The Light of Awareness: A Journey into Mystical Meditation

When I was 23, I learned a meditation practice that was rooted in Tibetan mysticism. It was THE spiritual experience I was looking for. Not experience as in a single one-off high, but rather a practice that continued to unfold since then.

This practice is an open-eyed meditation practice where you split your attention on 3 things: yourself (your energy, your emotions, your internal world), the object of concentration, and the space around you. As one begins to quiet their mind, their awareness begins to manifest as visible light. This starts as astral energies, maybe some shifting occurs with the material world, and ultimately fills the space with white, gold, and then clear light.

Traditionally this is a very lifelong dedicated practice in order to achieve this mystical state of awareness. Of which I of course had no desire to wait 20 years to experience, so I found a teacher and was immersed on day 1.

The teacher meditates with the student which accelerates the student's progress through the tuning fork effect. The teacher holds an energetic vibration & state of consciousness, which is transmitted to the student and the student can ride that wave to advance their practice so they can make progress faster and then integrate it through their personal practice alone at home.

The core foundation of the at-home practice I established was meditating with a mirror. The 3 points are present still: myself (self), my reflection (the object) and the space (the room, and everything in between me and the mirror).

The mirror meditation connects one's awareness with one's essence. The individual as a result is immersed in the quintessence which we all share (light).

The light is the manifestation of our awareness. The more aware of our essence we become, the brighter our awareness reflects and manifests to us. It is only the ego & the personality that dilutes this. By rooting our awareness in our essence, we begin to draw pure energy, creativity, and inspiration from that place. This is the eternal wellspring that Jesus wrote about and the garden of the philosophers spoken of in the alchemical tradition.

When we consciously exercise our attention by meditating on our awareness directly, we create space from the mind, ego, and personality. This creates shifts and reforms our consciousness. As a result our worlds & experience of reality begins to shift, change and evolve around us. This is because what we call reality is forming in response to where attention is placed, the extent of our awareness, and the energetic vibrations we emit through our thoughts, actions and emotions.

Herein lies the practicality of mysticism: the direct experience, knowledge, and eventual understanding of the sacred universe. Mysticism is not a religion, a cult, or even a spiritual path. It is a way of life that reconnects us to our true essence while also progressing our evolutionary path as an individually conscious spiritual being. The aims of the mystical path are not to chase the high or the next trip, but rather to allow presence to become the normal operating mode in our lives. When we can actively choose to invoke our presence at will, we further embody our essence as we center ourselves in that space. As a result of perpetually embodying more of our essence, we actualize our dharma in the world both day to day and in the journey of life. It is our essence that carries our dharmic imprint at a vibrational level and the more present we are to the essence which is the source of our being & attention, we allow the truest part of ourselves to flower and unfold more and more until that is all there is.

Mystical meditation in light dissolves the impressions and conditioning of the world because we allow the essence to flow and wash away the rigid structures & paradigms created by society & culture. As we begin to step more and more into the fullness of our essence, our dharma expresses itself at a larger and more obvious scale. When our dharma begins to unfold and manifest, our life becomes effortless flow, a continuum of presence, joy, and true happiness as a result of the inner peace we find in our essence.

Ultimately, I believe it is healing, purpose & inner peace that people are truly looking for when they begin to follow a spiritual path. For me, I've found that through mysticism and working with the teaching plants.

Maybe for you it is this + more.

The paths & choices are endless. My only advice is that if it doesn't bring you closer to your essence or exercise your attention to realize this source of your life, it's not leading anywhere truly fulfilling. Creating that discernment is also a part of your path as well...

If any of what I've shared with you today speaks to you, I'd like to invite you to an upcoming in-person evening class I'm hosting with my dear friend and teaching partner, Michelle, in West LA at the end of this month in August.

Please reply(Mystic) directly to this email and I'll reply to you directly with more information.

See you soon.

-Taylor