Meditation, treatment and prayer are not synonymous terms according to Joel Solomon Goldsmith in his YouTube presentation entitled “Treatment, prayer and meditation”. They are three different states and stages of spiritual consciousness. The first, treatment, is the least spiritual of the three stages that help us to reach the inner source of Being. Meditation includes both treatment and prayer which leads us to the ultimate realization of all – constant communion with God.

Meditation is not easy for the Occidental mind. Orientals are trained in it. It calls for a deep sense of humility. You’re not calling upon a God-power to act upon you, but upon the power that is within your consciousness, to escape. UNTIL YOU ACCOMPLISH THIS YOU’RE NOT BRINGING THIS POWER INTO YOUR EXPERIENCE.

People have read, researched, recited powerful truths and 20 years later found that it never did anything for them: IT WAS ONLY IN THE REALM OF THE INTELLECT. The kingdom of God is not in words but in power. Jesus said “My peace [NOT THE WORLD’S PEACE] I give unto you.”

“God is man’s life and man only goes along for the ride!” (William Saroyan). We become beholders of God’s work through us.