I am welcomed into the tower by a wizened old man, an earth spirit; his room here on the bottom floor has rugs, incense, woven hangings. It is an earth-toned palatial hut. He is a fantastic artist in cloth and pottery. Another old man, nearly toothless, sits in a corner, grinning and grinning, and playing a stringed instrument with unearthly beauty.

My host leads me up stairs to the second level — a huge, dark empty space. I am unlear on why this is empty. Then we go up a rope ladder to the top of the tower, where we sit and have a smoke and look over the sea.

We talk: he has been incarnated physically many times, he says, and has enjoyed it, but is taking a break for a while. His talk is filled with long, comfortable silences.

As I leave, there is much thanking and your-welcoming; as a token of gratitude I give him a Pearl from my heart, and he kisses it and it bursts into a hundred tiny white ghostly butterflies that fly round my head.

Introducing

A New Package of

Downloadable Meditations for

Relaxation and Peace

Still waters run deep, everyone knows. And fast waters run shallow. Chances are, if you have not had the space and time in your life to be still, your world is too fast, and your life is too shallow.

It isn’t just that our modern lifestyle has made true relaxation and inner peace impossible. We’ve been running and working and striving for so long, so hard, that we’ve forgotten what true relaxation and inner peace are like — if we ever knew in the first place.

Imagine a field of soft green grass in the summertime. The birds are singing; the industrious insects buzz as they go about their summer business. There is gentle, warm breeze. The grass is soft; the sun is warm. There is a hint of the smell of honeysuckle coming from somewhere…

When you read those words, did you feel yourself to be there in the field? Could you really hear the birds? Could you really remember what a warm breeze feels like? Do you remember the smell of honeysuckle? More: do you feel what it would be like to be there in that field, simply enjoying the day, with no cares, no worries, nothing hanging over your head or dragging you away from that perfect place of simple enjoyment?

Maybe you’ve tried this. Maybe you’ve gone on a hike, or a tropical vacation, or a simple trip to the park, and tried to escape the troubles and pressures of life. But as you may have discovered, simply moving your body to a place of peace and quiet doesn’t mean that your mind goes along, too. Your mind can easily stay back at home, or at work, endlessly worrying and chewing on your fears.

Or maybe you’ve found peace in remote places, away from the pressures of your life, but when you return, you can’t bring that remote place with you. You fall back into the same pattern of rushing or worrying or striving.

This is where meditation, along with changes in lifestyle, can help.

Re-introducing yourself to peace and relaxation is a process that involves your mind, body, heart, and spirit. As with so many things in life, these elements are intertwined and mutually supporting. If you try to use only your willpower (for example) to change your habits, your heart won’t be in it, and you will fail. If you only use your body – by, say, traveling to a remote place – your mind and heart may remain behind. But if you bring all your resources to bear on this issue, their combined force will lead you to an overwhelming success.

So I’m delighted to offer here a complete package of resources to help you achieve the inner peace you need. The core of the package is eight guided meditations, spoken by myself, to help you reach both deep inside yourself and out beyond yourself to draw relaxation and peace here, to you in the center. Below, I describe each of the meditations and talk about how they work. From Golden Fields to The Labyrinth, they are set in order from simplest and easiest to most complex and rich. In this way, the set of meditations also acts as an excellent introduction to meditative practice. But the package also includes my 20-page Guide to Relaxation, Inner Peace, and Joy, which goes into detail about real, practical ways in which you can make changes throughout your physical and spiritual life to attract and generate the inner peace you need.

Since different people may need different things, I’m offering each meditation for sale separately, as well as the whole package together.  Regardless, all meditations and materials are available for a donation of any amount.

The package includes:

• Eight Meditations. In order from simplest and easiest to most complex and rich:
  • Golden Fields. A simple meditation designed to help you get started with visualization, as well as to bring deep physical and mental relaxation.
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  • Sunset at Stonehenge. Slightly more complex imagery than Golden Fields, designed to build visualization practice, and to connect more deeply with the peace of the world and ancient wisdom.
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  • Walking in the World. A meditation designed to be heard while you’re taking a walk. Step by step, I help you focus your awareness on your moving body and the world around you.
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  • Movement and Affirmation. Another moving meditation, this one designed to be done at a faster pace. As you move, I provide statements of affirmation, relaxation, and positive energy.
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  • Dawn at the Pyramids. A meditation for gathering forces at the beginning of the day. It starts in darkness, and ends with the blazing colors of morning in the desert.
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  • Dusk Among the Redwoods. A meditation for releasing and relaxing at the end of the day. It begins with the sun setting into the ocean, and concludes with a camp in the midst of a redwood grove.
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  • The Zen Garden. A meditative walk through a Japanese garden, culminating in a Zen rock garden. The visualization is interspersed with Buddhist affirmations of universal compassion and joy.
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  • The Labyrinth. Walk through a maze of hedges, a labyrinth of possibility and manifestation. At the end of the meditation you will reach the center of the Labyrinth, where you will find a treasure to help you in your waking life.
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• Free Meditation Transcriptions.
  • Full text of all meditations is downloadable here for your analysis and contemplation.
• The 20-page Guide to Relaxation, Inner Peace, and Joy. Step by step, the Guide shows you how to revamp your relationship to your body, your soul, and your place on Earth at this time.
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Purchasing.

As I mentioned above, there are two ways you can purchase these products.

1. Individually. Each meditation is downloadable separately for a donation of any amount. You can also download the 20-page Guide to Relaxation, Inner Peace, and Joy by itself in the same way. Unless you are experienced at meditation, it is probably wise to work with them in order of complexity. Here is the list again:
   1. Golden Fields.
   2. Sunset at Stonehenge.
   3. Walking in the World.
   4. Movement and Affirmation.
   5. Dawn at the Pyramids.
   6. Dusk Among the Redwoods.
   7. The Zen Garden.
   8. The Labyrinth.
   9. The 20-page Guide to Relaxation, Inner Peace, and Joy.
2. As a single package.  For convenience, you can download the entire thing at once.
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3. Download transcription of all meditations here.
   

Inner peace and complete relaxation are within the reach of all of us. It is no accident that people feel relaxed and invigorated near the ocean, and love to hear the rise and fall of the waves. Our lives resonate with the rhythm of the sea. We go through periods of activity and relaxation, of excitement and peace, like the rising and falling surf, or the more stately motion of the tides. We cannot go forward forever without pausing to regroup and regather ourselves. If you have pushed yourself too far up the beach, your forces thin and dissipated like seawater over sand, use these tips and meditations to draw back to the source, back to the origin, to rejuvenate and be reborn.

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A little way from the shore of the ocean is a rocky, sandy island, clothed in wind-beaten pines. It is the Isle of Smoke, the place I go to when I want to meditate on an intention manifestation. Today I’m standing at the far side of the island, where a tumble of rocks stands sentry at the edge of the sea.

But now a ghostly column of stones is rising from the rocky edge, and I can make out stairs carved into them. I hesitantly place a foot on the half-invisible stair… It holds my weight.

I climb. The stairs go almost directly up; sometimes I use my hands, as if it were a ladder. The island shrinks below me; I am far out and above the ocean. Higher and higher, and now I am leaving the very atmosphere behind — the blanket of air is gone, and I am climbing slowly up among the cold stars. I can feel the unbelievable cold, but it is simply there, not unpleasant or painful.

I climb a very long time, and then look down. The world is not round, but flat, small and square, a blue postage stamp almost lost in the black starscape. Still the stairs climb.

At last I stop. I’m not at the top yet, but I can’t climb any further. Somehow hanging here before me is a huge ghostly face, like the ones carved into Mt. Rushmore. Its eyes are half-lidded like a Buddha’s; it half-smiles, like Mona Lisa. A vast presence, so huge, so unchanging, so pervasive that it touches each of us, yet so familiar that we never notice it. Motionless, as if carved from stone.

I look around, and see other ghostly faces among the stars.

Here are the Elemental Powers, spirits of goodwill that bless us with a working world. Gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces, chemical bonds…

I sat on a blanket in the grass shortly before dawn, the dew falling. I was aware of the cold and the wet, but somehow I didn’t feel it. A dozen yards away is a cluster of rabbits, barely visible in the half-light, nibbling contentedly, alert, calm.

I see a fairy princess approaching. She is about one foot high, translucent and ghostly, clad in a silver gown, with pearly jewels and crown.

What is your purpose here? she asks. Her words do not disturb the air.

I come in peace and fellowship.

Be welcome, then.

And now I can see the other fairies — banquet tables are laid out on the lawn, and they are feasting, talking, laughing in silver voices. The rabbits move among them, eating their own feast alongside them in fellowship.

I walk among the tables, too, for now I am the same size as they are — or perhaps size is simply undefined… They nod and greet me as I pass.

A young boy of the Good Folk is standing a little apart on a small rise, watching the sun coming, lost in thought. I greet him, and he offers me a gift: a fairy flute. Gratefully I put it to my lips. The sound of the flute is the same sound the sun makes when it rises…

In return, I reach into my heart and pull out a marble-sized pearl of purpose. He takes it with delight.

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Note: I did this meditation just after listening to my recording of the meditation for Loving Kindness, so I was at a very “high vibration”. So make of this what you will:

I was sitting on a beach, the waves crashing, flashing and glittering in the late morning sun. The ocean was like a sea of heaving light. As I sat watching, a young woman came walking up the beach towards me. She had a deep tan, and wore loose light clothes, orange and red. She came up and sat down by me, and I saw that her face was apple-shaped, open, honest, and smiling.

“I am a messenger,” she said. “I’m here to tell you that the time of freedom and joy is coming; it is coming soon. There will be universal peace and happiness, very soon.”

“I’ve heard this message before,” I said. “I want to believe it. But how can I know it is true?”

“Listen to your heart,” she said. “You know it’s true.”

“What sign can you give me?” I asked.

She held out her hand and gave me a tiny crystalline structure; it was alive, forming different shapes as I watched it, like a tesseract.

I was rowing a tiny boat out to sea, rowing hard, rowing urgently. Behind me land was a smudge on the edge of vision. The waves were choppy, the sky blustery.

A school of silver fish raced under me, surrounding the boat on all sides. Some leapt out of the water; they looked at me, they called to me. I jumped in after them.

The sea was dark and quiet and cool. I swam down, surrounded by the silver fish. Deep, deep below the surface, I saw an outcropping of undersea rock, long-frozen lava. Something was there, smashed and splintered on the crag.

A ship — a sailboat. Its sails long since dissolved, its white hull grimy, I swam up to it and rubbed away some of the slime.

There was the ship’s name: Endurance.

This is a complete experiment: I have no idea what the results will be! Please don’t hesitate to give me feedback — ideas, complaints, possible interpretations, etc. Have fun with it!

I was wandering along a dusty road at sunset. The road ran straight as an arrow toward a line of distant hills; the sun had just dropped below them, so the sand in the road and the tall dry grass on either side of it were all painted dusky purple. Marching along the road to my left was a line of tall wooden poles, like telephone poles without wires.

I had a sense of being watched; I looked off to the right, and saw a bison standing motionlessly a few dozen yards off, half-hidden by the grass.

The line of poles came to an end, and at the top of the last one was an iridescent translucent pearl-colored ball, about the size of a basketball. I shimmied up the pole and took the ball — it was so light and soft, I almost couldn’t feel it at all.

What is this? I wondered. The bison answered: This is the Pearl of Great Price. This is the Pearl of Purpose. A soul’s greatest gift, and the greatest gift you can give to another. It is Will, it is Freedom, it is Decision. Give it away — you will always have more. Hold it in your hand — it will bless your action. Hold it in your heart — keep it safe.

May all beings of all kinds, in all directions, be happy and at peace.
Above and below, near and far, high and low.
All types of beings.
Humans and non-humans. Seen and unseen. May they be happy; may they be at peace.

I open my heart and receive loving kindness of all beings in return. I let that love into my heart.

– from this meditation

This is a deceptively simple meditation. It is an ancient one beloved of the Buddhists, for it begins by cultivating loving kindness towards oneself, and then slowly expands the circle of compassion — first to your loved ones, then to your friends and associates, then to all people everywhere… and beyond!

In Buddhism, it is taught that the world is full of dukkha — a word usually translated as “suffering”, but might better be rendered as “disjointedness”, “ill-fittedness”, “dis-ease”, or “disquiet”. The image of dukkha in ancient Sanskrit is of a potter’s wheel that is ill-fitting, so that it jerks and squeaks as it turns. How can one happily create pots with such a wheel? Similarly, life is full of disquiet, which prevents one from existing in peace. The solution in Buddhism is the Noble Eightfold Path, the core tenet of which is non-attachment — the release of fear, expectation, anticipation, and the like. However, the release of such attachments can, in the beginner, lead to a cold, joyless, Spock-like state. The meditation for loving kindness is essential to counteract this by cultivating compassion alongside non-attachment.

There is no visualization utilized in this meditation, so you can practice it regardless of your skill in that regard. I will lead you into a state of relaxation, and from there, I will simply give you words of peace, joy, and compassion. You will hold these words in your mind, letting them seep into you and become a part of you. As your circle of compassion expands, you will feel peace and love spreading from the center of your being out into the universe.

The meditation features background music composed and performed by myself.

Enjoy! And as always, do please give me feedback on any aspects you think could be improved, or parts you especially enjoyed. I’m eager to work with you to make this meditation, and the others I create for this site, better and better.

The meditation is available for a donation of any amount.

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I have been in many shapes:
I have been a narrow blade of a sword.
I have been a drop in the air.
I have been a shining star… –Legendary Welsh bard Taliesin

Fear: a great enemy, a great teacher. When we become too tightly bound up with our ego, when we identify ourselves too strongly with a story we tell ourselves, when we feel our life’s projects slipping away, and we grab desperately for control… This is when fear arises within us. It paralyzes us, it skewers us; our emotional and creative resources are cut off, and we feel frozen and helpless. Our task at that point is to face the fear squarely, to see it for what it is: a messenger of hope. We must allow the fear to pass; we must find its source and release it. By releasing our stories, our projects, and our unhealthy desires, by letting them be what they will be, we release ourselves as well.

In this meditation I guide you into a state of relaxation, and help you visualize the river of life before you. During the course of the meditation, you will focus gently on your fear, and identify its source. Once you have done that, you will be able to release the fear, and allow it to be carried away to the ocean, where all things are renewed.

In the fall of 2006 I posted a three-part series on my favorite meditation, which was actually three meditations rolled into one: a Meditation to Release Fear, a Meditation for Loving Kindness, and a Meditation for Living in the Present. The first meditation releases your fear, the second one replaces it with compassion, and the third locks you into the present moment. The three were intended to be done in sequence, and when this was done, the effect is a Meditation for Inner Peace.

I considered offering all three together as a single Meditation for Peace, but quickly found that the meditation would be extremely long. I may still offer that meditation in the future, but for now I have decided to create a guided audio version of each of the three meditations separately.

The first one is the Meditation to Release Fear, and this version differs somewhat from the description I offered last fall. In that article I warned that this meditation should not be done by itself, since it could release attachments that you might prefer to keep! I have reworked the meditation in this audio version so that there is no danger of that. Also, the meditation I described was extremely cerebral — it focused heavily on introspective questioning. In contrast, this audio guided meditation uses a combination of imagery and contemplation to achieve the desired effect.

As with any new meditative practice, repetition is key. The first time you try it, you may not experience much of a change. But as you repeat it a few times, you will begin to feel your fearfulness shift; and when you have practiced it enough, you should be able to remove anxieties by simply recalling to mind the image of the river conjured by the meditation. This has been my experience, and it has been extremely liberating in my daily life.

Enjoy! And do please give me feedback on any aspects you think could be improved, or parts you especially enjoyed. I’m eager to work with you to make this meditation, and the others I create for this site, better and better.

The meditation is 12 minutes long and 14 MB.  It is available for a donation of any amount.

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This meditation, which is about 19 minutes long and free to download, is designed to help you contact a guide — such as your higher self, a spirit guide, a relative who has passed to the Other Side, or even spiritual beings such as angels or gods, depending on your level of vibration.

I’ve described a lot of my visualizations at length on this blog, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading them and wish that they had similar experiences when meditating. I wondered if there was some way that I could help people get the same benefit that I’ve had from this practice.

In this meditation, I lead you gently into a relaxed state, and then take you through a series of images designed to help you feel happy and fearless and loving. Only then do I bring you to a place where you can meet a guide. If the meditation is successful, you will have no chance of meeting any awful beasties, and — if not immediately, then with practice — you should be able to establish a good connection with Spirit.

You can go into this meditation with a particular guide or spirit in mind that you want to meet with. Alternatively, you can simply see who shows up! If there are guides with good intentions out there who wish to contact you, then they will probably jump at this chance to communicate with you.

Don’t be too disappointed, and don’t give up, if you can’t contact anyone on your first try. Like anything worthwhile, meditation takes practice, and it can take some getting used to. Repeat the meditation several times and you should find your results improving.

Please let me know how it goes, and don’t be afraid to comment, or let me know where you’ve had trouble. Here is some feedback I’ve gotten on it:

• The first time Kara-Leah tried it, she met a different kind of guide: “My four year old self turned up… we chased each other around the bench and played in the flowers and climbed the tree and had a chat… it was wonderful.” She has enjoyed the meditation so much that she performs it weekly, and has started using it with her yoga students.
• Slade said, “Your voice is wonderfully suited to this format. Your voice is warm, calming, authoritative, benevolent…”. He has a lot of experience meeting guides, but he found that the meditation opened him up to enable him to receive a message from someone else’s guide who had been trying to reach him.

Enjoy! The meditation is 18.5 minutes long and 22MB.

Meet a Guide: Free Guided Meditation.