your ‘nose power’.
While implementing this phase 3c, and night practice in general,
you will have to be very careful of smells. The room should not be
stuffy, and it is always preferable to keep a window open. There
should not be any tobacco smell, incense or strong perfumes. The
reason is that your sensitivity is increased in such proportions
that these smells may make you really uncomfortable, and may
even damage your subtle sense of smell and your capacity to
receive energy from the air.
15.7 Phase 4
By separating images from the fact of seeing, or seeingness, one
can become clairvoyant. The same principle can be applied to the
development of other subtle senses, hence this work of discerning
the fact of hearing from the sounds, the fact of smelling from
the smells, and so on.
This phase is also a powerful method to internalise the senses, to
separate the astral senses from the physical ones, and to leave the
astral body in a state which allows maximum help from higher
spiritual beings during the night.
15.8 Phase 5: recalling the images of the day
This exercise is regarded as essential by several western schools of
esotericism and you will often find it mentioned in esoteric
literature. It works on a number of levels and has more than one
purpose. Let us try to understand one or two of them.
A common observation related by those who have come back from
a near-death experience is that they witnessed the complete tableau
of their life. It unfolded in front of them like a movie. Apart
from this well-known fact, occultists describe the cycle of
reincarnation as made of two alternating phases: life on Earth,
during which actions are performed, and then the journey
through non-physical planes. The latter is then followed by
another life of incarnation on Earth, and so on.
What happens during the journey between death and rebirth?
Among other things, there is the work of integrating what was
achieved on Earth. It is like a maturation of the physical
experiences that the soul went through, and a slow incorporation
of their quintessence.
A crucial point is that the travelling soul is confronted with the
impossibility of changing anything that was done during the