communion

"A joining together of minds or spirits." - wiktionary

To commune with god then is to join together the individual mind and the one mind.

Affirmations, visualizations, meditation, prayer, and communion are all ways to achieve a desired state of consciousness. My individual mind tends to bounce around in states of fear, anger, sadness, and shame. The god mind is a state of bliss. By communing with god I join together my individual mind with the god mind and thus attune my own experience to one of bliss.

Last night the Gaden Shartse monks did a Green Tara Empowerment. For me this was a visualization of a divine being purifying my body, speech and mind. My body was filled with colored light that squeezed the contaminants out like charcoal, pus and blood. At this moment I saw the connection between visualization and affirmation as techniques to produce a state of consciousness in the mind.