Meditation as Spiritual Practice

by Genevieve Lewis Paulson

Meditation has many purposes: healing, past life awareness, mental clarity, and relaxation. This practice can also enhance our spiritual lives by bringing about "peak experiences" or transcendental states. Meditation as Spiritual Practice focuses on the practice of meditation for expanding consciousness and awareness. The techniques in this treasured guidebook can also help one in developing clairvoyance, clairaudience, and other psychic abilities.

Genres: Metaphysics, Spirituality

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Genevieve Lewis Paulson is the director and president of Dimensions of Involvement, Inc., a non-profit growth center located on 165 acres of the Ozark mountains in Arkansas, a center of psychic, personal, and spiritual learning, accrediting students in the study of Kundalini energy development. In the early 1970s, she founded Sunergos, Inc., a spiritual growth center in Chicago. Where her new experiences might have led her to abandon Western religious beliefs, she instead found a method to meld two varieties of truth, creating a synthesis of two great traditions of belief.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was my first attempt to translate a book into Latvian, therefore I read this book very neatly. And after 10 pages I understood this is going to be a challenge.
Until now I was not attracted by meditations and similar practices, but I have to admit, G. L. Paulson managed to awake my interest in this field. Therefore I can honestly say - I felt her huge meditation experience trough the lines but I have to admit that in my opinion the author is not able to share it. I think her talent and understanding of the meditating practice is proportional to her disability to express it and teach.
Of course I don't deny that my purpose of reading this book had a significant point in shaping my opinion, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that sentences have been repeated just with a slightly changed word order, some of the described meditation just don't make sense, the lack of consistency in the terminology is confusing.
Additionally I think there were some basic explanations missing. The author gave suggestions what to do but not how to do it (for example, often she prescribed to have a particular feeling, but she didn't gave any advises how to do it etc.).
Maybe this book deserves 2 stars, because I really got something from it. For example, lately I had problems with falling asleep and emptying my mind but Paulson actually helped with this issue. But all she made me go through in the world of text (and a book consist also from text, especially in 'how to' books) just does not allow me to admit I like it cos I didn't. But as we know a every experience is a good one.