Innerscapes Meditation

Meditation is a way of getting yourself out of the world of symbols and resonating with what Korzybski called “the unspeakable world”. You’re reading this text on a screen but "screen" is a label for an ineffable object. When you speak and think, you’re working in the world of symbols. And when you condition yourself with symbols, you may mistake neurological illusions for reality.

As an example, one day while exercising I glanced out of the corner of my right eye and saw an LAPD “black and white” SUV. I glanced again and instead saw a black car at a stop sign and a white car making a turn down a side-street 20 feet behind the stop sign. But, my mind constructed a police SUV because the two vehicles formed the basis of designation for a police SUV. And my nervous system constructed a police SUV in accordance with the social conditioning that comes from living in Los Angeles. But, this was an illusion.

Meditation is a method that gets you to stop talking to yourself via thoughts. Meditation allows you to form a relationship with the world as it is – not with symbols, concepts, and narratives created by yourself or others. Meditation helps you to see reality and avoid neurological illusions.

You may consider me as you might consider a baseball coach. Baseball is a game and an art that has certain rules, requires certain skills, and has certain purposes. We can consider meditation as an art that requires a certain disposition and certain behaviors in the same way that baseball has rules or how sketches require lines to form a picture. It takes a measure of discipline to play baseball by the rules or to use the lines to make a sketch. Yet how you play the game, and the sketches you create, depend on you -- the artist. First, you must build the basic disciplines.

As your meditation coach, I provide tasks, conditions, and standards necessary for basic disciplines requisite to meditation. My goal is to pass on the basic skills necessary for meditation in three sessions or less. I provide no more than one session per week.

You must undertake the work on your own time to become proficient. For best results, I encourage everyone to keep a journal. I like to review journals before sessions to provide the best coaching. Once you're proficient in the tasks, under reasonable conditions, and to prescribed standards you’ll have skills in meditation. Then meditation becomes art!

At this time, we have three coaching options:

• via live voice

• via live video

• face-to-face

We would make an appointment before doing any of the above options. Around the time we make our appointment, I will send materials to help you prepare for our session.

Pricing depends on coaching modality i.e. coaching options above, number of sessions, and individual needs.

I make myself available to work with veterans and active duty military personnel without fee. I enjoy the company of other soldiers and veterans and find such people easier to coach. The waiting list ebbs and flows based on demand. With all the stolen valor on social media, I may require a DD FM 214, DD FM 2, or DVA ID.

Once we've completed our suitability evaluation, arranged our follow-up call, we will consider my abilities and your needs. We will measure your meditative dispositions. Many methods make this possible. One tool is the Mindfulness Mastery Assessment made possible by the work of Bohlmeijer, E., ten Klooster, P.M., Fledderus, M., & Baer, R. (2011). Psychometric Properties of the five facet mindfulness questionaire in depressed adults and development of a short form. Assessment, 18(3), 308-20.​ This tool will help us measure your current disposition and we can survey you again at anytime to observe any differences.