Meditation #26
Meditations Upon Books
for cultivation of memory, awareness, & intuition
All Fringe Wizards read a great many books but we could be making the process a lot more efficient and productive. Here are meditations I have devised for that purpose:
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Book Meditation, No Visualization, Reciting
Type 1 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting basic
(do this with a book you are just reading now)
1. Read a sentence.
2. Look away or close the eyes.
3. Recite the full sentence you just read perfectly.
4. Read the next sentence.
5. Repeat - until you can do this easily then move onto intermediate.
Type 1 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting intermediate
1. Read a full paragraph.
2. Look away or close the eyes.
3. Recite the full paragraph you just read perfectly.
4. Read the next paragraph.
5. Repeat - until you can do this easily then move onto advanced.
Type 1 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting advanced
1. Read a full page.
2. Look away or close the eyes.
3. Recite the full page you just read perfectly.
4. Read the next page.
5. Repeat - until you've finished the book.
Suggested book for practising this on: The Kybalion.
Having read an entire book… proceed with this:
Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting basic
(do this with a book you read and have not gone back to in at least a few hours or a day, this is using long-term memory not short-term memory)
1. Recite the first sentence from the first page of the first chapter.
2. Check for accuracy of recital.
3. Recite random other sentences throughout the book and check for accuracy, until confident you can quote anything out of the book from memory.
Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting intermediate
Do as before, but full paragraphs.
Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting advanced
Do as before, but full pages.
Type 2 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting master
1. Recite the entire book from memory.
2. Use a random number generator such as http://www.random.org/ where the minimum is 1 and the max is the number of pages in your book in total then recite
2b. Use a silly mundane to call out a random page for you to recite, recite the page for him from memory, then show them the page (or have them looking at the page you are reciting while you yourself aren't seeing it) and impress the fuck out of him.
Goals for the above two meditations are:
• Memorize instantly upon reading, if it takes you forever to memorize a book and then you can recite it all perfectly fine – you still may have to learn to memorize faster so that with your next book you can just read the whole book once and recite the whole thing afterwards no problem.
• Recite everything accurately and fast, you don't want to make mistakes or struggle to remember it each sentence as you go along reciting it all.
Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting basic
Find a book you have not yet read…
1. Look at the cover page or title.
2. Start "reciting" the first sentence, without having read it.
3. Check the sentence carefully, not scrolling down to reveal too much at once.
4. Wrong? Just move on to the next sentence, keep going along until you're eventually accurately "reciting" full sentences before having actually read them.
ProTip: Using trance and the power of faith/belief beforehand to reprogram yourself to be able to do these meditations will make it easier. You should also do quiet mind meditation beforehand and if you want void meditation.
Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting intermediate
Continue like you were doing in the basic meditation – but full paragraphs.
Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting advanced
As before but full pages now.
Type 3 book meditation, no-visualization, reciting master
Recite an entire book without ever having actually read it. (Then check through the normal means for accuracy).
Note: at this point you are starting to become practically omniscient and soon will only need the titles of books and samples of text to check for accuracy and you can read any book without actually having it.