The marvel is that it becomes possible, when your ‘seeingness’ has
matured, to behold several of these layers at the same time. At a
certain stage in the opening process, you even become able to
simultaneously encompass the physical world in your vision.
In this explosion of colours, the magnificence of the universe
becomes such that it forces your heart open. Beauty is sometimes
at the limit of what is bearable. Life becomes a constant wonder,
and great fun.
On the other side of the astral worlds is another world, called
devachan by western occultists and svarga-loka or world of the
gods by the Hindu tradition. In this world, again a completely
different range of lights is perceived. These are to the astral
colours what day is to night.
- Another face appears in place of your friend's face.
This is one of the most common experiences while practising the
techniques of eye contact: The face of the friend sitting in front
of you disappears and another face can be seen instead. If you are
practising alone, facing a mirror, it is your own face that
disappears and is replaced by another. These faces correspond
mainly to four possibilities: 1) a spirit guide 2) a past life 3) a sub-
personality 4) an entity.
- Spirit guides: it is quite common for your spirit guides to
manifest in this way to the person with whom you are practising.
As you progress, you will gain the capacity to consciously manifest
your guides upon your own energy in a way that will be visible to
others, even if their clairvoyance is minimal. Eye contact is
actually one of the most simple and direct ways to get to see spirit
guides.
A variation of this experience often happens while listening to a
talk given by a spiritual teacher. If you become very motionless,
stop blinking, and practise our method of vision while gazing at
them, you will sometimes see their face disappear and be replaced
by that of their teacher or some higher being behind them. - Another possibility when the face changes is that you are seeing
an image of yourself or of the friend you are practising with, in a
past life. - The face can also be a sub-personality of yours or of your
friend. Altogether, this is not so different from what was
described in 2), if one considers that sub-personalities have been
built up by the circumstances of past lives.