Purposeful Meditation: A Treatise on the Meditation of Movement

Purposeful Meditation: A Treatise on the Meditation of Movement
By Master Vincent J. Lasorso, Jr.

   A Treatise is an educational documentary of principles for students established by a Master Teacher to define a course and method of training that has been developed from decades of experience and practice. Treatises are rarely fully understood by students because the words have no true meanings unless they can be related to a personal experience of the principles or phenomena described. Until then they are merely abstract theories. However, with time and diligent practice, a student will obtain glimpses of these experiences, and then use the treatise as a map and context of how to further unfold the process. I have read many treatises in my life that were completely over my head until the material became real within my practice.

The Rise of Meditation

   Since the 1980’s the practice of meditation has been positioned as a technique to cure people of stress, anxiety, and all the physical diseases that they create. This positioning was by design, a marketing choice, to overcome Western resistance to Eastern thought and religion.

   Like it or not meditation was a religious process and Western Christianity, Sociology, and Psychology did not want people surrendering their minds, and their souls, to Eastern religious practices. But Western medical scientists didn’t view meditation in the same way. Zen, quieting the mind, wasn’t anything like church, temple, or idolatry. They convinced themselves, and their peers, that meditation was a “mind science” that could help to heal the mind and the body, and unlock the secrets of the brain. They were correct. Once science started researching and publishing the unusual benefits of meditation upon the brain and the body, the results won over skeptics in both science and the public. The Baby Boomers, introduced to meditation by the Beatles and stimulated by a countercultural zeal, viewed the Eastern ways as an anthesis and a cure for the ails created by Capitalism and Christianity. With scientific results to back them, young “socially conscious” business men pushed meditation forward, beyond the Hippies, into the corporations in an effort to re-humanize them. Transcendental Meditation was the first modernization of meditation opening a new door stimulating a new business of corporate stress management and a wave of personal growth through mediative introspection. And it was a very profitable commercial enterprise. People spent good money to receive their own personal mind quieting mantra. Millions of people around the world became meditators joining the T.M. fad. It was the first form of Meditation for Profit.

   By 1995 meditation had broken through its barriers, as corporations, wellness centers, and hospitals conducted meditation based health and energy healing programs while selling recordings and books to support these teachings. According to Forbes, in 2015 meditation and mindfulness products and programs became a billion dollar industry.

   “Mindfulness” is the newest marketing approach to make meditation palatable to the modern lifestyle and sensitivities of today. The euphemistic “mindfulness” is now an arty trend, and like T.M., it will peak and then decline simply because the only value of these products is what the person brings to it themselves. Mindfulness programs focus purely on the mechanics of meditation, devoid of substance, context, and goals, making them incapable of solving the core problems of the meditator, and leaving them with no long term reason to carry on.

   Our common conception of meditation has a fatal flaw. We believe the voice in our head is our mind, that it is real, that it has a mystical control over our bodies and our lives, and that only the truly gifted through disciplined practice can learn to “still the voice.” But the mind is not real. It is something you made up, all on your own, to describe, understand, and narrate the world around you. Once upon a time, when you were a baby, you had no voice in your head. Yet, you laughed, you cried, you knew when you were hungry, and you learned repeatable complex skills. When you learned language you started to talk to yourself as idly as a parrot mumbling in its cage. And after a time you discovered that words had meaning. Words provided feedback. Words then became who you were: “I talk to myself in my head, therefore I am.” Words helped you to become an “I am” because they separated you from the rest of the world. We, our culturally conditioned personalities, only exists because of our words.

   As powerful as the words in our heads seem, they are no more than patterned movements of neurons. They are simply the body in motion. Master the motions of the body and you master all aspects of the nervous system, and therefore, who you are. This is the meditation of motion.

   Qigong loosely defined means “energy work.” There are many different types and levels of qigong, but each one, whether physical or invisible, creates acoustic cellular motion which in turn generates the energy known as Qi. Qi is not a dumb energy or a benign frequency wave, that can be replicated with a computer. Qi is a modulated energy, a field of communication which possesses intention, that directly influences everything within our body and the continuum in which our body’s exist. Music, movement, breath, words, and symbols, alone or in combination, can be orchestrated to create an intentional pattern to heal, transform, and transfigure the body. This article will focus upon how Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan transforms our lives.

Cultivating the Mind Body

   Physical Qigong uses movements designed to unwind and condition the body in a manner that it produces more energy, than it expends. Each pattern, each form, moves from the inside outward. It moves from within the muscles and bones, generated from the connective tissue of the body. This connective tissue is piezoelectric. Each action produces an electrical, acoustic potential, a charge, a sound. A form movement is then created as a bioacoustic composition. When executed properly these movements do not leave a tracing on an electromyogram. They don’t trigger a step on your pedometer or register any health benefits on your Fit Bit. They defy all the measures that the Western medical establishment considers are the standards of good health. Unlike western exercise, cultivating movements do not destroy tissue in a false effort to build health, they simply produce energy.

   Physical qigong movements are not random free flow affairs. They are patterned in sequences that systematically transforms the body. They take thousands of repetitions to achieve their results. In the beginning qigong appears to be like everyday calisthenics. Beginning qigong exercises use muscular motions to free the resistant body of tissue obstructions caused by muscle misalignments and adhesions within the muscles, the cells, and tissues. As the structural impingements burn away, the motions become more efficient and their actions move into the organs, the brain, and the spinal cord, burning away cellular and tissue adhesions. The effect is more energy, more consciousness, more power, as every particle of the body “comes on line” and learns to move in harmony, and finally unison, through the tissue network, rather than the muscular skeletal system. When all cells can move as one the human being becomes a living tsunami.

   The body is the mind. The true mind arises from the consciousness of every particle of the body. But as noted before we have trained and limited the true mind to live within our cultural conditioning. We have trained it to speak within the language centers of our brain, providing feedback and mostly dramatic entertainment and emotional discord. We have trained the true mind to create a separate redundant self, a separate identity, a ghost within the machine of our body.

   The “ghost” is a tool. It is a “software package” created by the cultural mind with all of the proprioceptive abilities and skills as our body and true mind, its just operating a few microseconds behind the true self. In other words, if a baseball is thrown at your head, the true proprioceptive body mind will move you out of the way. The cultural mind via the ghost, will then tell you how and what you did to save yourself, and how you should feel about it, and the proper cultural response to express to those around you.

   But the primary job of the proprioceptive ghost is to teach the body culturally defined skills and tasks to survive in their outer world. Each task, from using a fork to coding a computer, is learned and taught to the tissues through the Proprioceptive Cultural Mind (PCM). It will continue to control the task until the body has enough experience to run the task on its own. The PCM feels and measures the learned actions and compares those measures to a virtual model, saved within its memory, but learned from the outer world through cultural training or experience. Mastery is only acquired when the body itself controls the task without any influence from the PCM. A baby will struggle to learn to put food in its mouth. Yet as an adult, that same child will evolve in skills to eat a sandwich while driving an automobile, with a mind preoccupied in fanciful adventures. No thought or direction is required from the PCM.

   There is no physical task in the material physical world that we do not learn from the PCM. But we can use the PCM to attain many metaphysical skills as well. We use qigong exercises like bagua circle walking, and the Level 3 & 4 forms at White Willow to generate tissue motion contrary to the movement of the body’s vertical axis. We axially move in one direction then reverse direction swinging back and forth around the axis. This rhythmic tissue swinging around the core axis creates a phenomena of a “second body state” within the physical body stasis. When the student stops, they still feel the body within them swinging from side to side. The PCM becomes separated from the present time/space moment of the exercise.

   It takes a few different types of qigong exercises to completely differentiate the second body from the true body. When the second body is identified, the practice shifts to controlling it within the body, with physical movement, and then with the mind alone. The next objective is to project the second body outside the bounds of the true body. This is accomplished by hundreds of repetitions of qigong exercises like the Tai Chi Ruler, followed by corpse position meditation.

   It is very easy to misconstrue that the second body is some amazing spiritual universal energy. It is not. It is what the ancient Chinese would call physical qi. The movement that we are experiencing is the true physical movement of our own cells and tissues. We link the symbolic language of our culture, through the PCM to generate cell movement which then creates energy from the connective tissue network. The movements are micro movements of billions of cells that generate massive amounts of piezoelectric energy with no more effort than just passively moving in reaction to the body.

   The internal combat disciplines like Tai Chi Chuan depend upon physical qi to, at the simplest level, support the physical forms of the body, so no muscle is required to defeat an opponent. But at the higher skill levels the energy can take over an opponents body with direct messages dropping or throwing a person with a touch, or better yet, from across the room. These skills are not magical or spiritual since their source of power and intention originates in the physical world. The power is a coherent creation of a cellular message that projects an intention to another cellular field that compels the latter to conform to the intention of the first. The communication only works on organic cellular fields, not on inanimate matter. This communication has destructive power in combat but it is also a profound method of healing.

Cultivating the Mind Soul

   To increase our purposeful power the training pivots to expand our Level of Being beyond the material world.

   Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong forms are often called moving meditation because their slow motion rhythmic movements induce a theta brain wave state of mind normally associated with meditation or sleep. Each routine trains attention and stimulates neurogenesis developing a greater density of brain tissue. The by product of this work is deep lucid dreaming. The act of learning and correcting detailed movement choreography and body mechanics while in a technical “waking dream state” trains the mind to be awake and lucid when in an actual sleeping dream state. The students begin to regularly wake up in their sleeping dreams.

   Lucid dreaming has a history in Tai Chi Chuan, as the place where we learn the true energetic nature of the body. Thus the student is encouraged to identify the lucid dream and to practice their forms while dreaming. The PCM within the dream state can practice forms without constraint from the body. This practice creates a new virtual model on how the body should feel and move. These advanced practitioners take the new energetic virtual model from the lucid dream state into the real material physical world to train their tissues and relearn their form from the inside out. All advanced metaphysical skills are first learned in this dream time including levitation and telekinesis.

   Once random lucid dreaming starts to occur it is time to discipline the practice to gain more control of the astral projection of the PCM. This is slightly different from the common astral projections, Out of Body Experiences (OBE), of normal people. The PCM OBE is a more coherent state of consciousness, in a non-ordinary state of being, within real time and space. In other words, in an OBE you wake up and float around in your real back yard, at the same relative time that you are sleeping in your bedroom, with a “normal” virtual dreamlike body, interspersed with imagery diffused between self-created dreams and waking state lucidity. The cultivated PCM OBE, however, is walking in your back yard, on the ground, in a seven foot tall, energy body. The cultivated PCM OBE can move real material objects, and open real doors, in the same backyard where the common OBE body passes through material objects or “dreams” they are opening a door. Another difference is the common OBE body falls through the bed, a PCM OBE body bounces the bed on the floor. These advanced practitioners bring back their experiential energetic understanding into the physical world and attempt to cultivate the physical body to possess the same power and abilities as the PCM OBE. This level can take three years to unfold and a decade to gain controlled mastery. But it comes with a high price that only the religious are capable of paying.

   The average student gets by nicely with random acts of expression, just frequent enough to remind one of how magical the world truly is, but not enough to force massive lifestyle and worldview changes. The neural strength and density required to operate and sustain these states is massive. Constant training builds new neural mass as the entire nervous system, structurally and operationally, reorganizes itself through the qigong and astral training. Intuitive skills and even baseline intelligence are improved. Some practitioners push far enough to get an entire reboot from a unitive experience, which is a death experience, or near death experience, without the dying. This reboot changes all perception and operations of the nervous system. These people get an added upgrade of skill to freely explore the relative human afterlife locales.

   In The Immortal’s Gift: A Parable for the Soul, I created a model that described different Levels of Being and an infinite amount of metaphysical locales of consciousness available for all to explore. In the subsequent years I learned that the levels above the fifth were metaphysical in the sense that few incarnate humans could access and work within them, but were supernatural within their own nature. They are above the nature and dimension of our material universe. The Supernatural has a completely different physics of its own, that encompasses our system and reflects the systems above us. We can not use the supernatural, the supernatural uses us, its powers are bestowed upon selected “instruments” at specified times.
   An example to explain the differences between the two systems is the curing of an injury or illness. To cure a broken bone by metaphysical means is to amplify the normal physical healing processes so that the healing time is shortened, even instant. A supernatural cure happens instantly or in “God’s time.” The difference is that the metaphysical cure leaves a physical trace, the supernatural cure, with specific exceptions, is like the event never happened! There are no physical signs that the disease or injury ever happened.

   The levels above the fifth Level of Being are a transitionary field, an angelic realm, in which specific intercessors of our dimension can communicate and learn with beings from the supernatural. A biological example would be to compare this realm as being similar to the zone where a nerve morphs into a muscle. The neurons and perineural connective tissue diffuse into a special tissue with special muscle cells. These special cells then diffuse further and further into simple muscle cells. The special cells do not evolve from normal muscle cells, they come from source, stem cells, born from the zygote itself. They possess special skills and properties to directly transfer messages and convert them to muscle language. It is an important and responsible job with little room for error.

   The “body of humanity” like the body of a human, requires only a relatively few special cells, compared to the millions of normal cells who they service. These special cells would be considered our saints, monks, and other holy people, who dedicate their lives to be in communion with the creator. The supernatural “source” of our material dimension.

The Role of Religion

   The purposeful meditation of Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan is not a religious ritual, although it is practiced “religiously.” It is a technology for the purpose of transforming the body and mind to exceed the limits of performance, perception, and physics that constrain the normal human being. Which means the paradigm of human existence is expanded for those who practice it. The technology requires no religious philosophy, beliefs or rules to transport a person into a metaphysical reality and lifestyle. However, religion is an important value added component.

   Meditation doesn’t change our flaws of personality, culture, and wounds. Meditation can only change the brain environment making us more perceptive and interactive with the metaphysical and ultimately the supernatural. However, for real personal change one needs rules and codes of conduct to reframe disfunction with focused purpose, chaos with order, confusion with clarity, and individuality with the universal. Religion encourages this reframing by providing context, values, direction, and sometimes a historical reference on how to use one’s unfolded abilities. Although both secular and religious seekers meet nonphysical helpers on their journey who provide support, training, consultations, and protection, religion provides a better guide to communicate and understand these beings.

   Without religion the person’s metaphysical capabilities can become “capped” as to how far a person will rise. A protective cap, designed by the supernatural itself, acts as a gate to those who are not called to this work, or who have not yet overcome the illusions and attachments of their cultural mind. Ego, dysfunctional behaviors, addictions, and organic flaws, can be unleashed by the brain states of meditation. Unchecked they can manifest in one’s life as nightmarish chaos and dysfunction literally driving a person into madness stoked by their own inner fears and wounds. Those who’s obsessiveness pushes them beyond the cap can literally self destruct in both mind and the real world. I have known a few people who have fallen into this hole. Some fall deep enough to become a living poltergeist to themselves and others around them.

   The rules and models of religion are a therapeutic intervention to release attachment to the illusions of material humans and the destructive societies and organizations they create to glorify themselves and their illusions. These illusions cause the suffering and the endless cycle of death. However, religious organizations themselves are also corrupt products of material humans. Yet, within even the worst religious organization, many mystics and saints have arisen, to transcend the constraints of humaness and the cycle of life and death. And many more specialists and believers combine to form an experiential field of divine peace. We should ignore religious organizations and their politics, and give power to their processes and practices of detachment and communion, and let the supernatural lead.

   The seeker uses the structured prayers, scriptures, and immortal models that religion provides to access supernatural deity fields and move into communion with them. Deity fields are not in themselves the creator, the light, they are modulations of the creator light, lying on the edges of the metaphysical locales of human consciousness, where a cultivated human’s soul can reach them and conduit the creator’s light into the physical world. When a seeker can immerse themselves into this field, they are connected, via exponential octaves of field intelligence, to the light and source in a direct, meaningful, interactive way.

   Transfiguration is the rare process of becoming a metaphysical or supernatural immortal by an alchemic infusion of the supernatural energy of the creator, often via a deity field, into the physical body. It is a communion that is bestowed upon an individual that has cleansed themselves of their world and are an open instrument of the Creator’s Love and Authority. We call these rare individuals Saints. There are many types and levels of transfiguration based on different religious processes. True saints, by the Creator’s authority, have control and mastery over living beings and inanimate matter.

   Where mindfulness is a process of mediation for the health of the masses, immersed in the stresses of illusions, Purposeful Meditation is a tool for a relatively small percentage of people. The motivation comes from within and not from the trends of the day. These people are already “outsiders” who have a unique connection to the creator that is distorted by popular religions and counter culture new age fairy tales. Those who are “called” are deliberately misguided, by well intended humans, away from their inner power into humanitarian service and activism. The seekers are seduced by the myth: “they must do something to change the world.” The misguided seeker believes they will fulfill their life’s purpose by providing an equal redistribution of illusionary measures of fulfillment and materialistic pleasure, to those who are suffering from their lack of materialistic pleasures, wealth and happiness. They use flawed human ideas to overcome the glitches of an illusion.

   Mired in a self-satisfying illusion of service, the misguided seeker rarely overcomes their limits. However, each person who becomes a purposeful communicator, reframes and organizes supernatural messages so they can be assimilated into the material world. They do not have to do a thing, or say a word. They work within and follow the supernatural invisible forces and unmeasurable energies of the Way to incomprehensibly establish balance and harmony.