their voices, their laughter, their breath, and in my minds’ eye I saw their essence, that bright spark of childhood wonder that we never lose, though we might bury it deeply.\u00a0 Maternal love, unconditional love, overwhelmed me.\u00a0 I opened my palms and envisioned pink and gold light streaming from my hand chakras, filling the entire plane with that maternal, unconditional love, and I sat with that feeling as long as I could hold it.\u00a0 In that moment, I felt our oneness.\u00a0 I was aware that I did not know any of the strangers on the plane consciously, but unconsciously, at the atomic level, we were all the same energy.\u00a0 We were all connected.\u00a0 We were all one.\u00a0 And that was a beautiful meditation, so beautiful; I want to share it with you.   Read through this meditation once, and when you are ready to try it, close your eyes.   Feel in your center the Divine spark, the source of all your love, joy, and growth.\u00a0 Allow that spark to take over your perception.\u00a0 Feel it expand.\u00a0 See the subatomic particles and the energy, like stars in a galaxy, ever moving, ever constant.\u00a0 Like the scene in the Matrix when all Neo sees is green code on black, except for you in looks like white, gold, silver, rainbow stars.   See yourself made of stars.\u00a0 See the child you were, still alive with wonder deep inside you, and let her see herself made of stars.\u00a0 Let yourself fill up with her wonder and joy.\u00a0 Let yourself fill up with Love.\u00a0 And now expand that love to strangers.\u00a0 Expand it to encompass the whole world and every one and everything in it.\u00a0 Hold on to that love and wonder as long as you can.   Then open your eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}