Oh, there is one part of the initiation ceremony which I forgot to mention, which may or may not matter if some are going this alone and teaching themselves.

The instructor initially says the mantra to the student and asks the student to repeat it out loud. As the student repeats it the instructor gradually over minutes asks the student to say it more and more softly, until it is a thought, and then to think the thought more softly as well.

What follows is my post on the previous page labeled -
direct verbal instructions to the student


Actually much of the initiation ceremony I don't mention in this thread because I consider it religious, dogmatic, and I might even agree with the argument of the bible-tards to some extent concerning the issue of spiritual connections. I see no reason why the process could not include a ceremony to Jesus, for example, if that is the belief of the initiate, and that the meditation would work well in that person.

To put it in my own words, a soul who realizes that divinity lies within, only seeks freedom and not that which binds. I will forgo then the spiritual crutch of the "Holy Tradition" of yogi's in India, no matter how fine and divine those chaps may have been, with all due respect, although I don't mind if they drop in once in a while, or vice-versa.