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The Nature and Transformative Power of Light
Mysticism essentially means going into light. This is a very esoteric concept. It is not a concept at all, actually, but when we speak of it in language, it becomes a concept, and there is a semantic reference required for understanding what that actually means.
In a very simple sense, light is a luminosity that you experience in meditation that is profoundly powerful. It is beautiful, peaceful, healing, and transformative. Real transformation into knowledge, into power, spiritual power, into intelligence, into love, comes from immersion in light.
Light is like an agent of transmutation. It causes us to change in ways that we would not change through mere intellectual conditioning. You can go to school for twenty years and study, study, study, but you are the same person. Or you can sit down in light, perhaps even one time, and become somebody different. The way we become different is that the very substrate of consciousness that informs our paradigm, our subjective quality of the universe, is transformed. Light does that.
Perhaps a way to think about it is that we are light, and when we focus into the light, we become our source. We become the essence. Becoming the essence causes us to distill ourselves of any orientations that obscure ultimate truth.
We go into the light, and we are like a gold statue melting into its pure source gold. When we do that, all those formations, which are obscurations to reality, obscurations to health, and obscurations to the self-evident nature of love, melt away. Love is a very natural thing when we experience the unity of everything in existence and the eternality of our being.
So the practice is light. To go into light, to stay in the light, to focus on the light, to make light your primary consideration, is a very powerful way to live one’s life. It is the mystic way.
Pythagoras was a mathematician and a mystic. His school included mathematics, but it also included a fruitarian diet, virtuous living, and many things that were conducive to greater consciousness. If you just do math, you are still the same person. But if you do math and light, the math empowers one to go deeper into light, and the light makes the math a more potent, profound experience.
Usually, going into light is hard because it is hard to find it. A lot of people like to imagine light. This is not imagining light. The light is as physical as the periodic table. It is not in this physical realm, per se. It is more as if this physical realm is within it. This is why science has a little bit of trouble with it.
The light is absolute magic. I have a degree in physics, so I am a very scientific-minded person. I have been that way my whole life. When I encountered the light for the first time as an adult, consciously, I was absolutely astonished because it was magic. One of the first things I wondered was what kind of technologies we could make with this. It is that real.
But really, it is much more important than technology because it is the meaning of life. I know that sounds like a crazy thing to say, but I am just going to go with it.
There is a beautiful saint, Ramana Maharshi. One of his teachings is that you have to ask, “Who am I?” The light is consistent with that. In the light, we discover who we are beyond a verbal sentence and verbal answer. In a way, it connects with Jnana Yoga, which is the “Who am I?” approach. Light would also be called Raja Yoga, the Royal Yoga, or mysticism.
The light itself is an actual visible luminosity. You may not be able to see what is in front of you anymore, or you will see it behind waves of luminosity. These waves of luminosity, or permeated luminosity, sparkling luminosity, have different qualities, different colors, different textures. Those qualities are indicative of navigating different depths and locations within our consciousness.
One that I personally like very much is the black gold light. There is a black gold light that looks like molten, luminous black gold, and it has this rolling quality. You can almost hear it. It is very close to Nirvana. All of this is the journey to Nirvana. When we go into the light, we undergo this transmutation.
Doing mathematics in light is a great way to do math. You have to be very gentle because any resistance pushes the light away. If you are a dancer, do dance in light, music in light, walking in light. One of the most important reasons for mindfulness is to maintain contact with light while you are engaging in the world.
It takes a degree of focus, then it becomes more natural. One day you will find yourself going to sleep, and there is light everywhere, every night. It washes your soul, and it keeps you free.
The light is the secret. It is the way to intelligence. If you are seeking healing, healing comes with the light. Love comes from the light. Virtue comes from the light. We can say we wish we were kinder. It is hard to just choose to be kinder, but to deeply feel kindness comes from being in the light.
Transmission and Spiritual Community
One way that we can access the light is through empathy. There is a sort of empathic attunement that occurs in a community of people. Another word for this is darshan, where we point and we listen. One person says this is what it feels like, and another person feels through empathy, through the empathic sense, and goes there.
This is a whispered teaching, in the sense that you can read it in a book, but generally, it takes direct contact with a teacher or a student. Then you go off after the experience, and you maintain it as much as you can. You integrate it as much as you can. Perhaps it will become less and less, and then you will yourself into the light. You make it a priority.
This light is the essence of all religions. It is an ontological reality, an actuality that each religion points to and each spiritual practice points to in its various ways. It is the highest. It is paramount. The reason is that it is the one thing that is eternal and universal.
Soccer may be the highest. Well, it cannot be the highest. It could be the highest right now, but it is not, because it is not eternal and universal. Math is quite eternal and universal. That is one of the reasons why I personally like both of them. I like math and I like meditation. When you reach for that quality, there is something paramount there because it touches everything.
When we have a sangha, many people who are gravities of light, we build a collective aggregate of light together that makes it stronger and easier to go into. To create a futuristic society of people who are conscious at this level requires us to do the work. We each tend to our own garden of self and make the light a reality on Earth.
It is paramount to me. Now you know me. You know my big secret. That is very personal, and it does not need to be personal because it has to be known. That is what I care about. I invite you to prioritize the light, go into it, and learn about it.
Gazing and the Perception of Light
A key method for going into light is gazing. You might call it a type of meditation, or in a way it is different from meditation, but it is meditation.
One thing you can do is grab a mirror and look at yourself. When you look at yourself, you are not looking at your form. You are resting your eyes, perhaps in your own eyes. You become very present with yourself, but you are looking with the periphery.
When you do this, you allow the physicality, the density of physicality, to melt. Everything is holographic. You let go of the denseness. You will notice there is a very habitual tendency to feel like everything is solid, to use your mind in this kind of dense way. You let things become etheric.
You can also gaze at a crystal, a candle, a painting, or a yantra, something to look at that is not reflecting you. Or you can gaze at a teacher or a friend. Invite a friend to sit down two or three feet in front of you, and gaze at each other. This is a really wonderful exercise. It is not as much an intimacy exercise, although you can add that, as it is opening a portal into the divine together. Gazing with others is probably one of the most beautiful things you can do.
The truth is, I learned this by looking at my teacher, paying him a lot of money to let me look at him, and doing whatever it took to get a chance to do so. He showed me some amazing things. That is the most powerful way to do it.
Gazing is one of the ways that we invoke the light. We go into it, or we dissolve and become it. Whatever light you see, it might be a visual perturbation of any kind. There may be misty stuff in the air, but that counts as light. What is that misty stuff?
It might be gray, white, rainbow-spectrum light, or sparkling. It might be everywhere, or it might be waves of light washing through you, outward or inward, through your third eye or through your heart. There are many forms of it.
You do not have to open your eyes. It is possible to go into the light very well with your eyes closed. But gazing is a practice, and it is good to do both.
Guided Meditation in Light
Hold your awareness very wide. Where we put our attention changes the shape of our energetic body. Bring attention to your heart center. Feel your heart while you are doing this as well. Put your hand there, or just keep it activated.
Allow the light. Really, this is a process of letting go. It is not as much up to us as it is up to the light. As you start to become aware of it, subtly direct it. Allow it. Notice the light.
Allow the luminosity to become brighter. Usually, there is a subconscious resistance to that brilliance. Allow yourself to be washed away by that luminosity.
Expand your field of attention beyond the confines of physical proximity. It should be a broad field. When you do this, it helps the light manifest, or reveal itself. Let your heart expand to a wide consciousness, a wide attention. The light and the love.
You may begin to see a dark, clear, spacelike light. That is actually a very deep quality. If you see that, invite it. It is almost like it is so bright it becomes black.
If you would like to take this a little further, place a secondary focus on your third eye. You are in the light, your heart is radiant. Bring a little attention to the third eye. It should feel like a magnetic pull, pressure in the forehead. It is very malleable.
This is a reformatting of the bioelectromagnetic system. Get your attention very strong. Challenge yourself to become more yin, more open to dissolution, to dissolving into what you actually are made of, the light.
This is an exercise in becoming what we are by becoming nothing. But we are. We need not assert space and time and individuality. We can simply be the love of being, luminous.
The light is very happy. Enjoy. Let it be that. Feel how powerful light is. There is a power that is not the individual. It runs through us.
We are harnessing the power of a tsunami, and it is everywhere. It is creating everything and destroying. Stars and planets. Feel that with the light.
Take a moment to feel aware and present with your energetic state and transformation. Perhaps feel gratitude. There is only here and now. The world is a dream, I think.
Samadhi and Integration
Samadhi is a very important aspect of this. There are different levels of samadhi. When we are in this black gold light, it is generally called savikalpa samadhi. When you move into nirvikalpa samadhi, there is nobody to know that they are not even thinking. You are completely in a void. That is Nirvana.
Then there is another samadhi, which is sahaja samadhi. It means that one is bridging the world of form with the world of the beyond, the supreme source, at the same time. That is very advanced. Usually, that happens when you go back and forth so many times that they merge into one.
Full Transcript
Gathering and Introduction
Adam Wes So we'll just listen to the song. Really, just settle into the moment while we wait for a couple more people to arrive.
Namaste. Welcome, everybody. Wonderful!
Today is a very special meditation. We've been doing this for a number of years, but today we're going to the heart of the practice, and I'd like to really emphasize it moving forward. It's one of the reasons I invited Taylor. Taylor happens to know quite a bit about this. We've done it together for many years.
Let's see, there are a couple more people I'd like to make sure are able to arrive. All right, boom.
We've got people from all over the world. I almost want everybody to go around and say what country they're in, but maybe we should just get started. Actually, let's do that. How about, just real quick, if you're in the United States, what state are you in? If you're in a different country, what country are you in? Kira, you can go first.
Kira Oh, I just put it in the chat. We're putting it in the chat. I'm in Mountain View, California.
Adam Wes Okay. How about you, Taylor?
Taylor D SoCal, USA, baby.
Adam Wes Nice. Andy?
Andy I'm in Mexico City.
Adam Wes Nice. And David?
David P Mexico City, too.
Adam Wes Kelsey?
Kelsey W Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Adam Wes Christina?
Christina B Atlanta, Georgia.
Adam Wes Nice. How about you, Mom? Colleen?
Colleen Yep, Washington.
Adam Wes Colin's muted. That's my dad. He's also in Washington. How about you, Ariella?
AriellaShira L Los Angeles, California.
Adam Wes And Jenna?
Jenna W Hi! Seattle, Washington, too.
Adam Wes Nice. All right, we're going to have a few more people from other countries arriving, but I think they're not sure what time it is, so we'll just get started.
Today, we're going to do a talk. I'm going to talk about a particular topic that's related to our meditation. We'll do a talk and then a meditation, and the session goes for about an hour.
Also, we started the math course this week, so a bunch of you are here from the course. Oh, here's one more person. This will actually be very closely related to our math course.
The Nature and Transformative Power of Light
The talk for today, or the sermon for today, is mysticism. Mysticism essentially means going into light.
This is a very esoteric concept. It's not a concept at all, actually, but when we speak of it in language, it becomes a concept, and there's a semantic reference required for understanding what that actually means.
Let's talk about what light is. In a very simple sense, light is a luminosity that you experience in meditation that is profoundly powerful. It's beautiful, it's peaceful, it's healing, it's transformative. Real transformation into knowledge, into power, spiritual power, into intelligence, into love, comes from immersion in light.
Light is like an agent of transmutation. It causes us to change in ways that we wouldn't change through mere intellectual conditioning. You can go to school for 20 years and study, study, study, but you're the same person. Or you can sit down in light, perhaps even one time, and become somebody different.
The way we become different is that the very substrate of consciousness that informs our paradigm, our subjective quality of the universe, is transformed. Light does that.
Perhaps a way to think about it is that we are light, and when we focus into the light, we become our source. We become the essence. Becoming the essence causes us to distill ourselves of any orientations that obscure ultimate truth.
We go into the light, and we are like a gold statue melting into its pure source gold. When we do that, all those formations, which are obscurations to reality, obscurations to health, and obscurations to the self-evident nature of love, all melt away. Love is a very natural thing when we experience the unity of everything in existence and the eternality of our being.
So the practice is light. To go into light, to stay in the light, to focus on the light, to make light your primary consideration, is a very powerful way to live one's life. It's the mystic way.
There's a mathematician named Pythagoras who was a mystic, and he had a school that included mathematics, but it also included a fruitarian diet, virtuous living, and many things that were conducive to greater consciousness. In a way, the course we have together is very much like that. We're doing the light and we're doing the math, because if you just do math, you're still the same person. But if you do math and light, the math actually really empowers one to go deeper into light, and the light makes the math a more potent, profound experience.
Usually, going into light is hard because it's hard to find it. You might say a lot of people like to imagine light. This is not imagining light. The light is as physical as the periodic table. It's not in this physical realm, per se. It's more as if this physical realm is within it. This is why science has a little bit of trouble with it.
Let me tell you, the light is absolute magic. I have a degree in physics, so I'm a very scientific-minded person. I've been that way my whole life. When I encountered the light for the first time as an adult, consciously, I was absolutely astonished because it was magic. One of the first things I wondered was, "What kind of technologies can we make with this?" It's that real.
But really, it's much more important than technology because it's the meaning of life. I know that sounds like a crazy thing to say, but I'm just going to go with it.
There's a lovely author, well, he's not just an author, he's a beautiful saint, Ramana Maharshi. One of his teachings is that you have to ask, "Who am I?" The light is actually consistent with that. In the light, we discover who we are beyond a verbal sentence and verbal answer. In a way, it connects with Jnana Yoga, which is the "Who am I?" approach. Light would also be called Raja Yoga, the Royal Yoga, or mysticism.
One way that we can access the light is through empathy. There's a sort of empathic attunement that occurs in a community of people. A lot of you here know the light very well, so if you haven't seen the light or experienced it, half the people here know the light. It's pretty amazing. That's a group of magical people in the room.
There's an attunement. I'm trying to describe this without using the Sanskrit word, but another word for this is darshan, where we point and we listen. One person says, "This is what it feels like," and another person says, "Oh, I can kind of feel you through my empathy, my empathic sense," and they go there.
The light itself is an actual visible luminosity. You will potentially not be able to see your computer anymore, or you'll see it behind waves of luminosity. These waves of luminosity, or permeated luminosity, sparkling luminosity, have different qualities, different colors, different textures. Those qualities are indicative of navigating different depths and locations within our consciousness.
One that I personally like very much is the black gold light. There's a black gold light that looks like molten, luminous black gold, and it's got this rolling quality. You can almost hear it. It's very close to Nirvana.
All of this is the journey to Nirvana. When we go into the light, we undergo this transmutation.
Doing mathematics in light is a great way to do math. You definitely have to be very gentle because any resistance pushes the light away. If you're a dancer, do dance in light, music in light, walking in light. One of the most important reasons for mindfulness is to maintain contact with light while you're engaging in the world.
It takes a degree of focus, then it becomes more natural. One day you'll find yourself just going to sleep, and there's light everywhere, every night. It washes your soul, and it keeps you free.
I could talk about this for hours. In a way, I'm trying to make sure to hit many of the important points, but I guess what I'd really like to emphasize most is that the light is the secret.
It's the way to intelligence. If you're seeking healing, for example, healing comes with the light. Love comes from the light. Virtue comes from the light. We can say, "Oh, I wish I was kinder." It's hard to just choose to be kinder, but to deeply feel kindness comes from being in the light.
Taylor, would you like to share?
Transmission and Spiritual Community
Taylor D I thought your definition of the substrate of reality and the manifestation of one's awareness was a pretty solid baseline definition. Like you said, it has to be experienced for it to really take meaning in one's awareness.
What I always enjoy sharing, or at least teaching new people, is that when you meditate with someone who can hold a very high frequency or a very high state of awareness, you will go much further than what you would normally be able to generate in your own meditation.
That tuning fork effect is the whole process of the student-teacher relationship, because you get to attune to that higher wavelength. Then, in your own practice, it's now accelerated, and you pour it back into yourself. It's that infinity reciprocity that's happening between the student and the teacher, the facilitator and the attendee.
Then you get to experience where your awareness is in your own resting space, just meditating with yourself. You can see the difference between meditating with someone who has more experience and more depth of practice. Then you can begin to track and see your own progress over time. Ultimately, where you meditate with your teacher is very similar to where you're meditating by yourself.
Adam Wes Yes, exactly.
Taylor D Thus, you have stabilized mystical awareness.
Adam Wes Exactly. Thank you, Taylor. Beautiful.
I like what Taylor shared there. This is a whispered teaching, in the sense that you can read it in a book, but generally, it takes direct contact with a teacher or a student. Then you go off after the experience, and you maintain it as much as you can. You integrate it as much as you can.
Perhaps it'll become less and less, and then you will yourself into the light. You make it a priority.
I wrote something earlier today. This light is the essence of all religions. It's an ontological reality, an actuality that each religion points to and each spiritual practice points to in their various ways.
It's the highest. It's paramount. The reason for that is because it's the one thing that's eternal and universal. Soccer may be the highest. Well, it can't be the highest. It could be the highest right now, but it's not, because it's not eternal and universal.
Math is quite eternal and universal. That's one of the reasons why I personally like both of them. I like math and I like meditation. They're very eternal and universal. When you reach for that quality, there's something paramount there because it touches everything.
When we have a sangha, many people who are gravities of light, we actually build a collective aggregate of light together that makes it stronger and easier to go into. To create a futuristic society of people who are conscious at this level requires us to do the work. We each tend to our own garden of self and make the light a reality on Earth.
It's paramount to me. Now you know me. You know my big secret. That's very personal, and it doesn't need to be personal because it has to be known. That's what I care about. I invite you to prioritize the light, go into it, and learn about it.
All right. Would anybody like to share or ask any questions?
Hi, Sethtia. Nice to see you. What country are you from? We're supposed to get the countries.
Sethtia A I'm from Tunisia. Hello. Nice to meet you all.
Adam Wes All right. We'll start meditating in a few minutes. Does anybody have any questions about the light? Comments? Kira, you can share something. How about that?
Kira I will say that it's way more accessible than you think it is. It's right here. It's very available to you. If you haven't experienced it yet, just know that it's actually right here.
If you relax into it and release attachment to the physicality that you typically see on a day-to-day basis, things will just start to blur and illuminate. Once you have those perturbations that Adam speaks about, and the luminosity starts to glow, that is your entryway.
Keep following that and just let it absorb you. Absorb it, and you will expand and dissolve and go into the most beautiful states of awareness.
Gazing and the Perception of Light
Adam Wes Let's talk about how to do it, because that's the next point. Thanks, Kira. Kira's pointing in that direction, anyway.
A key method for going into light is gazing. You might call it a type of meditation, or in a way it's different from meditation, but it is meditation.
How do we gaze? One thing you can do is grab a mirror and look at yourself in the mirror. When you look at yourself, you're not looking at your form. You're resting your eyes, perhaps in your own eyes. You become very present with yourself, but you're looking with the periphery.
When you do this, you allow the physicality, the density of physicality, to melt. Everything is holographic. You let go of the denseness. You'll notice there's a very habitual tendency to feel like everything is solid, to use your mind in this kind of dense way. You let things become etheric.
If you don't have a mirror, you can do it two other ways. You can grab something like a crystal and gaze at that, or a candle, a painting, or a yantra, something to look at that's not reflecting you.
The third way, which we could do here today unless you want to do the other two, is that you can gaze at the teacher or a friend. It could be the teacher. It can be a friend.
I recommend, if you have friends here or other friends you want to share this with, invite them over, sit down two or three feet in front of each other, and gaze at each other. This is a really wonderful exercise. It's not as much an intimacy exercise, although you can add that, but that's extraneous, as it is opening a portal into the divine together.
Gazing with others is probably one of the most beautiful things you can do. You can also just gaze at me, and I'll be that tuning fork today.
I'd like to help everybody build their own practice for it. If you want to try today gazing in a mirror or at an object, or if multiple people are in the same house, you can gaze at each other.
Gazing is one of the ways that we invoke the light. We go into it, or we dissolve and become it.
Whatever light you see, it might be a visual perturbation of any kind. You might say, "Well, there's this misty stuff in the air," but that counts as light. What is that misty stuff?
It might be gray, it might be white, it might be rainbow-spectrum light, it might be sparkling, it might be everywhere, or it might be waves of light washing through you, outward or inward, through your third eye, or through your heart. There are many forms of it.
All right. Does everybody have their chosen method? Do you have an object you want to grab? You can go and grab one if you want and set that up.
Sethtia A Hi, I want to ask you something. Can I gaze into the light?
Adam Wes An actual light bulb?
Sethtia A Yeah.
Adam Wes I've never tried that. You can try it. It might be kind of intense unless it's a dim light. You could do it with a candle for sure. I've tried that.
Sethtia A I don't have a candle now.
Adam Wes If you have a 60-watt light bulb, that might be a little bit much. Yes, Taylor, please. I'd love to hear what you have to say.
Taylor D Just in case this is anyone's first time, or their first time meditating with Adam, I would really encourage you to gaze in his direction, at him.
The reason why is that transmission-based teachings, or teachings that are found in esoteric mystical traditions, are nonverbal teachings. I use the analogy of the tuning fork effect. These types of spiritual teachings are transmitted in three ways: through sight, sound, or touch.
Those pictures of a guru giving Shaktipat to an initiate show one form of a transmission-based teaching. In this style of practice, it's all done through sight.
That is why we meditate with our eyes open, first to receive it. Simultaneously, it's an easier path for the Western mind to meditate in this fashion because we're placing our awareness, which we associate with the conscious mind, on an external object.
When we meditate in this way, we can create a more fluid, seamless, and effortless connection with the practice in the moment. Simultaneously, the visual phenomena are what actually help attune you over time to being able to do this on your own and go very deep.
If it's anybody's first time, I really recommend just gazing at the Bhakti Math Guru and getting ready to blow through interdimensional geometry, or however he wants to describe that. I just wanted to share that.
Adam Wes Thanks for that, Taylor. It's true. Sometimes, maybe I shouldn't do this, but I try to make people feel comfortable, like, "You don't have to look at me." Maybe I should stop doing that.
The truth is, I learned this by looking at my teacher, paying him a lot of money to let me look at him and doing whatever it took to get a chance to do so. He showed me some amazing things, and I think that actually is the most powerful way to do it.
If you were to do that, what I would recommend is pinning me. You can click on the three dots and go down to "Pin." Then you'll see me on the large screen.
I also want to say that this does work online, but it's a little better in person. It's better one-on-one as well. It does work online, though, so we'll do a group meditation.
One-on-one meditations are different. Kira knows. Kira and I have done a lot of one-on-one together. When I look at her, she'll veer in one direction, and I'll be like, "What are you doing? Don't do that. Don't hold that. Don't do that." I'll watch every little way she moves her mind. She's really good at just following and expanding into deeper and deeper states of awareness. It's amazing. There's a lot of communication that occurs one-on-one.
Colleen Adam, I hope you don't mind, but it's really hard for me to meditate without closing my eyes.
Adam Wes Oh, yes. That's fine for you and Ariella. I know you've been doing this with your eyes closed for so long, but we should practice. Maybe at some point, perhaps in person, we'll gaze. You could try it, and then if you don't want to, that's fine.
My mom goes into the light very well with her eyes closed, which is possible as well, just so you know. You don't have to open your eyes, but gazing is the practice we're doing, the one I'm talking about here.
Guided Meditation in Light
All right, let's get started. Let me grab some music for us.
We'll do about 25 minutes, and then just a couple of people can share their experiences.
The key is to hold your awareness very wide. Where we put our attention changes the shape of our energetic body.
It's good to bring attention to your heart center. Feel your heart while you're doing this as well. Put your hand there, or just keep it activated.
I'm going to do my best to go into a really deep state. We're there together.
Allow the light. Really, this is a process of letting go. It's not as much up to us as it is up to the light.
As you start to become aware of it, subtly direct it. Allow it.
Notice the light.
We can allow the luminosity to become brighter. Usually, there's a subconscious resistance to that brilliance. Allow yourself to be washed away by that luminosity.
Make sure that you're expanding your field of attention beyond the confines of physical proximity. It should be a broad field. When you do this, it helps the light manifest, or reveal itself, I should say.
Nice.
Let your heart expand to a wide consciousness, a wide attention. The light and the love.
You may begin to see a dark, clear, spacelike light. That's actually a very deep quality. If you see that, invite that. It's almost like it's so bright it becomes black.
If you'd like to take this a little further, you can also place a secondary focus on your third eye. You're in the light, your heart's radiant. Bring a little attention to the third eye. It should feel like a magnetic pull, pressure in the forehead.
Very malleable.
This is a reformatting of the bioelectromagnetic system. Get your attention very strong.
Perhaps challenge yourself to become more yin, more open to dissolution, to dissolving into what you actually are made of, the light.
This is an exercise in becoming what we are by becoming nothing. But we are. We need not assert space and time and individuality. We can simply be the love of being, luminous.
The light is very happy. Enjoy. Let it be that.
I invite you to feel how powerful light is. There's a power that's not the individual. It runs through us.
We are harnessing the power of a tsunami, and it's everywhere. It's creating everything and destroying.
Stars and planets. Feel that with the light.
This will be our final song for this meditation.
Take a moment to feel aware and present with your energetic state and transformation. Perhaps feel gratitude.
There is only here and now. The world is a dream, I think.
Namaste.
When you're ready, come out of the meditation.
Experiences and Integration
Hi, Christina. Would you like to share a little bit? I'm so happy you're here, by the way.
Christina B Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm still integrating, but the light has been present in my life since I was little.
It's funny, when you said that black can be so bright that it turns black. That's very normal for me. It's almost just a sensation for me. It's such a physical sensation of magnetism. It feels like the push and pull of magnetism to me.
Initially, I thought being in this space on a Zoom call was kind of strange, because this is typically a very private practice for me. But no, I still settled in. Anyway, I just thought it was great. Thank you.
Adam Wes You're welcome. The clear light is a very deep light, and the fact that you've known it since you were a child is very unusual, actually. It's unusual for somebody to know it at all, at any level. Thank you, Christina.
Christina B Thank you for blessing me like that, I guess. Thank you.
Adam Wes You're welcome. Thank you for being here. Amazing. Mom, would you like to share?
Colleen It was a little different for me today because I've moved around to different places. When I close my eyes, I do go into the light, but the light was different today. I was seeing all the citrus fruit colors, which is very unusual for me. They weren't moving in the same way that they usually do, going in and out. It was more wavy or something.
When I try to meditate with my eyes open, all it does is make me conscious of my eyes watering and burning. I definitely will keep trying, but I think I like to close my eyes and just go into that space.
Adam Wes Good job seeing the citrusy colors. Wonderful. I hope it was a good experience for you.
Colleen Yes, it was. Thank you, Adam.
Adam Wes Love you.
Sethtia?
Sethtia A Hello again. In this meditation session, I was in a void state. When I was meditating with you, I wasn't able to think of anything. I didn't try, but I felt very void-like. Do you understand me? I don't know how to say it.
Adam Wes You know, with the light, there's just so much to talk about. I wanted to mention this. Samadhi is a very important aspect of this. Samadhi is something you can look up on Wikipedia, actually.
There are different levels of samadhi. When we're in this black gold light, it's generally called savikalpa samadhi. When you move into nirvikalpa samadhi, it actually means that there's nobody to know that they're not even thinking. You're completely in a void. You may have had a nirvikalpa samadhi experience.
Sethtia A Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I really don't know. You tell me. It ran so deep. I don't know how to express it, but it felt like it is real, and I'm grateful.
Adam Wes I'm grateful for you. I'm glad you made it.
Sethtia A Thank you.
Adam Wes Contemplate it. Ask, "Did I really go into nirvikalpa samadhi?" That's Nirvana, by the way.
Then there's another samadhi, which is sahaja samadhi. It means that one is bridging the world of form with the world of the beyond, the supreme source, at the same time. That's very advanced. Usually that happens when you go back and forth so many times that they merge into one.
Thank you, Sethtia.
Ariella has something to share. Ariella's been coming to these classes for over four years now. Thank you, Ariella.
AriellaShira L I usually meditate with my eyes closed, but I tried to have my eyes open, and the vision fragmented. But I didn't feel the experience, the light. When I closed my eyes, I could experience the light.
Adam Wes We did a lot of eyes-closed meditation for many years, so I think you're just super conditioned to that. We'll have to practice the other one. It's good to do both. Namaste, Ariella. Thank you.
Taylor, maybe a last share, if you want to share anything.
Taylor D Good stuff, man. Good stuff. It was cool to see the progressions.
I found your ability to communicate verbally in those spaces to be an excellent flavor to add to it, because that's not an easy thing to do. I thought you did a great job transmitting it through the computer, through Zoom.
I've been teaching online for several years, and I know it's a totally different experience facilitating, teaching, or maintaining that container. I thought that was awesome.
It was cool to see how you moved through the different layers. Expanding your aura and the light to envelop the entire room was awesome. At one point, there was that deep molten gold in the entire room, too. I was like, "Okay, cool. He's got it."
After the first five or ten minutes, it was very much hanging out in that translucent light space, in between gold and black, where it's rainbow, translucent, clear. Then you'll get the little pinholes of eternity that start to emanate from those spaces.
It was good. I enjoyed the journey. It was well done.
Adam Wes Wonderful. Thank you for being here. It's nice to see you.
Taylor D Yeah.
Adam Wes All right, guys. Thank you, everybody. We do this every Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Help keep building our Love Light Sangha, people who love light. Sangha means spiritual community, Love Light Sangha. It also actually means association with truth, ultimate truth.
Kira, Kelsey, nice to see all you guys. Sethtia, enjoy the rest of your evening.
Namaste.