Inner Light Consciousness Meditation
Background
There are many reasons why people meditate, and
there are also many forms of meditation. For some, meditation is a
personal time taken just for yourself to reduce stress and tension, to let go
of the troubles of the world and just "recharge your batteries" for a
while. For others, a more spiritual experience is desired, one where the
person's mind can expand and rise into the higher dimensions to awaken the
inner senses and strive for spiritual enlightenment.
But how one approaches meditation will
often have more to do with the results than any other single factor.
There is no single meditation technique that is universally the
"best" for everyone. Focusing on an object (e.g., candle flame,
dot on the wall, etc.) may be quite enough for some who are looking for stress
reduction. Others may listen to relaxing music or mantras (e.g., OMs,
chants, nature sounds, etc.) and have a completely relaxing experience.
Sometimes certain yoga postures may be used to help focus the energy of the
breath through different parts of the body.
However, the single most frustrating
factor in practicing any particular meditation technique is learning how to
allow the mind to relax completely and become open to the energies of the
higher dimensions. "Mind chatter," random thoughts that break
the concentration or mood you are striving for, often get in the way of a
pleasant and productive meditation experience.
The Inner Light Consciousness (ILC)
Meditation, originally developed by the late Rev. Paul Solomon
of Virginia Beach, VA., has been carefully crafted to avoid the
frustration of "mind chatter." It does this by specifically
unleashing the limitless creative potential of the mind to enrich the
meditation experience. Instead of trying to quiet the mind and empty it
of all thoughts, the power of the imaginative, creative mind is enlisted to
guide the meditator through a rich, empowering, and illuminating visualization
which awakens the inner senses and reaffirms to the conscious mind our true
spiritual nature as unlimited citizens of our universe.
Rev. Solomon also identified seven
essential steps for meditation which allow your consciousness to evolve toward
higher spiritual growth. These seven steps are all included in the ILC
Meditation as colored "Gardens" which relate to each chakra, and
through which you pass as you rise higher in consciousness during the
meditation. They are designed to change your life by letting you discover
the spiritual Source of your consciousness and establishing a personal
relationship with that Source. Each step is characterized by a specific
type of Garden, a predominant color, and a theme or affirmation that is to be
used in each Garden. These are:
Step 1. Garden of Expectancy.
(Root chakra) Color - Red. "I will be
changed by this experience."
Step 2. Garden of Transformation.
(Sacral chakra) Color - Orange. "I die
daily to what I was yesterday, and open now to what I can become."
Step 3. Garden of New Birth, Expansiveness and Joy. (Solar
Plexus Chakra) Color - Yellow. "I look
forward to my new life and what lies ahead."
Step 4. Garden of The Companion. (Heart chakra)
Color - Forest Green. "I simply want to know You
better."
Step 5. Garden of Communion. (Throat chakra)
Color - Deep Sky Blue. "My Companion and I are one."
Step 6. Garden of Responsibility. (Brow chakra)
Color - Violet. "I accept the responsibility to use my
talents and abilities wisely."
Step 7. Garden of Enlightenment. (Crown chakra)
Color - White. "I ask to be made ready to enter Thy sacred
Temple and to approach Thy sacred altar."
As a part of the meditation instruction
provided by the Evergreen Healing Arts Center,
a CD is provided to each person taking the meditation class. This CD is
to be played to guide you through your daily meditation. After a period
of time, a second meditation is provided on the same CD and gives specific
instructions on how to take the entire meditation process to even higher
levels.
ILC Meditation Goals
The specific goals of the ILC Meditation process are to:
The ILC Sequence
This guided visualization begins with the
relaxation of the physical body into a very safe place. It is important
for the conscious mind to relax, and it cannot relax if it must continue to be
concerned in any way for the physical well-being and safety of your body.
You want to take your consciousness or awareness into a state where the
physical body can be safely left behind without worry or concern. This
releases and frees the mind from its analytical (conscious) role and lets it
expand and travel to the higher dimensions where all things are possible.
The meditation tape or CD will guide you through the experiences discussed
below. Each place holds a deep symbolic meaning for the subconscious
mind.
The Point Of Perfect Balance. The Point of Perfect Balance is that place of safety that
you feel within yourself when you know all is well physically. Your body is
resting safely and comfortably in a chair, and there are no disturbing sounds,
sights, smells or feelings anywhere in this relaxing space. When you’re
ready, just step from your Point of Perfect Balance in your physical body to
the Point of Perfect Balance in your meadow. See yourself standing in
your meadow now, safe and secure in the knowledge that all is still right with
your world.
The Meadow.
The ILC Meditation always begins and ends in your own personal, private meadow.
This is the most important place in your entire meditation journey; it is where
you learn to expand your inner senses to become aware of the higher dimensions
and planes of existence that surround us all .
It is here that you develop your natural inner abilities so you can see with
your inner eyes, hear with your inner ears and sense with your inner knowing
all the vibrations and patterns in the higher dimensions of your true spiritual
being.
As you walk through your meadow, you will
come to a cornfield. The cornfield is the metaphorical symbol for the
abundance of all that life has to offer. And there is no reason to hesitate in
taking everything offered by life. The truth is that you deserve anything
that you can take from life so long as it does not harm someone else or their
opportunities. So, forget about whether you deserve it, whether you have
a right to ask for it, or whether you really need it. You have a right to
ask for anything! All of life’s abundance is right here in your
cornfield, available for the taking any time you wish.
There is also a cool, mountain stream
running through your meadow. And as your eyes follow the flowing waters,
you'll see a bridge crossing over the stream. As you cross over the
bridge, you'll see a pathway that leads to a tall mountain in the distance.
It's a very tall mountain with several colored garden terraces up its side, but
the top of the mountain is hidden from view.
Climbing The Mountain.
The climb along the pathway through the colored gardens (red, orange, yellow,
... white) up the mountainside is symbolic of the journey through the energies
of each of your own chakras. And when you reach your White Garden, your
consciousness will have been elevated to the higher state of awareness required
to experience the higher dimensions of your being. It is here that you
can further purify and cleanse yourself in preparation for entering your
Temple, your sanctum sanctorum within.
The Temple Within. When
you enter your Temple, the first thing you will see is the eternal violet flame
of purification which burns forever in your inner Temple. Step into it,
and everything within you that is still not yet purified will be transmuted to
a lump of gold. This symbology recognizes that we really are
intrinsically strong and pure within the core of our being, but sometimes we
forget and believe we are unworthy sinners. This final purification and
transmutation sequence ensures that we walk into our Temple standing tall and
confident, yet humble and compassionate. As you look around in your inner
Temple, you will find four rooms: your Healing Room, Hall Of
Records, Learning Room and Meditation Room. You will visit each room and
become familiar with its contents during your 40-day journey, but no real work
will be done in them until after your 40-day preparation period.
The Healing Room. Here
you will meet Archangel Raphael, the Archangel of healing, balance and
harmony. Also in your Healing Room you will see
a healing window on the far wall and a healing table in the center of the
room. After your 40-day journey, you will learn how to use these tools
for both your own healing on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
levels, and, with their permission, for the healing of others.
The Hall Of Records. As you walk in and greet your Recordkeeper, you
will become aware of the seemingly infinite number of records here that are
available to read. You may see each record as a book to read, a video to
play on a screen, a computer file to be scanned, or another form that is
familiar to you. However, each one contains the Akashic Record of an
individual soul while on this earth plane. Your Hall of Records contains
the Akashic Records of all souls, and these records are available for you to
read under the proper circumstances. You will learn how to do so after
your 40-day journey has been completed without missing a day.
The Learning Room. Here
you will meet your Instructor, who has access to all
information in the Universe which may not be contained in the personal or group
Akashic Records in the Hall Of Record. While in an altered state, each of
us can learn how to access to this knowledge upon request, and if you ask, your
Instructor will provide the answers if that information is in your highest and
best good at that time.
The Meditation Room. This
room contains only a comfortable chair in the middle of a peaceful, dimly-lit
room. Here you can relax in the peace and safety of your "Sanctum
Sanctorum," your own inner Holy of Holies, and allow your awareness to
expand, your inner vibrations to heighten, and your consciousness to become
aware of the higher planes of existence that surround us all. Your
journey up your mountain and into your inner Temple has prepared you for this
"meditation within a meditation" where you can simply pause the tape
or CD for a while and experience your own connection to these higher realms of reality
and all the loving compassion that the Universe holds for you personally.
And when you are done meditating, you may restart the tape or CD and continue
your journey back down the mountain.
Descending The Mountain. As
you descend your spiritual mountain, you will bring with you all the memories
and energies of the White Garden into the Violet Garden and merge these
energies. Then you will bring these merged energies down into the Blue
Garden and merge them once again. In a similar fashion, you will blend
and merge all the energies of each chakra garden with all the others, balancing
and harmonizing each chakra as you descend. This is a very important
process and brings back into your physical awareness the memories and higher
energies of your spiritual meditation journey and experiences within your
Temple.
Returning To Your Meadow. As
you cross your bridge and return to your meadow, you will again sense the
vitality and energy of all life in your meadow and, when you are ready, gently
step back into your Point of Perfect Balance within yourself. You will
bring with you all the insights and knowledge of your meditation experience, as
well as the healing energies of balance, renewal and regeneration.
The Inner Light Consciousness Meditation
workshop provides a detailed description of the sequence and symbology
contained in the guided visualization described above. Then your homework
will be to actually begin your 40-day Journey during which you will daily
follow the guided visualization provided to you. Upon satisfactory
completion of the 40-day Journey you will be properly prepared to begin using
the tools provided during the guided visualization.
When you have followed the above
meditation sequence for forty days and have not gone to sleep during the
meditation (meditation is a conscious activity; sleep is not), you will have
properly prepared yourself to put into practice the steps for achieving the
above-stated goals for the ILC Meditation. At this point, you may
continue with a modified ILC Meditation which will teach you specifically how
to use these tools for yourself or, with permission, in the aid of someone
else.
For further information on the works of
Paul Solomon, please visit the Paul Solomon Foundation website: www.PaulSolomon.com
ILC Meditation Free
Digital Download Files
The five files that support the ILC Meditation are contained
in a single folder (about 16 MB) which is located ‘in the cloud’ on my Dropbox
account. First, create a folder named
“ILC Meditation” on your desktop.
Second, simply CLICK HERE
to go to my Dropbox folder and view the five files. Third, download each of the five files to
your desktop and then move them to your “ILC Meditation” folder. The five individual files are listed below. If you have the file extensions enabled, you
will be able to easily which are document files and which are audio files. The audio files should play directly on any
modern computer or mp3 player, as well as many newer CD players, or you may
elect to burn the mp3 audio files to separate CDs using a CD-burning
application of your choice. The document
text files are saved as rtf files (Rich Text Format), and are able to be opened
and printed by most word processors such as Microsoft Word, Open Office's
Write, WordPerfect, etc.
The five files are:
1. A document file, "1
- readmeFIRST.rtf" that provides instructions on how to practice your Inner
Light Consciousness (ILC) Meditation. Print this out now and read it
FIRST!
2. A document file called "2 - ILC 40-Day
Journey.rtf". Print this out and read it before actually playing
the "4 - ILC 40-Day Journey.mp3" audio file.
3. A document file called "3 -
ILC Instructions.rtf". DO
NOT PRINT THIS OUT until AFTER you have
meditated for 40 consecutive days using the "4 - ILC 40-Day
Journey.mp3" audio file. It is
important to lay a solid foundation first with your initial 40-Day Journey
before you start working in each of the four rooms of your Temple.
4. An audio file called "4 - ILC 40-Day
Journey.mp3". This is the
guided meditation file for your initial 40-Day Journey, and lasts about 33
minutes.
5. An audio file called "5 - ILC Meditation.mp3". This is a guided meditation you may play each
day AFTER you have completed the initial 40-Day Journey. This guided meditation is a condensed version
of the 40-Day Journey and lasts about 16 minutes.
The ILC 40-Day Journey
To begin working with the ILC Meditation, select a time and place that you can
comfortably set aside for meditating each day, either in the morning or in the
evening as you prefer. Prepare yourself
by breathing deeply and slowly several times and let your body and mind become
comfortable and relaxed as you prepare for your meditation session. When you are ready to begin your meditation,
select and play the file "4 - ILC 40-Day Journey" on your
computer, mp3 player or CD player (if you have burned the files to a CD), and
close your eyes. Follow the words and
images given to you and really get into the feeling of each image as you journey
through your meadow and up your spiritual mountain to your own Sanctum
Sanctorum, your Temple Within. The 40-Day Journey meditation is about 33
minutes long.
You
must use the "4 - ILC 40-Day Journey.mp3" at least once each
day for at least 40 consecutive days to fully "program" your
subconscious mind for the life-enhancing changes and transformations that will
soon become apparent in your daily life. If you miss a day, or if you drift off
to sleep while listening to the CD, you must start all over from day number one
and complete your 40-Day Journey while awake.
Meditation is a conscious activity; sleep is not! For this meditation to be effective, you must
make the commitment to take the time and make the effort to complete the full
40 days while awake.
After Completing 40 Consecutive Days
When you have successfully completed at least 40 consecutive days' meditation
using the file "4 - ILC 40-Day Journey.mp3", you are ready to
begin using the tools that you were introduced to during your 40-day preparation. Now, you may print out the "3
- ILC Instructions.rtf" file.
It contains the instructions that you will need to use the tools in each
of the four Temple rooms.
For all subsequent meditation sessions, you
may now use the second audio file, "5 - ILC Meditation.mp3".
This file contains the shortened version of the initial 40-Day Journey (about
16 minutes); this meditation allows additional time to be spent in one of your
Temple rooms to do more extensive healing, past life review, information
gathering, or deep transcendental meditation.
Enjoy!
This page last updated March 9, 2022