Course XVII - Teaching 15: Subjective Concentration

In sensitive meditation you perceive the image through your five senses. It aims at refining your sensibility and sharpening your perception. But this exercise prevents from going beyond sensible evidences.
There is a type of prayer that, even though assumes a form of ordinary meditation, is a true exercise of subjective concentration.
In an ordinary concentration, you fix actively your attention on the object, and finally you make your mind not move from there. Concentration becomes subjective when identification between subject and object begins. This experience can begin during your meditation.
Its characteristic difference is in the imaginative picture.
You start fixing your attention on the image, and gradually you transfer your consciousness toward this image. For instance: you see a bird on the sky, floating on the air. You fix so much this floating movement on the air that you start feeling yourself floating on the air, as if you represented a bird. In the beginning, this is a simple exercise, but finally you are deeply identified with things, and even with inanimate things, which only can be achieved through a subconscious state.
This identification is impossible in an ordinary conscious state. With a subjective concentration, your experience is like in dreams. You see whatever image, perhaps preposterous, but you know it is this or that person.
In fact this is just a subjective exercise, but facilitates to achieve subjectivity while you meditate.