Editing Raëlism (section)

=== Sensual meditation<!-- 'Sensual Meditation' and 'Sensual meditation' redirect here --> ===

A major practice in Raëlism is "sensual meditation", something that Raël outlined in his 1980 book ''La méditation sensuelle''.{{sfn|Palmer|Sentes|2012|p=174}}
Raëlians are encouraged to take part in this [[guided meditation]] or visualisation on a daily basis, with the intent of transmitting love and telepathic links to the Elohim and achieving harmony with infinity.{{sfnm|1a1=Barker|1y=1989|1p=201|2a1=Palmer|2y=1995|2p=129|3a1=Palmer|3a2=Sentes|3y=2012|3pp=174, 175}} In this, practitioners are often assisted in this meditation through listening to an instruction tape.{{sfnm|1a1=Palmer|1y=2004|1p=61|2a1=Palmer|2a2=Sentes|2y=2012|2p=174}} Sensual meditation sessions also take place communally at the group's monthly meetings, during which the assembled adherents sit or lie on the floor in a dimly lit room. They are then guided through it by a Raëlian Guide speaking through a microphone;{{sfn|Palmer|2004|p=60}} the meditation may be accompanied by [[New Age music]].{{sfn|Palmer|1995|p=115}}

Sensual meditation begins with a relaxation exercise known as ''harmonisation avec l'infini'' ("harmonization with the infinite").{{sfn|Palmer|2004|p=60}} One stage of this process is "oxygenation", which entails deep breathing.{{sfnm|1a1=Palmer|1y=1995|1p=115|2a1=Palmer|2a2=Sentes|2y=2012|2p=175}} Practitioners are taught to relax and then envision themselves expanding their frame of reference until the self becomes only a tiny speck within the universe.{{sfn|Palmer|1995|p=129}} They are then tasked with visualising the bones and organs of the body, and ultimately the atoms within the body itself.{{sfn|Palmer|1995|pp=129–130}} The guided meditation then encourages the meditators to imagine themselves being on the Elohim's planet and communicating telepathically with these aliens.{{sfn|Palmer|2004|pp=60–61}}

Palmer found that Raëlians varyingly described a sense of physical well-being, psychic abilities, or sexual arousal during these meditations and interpreted these as evidence that they were in telepathic contact with the Elohim.{{sfn|Palmer|1995|p=130}} The goal of sensual meditation is to achieve a "cosmic orgasm",{{sfnm|1a1=Palmer|1y=1995|1p=110|2a1=Palmer|2y=2004|2p=60}} which is characterised as the ultimate experience a person can have.{{sfn|Barrett|2001|p=393}} Palmer quoted one senior Raëlian as describing the "cosmic orgasm" as "the sensual experience of the unity between the self and the universe".{{sfn|Palmer|2004|p=60}}