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Excerpt: Denial and dreaming are usually unconscious derailments from a healthy meditation practice. The most dangerous misuse of meditation is the intentional development of powers that will be used to control, dominate, or harm. This is certainly possible. Just as a man may study martial arts with the will to harm, so may he develop dangerous psychological and even psychic skills.

Excerpt: When is dreaming appropriate? For example, auto-suggestion, creative visualization, objective observation of the flow of imagination – all of these are meditative practices and they are useful tools. In these cases, they are the legitimate use of imagination, which is the source of dreaming. So it becomes very difficult now if we were to practice some kind of astral projection (which is a big term) or just s

Excerpt: Each of us have difficult emotions or experiences that come to us as part of simply living in this difficult world. Often we turn away from it. We can come to meditation with the purpose to avoid what’s happening to us. There’s an alternative route, which is to transform your experience – to become greater and more compassionate and more loving and more faithful that you can endure anything and that you can