(1) Present time monitoring accesses content
arising in the present time without judgment or interaction with material.
(2) Concentration focuses the attention
on discrete loci within the vehicle, such as inner centers, chakras,
or the seed atom of the vehicle. The attention is held one-pointedly
on this locus, and the content of the vehicle is passively observed
as awareness awakens.
(3) Breathing methods these techniques,
such as watching the breath, speeding up or slowing down the rate of
the breath, breathing a mantra upon the breath, or breathing into the
cerebrospinal axis of the vehicle, yield different energetic effects.
Watching the breath passively absorbs the attention into deeper levels
of the vehicle and into other, higher vehicles. Speeding up the breath
(hyperventilative breathing) energizes the vehicle, slowing down the
breath produces a calming effect. Breathing a mantra may selectively
focus the attention on the spirit, the ensouling entitiy, or a discrete
band of the Great Continuum of Consciousness (GCC); awaken the kundalini
shakti; or unfold the spiritual evolutionary potentials of the ensouling
entity, depending on which mantra is chosen.
(4) Reflective methods through inner listening
for a response to questions (process meditation, receptive meditation),
engaging in dialog with elements of the mind, or thinking through the
implications of a concept (reflective meditation, inquiry), the meditator
may derive information, insight, or guidance through the vehicle.
(5) Absorptive methods by focusing attention
on the currents of inner light, inner sound, inner taste (nectar, ambrosia,
soma or amrita), or the movements of life force, the attention is drawn
to the depth of the vehicle, and can penetrate the bands of the GCC
rapidly. Absorptive methods can be used to gain union of the attention
with the spirit or ensouling entity without tedious, vehicle-by-vehicle
ascension in awareness. Thought bubble mantras also utilize this strategy.
(6) Suggestive methods introduces suggestion
through affirmation or auto-hypnosis to direct the vehicle to perform
specified activities, or to create specific outcomes.
(7) Contemplative Union methods focuses
the attention upon the presence of the ensouling entity directly or
upon its reflections in its vehicles to bring about Gnosis and Realization.
(8) Command methods while in union with
the ensouling entity or the Self, the meditator activates the Will current
to specifically direct and utilize the abilities of each vehicle.
(9) Radiative methods after contemplating
a virtue or idea (seed thought), the meditator radiates it as the energy
of thought to others.
(10) Attunement methods a Master Soul
attunes the attentional principle to the Light by, and the attentional
principle in turn ministers this Light to others.
(11) Spiritual Ascension methods the spirit
moves into each of its Nadamic channels, effecting an inner purification
of its vehicles and opening the inner current of the Nada.
(12) Translation methods an initiate
directs the Light to unfold the potentials of the ensouling entity and
its vehicles, to direct the spirit into the Nadamic channels. This same
Light is used to guide the attention, the attentional principle, and
the spirit into union with the new state created by the transference
of the Light.