Joseph j weed biography of william

When meditating in a group the hands should be unclasped resting palms down upon the knees, but when meditating alone they may sometimes be clasped according to the instructions given in the monograph under study.

At first our meditation exercise is but little more than this – an exercise. Many students are of the opinion that meditation is just thinking about a thought or an object or an idea.

This is what Moses, in His wisdom, warned against in the Third Commandment when He said, "Do not take the name of the Lord in vain." But now the time is rapidly approaching when men can and should reclaim this mental power which has been lost and forgotten for so many centuries. Many young people have unusual powers of concentration particularly upon projects which interest them, but unfortunately lose them when exposed to the attractions and distractions of life today.

Sentimentality is not involved here – or should not be. Eventually we achieve a fair degree of success and we are then ready for the next step. A clear, accurate and detailed picture maintained in the mind's eye for a minute or two has a very powerful tendency to project itself into a physical manifestation.

It is important that the spine be straight, not curved or bent, and that the head be held erect, not hanging forward, or falling back, or tipped to one side. In the early stages of personal meditation, this instruction is given as the best technique available to the student at that stage of his development; in group meditation it is designed to promote attunement, an opening of the consciousness so that there may be a flow and interplay between the psychic bodies and minds of the various members of the group.

This is will in action, but, unfortunately the objects of these sacrifices, these unusual demonstrations of will power and will control, are nearly always tinged with selfishness. All meditation starts with concentration, but when the concentration begins to relax and the mind begins to wander, the student slips into passive meditation. Aspiration should permeate and flavor all of our esoteric work.

Avoid sentimentality. And the second significance is that we may now begin to meditate intuitively. Aspiration stirs the heart energy and this can lead one into sentimentality if one is not aware. Creative workers in Hierarchy perform all three of these tasks simultaneously and proceed onward to higher forms of meditation.

But we must first learn these forms one by one, step by step.

This is the pattern for meditation. Thus, he never falls into a dream state and the higher contacts he makes do not present themselves as stories or vague dreams, but as ideas and inspirations that come clear-cut into his consciousness. One of these is sentiment. He was president of Weed Television Corporation, and Van Drenthem International Ltd.

In 1932 Mr.

Weed affiliated with the Rosicrucian Order AMORC and was continuously active in its affairs, subsequently being appointed Grand Councilor with responsibility for the North Atlantic States.

In 1938 he began to lecture on these subjects and delivered nearly 200 lectures to audiences in cities throughout the United States and Canada.

As he matured he continued his study in the teachings of the Agni Yoga Society and the Arcane School.

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This is accomplished by the process of visualization.