Guided Meditation: Voyage to your inner core [Esoteric Saturdays]

[@FoolishFishBooks]

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[@humanconduit]

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[@FoolishFishBooks]

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[@humanconduit]

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[@FoolishFishBooks]

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[@humanconduit]

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[@GnosticChild]

Psychedelics are a great way to explore

[@theone8331]

I have about 10 grams of shrooms in now Your so right

[@dodeka]

Reminds me of listening to old Israel Regardie tapes! Thank you!

[@samiurrahman7545]

The words that I could hear was “Fire” “Wealth” “ Patience” “ You will make it “

[@barfman7393]

When the bell rang it felt like i was lifted out of a trance scared the crap out of me

[@sinieuren8239]

same

[@starcrossedsaint]

Wooo, this worked like a fricken charm, thank you

[@youalreadyknow5039]

Happy Equinox to all...and New Year to Rosicrucian’s.....

[@bloglivethehighve]

Happy equinox❣🙏

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Happy Equinox! :)

[@youalreadyknow5039]

@@bloglivethehighve same my friend😜

[@youalreadyknow5039]

@@FoolishFishBooks yes, FF thank you!!

[@naveia6564]

Happy equinox 🌹 ✝️

[@azurearcade342]

I used to do meditations to my "inner temple". I got a ton of knowledge about the spiritual realm and my darker half by doing this. It answered a lot of lingering questions that I had that could not be answered through religious texts. Go figure, to find the answers to life and to commune with the eternal all you need to do is turn yourself inside out in a sense and embrace it. It will work with enough practice. And you will gain the insights you wish to gain by doing things such as this. Oh, and it is relatively safe on top of that. Unless you do meditations to meet your darker half. That can be tricky.

[@arnoldp8962]

Towards the end I felt very uneasy and my body somewhat sore, as I was anxiously waiting for the bell... and it never rang. Turns out my phone ran out of power.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Oh, wow! I think we've all been there when we just need the bell to ring... but then to find out your phone ran out, I sympathise deeply!!

[@NickBatinaComposer]

yooo, the mindset you have toward it is what creates it!! I've had this same thing happen in meditations, and the trick thats always helped is an internal pep talk!! "Youre a damn mage, this is YOUR domain. Youve trained to walk in these deep waters, and knew what depths youd need to cross to get the bounty" or something of the sort lolol, sometimes Terrible Terry Tate vibes from the old reebok commercial, or the Sarg from Full Metal Jacket lol. Once that pep talk lands, and you reacquaint yourself with the mission at hand, the "environment" chills out really rapidly, and youre free to proceed with the work. It feels like owning a lion, theyre cozy lil fellers, but sometimes they get a little excited which gets scary quick, and the fear makes the lion want to go in for the kill

[@devinreed5725]

What a fun blessing.

[@jackalope2302]

@@NickBatinaComposer love Terrible Terry Tate (pain train's coming, woo woo!) and Sgt. Hartman (I bet you could suck a golf ball thru a garden hose!)

[@asunhug]

LOL

[@rosyloveslearning3013]

OH MY GOODNESS! Fantastic! I could listen to you forever. I often play your videos just to relax, so this is heavenly. xoxoxoxo

[@FoolishFishBooks]

The sound quality is really bad this week. I'm getting my work setup (and microphone) back this week, so the sound quality should get back to normal soon! 🙏

[@MsGnor]

Rosy meeee tooooooo!! 🥰

[@emeraldcitymystic]

Love this meditations and the great voice you have is just right says Goldilocks

[@BGBPW]

Very interesting. I got into some meditative state so deeply to the point I have a vague memory of “needing” to scratch an itch on my neck during, and did so with very little disturbance (if any) to the state I was in. There was no distraction to what I was experiencing below the outer senses, as if my body went on autopilot rather than my mind, yet both flowed in sync. I saw so many “images,” but ... I was in pitch black (used my sleeping mask). Lovely. Thank you, truly, for this video.

[@ravenravella1000]

So glad you are doing teachings aside from book focuses

[@kbro6618]

I started asking "where is this coming from" or "where is this arising" and it felt like everything was slowly dissolving, I got little nervous

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Those are great questions to ask! I'm sure others will benefit from them :D Thank you for sharing!

[@donovanevans6137]

I first did this guided meditation yesterday evening.I was a little nervous at first eventhough I have alot of meditation experience. I noticed that I was able to get inside my inner space quickly and easily! I saw alot of cool, weird,and interesting images as I was doing the meditation.I felt like a new person,after doing the meditation.Thank you Foolish fish for sharing this type of meditation with the world 🌍 I hope you will post more meditations like this in the near future.

[@jackalope2302]

I entered a trance and found myself really sensing different places and vistas. It felt very much like a lucid dream. Periodically I would reflexively analyze some of my visions while in this trance state, which would cause the current vision to stop. I would have strange, abstract sensations and then find my self in a new place. Sometimes it would be related to something else I was thinking about (a setting for a work of fiction), sometimes it was super random (a vision of dirty pigeons flying low in an alley). There was at least one more but I've already forgotten it writing all this. Will have to try this again. Would you consider this very basic High Magick?

[@MsGnor]

Thanks dear Denis, this is lovely for daily meditation, been back to it a few times. No wildling experiences, lovely peaceful feeling taking root tho, very grateful for this. Thanks as always for all that you do! 🥰💜🐠

[@JoshuaPagan]

I can’t believe I actually got through this without anyone interrupting me. I’ve got a packed house right now.

[@avicennitegh1377]

The first time... words like ESP came towards me: "I love you". I am using this video to be more systematic with meditating. (fingers crossed) Thank you always Mr. Fish.

[@jackalope2302]

I entered a trance and found myself really sensing different places and vistas. It felt very much like a lucid dream. Periodically I would reflexively analyze some of my visions while in this trance state, which would cause the current vision to stop. I would have strange, abstract sensations and then find my self in a new place.

[@joeroubidoux2783]

Brilliant meditation. Well done. Thanks for presenting it.

[@devinreed5725]

Whoa. Fanfreakingtastic. So many loose ends tied up. So many things just clicked and made sense. I've been working with meditation, yoga, Kabbalah, and Magick for the past couple years and this helped link the how and what I can do in the future to have greater results in my practice. 🙏 Thank you for this.

[@ricardospanish626]

Thank you.

[@laraaline2295]

I have to say I saw something I wasn’t really expecting to see but to some extent I knew it would come. Luckily, (or meticulously planned) it was in the very end and the bell took me out of it. Besides that, beautiful lights and some surprising sounds, purples and movements. Thank you for that 💜

[@Godofthechicken]

So glad I found this. The profound realizations I had! Thank you so much, you have no idea how effectively this will help me take next steps.

[@SarahTrpelivost]

I'll be trying this out this evening (alone time is fleeting during the day)🙂 thanks for sharing this with us! Many blessings to you and your family

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Thank you, @Sarah! Thanks for watching, and enjoy!

[@Mart5000.]

Wow that gong at the end made me jump right outta my skin lmao😃.but I really felt like I was somewhere else at some points thank you i really enjoyed it 👍

[@raonei]

I saw images of people with masks doing stuff. Some were painted in red, some in stripes. Some has masks like the plague and were blue. They were walking or surrounded by smoke. There were also spiders (hate them). I realized I'm always sacred, everything scared me. I don't know how to stop being scared. I've always had, I guess this showed me that I need to do something. Thanks Mr. Foolish Fish

[@avicennitegh1377]

Interesting typo -- please don't change it, just think about it. "I realized I'm always sacred..."

[@NorvelCooksey]

Love ya video’s, thanks for your time.

[@lookoutitscaleb]

WOW Well done. Thank you.

[@juliensoyer5786]

Great ! Not sure if I went samadhi state or fell asleep, but thanks to the gong I immediatly got back to awareness

[@FoolishFishBooks]

It's a tough one this week's video... Thank you so much for the feedback!

[@juliensoyer5786]

@@FoolishFishBooks to be clear, it was not a negative feedback ! It’s just me when I meditate I tend to be in this state

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Oh no! I didn't take it as negative feedback 😄 🙏

[@Sirach-pv5xv]

Well done. I have been trying to reach a Samhadi state for many years. I used to think I was hitting some minor state of Samhadi. Turns out, it was much more likely I simply touched the bliss body. Either way it is utterly intoxicating. I cannot sustain it all day. Sometimes I will be walking, or on the bus. It just spontaneously happens. Rare but still amazing. When my mind thinks of life problems I usually snap out of it. I can get this almost every morning. I must set a LOUD alarm. I will miss work, I will sit there for 24 hours easy. Then it seems like 24 minutes. Do you experience this extreme distortion of your perception of time?

[@juliensoyer5786]

@@Sirach-pv5xv thanks however, to be honest I am not sure at all it was samadhi because I don’t recall anything when it happens

[@CreativeMagique]

Thank you!!

[@georgesulea]

Brilliant Sir. Thank You.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Glad you liked it, George! 😊🙏

[@johnrodgers9779]

This wasn't just well done, but also VERY informative; thank you for this!

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Thank you for the kind words, John!

[@sillywilly123]

This was strange. I saw a slowly unfolding scene of an art gallery where I couldn't tell what displays were 2D or 3D and one that was definitely 3D was a statue that looked incomplete.

[@somebody2468]

I went in to a lucid dream like space where there was people who didnt like to communicate with words or text, instead they communicated with images and feelings. I was standing front of a big screen thats text was just zigzag line, also when these other people spoke they got speech bubble with zigzag lines and then images would come in my head. After video ended I continued meditating, I realized I was getting smaller like size of a dust particle and when I tried to make myself bigger I would over grow so that my 1 foot woul be size of planet. This went on while and then I was again front of big screen like waking up from a faint. I saw that inside me is a little demon that shows me horrific pictures, so I made a bubble around it, made it smaller and absorbed it into my heart. I saw yin yang symbolism. after while I started seeing disturbin imagery and I forced myself wake state. Thank you for this experience.

[@LavenderHazelwood]

This was great! Thank you :)

[@eaedemark]

Started thinking about where the toughts are coming from... Theres definetely a part of the mind that thinks, and another part that translate the thinking to words, and another part that dont need words like to move the body for example.

[@dEAthlikEstAtic]

this was great, thank you! very much needed hope yer doing well! 💚

[@Alkazetzer]

At the start I only heard pleas from myself to “go back” and “stop”, “leave me alone” and “take the cloth off” and even a voice asked me to stop my magickal journey. I was attacked by a hideous hag with long neck and she pounded me with her eyes, I tried to smite her and the voice with divine light and summoned an angel but the voice took the appearance of a young girl and she was so scared, so I took mercy and retreated. My second try was inside a pitch black ocean and I could saw from afar the leviathan huge, I tried to dive deep but I got frighted by the size of the serpent. I decided to conjure a submarine and try like that, the leviathan closed his jaws at my ship and I almost lost courage and called back, my ship was filled with water but I decided to attack and shoot torpedoes at his eyes and dive deep. As I’m diving fast with flames at my back the colossal serpent is chasing, and from deep below I see yet another monster, A giant crustacean. I push through with barrage of missiles, killing the monster, and shooting flares from the back of the ship to blind the snake, With a few seconds I reach the bottom covered sand, empty and silent. The leviathan has come and I face him straight on with beam of with light and cut him in half, all of my vision covered with his blood, I search and my core is nowhere to be found. I leave this vision and then I just need to swallow some spit and I get hurled back in yet another vision of me falling down my own throat to search for this “core”, my feet is tangled with some invisible rope, and I fall in my acidic stomach, there the thing that pulled me down reveals itself, a giant metallic black spider with the head of a mocking clown, I slay him with my beam of light pretty quickly and from it countless ents erupted everywhere trying to get on me, I spray my light unto everything, and with a wave of light I am safe. Then your ding woke me up. This was intriguing, I was expecting to find el dorado or some golden and promised core, but all I found was resistance, maybe I’ll try again although I’m very scared to try and dive back in there…

[@lidu6363]

I have practiced meditation / contemplation a bit. I have always attempted to perceive my body, so the instructions to look "inside" of my thoughts confused me a bit (I was struggling to find the thoughts) and I'm not sure if I've done what I was supposed to. The result was, fragments of scenes from my memory started flashing in front of my eyes pretty much as if I was dreaming. When I consciously tried to "disperse" one of those visions, it was as if another veil of cloth fell over my "inner sight." I am really curious what do other people usually experience.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Hi Lidu! Thank you for sharing! Flashes of representative images is exactly what you should expect as you draw your attention inwards. As you go deeper, though, the experience should be less coded into representative forms (pictures, words, understandable structures), and simply more raw and unprocessed. While our attention is busy with the outside, it's difficult for us to retreat to the core. The journey to the core still retains elements of the outside, those flashes are an example.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Another tip about what you wrote: "look inside of my thoughts". The idea is not to "look inside" (this implies using visual encoding) but to "let your awareness go inside", and it's not "inside your thoughts", but "inside yourself" that you are invited to venture. I hope that helps! 😊🙏

[@nerdyindigenousart]

Honestly I didn’t experience much

[@wishpunk9188]

@@nerdyindigenousart keep at it. You got this.

[@FatalForecast]

It takes me about 10 mins to start falling into a deeper meditation and almost the second i went deeper in, the bell rang 😢 I was kind of hoping that there would be some guidance on how to effectively go inward. Anyway. Thank you!

[@kolorninecup7597]

The Image caught me up into it's examination & so an internal dialog concerning the artificiality of the construction w/any at all hyperfunction for the usefulness of the module as an example, so I concluded that the LINES would eventually appear to (bend) if Froze in Time. Looking at that quickly brought boredom after analyzing the possible derivatives forward and back, so went back to bed until the DONGgggg sounded witch was very masterful in its assertiveness calling be back that it was over with hearing the Pantheon of Names.

[@xbox_cheeto5338]

Mid way through saw random but vague imagery of strings overlapping other strings (like an instrument's string I mean) and some other vague visuals of things akin to program or game interfaces on a computer but not ones with text or meaning in them. Then went back to no imagery I think. Then sort of had a second energy arise and started seeing dotty things piercing my vision and they were less vague. I couldn't tell if my eyes were closed or not and kept felt like I shut them only for it to persist and the same feeling to remain. I knew the bell would ring soon and it did. But indeed it was a somewhat aggressive and confusing visual as I couldn't tell just whether my eyes were open or closed, or even how to keep em shut if so.

[@NickBatinaComposer]

OH MY GOODNESS, wow ok, you just answered my most important question rn on accident lolol😂 I was wondering if meditation and ceremonial techniques were close to that sleep-state in a more literal sense, but that clears up a lot. It’s like a waking dream almost, similar too in the way that the experience disappears immediately, that’s fascinating

[@kennydee8296]

Thanks Mr. Fish for this excellent guided meditation, luckily the incessant and intrusive YT advertising missed the critical segment.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

(I made sure of that 😉)

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Incidentally, members get to watch the videos a week before everyone else with no advertisements during that week. All depends how much you hate those ads 😂

[@devinreed5725]

Using a breathing technique while slipping further and deeper helps with the anxiety and the turbulence you may find down there.

[@stmzonline]

Maan, I won't lie, there's so much harmful untrue stuff about esoteric stuff, everyone, e ve n only curious people are weary about it. Foolish fish, you make it easy and relatable (except all the studying 😁 so many interesting books tho). But thank you foolish fish, f or making out time for a channel like this.

[@Winback220]

Love this meditation! Are there any books you would recommend on this style meditation?

[@nintenzo64]

Worked almost too well I’m actually still really freaked out. I was in my head and then I was in a dream identical to my reality. Except when I arched my head toward my chest. I saw this horrific ever changing pulsating primal face(faces) it was like some kind of traumatic imprint I think that lay inside me. But while this face appeared it shared the room with me for a while and I was not alone in my room. whenever I tried to scream or voice out it came out muffled and distorted. Are these things that would be achieved through this type of meditation when looking into yourself or did I just have a nightmare of sorts? Whatever it was it was very potent.

[@nintenzo64]

Every time I’ve done meditation it’s been more closer to the feeling of being dead but this was as if I was literally going into myself. Actually insane

[@nintenzo64]

It was like I had one foot it the material plane and other foot in a hologram that made both phase into one reality. Still don’t have the words to explain it the best I can.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

I can't answer for you what you experienced. But it certainly sounds like a profound experience. Maybe it's time to talk to that many-faced aspect of yourself.

[@botangabriel3492]

I have tried guided meditation so far however I am not sure what I should expect. All I got were random shapes and at point I could feel fear and various forms taking shape of monsters or disturbing images.

[@NickBatinaComposer]

Ooh, that’s perfect!! I’ve been trying this out in my own practice prior, but having this as a roadmap is helpful!! It’s so hard to parse out what is imagined and what is not, as well as the value/intensity of each observation, and thinking about that while trying to circulate, visualize, breathe etc is PESKYYY to say the least lolol.

[@luisr6407]

I tried my best to make language and image unintelligible, ended up feeling the wheel inside me which churns sensation and my experience of reality the entire time. I teared up up trying to get it to slow down.

[@bowsandaro]

It was interesting. Not sure if I did this correctly rhough. When I had to enter my inner world, I pictured my mind just dropping down in my body, and it kept on falling and falling and falling and falling as if forever. Did I do this correctly? I didn't really get any results other than mental clarity.

[@elvenatheart982]

I got trapped in the outsiderealms, was almost asleep and my senses seemed to dull but I couldn't go deeper...

[@jsinmcc92]

Really good video but It might be because I’ve been reading the middle pillar so much lately but I was doing a regression into my past maybe I did it wrong lol I’d love for you to post more of these guided meditation techniques

[@FoolishFishBooks]

So glad you liked it, @Jason! This was a very strange guided (or maybe more accurately 'prepared') meditation. I'd love to do more when my normal microphone is reachable again (hopefully by next video!) and the sound quality can improve... Maybe some more traditional ones.

[@aminasule575]

I would give you 2 likes just for the pronunciation of those names at the end!

[@forgottenshards8478]

I don't know if this worked or not, however I do know I just had an argument with myself in a room with two red chairs and books a sort of Log Cabin like thing. Who knows

[@LoneLionLeo]

Can you astro project? I’d like to see a video on your experiences with it and maybe a how to 😅

[@FoolishFishBooks]

It's not something I've tried very hard to do, but I do own a few resources on th etechniques used... Maybe something to consider!

[@talanorth8388]

@@FoolishFishBooks It is very simple and you literally do this when you visualize a certain place to an extent, DO NOT focus on seeing it I have found out recently, that will only make it so it is harder to see...

[@gastonmarian7261]

If you use Reddit, the r/AstralProjection subreddit has lots of good how-to guides on their wiki

[@Mrinkydink]

It felt like a fresh water spring, interestingly (or a jaccuzi I suppose hahaha). I tried to filter away as much translation and specificity as I could an was left with just that bubbling kind of experience. Curious to see what'll happen if I go deeper 👀

[@sirjacoo]

That gong almost caused me heart attack :p

[@codychapman2095]

The commercials in the middle of the guided meditation really ruin it

[@Sirach-pv5xv]

Who else experiences extreme distortion of time perception??? The very first time this happened to me. I ran to to computer and googled “ what is the opposite of time” turns out NOBODY can answer that. So, I conducted a Mushroom ritual. I asked to be shown the nature of time. My vision was infinite gears ⚙️ within gears within gears. You could view them like a Mandelbrot set fractal zoom iteration. I seen a classic Herculean man walking inside every gear.

[@tornumbrella2]

The minute you rang the bell the first time I felt that I was laying on a flat circle that started to spin so fast. I freaked out and my heart rate increased and I kind of got out of it but carried through. Saw what looked like a mushroom cloud but after a while it became apparent that it was actually a big tree. There was then this bluesh light orb that kept floating infront of me coming closer and closer then it kind of stayed in my peripheral vision and I found myself inside a really bushy tree like what a small bird would be seeing when it's inside a tree. Then I got really bothered by the fact that I couldn't tell where my hands were anymore. I knew I kept them on top of my chest but I could no longer feel them pressing there. I then got worried about not hearing the bell and wondered if my phone ran out of battery and it took me out of it. Interesting experience! Thank you

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Noticing how addicted we are to the outer edge is an important realisation too!

[@pimpmoney909]

4ever alone check

[@LegendInMotion]

Sheeeeesh this meditation worked wonders. I definitely saw some pretty wild things as if reaching a lucid dream state mid meditation. Some things were taking on the appearance of things I've been recently familiar with (Elden Ring, People and friends in My Life, TV characters I really Relate with), definitely spoke to these beings and conversed (didn't feel like regular talking though, felt like talking through images and feelings associated with said imagery). I can't really remember our conversation at this point, but I came out of the meditation feeling like I knew myself a little better than I did before.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Ah! This sounds like a positive experience! 😄🙏 So glad you found it interesting!

[@simpego81]

I was trying to discover the mechanism of the birth of a thought or feeling by observing it. Then they didn't arise...

[@sheldonharrison4461]

What’s the name of the image in the thumbnail? I wanna know more about that

[@FoolishFishBooks]

You can do a search for VITRIOL

[@jeb3402]

East meets West

[@x2mars]

Interesting that there are advertisements the middle of it

[@FoolishFishBooks]

There are no advertisements in the middle of the meditation. Before and after only.

[@donovanevans6137]

Hi,why is it called the Western Esoteric tradition?

[@roselynnwood4657]

2:30

[@wanderingtallguy6849]

Id a Cat sleep next to you count as not alone?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

If you care, then you're not alone. If you're thinking about your cat in any way, then you're not alone. If it's in the next room and you're thinking about it, then you're not alone.

[@ipwntehn0obz]

Sorry, everything is understandable, even stuff that is specifically designed not to be.

[@JohnC-iv8jo]

your voice is altered, have you not been well

[@FoolishFishBooks]

My normal work setup has been disrupted for the past seven weeks unfortunately. I'm hoping to get back to my desk and microphone by the end of this week.

[@Forggiez]

This did nothing

[@taiakawy5943]

Thank you