Meditation works for two profound and powerful reasons:

1. Because of who and what we really are, and 2. Because by meditating we begin to use, consciously, our birthright and inheritance.

The great failing of Christianity toady is that is has not only allowed itself to become institutionalised, but it separated us from God, put God outside of creation as an observer waiting to reward and punish mankind for its good and bad behaviour. All this in direct opposition to the teachings, "At the day of at-one-ment you will know that I am in the Father, You are in me and I am in thee." "God is above, throughout and within you all." "You are gods." "The kingdom of God is within you." "Know you not that you are the temple of God? That the Spirit of God dwells in you?"

You were children of God before the world was. If you had understanding you would declare that when God laid the foundations of the earth and all the children of God shouted with joy, YOU WERE THERE.

That which man calls 'God cannot be separate from its creations. Nothing exists outside of 'it'. When we call it nature, matter, energy, Tao or Dharmakaya, we change nothing but the word-symbol. "The sages of old", says chuang tzu "First got Tao for themselves, then got it for others." When we realise for ourself through direct, personal experience that the essence of our true nature is Godly, the Inner Power, Wisdom and Serenity that you may draw upon is limitless.

As for or Birthright and inheritance. Let me rephrase an old myth: "In the beginning, that which we call 'God' created mankind in its own image; that is, the image of mind. Then it did a beautiful and loving thing. It allowed mankind to create itself, indeed its own world, in its own image."

We have been given the greatest of all gifts; the ability to project our thoughts outward and make them manifest. We are learning to do this consciously. Usually, we are unaware of the creative energy of our minds. We think of this creatively in terms of imagination, without understanding that imagination triggers off our emotions, and emotion is the tool we use to create. Not positive thinking, not will power, but emotion. Positive of negative emotions.

Is not worry, stress, fear and anxiety simply focusing the mind on the last thing we want to have happen to us or someone we love? If we sustain the focus long enough it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is what can be called "Meditation". Unskilful meditation, but meditation nevertheless.

Creative meditation is focusing the mind intently, passionately, on what you would like to have happen. All this has been taught by Jesus as well as the Buddha. "And if you pray with the very real conviction that you have a thing already, it will be yours." "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." These teachings are only valid if you know them for yourself and not because someone you love wrote them.