what do you think about when you meditate?

[ChickenInSpace]

I usually try to work myself into the thoughtless state but a recurring problem is that as soon as strong visuals suddenly show up with great clarity; I go 'wow!' and poof, I have to start over again.

This is a typical thing which will work itself out eventually with consistent meditation, though.

This happened to me too, and now I realize that maybe this happened to me because silence opens the door to the mind. And then these images pop up in order to work with them. But the thing is that the energy is so amazing and ecstatic while I am in the silent state with the Creator, that I don't *want* to work with any balancing... So, I chose to not to work with these images, and went back to the silent state.

Anywho, Ra said that the silence opens the door, and behind that door is a geography or geometry waiting:

We begin with the mental learn/teachings necessary for contact with intelligent infinity. The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence.

Within the door lies an hierarchical construction you may liken unto geography and in some ways geometry, for the hierarchy is quite regular, bearing inner relationships.

To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.

What were these images that made you to go "wow"?

Yes, the landscapes come when the mind go silent. I'm just wowed by anything aside from fractals (unless they're particularly intensive or with intent).

Sometimes it's a canopy of leaves, so intensively clear but colors go from dark green to pink or yellow (for example).

Sometimes I see faces and one lucky (?) time I soared thick pine forests, following rivers towards the mountains and a leisurely pace listening to bit-pop (of all things).