Opening The
Third Eye
As previously discussed in perception of subtle realms, we
have physical and non-physical senses, and both have their
own area to serve us in how we act. To go a step further,
I would like to describe here an easy way to activate the
3rd-eye, or the inner eye, in a passive way: looking and perceiving.
Introduction
We are truely spirits, who occupy physical bodies to participate
in physical reality: without our bodies we couldn't be a part
of it. We can consider the physical body as a vehicle, or
using a modern word, a craft.
Most spirits forget that they are truely spirits, spiritual
beings. But how? We get overwhelmed by a dimension we didn't
experience before, we even didn't know what time or space
is, because as spirits we didn't experience such a limiting
reality as here. That's what the call was we heared, and many
couldn't reject its challenge. We entered by many adjustments,
called dimensional doors, until we were able to enter a human-body.
What we call taking birth, is a long prepared-for procedure.
We finally enter and accept the body, when we take birth.
But then as babies we are in a period of time where we leave
and enter easily, as our vehicle is new for us and we aren't
yet so identified and addicted to it.
Growing up means the spirit
learns to use the vehicle, we learn to walk, even speak and
behave in social conformity. This learning pulls our attention
to the physical senses, so better we learn to interpret the
signals, and better we operate with our physical body here.
We as spiritual beings naturally see, it's part of our nature.
Seeing through eyes, which means looking through two holes,
but which serves us with many fancy signals from a colorful
toy, even TV or even WWW such as here. We can refocus our
inner eye away from the physical eyes. This is called activation
of third-eye, in a passive observing way.
Some of you maybe heard of
or even experienced what is known as Shape-Shifting or Mirror
Gazing, looking at aspects of yourself. This is one step of
the usage of the third-eye.
Pre-Stages of Third Eye Perceptions
Before I go ahead with my personal view on third-eye, let
me describe some pre-stages.
• Most people have very very tiny particles in their
eyes, and we usually don't perceive them as our focus is most
1-2m in front of our eyes. But in a very relaxed moment, we
can focus very close to the physical eye itself, and perceive
some particles, which distort bright objects and give a more
colorful surrounding. This is a physical effect, not a subtle
perception.
• Some people feel presences in the corner of their
sight, and try by turning their head, to catch the presence
they felt. This can be a real being, that is trying to get
your attention. Your physical attention is mainly in the center
of your sight, in the corner your sight it gets less focused,
and sometimes your inner eye overlaps with the corner of your
physical sight. This perception tends to be a real subtle
perception of your third-eye.
• Some of the spiritually-interested people have drug
experiences, like marijuana or cocaine, where some altered
states of consciousness are experienced. But the difference
between using drugs (including legal ones like alcohol) and
the natural use of the non-physical senses is, that drugs
distort perception by removing the natural blockages which
are expressions our spiritual maturity and allowance. I personally
do not promote usage of drugs, even legal ones, to achieve
altered states, as it does indeed create more than just physical
imbalances, but astral distortions as well, which are more
difficult to be healed.
I believe, that all people have third-eye experiences, but
most people do not pay attention to them, as their belief-systems
simply reject these experiences as real. A part of this text
may help to make one become aware of it again, and accept
it as part of reality, and no longer para-normal, but simply
normal.
Preparation and Training
One issue of preparation is, reading such an article about
the third eye, even your conscious mind catches a part of
the concept. It's not meant to make-up or even create a huge
amount of expectation, but an openness, wordly an open mind.
Here are some well known preparations, which you can practice
to open and prepare yourself. You can do it daily, or even
weekly in circles, whatever you prefer.
• Take a candle, watch the flame for a period of time,
let's say 1-2 minutes. try to think calming thoughts, try
to feel the room you are in, and feel comfortable with yourself.
Don't stare until your eyes tear, but simply watch the flame,
and allow your thoughts to calm as your body does too. Try
to establish a meditative state, but different than a common
meditation: with open eyes.
• If you have a pet, like a cat or dog, try to watch
her or his eyes, and relax and try to establish a deep peace
in you. Pets usually reflect humans' emotions and thoughts
and therefore teach us our own inner peace by sourrounding
humans.
• Watch your face in a mirror, try not to laugh or smile
about the ridicilous situation looking at yourself. Look at
your face, in a kind of distance, saying to yourself: That's
now my face, it's part of myself, my physical body, my vehicle.
Try to watch your own face for 1-2 min. too, with dimmed light
if possible instead of bright light which might hurt your
eyes.
• If you feel better in nature than in your own apartment,
look for a place where you feel totally calmed and relaxed,
for example a lake, or river. Try to achive a meditative state,
but as mentioned, with open eyes.
It's simply important, that you can calm with open eyes. It's
much easier to calm and relax yourself with closed eyes, when
the visual influences are disabled that distract our inner
being, but for this procedure it's quite helpful to reach
the same state with open eyes.
Opening The Third Eye - A Theoretical Background
As said before, you inhabit a physical body, which serves
you with physical senses, where the visual sense, our eyes,
feed us with thousands of electrical signals every second.
It's no surprise that it's not well known to look without
physical eyes, especially in the technical times we live in
today, where everything has to be multimedia to get our attention.
1. Physical Eyes Only
This is the most common case in western society. We are very
visually oriented, and our technically oriented attention
and research needs a high degree of ability to perceive physical
reality in order to change it as we did mainly with industrialization,
as an example. An additional thought you may find in Inner
Realization vs. Technology. I may not go into that more, as
today's world already says enough.
2. Physical Eyes and Inner
Eye Overlap
This is the issue I try to describe here in the entire text:
the physical eyes serve impressions of the physical reality
to the inner eye, which I indicate with the persence in the
middle of the head (point of presence), as I perceive and
feel it. If your physical eyes get prepared by yourself, and
reduce the traffic of information, you slowly and partly will
watch through the inner eye, or third eye, which may give
you impressions beyond physical reality. The nature of this
subtle picture is different than the impressions of physical
reality. More simply said, physical pictures passed by the
eye are real in the order of physicality, and the pictures
of the inner eye are real in the order of subtle reality.
To bring both together, that's the real issue. The understanding
of their correlations I only partly can share in this text,
since this is mainly achieved through practice.
3. Only Inner Eye
This case is somewhat rare, and is only achieved with a lot
of practice and inner allowance. Giving up the attention to
physical eyes is dependent on a deep trust that there is more
than physical reality, and often there is a lot of fear involved,
deep fear to lose any orientation of physical reality, at
least I experienced it that way, when I slowly shifted away
from my physical eyes too. I describe more about this below.
By the way, the issue of having open eyes is to make it easier
to allow becoming aware of the inner eye. Some people, even
experienced spiritually aware people prefer to see with closed
physical eyes. In our strong belief-system most of us use
to define, that we only can see with open eyes. Anyway, in
this case I like to describe, it's easier to do it with open
eyes.
Somehow, this theoretical background is my chosen belief-system
to comprehend mentally the experiences I personally made.
Take it as a personal truth, not more. (Continued
In Opening The Third Eye Pt 2...)
| Authors Details: Rene K. Mueller <kiwi[at]spiritweb.org> |
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