Self.
What happens when you remain aware in your third eye? The
impressions coming from the external world are received in the
third eye first instead of rushing straight into your mind.
Remember the exercises on centredness at the beginning of this
chapter, where you look at an object and you remain aware
between the eyebrows. Automatically it is as if you were looking
from the third eye, meaning that the visual impressions reach
your third eye first. Then what happens? The third eye ‘digests’
these impressions. It filters and processes them.
This mechanism will strike you, as soon as you observe it
clairvoyantly. The quality of vibration of what enters your head
differs markedly, depending on whether or not it has first been
processed by your third eye. The perceptions that have first
transited through the third eye are smooth and refined. Those
that have not are harsh and cacophonous. They hurt like a
headache. They weave your consciousness in a way that is unfit for
spiritual awareness.
Understanding and applying this principle is enough in itself to
change a destiny. For what does one see when observing the mind
clairvoyantly? The thoughts of the mind are not abstract entities,
they are made of a certain substance. Of course, this substance is
not physical, but still it exists as matter, on a certain level. And
the quality of your mental substance determines the quality of
your thoughts. Spiritual thoughts, or even just clever thoughts,
simply cannot grow or be received if the mental substance is gross
and poor. If you care for your spiritual development, I suggest you
ponder upon this point.
9.5 Practice
You may sit or stand, but make sure that your back is straight.
Become aware between the eyebrows. (Logically, after reading this
chapter you should already be between the eyebrows!) Become
motionless. Limit your blinking and the movements of your
eyeballs.
- Images
Look at an object around you. Look from the eye. Receive the
object in the eye, between the eyebrows. Try to put into practice
the filtering effect that we have just discussed. Try to feel the
‘weight’ of the images on your third eye, as if the images were
pressing between your eyebrows. Make sure that no visual