When re-experiencing past life episodes through techniques of
regression and clairvoyance, one comes to realize that until not so
long ago, most human beings saw the world through this more
beautiful and living vision. The ‘flattening’ of the field of
consciousness seems to have taken place from the 19th century
onwards, contemporaneous with the industrial revolution and the
explosion of scientific discoveries. It can be related to what Rudolf
Steiner has called the coming of Ahrimanic influences into human
consciousness.
I would suggest that you think of going for walks in nature and
reconnecting with this living vision when you are troubled or
agitated. It is a gentle way of pacifying many conflicts of the
mind, not by struggling but by the attraction of the beauty of
the world as seen from the non-mind.
9.10 The eye-heart awareness
Once you have established a solid awareness in the eye, the
following step is to anchor it in the heart. By the heart I do not
mean the physical organ made of muscle on the left of your body,
but the heart centre, the chakra in the middle of the chest. (The
same applies throughout the book.)
In several of the eye contact exercises it was suggested that you
place your awareness in both the eye and the heart, as if you were
receiving images and feelings in the heart, through the eye. The
next step is to extend this double focus to all your activities.
The eye-heart awareness is a further development of the focus in
the third eye. Once you have become familiar with living in the
eye it is not so difficult to add the feeling of your heart at the
same time. The force penetrates deeper. Your awareness gets
anchored, grounded in the heart, and a new palette of perceptions
and feelings arise because a higher stage of integration is achieved.
What can be seen clairvoyantly in the aura of somebody who has
settled a permanent awareness in both the eye and the heart?
Streams of vibration and light start to flow between the heart and
some centres of energy located around the pituitary and pineal
glands. A new communication is established between the heart and
the head. Some new channels of the body of energy are activated.
The state of consciousness that comes out of this double focus is
quite different too. The main difference is that the awareness in
the heart allows you to get more in touch with your Ego, or
Higher Self. Your Self receives more and more of your perceptions