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For spiritual people, I contend that it is important to have a certain amount of abundance in our lives.  In ancient times, we traveled to remote temples and learned secret teachings from monks in trade for manual labor.  Now we use credit cards and purchase the recording of spiritual people over the Internet.  Imagine what it would be like to have actual recording of Jesus, Buddha, Milarepa,  or Krishna.

The teachings were secret because the monks did not want to take a chance alienating the surrounding communities.  Children were sometimes sent to the temples to learn or to curry favor with the monks.  The children became apprentices and worked very hard to earn their keep and keep the temple alive.  The temples benefited from the labor.  Only after years of toil, the apprentices judged to have some potential began their spiritual training.

I propose that if you need to improve your life so that you can access more spiritual information, you need to make better decisions.  Improved decision making will lead to increased abundance and making it easier for you to attend that next spiritual retreat or order that training module.

Have you ever made a choice that you had a bad feeling about?  If you picked the wrong option, how much time did you spend obsessing about it after the fact?  How much energy was used in berating yourself for doing the wrong thing?

Back up one step and ask yourself where did that initial feeling come from?  Why did you initially have a bad feeling?  Could it have been your future self sending back energy, berating yourself after the fact?  Do we really understand everything how time works or are there some loopholes we can use?

Instead of a negative feedback loop, use Time Stepping to create positive feedback.  Set up 15 minutes each week where you sit in your meditation space and review your past week.  Summarize the important events and decisions and tell your past self about them.  Also set aside another 15 minutes where you sit quietly in your meditation space in non-thought and “listen” to information from the future.

There are a few techniques to achieving results with this technique.  The first is consistency.  You have to consistently keep your schedule for you sending and receiving sessions.  You have to practice meditation and be able to achieve non-thought during your sessions.  And finally you have to be open-minded enough to believe that it might be possible.

Now I don’t expect people to actually change events that have already happened, but this technique can be used to train ourselves to refine that internal feeling, that “intuition” that sometimes talks to us when we are faced with an option.

For more detailed information, check out the Higher Balance class “Time Stepping”. 

Good luck and happy time-stepping.

Namaste,
Steve

Higher Balance has a new class called “Ghost Hunter“. Ghost hunting is not for everybody and some people might want to know why would anyone want to see a ghost.

Ghost Hunter.

Spiritual people of all types work on things like meditation, consciousness, and energy. But no other spiritual schools are telling their students to hunt ghosts. I don’t know why that is but I do know we should hunt ghosts. The answer is relatively straight forward and simple. If you want to change how you think about death, seeing (and maybe interacting) with someone after they die would probably convince you that there is life after death. It is a very freeing thing to realize that you are not your body. You are an energy being wearing a physical body like clothes in this dimension.

Another positive factor about ghost hunting is that you need to do it in the dark and usually in places that could be described as “creepy.” This can lead to a certain amount the fear. The advantage to having a controllable amount of fear is that it amplifies your sixth sense. A hardwired response that probably was installed in primitive man to help with the survival of the species. Amplifying your sixth sense can help you find anomalies and determine what they actually are.

And finally ghost hunting takes some determination (just like meditation). You may have to visit a hundred so-called haunted sites to find one actual ghost. So good luck and happy hunting! I know this will boost your spirituality.

The Circular Mill of Death

- James Surowiecki

Religion’s Circular Mill of Death

Western religion is following a circular mill of death while Eastern religions get many things right.  Eastern religions just haven’t put it all together in one complete package yet.  Here are some examples of things that are right. 

• meditation - Buddhism
• energy movements - Tai Chi
• there are positive aspects to destruction (Shiva) - Hinduism  (The Western equivalent is the Phoenix.)
• Life is an ongoing epic battle between good and evil.  Spiritually advanced beings sometimes intervene. - Krishna in the Mahābhārata  (Kudo’s to George Lucas.  He also gets this right.  {The Force/the Darkside/the Jedi/The Sith})

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

Ten things I would tell myself 4 years ago if I could? Even though I know I wouldn’t listen.

Faith - Eric tells us not to have faith but the seek experiences. That is so you learn to have faith. The sooner you give up the questioning attitude and have faith, the sooner you will achieve what you were meant to do. It is not “seeing is believing but believing is seeing.”

Patience - Don’t be in a hurry to advance to higher modules. It can do more harm that good. “Sometimes slower is faster.”

Basics - Build your house on a strong foundation. Practice auras, energy movements and the brain wiggle. Everyday for 4 months would be good. “Wax on, wax off.”

Focus - A short focused session of 25 minutes can be more effective than several hours. “Quality over quantity.”

Balance - Pick three things that are important in your life. No more. Remove the other distractions. Create a balance between these things. Too much spirituality can be just as much a trap as too little. It’s hard to do what you are supposed to if you don’t nourish a love for this dimension and everything in it.

Curiosity - Too much intellectual curiosity will hold you back. Set that aside for now. Wait until you have the capacity to find the answers. Seek experiences instead.

Others - Eric is the gold standard. All other material has flaws, either large or small. Don’t waste time with it. Learn what Eric is interested in and why he is interested in it.

Pills - Take the magnetic pill if you can afford it.

Judgment - Don’t judge your own progress harshly. Just finding HBI is progress many white cells haven’t made yet. As you climb, frequently turn around and admire how far you have come.

Surrender - Remove all your expectations. Nothing is what you think it is. Don’t think about what you are trying to accomplish. Just “stand in the rain and you will get wet.” Don’t make your inner navigator work so hard. Get your thoughts out of the way and let the process work.

All quotes provided by EJP.

Regular meditation leads to better physical and mental health.  This has been proven by numerous scientific studies.  The amazing part is the benefits can be achieved in two 20 minute sessions per day.  And it will be the most serene and blissful you feel all day.

As I practiced meditation, I created more harmony in my life.  Meditation became a regular part of my existence.  As I continued along the way I found something more, something that deserves to be shared.

Buddhists and Hindus speak of a state of consciousness called non-thought.  My experiences have convinced me the meaning of the words non-thought has been lost.  It does not mean to have no thoughts.  It means to set aside your regular thinking so that another way of thinking can step forward.

With a reasonable effort, we all have the capability to learn to reach deep and powerful states of mind.  This is a place where intelligence and intuition merge; where the speed of though increases and miraculous things are possible.  I believe groups practicing this skill have the power to transform the individuals involved, as well as society around them.

Our world is starting to enter a period of profound change.  The writing is on the wall.  Will humanity see the changes and transform itself?  Or will we try to maintain the status quo until the moment and let the chips fall where they may.  The end result depends on us. 

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi.

My wife recently attended a one day energy work seminar.  One of the exercises was to use your energy to soften a spoon and then bend it with your hands, using perhaps one tenth the force it would normally take to bend the spoon.  There were 8 or 10 people present.  Every one except my wife and father-in-law was able to bend their spoons.  My mother-in-law bent her spoon so far, that it broke.

Why should someone learn to bend spoons?

People are all regulated by a mechanism in their brain that I call the governor.  The mechanism normally will prevent the brain from believing the impossible is possible.  Learning that spoon bending is possible is one way to start to remove the constraints of the governor.

Here is a great article on attending a spoon bending (aka PK) party from Uri Geller’s website:

In the spring of 1985, I was invited to attend a spoon bending party. An aerospace engineer named Jack Houck had become interested in the phenomenon, and from time to time had parties at which people bent spoons. I was given a street address in southern California, and told to bring a half-dozen forks and spoons I didn’t care about, since they would be bent during the evening.

It was a typical suburban California house. About a hundred people were there, mostly families with young kids. The atmosphere was festive and a little chaotic, with all the kids running around. Everybody was giggly. We were going to bend spoons!

We all threw the silverware we had brought into the center of the floor, where it made a great metal pile. Jack Houck then dumped a carton containing more silverware onto the floor, and told us what to do. He said that, in his experience, to bend spoons we needed to create in atmosphere of excitement and emotional arousal. He encouraged us to be noisy and excited.

What usually happens after someone is successful bending a spoon?

If a person is actually confronted with evidence that reality is not what we think, then governor will again step in… and make the extraordinary into the ordinary.  In a sense, it will make us forget.  Also from the article on Uri Geller’s website:

“You mean you experienced this extraordinary phenomenon and you didn’t try to explain it?”

“No,” I said.

“That’s very strange,” he said. “I would say that your behavior is a pathological denial of what happened to you. This incredible experience occurs and you do nothing to investigate it at all?”

“I don’t see why it’s pathological,” I said. “I don’t go investigating why everything in the world happens. For example, I know that, if I bend a wire rapidly, the wire will get hot and break-but I don’t really know why that happens. I don’t think it’s my job to rush out and find out why. In this case, spoon bending, the room was full of people doing the same thing, and it seemed very ordinary. Kind of boring.”

In fact, this sense of boredom seem to me often to accompany “psychic” phenomena. At first the event appears exciting and mysterious, but very quickly it becomes so mundane that it can no longer hold your interest. This seems to me to confirm the idea that so-called psychic or paranormal phenomena are misnamed. There’s nothing about them. On the contrary, they’re utterly normal. We’ve just forgotten we can do them. The minute we do do them, we recognize them for what they are, and we think, so what? Spoon bending is like doing the laundry, or riding a bicycle. No big deal. Not really worth much conversation.

Looking through links I have saved over the years, I found this really good instructional video on spoon bending. See the spoon bending videos at the Zensight website.  Notice how Carol Ann bends the spoon into several loops in the first video.

Jack Houck has some good information about how have successful PK parties and Material Deformation by Intention.

At the time this paper was presented on March 28, 2003, I had given 361 PK Parties that were attended by approximately 17,000 people since January 1981. All of these parties have been documented. The date, location, number of attendees, and the number of people who had success in each of the phases of the PK Parties are kept in a computerized database. Similarly, from PK Party #44 through #343 attendees filled out questionnaires, recording their perception of what they did and that data has been recorded in another computerized database. 59% of the 14,315 people attending those PK Parties turned in completed questionnaires. Pictures of individuals, couples or families were taken at each PK Party and a copy given to the people in the pictures when possible. Occasionally it was not possible to correlate the face in the picture with the name and address of the individual. Figure 2 shows typical results during these phases of a PK Party.

One of the first rules in spoon bending is to not let yourself be skeptical… or let other skeptics influence you.  This encourages the governor to step in and prevent the experience.

Sometimes, while you are doing kindergarten bending, you find that there is some guy looking over your shoulder saying, “AH, you are just bending it physically.” That really doesn’t help you at all. So I suggest using a little technique that I developed to shut down the interference from the skeptics. You simply get a big smile on your face, look at the skeptic, and shout “SHUT UP!” I really don’t want the skeptics to get in the way. I want you to learn how to do the PK and have lots of fun in the process.

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My next to the worst PK Party was for a group of nine Ph.D. physicists and their families at Los Alamos. All the wives and children bent silverware, but none of the physicists bent. It wasn’t that they were physicists because many physicists have been to PK Parties and bent. But these scientists all worked together in a very closed environment and, in a sense, their subconsciouses would not allow them to deviate from the norm. The same phenomenon sometimes occurs between spouses at PK Parties. They are so linked and patterns established at the subconscious level that they do not allow each other to learn this new skill. For this reason, I suggest spouses not sit next to each other at PK Parties.

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PK Parties have become so popular all over the world that literally millions of people are learning to bend metal. Eldon Byrd went to Japan to put a PK Party on for national Japanese television. He gave the PK Party over the airways where the people at home could participate. They had TV cameras placed all over Tokyo and told the people to bring the things they bent out to the street so they could be photographed. The TV station estimated that between 6 and 20 million people came running out into the streets with bent up metal and chop sticks.

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We try to create a peak emotional event at a PK Party. The bigger this peak emotional event, the better the results. When I am in different parts of the United States, I say “It’s OK to do these things in California.” Usually the people can relate to doing weird things in California, so I have them pretend that they are in California for the PK Party. It is important to act silly and have fun during the party.

The PK Party is not really about bending metal, but allows you to experience things which you may not have believed possible, which in turn should help you reduce some of the artificial limits placed on your life. At the end of the PK Party I always take a picture of people with their bent up forks and spoons, and later send it to them so they will have a record of how happy they looked after the party with all of their bent material.

Namaste, my friends.  Soon we will change the world.

One way to increase your skill set is to work with mind projection. Some people tell me “I’m not interested in that” but I think it is an important skill to learn. It will even make you a better healer. Mind projection goes by several names such at Remote Viewing (RV), Astral Travel or Out of Body Experience (OBE). And while there are differences in the techniques people use to achieve these states on consciousness, they are very closely related; bother and sister, practically twins. But that isn’t apparent until you move past the introductory level. The main difference between RV and Astral Travel is the location of your center of awareness.

The classes that teach these techniques are “Mind Projection: Astral Travel, Remote Viewing, Clairvoyance”, “Black Box: Navigation” and “Eyes Wide Shut”. I recommend Eyes Wide Shut before starting Black Box Navigation. I think the step from Mind Projection to Eyes Wide Shut is smaller than the step to full blown Navigation. Baby steps are important. Attempting large leaps forward in techniques can cause setbacks. Shoot for small positive steps. Feel it out.

A few basic steps that one needs to learn to gather data from a remote location are:

• Skill at meditation and remaining in non-thought.
• Movement of energy.
• Finding a music track that works for you.
• Learning to acquire the data that comes back from your energy.
• Remove expectations.

I will leave the skill at meditation and non-thought up to you to figure out.

I just recently wrote about energy movements and a technique call I have been calling blowing bubbles. Learn to focus your energy. Use your hands, eyes (eye sockets, if the eyes are shut), and/or your consciousness.

It took me a long time to realize the importance of using the proper music. You should use different music when you have different intentions for your meditation session. Even though, the main goal of the music is “chewing gum for you mind”, it also invokes a feeling or frequency inside of you. {Quote from Matt S.} I strongly suspect that the music works extremely well for one person to conduct, for example, a healing session, may not work so well for another person. You need to find what works for you. This may well have some relationship to the things that profoundly affected you in a past life such music from a certain culture.

Black Box Navigation actually comes with a very power meditation track that I don’t actually use. I have been saving it until I actually gain more skill to Navigate.

Some sounds that I have found that work for me are thunderstorms and whales. I took the Dan Gibson album “Solitudes: Thunderstorm in the Wilderness” (1995), shortened it and added a few faint whale sounds in the background in a few places. This track has worked really well for me. I also have an affinity for didgeridoos but I haven’t found the right music yet. I suspect that wolf recordings may also work well for me.

While working on the steps above, also start working to acquire data that comes back from your energy. People who are skillful at healing or remote healing use this data to help figure out what is exactly wrong with a person or an animal before they use their energy to start changing things.

Assimilation also teaches this skill. See my previous blog about assimilation.

Reading about other people’s theories or experiences can set expectations which will limit the experience or cause failure. I see this sometimes from people who have read books like Robert Bruce’s Astral Dynamics. I think books with step by step techniques and with stories of his experiences can bleed over into your consciousness and block your success.

Everyone who interprets sixth sense data back into their brain will interpret things in a slightly different way. For example, when medium John Edward sees a white rose, it has a very specific meaning for him. And it means the same thing to him every time. But it may not have the same meaning for you.

Under that symbol, is a feeling or frequency; raw data. By bypassing visual or other data in the format of the five senses, and moving into the world of the underlying data, you will greatly increase you success rate. Interpretation is the downfall of most people. Or the fact that the governor completely covers up the data, so it seems like you aren’t getting data, when you actually are.

This series of articles is taken from a series of email exchanges I had with someone I was working with. This knowledge comes from Eric Pepin of the Higher Balance Institute. The brilliance is all his. The mistakes are all mine.

The Beauty of Questions Part I

The Beauty of Questions Part II

If I constantly think about prana during work, how do I concentrate on work?

Ancient beings have a saying, “The most important thing right now is the thing that is most important right now.”

If you should be focusing on work, then you should focus on work. Work earns money that pays for food, housing, a spiritual coach, Higher Balance modules, Higher Balance retreats… During meditation, you should focus on meditation. Whatever you are doing that is important, should be focused on. Works also keeps you invested in this world. If the only path to enlightenment was separation from everything in this world, you might not want to come back and work for the betterment of the world after your first enlightenment cycle.

But you can learn to be more aware at work. When you are aware you burn up less prana that you have collected. The modules “Thought Reflection” and “Reverse Engineering the Self” are all about this type of awareness.

For example, imagine boss comes to my desk and tells me that a job that was due next week has to be done six hours from now. But this job is very big and will require several days.

If I get angry at my boss then I am burning up huge amounts of prana. If I am aware of my own thoughts, I could shift into a meditation state of mind, and work at a much faster rate than a normal person. Or I could use other skills I have developed to convince my boss to add extra people.

Since starting with Higher Balance, I have solved problems at work in minutes that would take other people hours to solve. I use my meditative skills. I work in non-thought.

Non-thought does not mean there are no thoughts in your head. It means thinking without words or images in your head. It is a skill that develops when you become good a mediating for longer and longer periods without the babbler.

What is the difference between prana and The Force?

Sometimes Eric Pepin will use the same word to mean different things. Sometimes different words mean the same thing. Using words to understand things that may be outside your world of experiences can cause problems.

When you and I are communicating, we are using words. If I say the word “pencil”, I have an idea about the object that this word represents. Pencils in India may be the same as the United States or they may be a little different. But if they are a little different, then what I mean and what you think I mean is slightly different.

If I send you a picture of a pencil, it is much easier to make sure that we both have the same object in mind. But if I was talking about another type of pencil, we may not have the same object in mind.

The point is the word is not the thing we are talking about, the word is just a representation of the word. Our brain takes words in, and classifies them. Our brain puts the words in a box, based on how the brain understands the word. Eric calls that “structuralizing”.

When I talk about things that are not so physical in this dimension, it becomes much easier for you to misunderstand what I mean. That’s why you have to ask questions. Eventually the goal is to change how you think, so you do not put things in a box. Our brain can never fully understand prana. Only our higher dimensional self (the mind) can, because the mind is energy.

Prana usually means the energy around us that we collect during meditation.

The Force usually means energy coming from God (or the Universe) to have some affect in this dimension.

When we connect to our higher consciousness, people say “God is working through me” or phrased another way, “The Force is working through me.”

What is an aura? How do we see auras with our eyes?

First read the eBook “How to See the Aura in Five Minutes”. The information is actually coming from our sixth sense. The sixth sense is part of the brain, an organic sense. A sense we used to have as primitive man, but lost over time. Read the eBook “Psychokinetic (PK) Development” for more information.

The sixth sense gathers data about the energy fields that surround all people and objects. That data, for most people, is overlaid with the data from the eye. So it appears the eyes are seeing the aura, but the sixth sense, not the eye, is not the true source of the data.

I’m pretty sure this explanation is true because when I shift my consciousness, the way I see auras changes.

Most people don’t see colors when they start seeing auras. The color in auras is just more data from our sixth sense. When people practice with auras they often start to see colors. This means the sixth sense is gathering more data. Auras are full of information, but at the beginning our brain does not know how to interpret the data. So the brain adds colors. And each person’s brain will add different colors. So if I see a blue aura and you see a blue aura, it may or may not mean the same thing.

I have recently created an exercise that has helped me maintain a state of fluidity and maintain the momentum I have created in my spiritual development. I have conditioned myself so that I don’t fall asleep when I lay down on my back in my bed at bedtime. When I roll over on my side, I get tired and fall asleep. But when I am on my back, my body relaxes but my energy consciousness begins to stretch and move and flow.

My body is relaxed and supported. There is not very much physical input from my body to my mind, and the input that is there is repetitive. Very conducive to entering a trance state. I have been meditating long enough that I have some control over my babbler even when I am not meditating.

The babbler is the name for the mechanism in the brain that fills your head with a running commentary of words; “I have to do laundry tomorrow… I forgot to reply to that email from my boss at work… I hope my appointment tomorrow doesn’t run into lunchtime…” It is better, from a spiritual standpoint, to exist in a state of non-thought.

Non-thought doesn’t mean no thoughts. It means not thinking in words. Most people who live in the Western world think thought that consist of words. In many Eastern cultures, it is more common to think in images instead of words. A higher rung on the ladder of conscious thought.

The next rung up is to move to thinking with emotions. Love, anger, hate, fear… English unfortunately does not always have enough words to express to subtle details of the range of emotion without using a metaphor or description. Ancient Greek had more words to express a broader range of the kinds of love that exist. And this is still not enough words enough to express the full range of love.

Moving up a rung is thinking as energy. Using the mind instead of the brain. Thoughts become frequencies. The speed of though increases metaphorically from the speed of sound to the speed of light. The mind becomes dimensional. Consciousness expands. Thoughts become fluid. The barriers science assigns to this dimension no longer exist. Access to knowledge becomes virtually unlimited.

Now that I am laying on back, in the dark, in bed, existing in non-thought, I begin to exercise my energy. Sometime I practice remote viewing the inside of Eric Robison’s refrigerator or I may practice remote healing someone. Often I move energy with my mind. This has caused me to equate this moving energy with consciousness. My energy that has been infused with an intent, a program, has a level of consciousness.

I have learned to close my eyes and project a point of energy into the space of my room. Through my closed eyelids, I can see the spark of light build brighter and brighter as I add more and more energy. I have learned to move this conscious energy around the room, through the walls, to remote locations. Watching all the while with my closed eyes.

I realized that this energy does not have the same limitations that our brain places on our consciousness. I had been constraining my energy based on the physical perceptions of my physical body. So I have started to experiment with the size of my projected conscious energy, to make it smaller and smaller. Smaller than a pin head, smaller that a hair, smaller than a molecule, smaller than a atom, smaller than a electron… And later I worked on bigger and bigger…

I once heard that if a person could assimilate the universe, that they would reach enlightenment. I do not know if that is true, but I know experimenting with the size of energy has opened new pathways of consciousness for me.

This knowledge all comes from Eric Pepin of the Higher Balance Institute. The brilliance is all his. Any mistakes are purely mine.

What is prana?

Energy is all around us and is woven into the fabric of this dimension. You could say that is part of God streaming down from a higher dimension to this dimension.

Prana is energy. But we use the word prana, we are usually describing a specific kind of energy. Like banana is a type of fruit. Prana is a type of energy.

Prana is energy that does not have any programming, any intention. If I sent healing energy to my daughter to heal her, it is the same energy as prana. But now it comes from me, not God. It has a program, an intention, to heal. When we meditate, we collect the prana around us. When we heal, we send out energy with a program.

How do we gather prana when we use the Foundation meditation technique?

We can only attract prana when we think about prana because God is so afraid of hurting us, that he will not approach with his energy, with prana, unless he is invited.

Why would we be hurt by God’s prana?

Until we have trained our bodies to accept that much prana, it would be overwhelming, too intense.

Because our bodies do not know any better, they would resist. And our resistance would cause damage, either physical damage or energetic body damage.

There are many stories of people being injured, either their physical body or their energy body, from Kundalini energy surges.

The first time I meditated with a group of people from Higher Balance, it was so intense I wanted to run from the room screaming. I didn’t, but I did have to put up a shield to block out the energy of the other people in the room.

Are there other methods to gather prana?

Yes, there are other methods to attract prana. We attract prana when we sleep.

We also attract prana whenever we think about prana, not just during meditation. The problem is we always forget to think about prana during the day, Eric calls this “falling asleep”. Many things cause us to “fall asleep” and not think about prana. Even blinking our eyes causes us to fall asleep.

When people talk to us and we respond, we fall asleep.

I use triggers to keep myself aware of prana. And I frequently change triggers. Things I have used include: when I see a green plant, think about prana. When I see a blue shirt, think about prana…

A mistake people make is thinking about prana during your meditation. Just think about prana at the beginning, of the mediation, when guided to. For the rest of the meditation, think only about the touch. Or the sensation of the touch when you move your hand away.

Prana can also be gathered by imagining prana in your water, when you pour it into a glass. And when you imagine prana while drinking that water, you can attract great amounts. There is a Higher Balance mediation called The Water of Life that has that uses this technique. This technique can really boost your accumulation and awareness of prana.

Another technique is to swim with non-thought in a lake, somewhere in nature, with very pure water. If you stay in the water for around 45 minutes, you can really notice it.

And the most important way to have more prana is to use less prana. I will answer how to do this in the future.

You say when we have babbler, the flow of prana ceases. So should I think about prana again and start to practice non-thought whenever there is a babbler?

No, you don’t have to think about prana again during mediation. You just have to go back to non-thought and focus on the touch. Because you already set an intention at the beginning of the mediation. Your intention was to collect prana. That is what is happening when Eric guides you to visualize the prana in the room…

When you set the intention, it’s like filling a siphon. Once you start the flow by setting the intention, the prana will continue to flow to you, as long as you have non-thought. If you fall out of non-thought, the siphon is pinched, but not emptied. Just go back to non-thought to un-pinch the siphon and restart the collection of prana.

Yes, if you were doing something else, like going for a walk and collecting prana. Because walking does not set an intention to collect prana. Walking has another intention, to get somewhere, exercise, etc.

Is the amount of prana attracted during sleep is less compared to the amount we get in meditation? If so why?

Meditation attracts more prana because you have an intention of collecting prana during the mediation. Intention (or thought) is tool that affects prana or energy. During sleep you don’t have the focus to maintain an intention.

The Beauty of Questions Part I