ABSTRACT
When people embark on meditation they embark on a journey. The journey is to a deep, still inner place within them. This journey has the potential to change them in many different ways and it can bring them to a point where they can experience a reality that is beyond what they have come to believe their reality is. This chapter contains three maps or models. The first map illustrates the world people live in most of the time, which is the world of doing and wanting, fragmentation and splitting. The second map deals with attachment. The third map contains the Yogic model of the mind. The maps consist of brief theoretical pieces and experiential exercises. At a more psychological level, wanting entails that people feel the need for something external, something that is different and separate from them, and that they can assimilate this ‘other’ into themselves in order to become more, to become ‘perfect’.
