What is it exactly that penetrates you when you perceive an
image, a sound, a smell...? What sort of vibration is received? What
sort of subtle substance is added to your being?
Repeat practice 9.5, but this time put all the emphasis on the
perceiver – you. Look at an object without keeping any particular
focus in the eye. The object has certain qualities and there is also a
certain quality of vibration inside your head.
What is it that is added to your own vibration when you receive
the image of the object? What changes in your head or elsewhere,
on the level of energy?
Now be more and more in the eye. There are degrees, as far as
being in the eye is concerned. You can be 10% in the eye, or 40% in
the eye... and if you persist in your practice, one day you will be
able to be 100% in the eye.
Start with being just a little bit in the eye, say 5%. Watch the
difference in the vibration that is received from the object,
compared to when no particular awareness is kept in the eye.
Increase progressively, becoming 10% aware in the eye, then 20%,
and so on. Each time, observe the vibration that is taken in while
looking at the object. Then do the same with as much awareness as
possible. Try to sense how the visual impression affects you. What
is added to your energy while perceiving? Can you feel the sensory
input as astral matter?
Go from one object to another and repeat the observation process
with gradually increasing levels of eye-centred awareness.
Then put some music on and repeat the process, this time with
sounds.
The same exercise can be applied to taste.
9.8 Test
Choose the most hectic place of a large city. Try to stay there for
half an hour with full awareness in the eye. Make sure that no
perception comes in without having been processed by your eye.
Filter even those perceptions that usually remain unnoticed, but
still are recorded unconsciously.
How far can you maintain your integrity?
Repeat the test from time to time, to measure your progress.
9.9 Intermezzo: changes in vision
One of the first results you will notice when applying the
techniques described in this book, is a gentle transformation of