The Gateways to Spiritualism

The Gateways to Spiritualism

All mystical traditions require the meditator to cycle through meditations on each of the four classical elements not counting the fifth of the Alchemists and the Chinese as this is the magical factor, electricity or metal depending on tradition. In Buddhism this is the first goal, to find the fifth element. To find it, you must cycle through the elements in various ways and patterns to discover your psychic powers and then your magic powers. Each element as we shall see in the coming chapters can be called a Dhyana when focused on spiritually:

1. While meditating on earth, that is the substance of your body, your weight, your weight on whatever you are sitting and your perception of gravity, the ability to perceive an infinite space develops. This means is that your mind can perceive any point in conception through teleporting. Once you get here you can perceive it as there are limitless places a being can be.
2. While meditating on water, that is the heart beat, the blood, the saliva the urine all the moisture in and around your body, the ability to develop a perception of infinite consciousness develops. This means you can perceive others emotions and thoughts through your feelings. At this level you should meditate on the fact that you can think any number of random things by perceiving the thoughts of your own through water.
3. While meditating on fire, that is the heat in your body, the warmth from within a perception of nothingness develops. This means you can keep your thoughts quiet and clear the mind of everything. Nothingness of thought becomes the most focused meditation and the meaning as something that does not exist—thoughts.
4. While meditating on air, that is the wind in your lungs, the air around your body and the breath, a perception of perception or not perception develops. What this is, is an opening into the understanding of past existences. A feeling of déjà vu develops and causes the individual to perceive themselves, outside of themselves. At this point, the mind begins to open and once the planets are thought of, psychic power is connected.
5. While meditating on energy, on the energy running up and down your spine and your chakras, imagine the teaching you learned to get there falling away. This is the rising and falling of Dharmas it is the formless attainment for the fifth element. When one fully understands this fifth Dhyana all teachings will appear impermanent.

    By cycling through these element meditations, in various ways and patterns, the monk can calm himself and begin to discover spiritual powers. The monk should try ascending the Dhyanas from Earth to Air and then descending through them. They should skip them, order them and cycle through them every time they meditate. Heart beat then breath meditations will reveal something, so will earth and then heat meditations. Breath, now earth, now heart-beat, and you’ve skipped fire. Heat, earth, then breath and you’ve skipped water. This is why mysticism puts so much emphasis on the elements. It is almost as though Buddhism exists in its present form to stay as consistently opening the Dhyanas to everyone as possible. 

     The logic behind the cycling through elements presents itself as quite simple. As long as the classical elements or Dhyanas are fully understood as five-fold and distinct from any judgments based on the periodic table, the logic of certain mental states being caused by these meditations is pretty fluid. Tracing back my steps I can come to the conclusion that if I meditate on earth in the fashion spelled out in the tradition I am studying that then I will have perceptions of viewing things outside of my empirical perception. From here we can deduce at least that a meditation on earth will cause a perception and now that perception which is a priori analytic can now be studied as a type of knowledge that was not understood prior to this earth meditation.