{"id":314,"date":"2014-06-19T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T00:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2014-12-23T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T07:34:10","slug":"under-the-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Under the Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I\u2019ve been doing less formal meditation than usual these past few weeks (because I’ve been working almost non-stop on my forthcoming novel), I\u2019ve had some great meditations. And I attribute this to being \u201cunder the Influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By being \u201cunder the Influence,\u201d I mean being spiritually \u201cpositioned\u201d to receive the Benediction. For years I\u2019ve practiced receiving Blessing Power, but until a few weeks ago I never had an \u201cenquiry\u201d that served to directly and immediately put me in \u201creceiving position.\u201d Relational enquiry\u2014Adi Da\u2019s enquiry \u201cAvoiding relationship?\u201d serves to directly and immediately \u201cplug me in,\u201d but this is a yang, \u201cpenetrative\u201d gesture; and I had no corresponding enquiry that served to directly enable me to \u201cpull down\u201d Power. But now I do.<\/p>\n<p>My new enquiry is: \u201cUnder the Influence?\u201d And I periodically silently also verbalize it: \u201cUnder the Influence of Divine Blessing Power?\u201d By \u201cInfluence\u201d I mean the In-Flow of Divine Power, Shakti. Somehow this enquiry resonates within me so as to instigate my directly and immediately assuming a whole-bodily \u2018position\u201d of plugged-in, surrendered receptivity.<\/p>\n<p>Will this enquiry work for everybody? Hardly, and probably no more so than Da\u2019s relational enquiry, which few seem to benefit from. And why might not these enquiries work? Because they only function to reinforce gestures that one is already adept at. Moreover, in the case of \u201cUnder the Influence,\u201d if the disciple has not been baptized by the Spirit, In-Flowing Divine Power, then the enquiry may not prove useful.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to give the enquiry: \u201cUnder the Influence (of Divine Blessing Power)\u201d a try. You have nothing to lose by doing so. Moreover, even if it doesn\u2019t work for you now, that doesn’t mean\u00a0it won’t do so\u00a0in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I\u2019ve been doing less formal meditation than usual these past few weeks (because I’ve been working almost non-stop on my forthcoming novel), I\u2019ve had some great meditations. And I attribute this to being \u201cunder the Influence.\u201d By being \u201cunder the Influence,\u201d I mean being spiritually \u201cpositioned\u201d to receive the Benediction. For years I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralspiritualmeditation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}