WATCH ALAN WATTS DISCUSS MEDITATING WITH A SILENT MIND
As the great Deepak Chopra, tells us: ''Only a silent mind can be a healing mind [and] a silent mind is about reconnecting to your source'' [1]. The latter can be thought of as connecting with our Higher Selves which opens a portal to what we may regard as the Divine, the Great Spirit, the Multiverse, and all that is... At the end of this blog, there is a YouTube link to an excerpt from a brilliant lecture by the late great Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher and Author, Alan Watts (who I connect to in the Spirit World). In the aforementioned piece, which was recorded at a convention on Eastern religions and Western therapy in 1971, in New York City, Alan puts a spotlight on: How contemplation and meditation empower us to cease manufacturing our thoughts, and thus Block our 21st century 'agitation from thinking,' something which means We humans are continually propelled by non-stop talking to ourselves via an internal (and often, negative) dialogu...