- The face can also be that of an entity, meaning a presence
attached to you. An entity can be regarded as a non-physical
parasite. Just as some physical parasites can stick to different
parts of your body, likewise some non-physical energies or
presences can get attached to your energy.
5.8 What to do with your experiences
Here is a point that may save you a lot of trouble, if you
understand it fully: I strongly recommend you do not try to
analyse too much of what you see. As you practise these exercises,
different visions will come to you. You have to accept that it is
going to take a certain amount of time before you can really
understand what they mean. It takes a great deal of inner
experience and esoteric knowledge before one can safely interpret
the significance of visions.
For instance, when you see another face during eye contact, it is
very difficult in the beginning to know whether it belongs to the
other person or to yourself. Apart from the fact that you may
well be confused and mistake an entity for a spirit guide (which is
extremely common these days), never neglect the possibility that
what you see on your friend's face could be a projection of yours.
If you try to analyse things too quickly, making sense of
everything, you run the risk of being completely deluded.
Visions, and experiences in general, are to be digested deeply, on
the level of the soul rather than mentally evaluated. It is much
wiser to take some pencils and make drawings of your visions, for
instance, than to worry about them. Let the experiences work on
you rather than trying to work out what they mean.
Remember that our emphasis is on the fact of seeing, or
‘seeingness’, not on the content of the visions. When practised
according to the principles expounded in this book, seeing is a
breakthrough into higher regions of consciousness. It creates
breaches in our facade of mental rigidity, and it nurtures the
growth of the Higher Self through sophisticated mechanisms of
inner alchemy. In this respect, the content of the visions is
secondary.
If you practise along these lines, putting more emphasis on the
fact of seeing than on the content of the visions, then you won't
build castles in the astral, and your spiritual journey will be safe.
Ultimately it is the pure light of the Spirit that will allow you to
discriminate and move towards Truth, even in the most confusing