Daily Meditation: Sunday, July 15, 2007

Beyond the earth’s atmosphere, in what the ancients called …

07/15/2007

Beyond the earth’s atmosphere, in what the ancients called the ether, there is an essential substance dispersed throughout space, and everything on earth is designed to attract and retain a certain quantity of this life-bearing substance. Scientists would do well to take up this matter and through laboratory research teach the public about the nature of this quintessence, since it is so necessary to our physical, psychic and spiritual health. The Hindus call this substance prana and have methods for capturing it, particularly by means of the breath. But there are many other methods besides respiration. There is the contemplation of the rising sun and of the starry night sky. There is contact with the forces of nature in the forests, mountains, rivers, lakes and oceans. There is also nutrition, since all the foods we eat contain something of this quintessence which is distributed everywhere in space, from the rocks to the stars.