The Power of Psychic-Awareness
By Kingdon L. Brown
(Parker Publishing; 1969)
Library of Congress # 73-76180

Chapter 5: How to Live the Life You Want Through Psychic Illumination

pp. 120-124

How To Meditate For Complete Cosmic Illumination

First Week

1. Your meditation room should be clean, quiet, and free from distractions and interruptions.
2. Eat sparingly before meditation, taking care to prepare your food with light seasoning and as close to the natural state as possible for easy digestion. The temperature in the meditation room should be cool but comfortable and well ventillated.
3. Sit upright but relaxed with eyes closed. Watch your breathing to see that it is even. Feet should be flat on the floor and hands together in your lap. Clothing should be loose and shoes removed.
4. If you’ve practiced rgular meditation you need not repel negation or dwell on the positive. Don’t think of good or bad, happy or sad. Don’t concentrate or work at meditating. Just let your thought “be”. Relax. Put your tongue at the roof of your mouth. Close your lips and teeth.
5.Create a pinpoint of light in your mind’s eye about six inches from your forehead. Don’t force it. Let it appear, gradually.
6. Let the light gradually grow until it is a sphere which surrounds your entire body. Picture yourself as seated in the middle of the sphere, in suspension, touching neither floor nor ceiling.
7. Feel the power, protection, and energy of the sphere.
8. Feel yourself as the sphere. You ARE the sphere.
9. Let the sphere, as you, grow until it becomes the world; then the universe. You are the world and the universe.
10. Then, let the sphere reduce in size, gradually, until it is the pinpoint of light. Then let the light dissolve. Relax.

The entire exercise as outlined above should take an hour. It should be performed daily at about the same time for one week.

Second Week

During the second week you can conduct your breathing meditation. Follow steps 1-5 above.

6. Take a deep breath. Hold it for five seconds. Exhale slowly and deeply. Repeat this exercise for the first several minutes of your meditation.
7. During the net twenty minutes examine the pinpoint of light without concentrating on it or forcing your attentin at it. Observe it and its meaning in relation to you.
8. During the final twenty minutes let the pinpoint of light dissolve slowly unitl it disappears into infinity. Do this slowly.
9. Just before you conclude your meditation let your attention rest on your heartbeat, observe its regularity, be one with it.

Third Week

During the third week you are ready for your conceptualization exercise. This is perhaps the most difficult of all. But, it can also be the most interesting. Follow steps 1-5 above.

6. Observe the meaning of love. Don’t thinka bout it or concentrate on it. Observe it. Observe its meaning without thinking of a specific person or thing, or happening, or previous experience. If necessary, think of the distilled meaning of your experience with it. Keep your mind away from the specific. Allow yourself to feel abstractly its full meaning. Try not to think in words or mental pictures. Just relax and let yourself feel the meaning, just pure feeling. Let it grow within.
7. Observe the meaning of Freedom.
8. Observe the meanign of Oneness.
9. Observe the meaning of Light.

This exercise should take about one hour. You can rotate the three exercises from week to week but it is a good idea to do one exercise for an entire week at a time before using oen of the others.

Meditational Suggestions

1. Avoid association with competitive people, criminals, and places which pose physical danger of any kind.

2. Dress comfortably but not elegantly.

3. Regulate your sleep and your rest. Leave time for both. You may read while you rest as long as it is not difficult reading or emotionally charged material. It should not require mental effort.

4. Do not waste your time trying to explaing what is happening to you. If you must discuss your experiences do so with a fellow student or teacher.

5. Do not meditate when you are nervous or tired.

6. If it helps you to relax, bathe before medtiation.

7. Maintain your health and a balanced diet. Drink alcoholic beverages only in moderation.

8. Do not think of good or bad, past or future, positive or negative.

9. Do not expect results immediately or look for telltale signs of progress.

10. If you feel dizzy, stand, move your chair, and change your position in the room.

11. If you feel sick stop for a few minutes.

12. Do not be surprised if you hear sounds or see visions. Simply remain detached and be an observer of the idea of meditation. But, you should remain aloof and cool as the experience of meditation is taking place. Enthusiasm is fine outside the meditation room but while you are being mystically recharged your view should be one of acceptance and calm.

13. If you miss a meditation don’t try to make the time up. Thereis no way to speed the process. Just resume where you left off.

The Five Intellectual Realizations In Cosmic Illumination

After you have practiced meditation for Cosmic Illumination, several realizations will take place in your conscious, reasoning mind. These will take place outside your meditation but will be the result of it. They are related to the characteristics of Complete Cosmic Illumination. The characteristics are functionally true; that is, they are characteristics which are active in your life operating within your prsonality. But, the intellectual realizations arethe verbal descriptions of Cosmic Illumination. You come to accept these as true by your logical consideration of your many experiences. The five most common realizations are:

1. Rejection of the material world as the only basis for reality.

2. Acceptance of the spiritual self, or the nonmaterial aspect of yourself.

3. Realization that all humanity is part of divinity.

4. Overcoming the limitations of the time-space axis, and living outside it.

5. Expression of your divine-consciousness as a “feeling for life”.