Dr. Maurie Pressman

How Sad –Yet How Great the Opportunity

As I look around in my very senior years, I seethe past and the present, and I can look into the future—some. We had a very different life in the distant past. America was puritanical. The famous comedian W. C. Fields put on his gravestone marker, “I’d rather be here than Philadelphia” for Philadelphia was indeed a sleepy city; but it was also a friendly city with quiet dignity and honesty.

During World War II, we mobilized just as everybody else. There was a general atmosphere of fear … Continue Reading

EXPLORING THE INTUITIVE REALMS
We explore the invisible realms in psychotherapy, – but we do so in all life as well.
We explore the invisible realms when we think. We look up, as if to explore the inner shell of the cranium and the projective screen that exists there. Or we may look deep into one’s own eyes, acquiring a glazed look. We are searching the back of the retina, to see what is revealed there. This is known as introspection. But the great searcher is the Witness, and the Witness, the Observer the Self-Observer hovers over the scene … Continue Reading

This is from a good friend, describing her experiences after I had shared my blog on marriage and relationships. It is with appreciation and with her permission that I publish this.

Many years ago, I thought divorce was the only solution to an extremely difficult situation. My husband, however, had other ideas and made extenuating circumstances so extremely difficult that I finally decided it was contrary to my family’s best interests for me to go forward. People talk of the pain of divorce, the impact on the children, the change in financial position, the loss of identity wherein one … Continue Reading

Beneficent Bliss

I had been reading about Pat Joudry’s experiences of bliss which went on for long periods of time. She claimed to have these right after we talked on the phone and often precedent to a “visit” from me. She likened it to a descent of the Supermind as described by Aurobindo.

This morning I took a prolonged bath and I felt that bliss which is easy to feel. It is felt as a contrast to the shock of opening your eyes, waking up and entering this material world. This is truly a joy/peace/bliss and easily understood.

Perhaps … Continue Reading

A SIMPLE PATH – TO ENLIGHTENMENT

I believe that the big problem in our society is that we emphasize the material world and disparage the inner feelingful world. Yet that is where it is at; it is the inner world of subtle imagination, subtle feeling and perception that leads us to an intuitive knowing-ness, that opens up the tremendous powers of direct knowing, healing, insight into the future, remote viewing and the comfort of knowing our immortality.
I have often wondered why most people are not interested in knowing themselves better, inwardly. Why they are against introspection and expressing and researching their … Continue Reading

In response to my last post (Fear of Meditating?) I reeived  the following:

“I don’t think I can really understand why people are fearful or why they have a hard time with it.  Maybe it’s the same as psychotherapy.  Maybe they’re afraid of meeting themselves at the basic.’

And then she went on to tell about her experience. Use it as an example of the deep and peaceful and enlightening thing that meditation can be — BUT  each in our own way:

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You ask for comments on the meditative experience.  I don’t recall a time of not “going inside.”   My sixteenth summer was … Continue Reading

TROUBLE MEDITATING?

Do you have trouble meditating? Do you want to know how to overcome it?

Meditation is really good for the body, mind and soul. It is not difficult, nor is it complicated. The steps the and principles are simple and if you ask, I can tell you about it. But the best way is for you to tell about your own desires and your own difficulties. I will tell you about mine:

I met a very high Indian Guru, many years ago. To my great surprise, he “zapped” me with his energy. Without expecting it, I went in to spasms of … Continue Reading

We have often wondered why God, who is so pure and who has created everything, can allow ugliness and pain to exist as His creation.  The answer is that we look at things partially because of our limited minds, the minds which say either/or.  In the higher ranges and in God’s mind, there is no either/or.  There is the whole fabric.  The two sides of the coin being revealed both at once.  And so, where there is pain, ugliness, suffering and meanness, there is the other side which is ananda:  bliss, pleasure, love, goodness, altruism, togetherness.  The one can’t exist … Continue Reading

Dr Maurie D Pressman’s third book, Living in the Supermind
http://inkwellproductions.blogspot.com/2011/08/living-in-supermind-from-personal-mind.html

The following is an excerpt from an email from a dear and enlightened friend. She has survived the loss of three of her dearest relatives in the past two years, and is engulfed in the further loss of her husband of many years who is in a relentless and gradual decline. Through all of this she realizes the beauty and soul-fulfilling strength of a marriage and a bond that has grown like vines of beauty and love through these many years. It is a lesson in this age of quick fulfillment and impatient … Continue Reading

I became truly nothing but creative energy.  As I said the prayer:

“I am a point of light within a greater light.

I am a strand of energy within the loving stream of love divine.

I am a way by which men may achieve,”

I realized that I am a stream, a spiral, a whirlpool of energy creating, infusing, doing all of these things.  I create my world.  My world is thus only the creation I create.  I am, in that sense, real but not real.  I will have pain but it is not pain.  I have created it.  I can, … Continue Reading

Forgetting is the great barrier between the waking and dream minds. Forgetting is the barrier to be transcended when one makes the effort to dream lucidly or to stay awake in meditation. On the other hand, forgetting in deep meditation is a sign of depth. When one forgets the very intent that one had in meditation or the precedent thoughts. Allied with that is the fact that when one goes into meditation, there is a blurring, a gradual blurring, as there is when falling asleep, of the waking mind. This is portrayed in movies as a progressive out-of-focus phenomenon and … Continue Reading

A number of memories of how I almost died and it seems to bring me closer to death.  Though I feel very vital this morning, I seem to find death to be a mysterious plane, a darkness and a great unknown.  This, on the one side.  On the other, is the recognition of the blissful peace which descends and surrounds me when I go into deep meditation or sleep, the pleasure of sleeping, dreaming, the joy of what I hear in out of body experiences and the total holistic holographic image of the joy and togetherness that I experience when … Continue Reading

Rather than to try for a blank mind or any other striving, it is best, I believe, to let oneself go and survey the scene with equanimity as whatever crosses the mind and heart, crosses it.  One observes with complete freedom and there the truth emerges.  It may be that one finds something like sadistic cruelty or illicit love or just plain love or whatever.  It should be allowed and surveyed and put to the test of whether it is truth in life or not.  It should then be used to adjudicate whether one should let it be expressed, fulfilled, … Continue Reading

From my meditation – but with relevance to life:

WISE WOMAN

I saw a wise woman.  She had great insight, and I knew what that was and I wanted more.  Then she faded, as did the insight.

I envisioned her as a beautiful Rosalie (my wife) in her depth.  Her fading was a matter of her fading in my soul contact, not only with her, but also with the larger soul of things.

COMMENT:

Rosalie and I are along in years now, and our physical selves have changed. But when  I look at her (and she at me) I don’t see the physical, but the … Continue Reading