RE: 'Visions' while meditating

[Chris Trem]

I often have problems suppressing extraneous thoughts (what my t'ai chi master calls 'your mind out shopping')   Tony, Don't know if this is anything you're interested in but there is a book called "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, ISBN 1-57731-152-3.   The book tells you how to control the mind, the easiest method is to simply find the off button and turn it off. It describes in detail how to be in a state of consciousness that Steiner calls 'absolute presence of mind'. If you let the mind take you on a journey somewhere and you are no longer aware of the present moment, then you are said to be in a state of unconsciousness.    Chris