few times to pass urine, as a consequence of the discharge of astral
energies into your physical body.
If you are in this situation you can always try to focus gently on
your heart. It will help. But basically there is not much you can
do: the process has to follow its course. So if it happens to you,
don't worry, and be patient. You have to accept that you are not
going to fall asleep early for some time. Enjoy the light. Anyhow,
you will often find that you are not tired the following morning,
even if you had little normal sleep. For even though you are fully
awake, you are halfway to a form of psychic sleep, and the body
can recover to a certain extent. Moreover there is often a natural
‘amphetamine-like’ effect that takes place (without any drug of
course) at the same time, which gives you a lot of extra energy.
The process stops by itself after some time.
How long does such a phase of awakening last? A few days, or a
few weeks – sometimes, but rarely, as long as a few months. See
the positive side of it: strong forces are implanted in your eye.
The more intense this phase, the more powerful the vision that
will follow. But note that this phase of ‘enlightened insomnia’ is
certainly not compulsory. Many people go through their complete
development without ever meeting it. It may or may not happen,
depending on your own internal organisation.
13.8 Night practice and awareness in the eye (2)
From what has been said so far, it should not be understood that
any awareness in the third eye tends to impact the astral body
into the physical and the etheric, thereby preventing sleep. It is
only when there is a vibration between the eyebrows that this
happens, not when you feel the purple space.
Remember what was described in relation to the first technique of
meditation (section 3.5). When vibration, tingling or pressure is
felt between the eyebrows, it indicates that the etheric part of
the eye is activated. In terms of subtle bodies, a strong vibration
between the eyebrows indicates that the astral body gets more
impacted into the etheric part of the eye, and into the etheric
body in general.
However, when you get into the perception of the purple space,
the astral body is orientated towards astral worlds, not towards
the etheric and physical bodies. For the purple space is nothing
other than a layer of the astral spaces.