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The Freedom Train

by Eli Jaxon-Bear

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This is a guided meditation led by spiritual teacher and author, Eli Jaxon Bear. This particular meditation was extracted from a recent retreat Eli led called "Waking Up From the Trance of Suffering."

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Transcript

And I'd like you to take a moment to breathe with me.

Ahh.

That's right.

You can really enjoy this breath as you take it in.

Ahh.

Ahh.

Ahh.

Ahh.

I don't know if you make those kind of noises that I make,

But it can sometimes feel so good to have the noise of your out-breath harmonize with the release of all tension.

Let's try it again.

Ahh.

Now,

You might notice that as your out-breath sound harmonizes with the release of all tension,

That the sound itself might change.

Let's try it again and notice something.

Ahh.

Very good.

And as your body relaxes even deeper,

We're going to realize,

Perhaps now,

The sensation of already being on the freedom train.

And what's it like if right now,

Wherever you are,

You can experience yourself sitting on the freedom train?

Ahh.

Yes.

You can completely relax.

Your work is finished.

You've done the job.

You're on the freedom train.

And perhaps you can feel it coming up through the soles of your feet.

A certain vibration as this freedom train takes you home.

That vibration coming up through the soles of your feet can be a signal that everything is dropping deeper than the conscious mind realizes.

Because the conscious mind can follow or not,

It doesn't really matter.

Because as the conscious mind listens and tries to understand,

Something deeper is opening.

And a deeper wisdom hears directly beyond the ears.

And that can feel so good as you're sitting on the train and the train is going clickety clack,

Clickety clack,

Clickety clack along the track.

Now that's interesting.

When I say you're on a freedom train,

What that means is,

In the olden days it was called the Underground Railroad.

Now consider right now if you are on the Underground Railroad.

And as you know,

And we know,

The Underground Railroad in my country is called a subway.

Clickety clack,

Clickety clack,

Clickety clack,

The Underground Railroad.

And we know that a submarine is under the water and that a subterranean is under the earth.

But a subway is under the highway.

And the highway is the way of despair.

The highway is the way of crashes.

But the subway goes underneath the track and underneath the connection so that new parts of the brain suddenly connect in mysterious ways that allow for a unity of wisdom that's always been there.

But suddenly the light is turned on because this subway is an Underground Railroad on the train of freedom.

And I don't know if you'll discover how deeply you can discover something new or perhaps,

As you hear my words,

There may be a deeper understanding that's beyond any knowing.

And when it's beyond knowing,

The connections in the brain are completely fresh.

Now I don't know how you will discover insight,

Which is very different from outside.

But to discover insight you must search for it.

And right now let's imagine that there is a deep well,

A deep,

Dark well.

And at the very bottom,

You don't know what's there.

It's black.

But this stop on this freedom train gives us a break,

A pause where we can stop and dive directly into the well to search for insight at the very bottom.

And as you fall into this black,

Dark,

Seemingly endless well,

Searching for insight,

You may discover a certain glow.

The glow brings you closer.

The glow,

When you see it,

You go,

Aha!

There.

Now.

And you move towards the glow and it gets brighter.

And as the glow brightens and lightens,

The darkness disappears.

And perhaps in this insight,

You realize a new connection on the line of the subway.

Because the subway has a map with different stops,

And in order to know which stop is yours,

You have to know the map.

And the map has the station of insight.

And now that you have discovered the station of insight,

You will find that a certain route will light up on the map of the subway,

A route you'd never taken before,

A route that's filled with insight and wonder,

And it's off the beaten track.

That's right.

That's right.

Because sometimes when you go off the rails and off the beaten track,

You find that the Freedom Train is taking just the right stop for you now.

So I don't know if you can imagine what it would be like to have a completely new subway map lit up with routes you've never taken and ideas you hadn't yet thought and insights you haven't yet seen.

And I don't know if the conscious mind can see this map yet or not.

It doesn't matter.

Because on a deeper level,

You can feel the circuitry rewiring very subtly.

Feel it.

And even deeper.

That's very good.

And as you fall even deeper,

And all maps disappear,

And all objects disappear,

When you find yourself completely alone,

Formless,

Timeless,

Everything stops.

Full stop.

Freedom Train.

This exit.

It's your time.

Very good.

Doing really well.

And so as this state changes,

As all states change,

And it appears that you're back in your room,

Back in your space,

You can feel it still in your body,

Perhaps.

You can feel that subtle tingling as the brain rewires,

And blood is flowing in places perhaps you hadn't noticed before.

Okay.

Meet your Teacher

Eli Jaxon-BearAshland, Oregon, United States

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Recent Reviews

Roberto

December 18, 2025

Peaceful. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us. Namaste 🙏🏽

Gloria

November 16, 2020

Thank you for the calling metaphor, and tool

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