and changing by nature, and to go on practising without placing
too much importance on these fluctuations.
5.7 A few common experiences while practising eye
contact
- The image gets distorted. Sharp outlines become blurry.
Don't resist, let the image become more and more distorted. In the
beginning, you have to let go of the physical image before non-
physical images can be perceived. So let the physical image become
distorted and blurry. Flow with what comes, even if it doesn't
make any sense. You can analyse the experience later. If you try to
think about it while it happens, it just won't happen.
At a more advanced stage it will become possible to get both the
non-physical and the physical image at the same time. But in the
beginning you have to let go of the sharp outlines and let the
image become blurry before you can see astral colours and halos. - The person in front of you seems much further away than he
actually is.
This is a pretty good sign. It indicates that you are shifting from
the vision of the physical reality into the vision of subtle realms.
As soon as you reach the perception of the astral world, distances
take on a very different aspect. It is not uncommon for the
person sitting just in front of you to appear to be far away.
Whenever this happens, you know that what you are seeing is
beyond the physical plane. - Seeing colours
In the astral worlds, light does not come from a sun, or from any
external source such as lamps. Objects and beings can be seen due to
their own luminosity. They shed their own light. They appear as if
they were ‘made of colours’ in an atmosphere of semi-darkness.
However it should always be kept in mind that the astral colours
are quite different from the physical ones. It is therefore
virtually impossible to describe them precisely, due to the lack of
references in our material environment. A major difference is that
astral colours often seem to be a mixture of different hues. But
the different components of an astral colour do not mix at all,
unlike what can be observed in the physical world. In the physical
world when two colours mix, each disappears and an intermediary
shade occurs. For instance, you mix blue and yellow and you get
green. The blue and the yellow have disappeared and there is only
green left. In the astral, the situation is quite different: colours