Twelve Shum Meditations  Basic Maps of the Inner Mind  Basic
Maps of the Inner Mind is published by Himalayan Academy.
Gurudeva, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, discovered within
superconsciousness the Shum-Tyeif language as a result of his
desire to give precise descriptions for the various realms of
meditation. The uniqueness of the Shum language is that it gives
us specific words, technical terms, so to speak, for different
meditative experiences. It is much easier to grasp a concept
when there is one word to convey it than talking about the
concept in a rambling way because no single word describes it.
In this little spiral bound book, Gurudeva outlines 12
meditations to guide the seeker of the within. Each meditation
is a map which leads the meditator deeper…