Personal Note XXII

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Why meditation is important |
Saturday – December 13, 2025

Meditation serves at least a couple of purposes, something I have briefly covered in the past, but I hold that the most important purpose of meditation is to gain insight, inward insight and really this can help you to gain awareness about yourself. When you gain awareness about yourself you can start the often tedious work to repair yourself and your own relation to the rest of the world, and this could include gaining more insight into problems that you face in your daily life. I believe that the most powerful aspect of meditation is its ability to help you understand your thoughts, that stream of input almost attacking your consciousness everyday, and this in turn can help you to gain more autonomy and really help you to get a grip on your life so that you can liberate yourself enough to enable yourself to carve out your own destiny. What is stress? Well, in my view stress is really a form, a particularly harmful form, of learned helplessness. Ask yourself this: why am I stressing; this could be your first step towards meditation? Well, you're likely stressing because of two things: one, you're feeling that you lack proper control over some situation, and this could be because you do lack actual control or it could be because you aren't allowing yourself to let things go; and it's also because you've been taught to stress and this connects particularly to the second point. Yes, society, especially in the Imperial Core, is so overtly and aggressively material and industrial that your sense of self worth is connected to numbers and something measurable and quantitative and if you fail to perform or meet some criteria you basically lose your sense of self-worth and in the long run you allow society to steal your identity and impose another identity on you, the failure, the loser. But the good news is that you don't need to allow this to happen to you, and I guess the not so good news is that while you do have autonomy in relation to society, it is hard and it will be hard to continue to live in society and not be affected by society. I think one of the best exercises in mediation you can do is to just take a walk in nature: I certainly regard this as a form of meditation, and after a while you will become accustomed those noises that nature makes and this will calm you down and more than just calming you down nature gives you a clear purpose and a clear position, two things that society tends to steal from you. Again, this is of course for a reason. The materialist order thrives on insecurity, and really freedom in the material sense means continual insecurity and continual change, nothing ever lasts and everything can always be replaced, quality is replaced by great quantity, and everything always has to happen very fast. Indeed, this is why people in the countryside often tend to be mentally more stable than the cosmopolitan elite in the city: What kind of life of true freedom is worth and even possible to pursue in these artificial concrete jungles? No freedom at all is possible in the city, and really cities make you sick and they make you depraved and constantly on edge. Yes, in a very real sense, due to the capitalist production base, the city is nothing but a very vast and controlled prison, where you're always on the edge of mental illness, because they are artificial and not natural. Cities basically work to magnify mental illness precisely because they create an environment far away from nature and from the ground. Apart from that cities are also noisy and really the very opposite of meditation. Yes, I like to think of modernity as the diametrical opposite of meditation, and again this is by design and should be taken as a sign of our times, the Kali Yuga.

    All of these modern depravities are reasons to meditate, but if you're less formal you don't have to meditate in a specified fashion, and as I previously stated you may always meditate by simply interacting with nature. Of course, if you're looking towards a more formal way of meditating then I believe that you should start your meditation by sitting in a quiet room, preferably without too much light. I also believe that you can use incense if they can work to help you focus, if not then don't use incense. I believe also that you may use music, but not music that is distracting and overly rhythmic, you could always listen to someone like the Indian musician Hariprasad Chaurasia (हरिप्रसाद चौरसिया). But you may want to simply meditate without any external noise, and this is the best way of meditating. For most of human history life was far more quiet than modern life and I believe that any man that seeks to uphold his own health should allow himself to just exist in quiet, without external stimuli. I believe as well that you should just allow yourself to become cleansed of all light pollution, and this means that the best spot to meditate could be under the stars; this could be something that could also truly connect you to the deep past, scientist claim that for every star that appears on the night sky you are looking into the past and more often than not the deep past, but this experience will also connect you to your ancient ancestors here on Earth. Yes, I believe that the main purpose of meditation should be to work as a bulwark against the corrupting and pernicious influences of the modern world – simply make it all shut up!

Reginald Drax – December 13, 2025.