What Will Change the World?

A friend and I were talking last night - with the current state of the World - Israel and Lebanon bombing each other, North Korea showing its nuclear ambitions, Iraq's civil problems and the American political machine stating that this is the start of World War III - what will change the World? There must be one thing that focuses us all - one thing that allows us to draw our attention away from ourselves and onto something else. What will that one thing be? How can we stop the warring and condemnation of others? Something must happen and it must happen soon or the American politicians might be right - WWIII may not be too far off. Check out http://raventalk.com/ - maybe we can start here. But we must start, and now.

The White Light

One of the meditations I've been doing (as recommended in the book I mention below) is concentrating on a white light on your forehead while relaxed and in a meditative state.  This has a pretty dramatic effect - one I didn't expect!  Normally, as I've practiced my meditation, I get a warm, comfortable feeling then a calmness eventually sets in and I'm free to not think about anything.  I'd prepared myself to wait it out until some long-awaited gradual transformation occurred.  Concentrating on a bright white spot of light on my forehead had immediate and drastic effects. Just imagining a bright white spot on my forehead immediately brought a sensation of pressure on that spot - almost like someone was resting their finger there.  Also, I suddenly got a much deeper level of relaxation, I was still as alert as before, but I felt as if my personal self (the self that I am when alert and relaxed) was being pushed way down, away from my conscious waking self.  As I said, I was still alert and could still hear the sounds around me, but they were muted and a growing silence took over as I sank lower.  I'm using the word sank, because it felt like I was going downward a bit as well. I tried using different size light spots, but the biggest effect was with a small bright white spot.  Larger spots seemed to dilute the effect.  Not sure if this means anything, but it's definitely interesting!