This document discusses concentration, contemplation and meditation. It presents an exercise called "The Game" which involves choosing a motif to focus on and moving through different stages of contemplation and meditation. The goal is to strengthen intuitive thinking by focusing attention without grasping for meaning. It also discusses how humanity's spiritual development has gradually been occurring at younger ages over time.

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9. – Unit 12 –
A New
Conversation
♣ Concentration, contemplation
and meditation
♣ The ages of you and I
♣ A wisdom of the elders

10. Playing The Game – sense bound to sense free
The Game is concentration, contemplation and meditation
The intention now is to explore our own being
through our stream of intuitive thinking

11. Sense
perception In our earliest years it was easier to
observe the “kissing gate” of sense
perception and thinking as two
separate processes.
Thinking
As we grow older, sense
perception and thinking
become imperceptibly
integrated.
The realm of our enduring “I” flows through the
stream of intuitive thinking but
is not perceptible by ordinary sense perception.

12. Recap from Unit 5...
These senses help infuse our imagination with
Feeling. To lift our „dreamy‟ feelings into a
wakeful, clear imagination that we remember
is to help prepare our………………………….
super-sense of Imagination .
We are most „asleep‟ and unconscious in our Will.
We feel its pulse but remain asleep to its force.
Through these senses we can strengthen our Will
activity to behold the essence of something, remain
at one with its inner being and help prepare…….
our super-sense of Inspiration .
When developing our super-senses we arrive at
a stage when we „let go‟. We wait in our content-
less soul for that which is living in our Thinking
to approach us. These senses help prepare……..
our super-sense of Intuition .

13. With our whole being, infused with our transformed senses,
we may perceive something more beyond our senses
through sense-free intuitive thinking.
(See Unit 5)
So, we strengthen –
“a thinking that takes place after sense perception but
before the solidity of words formulates a thought.”
How to observe my
thinking whilst
I‟m doing it?
(See Unit 2 Notes)
I need a „motif‟ – some thing that
e.g. can help me „view‟ my thinking –
but one that won‟t at once
necessarily „make sense‟.
IN LIGHT LIVES STREAMING WISDOM

14. Play -
♣The Game
Object of the Game: To concentrate, contemplate
and meditate.

15. Part 1 - contemplation Seek a mood of remembrance with a
♣ Preparation - find a place and a quiet lightness of being for the âme
time to sit quietly with least of the Game. Feel the alertness of
prospect of distraction – the mood being we have when something is on
you seek is one of contemplative the „tip of the tongue‟ without the
remembrance. intensity. A mood of remembrance
flows not from „brain thinking‟ but
rather from the heart, as if
something is seeking expression.
Settle into the motif and take it into
memory. Let distracting thoughts be
♣ Choose some thing, a motif, assigned to a bubble and let that
to think about bubble float away from your
attention. Using the same motif
every time intensifies the
effectiveness of The Game but can
make it feel more difficult at first –
we have to work beyond the „sugar
rush‟ of an early experience. An
example –
IN LIGHT LIVES STREAMING WISDOM

16. ♣ Delicately describe Let the whole motif appear as if on
a large screen. Distinguish essential
from inessential. Let each word or
part of the motif move forward on
the screen and let your attention
fall on that part as though the rest
of the motif is in the background or
periphery. Does the whole or any
part of it appeal to your senses?
What „sound‟ does it make? Attend
to each part. E.g. listen to each
syllable, vowel and consonant, of
the word, “WISDOM”.
Part 2 - meditation
♣Exactly imagine Imagine all your musings now
transforming into just one part or
word of the motif. It‟s not about
„filling‟ it with content but of
infusing it with your feeling for its
essence. Hold that in memory.
Attend to how this one part holds
all parts, like one part of a
hologram. Don‟t leap for meaning.

17. The one „part‟ itself now fades and
♣ Beholding we seek to behold only its essence,
the residue of what is left. If you
think everything has evaporated
along with the „part‟, you might
want to return to the previous
stages with a lightness of being or
simply stay where you are for a
while. Retain gentle, robust
attention. We don‟t seek to
conceptualise its essence – simply
behold it.
Now let go of this hold. We wait for
♣ Being involved
its touch. Wait to be involved. Our
thinking is living in a non-physical,
spiritual stream, and so the space
appears empty. Only in silence can
we hear. Awake with open âme, our
thinking lives in the stillness. A
thought, echo, image, now or later,
may emerge but we let The Game
weave back into our daily lives.

18. The further we pursue
SOS the path of The Game
the more we should take care and
S nurture a moral approach to our work
S – qualities of soul that can be cultivated
through reaching for the „lifebelts‟ as
O described in the Unit Notes.
See how some of the
Games in the SOS SOS SOS
programme help tie S SSS S S
these into a life raft of SOS SOS SOS
O O O
“Supplementary S SS S S S
Exercises”
O O O
for the soul.

19. We have the capacity and capability Why should
to explore this path.
we?
We‟ve traced through Units 4-9 an alliance between our
physical and soul-spiritual development.
In the ancient times of humanity this continued through to
our elderly years.
The age and
horizon at
which this The wisdom
alliance ceases
has gradually x of the elders.
been dropping.
See The How Old Do You Think You Are Game

20. Sense awareness
filling our Humanity is „getting
„dream‟ younger not older‟
consciousness in
long ages past 7893-5733BC >>
Ancient Indian ...................................... 50‟s
wisdoms of
2970-747BC >>
karma and
reincarnation Sentient Soul of .............. 42-
the Egyptian-
747BC -1413AD>> Chaldean epoch 35
IntellectualMind Soul of feeling
the Graeco-Latin epoch ............................................. 35-
1413-3573AD >> thinking 28
Consciousness/
....................................................................... 26?
Spiritual Soul of
the present .................................................................. 21
epoch 3573AD >> >> 6th
cultural epoch
............................................. ?
5067AD >> >> 7th
cultural epoch

21. “Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away”
Paul Simon
A capability unrecognised goes unused and
the energies that could have been used to
develop it are either redirected to some other
pursuit, left in a state of uncertainty or wither
on the vine like a ripe grape unpicked.