The Meditator's Guidebook: Pathways to Greater Awareness and Creativity

By Lucy Oliver and Lucy Oliver

Book Overview

This valuable guide explains the basic process that is initiated when someone seriously begins to learn meditation in any tradition or with any technique. Whether the object is relaxation, enlightenment, or union with the Divine, the three most obvious results of meditation can be summarized as calmness, power, and insight; together, they represent the refinement and development of our physical, emotional, and intellectual levels of being. In The Meditator's Guidebook , author Lucy Oliver describes with precision the benefits and pitfalls of meditation and distinguishes it from trance, hypnosis, reflection, or visualization. She clarifies the basic techniques and principles involved in the skill of meditation and shows how sustained practice can unlock our innate creativity. Just as nourishment is assimilated by the body and transformed in the process of physical growth, meditation is a catalyst for transforming the substance of life in our consciousness and deepening our contact with the creative dimension of existence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892813601
• ISBN13: 9780892813605
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A lot of books say they are about meditation, but might not be. This really is a book about meditati

I highly recommend this book to anyone who seriously wants to know about meditation ! Throug the practise of it,levels of perception change, and this book is a great guide on that path. I come back to it again and again, and always find new insights, inspiration and advise on how not to get lost in something that might not be meditation.

Very good overview

This book is one of the best overviews of what meditation is about. The author very clearly highlights the differences between meditation, shamanism, hypnosis, ect. While this book does not actually TEACH meditation, the author does give excellent advise on what to look for in a teacher, and what could be expected from meditation. Highly reccomended.