Meditation

Meditation is a word that has been used to refer to techniques of mind alteration. 
Hermetism 	Yoga 	Theophan 	Description
Concentration	dharana	Spoken prayer 	Visualization
Meditation 	dhyana 	Mental prayer 	Mental Prayer
Contemplation	samadhi	Unceasing prayer	Prayer of the Heart
In his booklet, The Path of Prayer, St. Thephan the Recluse provides some basic guidance on these stages. Spoken prayer is when we pray using the prayers of others. In mental prayer we raise our mind to God through reflection on divine things. But these are prepatory stages to unceasing prayer which is the constant turning of mind and heart to God.
 Man lives in three relative states of Consciousness: Waking, Dreaming, and Dreamless Sleep. In Sanskrit these are known as Jagrata (waking), Swapna (dreaming) and Sushupti (dreamless sleep). The fourth state of consciousness (Tureeya) is The Transcendental (TC). Yet, there are still higher states of consciousness.
Dr. Robert Keith Wallace proved the existence TC in his Phd Thesis The physiological effects of Transcendental Meditation, a Proposed Fourth Major state of Consciousness.
=== Seven States of Consciousness ===
# Waking
# Dreaming (REM sleep)
# Dreamless Sleep (non- REM)
# Transcendental Consciousness (TC)
# Cosmic Consciousness (CC)
# Glorified State of Cosmic Consciousness (GC)
# Unified State of Cosmic Consciousness (UC)
=== The Triune Meditation - Achieving Higher States of Consciousness ===
Meditation is threefold:
# Physical Meditation - Reverence to preceptors and Yogis, worship of one's Tutelary Deity, observance of Continence, non-violence - all these constitute Physical Meditation.
# Verbal Meditation - Speaking kind words and not hurting anyone, Observance of Truth, Self-Study (serious study of the Self) - all these constitute Verbal Meditation.
# Mental Meditation - Mental cheerfulness, humility, observance of Silence, mastery of the sense organs, purity of heart - all these constitute Mental Meditation.
== Rhizomata ==
Seven states of being
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