This meditation is a fairly basic one that works well for most people. So let’s begin. We always begin meditations by doing the white light method, as this relaxes us, opens us and prepares us for further work. So please take your time, don’t rush it, and let it happen for you. When I get the feeling that the group is ready, we ask everyone to ‘imagine’ they are standing on the platform of a railway station. Allow a few minutes for everyone’s awareness to catch up; we do this by having them focus on their feet, then slowly look further out around them and notice the little details until they can see a complete platform. It doesn’t matter if there are other people at the station; all that matters at this point is that the people in the meditation have reached a station platform. Some people, particularly women, will just step into the scene and be waiting for more instructions. If this is how it goes for you, just move on to the next bit.

Once everyone has observed and begun to feel as if they are at a train station, I ask them to see a train waiting to take them somewhere. Most people see older style carriages while a few will see modern ones. Again, once they can see the carriages quite clearly I ask them to enter the train and take a seat. Here I make a point of telling them that there may be others on the train and so if they feel like it they can talk to whoever is there. Some people have found their inner-child sitting on the train, so it’s important to work out who the person is by how they feel to you and then progress into how you want to deal with them.

When everyone is ready, I begin the description of the train pulling out of the station and comment a number of times on how the people can feel the movement as it begins to accelerate. We usually spend a little time on this aspect because it enables you to be more fully present on the train. When the train is clear of the station, I ask people to look out of the window at the scenery. Most people will see open countryside although one or two have seen city scenery. Either way doesn’t really matter, what does matter is that you don’t use any memories of real places to fill in your blanks! By using memory in this way you will prevent the experience from growing into a very real thing for you. This is important. So by now you will be relaxing quite nicely, you may be enjoying the scenery, the rattle of the wheels on the tracks and the sensation of movement. I allow this phase to go for about 2 to 3 minutes, depending on the history of each person’s meditation practices.

The timeframe is longer for those less experienced and less for those with more experience. During this I will talk calmly to help people keep focus before telling them that a long curve is ahead of us and so we then describe things as the train makes it way around the curve. You can ask people to look out of the window and see the Engine up ahead pulling the train around the curve. This curve signifies a branching away from the well traveled path or line. Once we are around the curve and moving straight ahead again, I tell people that we’ll be coming into another station; so here I begin to describe the feeling of slowing down, the clickety-clack sounds become slower, etc. As the Engine enters the station I say that you might see the name if this station, and if you do then please remember it as it will have significance for you. When the train stops completely, it’s time to step out onto the platform of this new station. So once again the process of observing becomes the important thing. I ask people to look and notice if there are others on the platform, then to notice what style this station has, what colors, etc. I then suggest that as we look along the platform we can see a sign for the station master’s office, and we can walk towards it. Usually I also suggest that there will be a ticket-window we can talk to the station master through. Although in private sessions with people who are having difficulty, I ask them to go to the door, knock and then enter the office. This is one way to keep the distraction level down for those who have some difficulty focusing clearly.

Now that you are standing at the window, the station master will be available for you to talk with. Here I tell people to ask the station master anything, any question they have always wanted an answer for. I also ask them to hold the station master’s hand so that they can more easily feel the energy of this being. The importance of this cannot be stressed enough, as the feeling is really the thing we are after in this meditation. With the feeling we will be able to recognize far more easily when the being is attempting to get our attention and communicate with us. I usually allow a few minutes for the talk and the feeling phases before suggesting a couple of things to the meditators; one thing is to ask, “How do I easily connect with you?” Make a point of remembering the answer you get, it too is very important.

The second suggestion is that the station master has something for them, so not to walk away when they are finished their discussion without asking for whatever it is that they are to receive. Many people will get an object wrapped in brown paper and twine! While others will find their ‘gift’ is presented in another way. The gift is a reminder of something significant to you, even if you don’t understand its importance at the time. After everyone is finished with their discussions and all have picked-up the parcel or gift, then I ask them to thank the station master before going out and waiting on the station platform where I ask everyone to open their parcel and take the time to check-it-out; to let the feeling of it really get into them. In the past year I have evolved this to where I suggest that each person will understand completely for themselves what the object really means to them. This suggestion was needed as most people would always ask me what the object meant, and I refuse to be the person with all the answers. Since using this suggestion, the majority of people doing this meditation will get the understanding and will not ask me to tell them its significance. This was an important breakthrough for us all.

For the first few years of using this process we would return the meditators to their original station by a return train trip, but in the last few years only few of them need to return and the rest are meant to go forward, not backward. And, each person will keep whatever it was that they were given by the ‘station master’, even if they think that they didn’t; it is always with them, and it always signifies a direction for further experimentation.

While this may seem a fairly airy-fairy type of meditation, it’s actually a very simple process that will directly get you face to face with your higher-self Guide. What comes next is a free-form meditation where the people will use the method they were given to re-connect with the Guide they met at the station, and so they can get immediate confirmation for themselves. Try it, it works for most people.