What would be the good and bad points of developing your awareness of oneness with god, as in zen meditation, without the gradual methods of Bardon, Yoga, Magick, etc.? Is it that your state of mind would be Akasha biased, because a lot of people feel they can find oneness with the unity through the instant Zen school as the inspiration to mastering the other planes of existence, such as the astral mental physical, etc. Could there be any problems in this regard? If you found oneness with the Akasha through Zen then, would you even need to perfect the other planes? Presumably bypassing Bardons stages of development may cause an imbalance, and emptiness of mind is the same thing as zen anyway...? Thanking you all, Tim