{"id":2000,"date":"2025-04-19T23:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-powerful-initiation-into-a-meditation-technique\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T23:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:40:51","slug":"a-powerful-initiation-into-a-meditation-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-powerful-initiation-into-a-meditation-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Initiation into a Meditation Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 and about finding the truth.<br>\n25 and about higher<br>\nstates of consciousness.<br>\n25 and a full blown seeker,<br>\nI get initiated into a<br>\nmeditation method<br>\nin a room in Cambridge, Mass<br>\nnot far from Radcliffe<br>\nand Harvard U.<\/p>\n<p>An elaborate ceremony,<br>\nan altar and incense burning,<br>\nthe initiator a woman chanting.<br>\nI get a sacred Hindu mantra.<br>\nI begin to mentally repeat it<\/p>\n<p>A minute later, I hear a<br>\nsoft snapping sound in the<br>\ncenter of my forehead,<br>\nmaybe where the third eye<br>\nis said to be, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>My consciousness expands<br>\nand its flooded with<br>\nindescribable bliss<br>\nbeyond anything<br>\nI\u2019d ever imagined. <\/p>\n<p>I walk out of the<br>\nmeditation room high and<br>\nfeeling like a Hindu monk<br>\nin a flowing robe, feeling like<br>\nI\u2019d come home, feeling like<br>\nI\u2019d been a Hindu monk<br>\nin a former life.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 and about finding the truth. 25 and about higher states of consciousness. 25 and a full blown seeker, I get initiated into a meditation method in a room in Cambridge, Mass not far from Radcliffe and Harvard U. An elaborate ceremony, an altar and incense burning, the initiator a woman chanting. I get a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-powerful-initiation-into-a-meditation-technique\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}