HEALTH: A look at meditation, metaphysics and the unknown

In what was once considered “New Age,” the practices of connecting into our consciousness by controlled breathing, meditation, forms of yoga, psychaelics, and scientific studies and theories about consciousness aren’t so “woo” anymore. One of the more popular practices is meditation, which centers around mindfulness and breathing to present a calm, stable state with various forms like spiritual and transcendental diving deeper into consciousness.

Many turn to meditation to combat anxiety and/or depression, while others for general wellness. Over 14 percent of the U.S. population have tried meditation once, and top 10 most popular meditation apps generated $195 million in sales in 2019 according to www.thegoodbody.com. There are a growing number of enthusiasts that use meditation as a way to connect to the universe and better understand the unexplained.

Lue Elizondo and Sean Cahill discuss Mike Damante’s second “Punk rock and UFOs “ book. (Sean Cahill.)

Lue Elizondo and Sean Cahill discuss Mike Damante’s second “Punk rock and UFOs “ book. (Sean Cahill.)

Nimitz-UAP encounter key witness Sean Cahill is currently a retired U.S. Navy Chief-Master-At Arms, and is spending his civilian life as an investigative film maker and meditation facilitator. Cahill is an articulate advocate for UFO disclosure, and mindfulness and mediation.

“ Resonance, frequency, harmony and vibration, this is how our reality operates,” Cahill previously told punkrockandufos.com.

As a meditation facilitar , Cahill’s sessions that he’s chosen to share aim to connect that greater connection.

“Meditation offers us a glimpse of a place within ourselves that is both stripped of the trappings of ego and layered with an unmistakable feeling of a greater connection up and down the spectrum of experience, Cahill said.  Gaining a sense of the boundary between self and other, gaining a moment to notice emotions, their use and respond to them rather than react allows a person to view their environment, relationships and personal needs more skillfully; this in turn allows the more subtle connections around us to reveal themselves under mindful scrutiny.  You are not your thoughts, the good nor the bad. It’s when the marionette cuts its own strings that the real fun is had.”

Sean Raasch of YouTube program Witness Citizen, uses meditation as a means to cope with his own anomalous experiences, which isn’t always easy to do.

“For me, meditating acts as a means for balance,” Raash said. “It helps me detach from my experiences so I can look at a much wider picture.”

Others see meditation as a more divine and magical process. In Damien Echols’ book “Angels & Archangels: A Magician’s Guide,” Echols (the former member of the West Memphis Three incident that was wrongfully imprisoned) states the mind training, mindfulness and meditation are parts of his practice of magick. Echols has been meditating hs whole life, and believes through “archangel meditation” you can invoke blessings, benefits, a divine focus, and celestial energy from archangels. “Angels & Archangels: A Magician’s Guide” also dates the history of magick to early Sumerian creationism stories, which includes “the practice of the magician using their voice to transmit a current of energy that ties the student to a lineage of teachings that go all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia.”

-By MIKE DAMANTE

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