7.13 Intermezzo: which eye are you?
Some people argue that one of your (two) eyes corresponds to your
deeper and true Self, while the other is the mirror of your
surface personality. As our philosophy is never to believe anything
but to try to perceive for ourselves, let us not say which eye is
supposed to be which. The following exercise is designed to let you
find out if there are any differences in what you can perceive
from each eye.
Sit in front of each other and get ready for eye contact.
Remember that your back should be straight and that if you
cannot touch the other's nose with your palm, you know you are
too far away. (This exercise can also be conducted by yourself,
using a mirror.)
Practise a short reconnection in the eye, with your eyes closed (as
explained in section 5.3).
Open your eyes and start gazing at each other's right eye. Your
focus is on your friend's right eye and your friend is focussing on
your right eye. To avoid any confusion I recommend that you both
raise your right hand at the beginning of the practice, to be sure
that you are both gazing at the right eye.
Then start practising the triple vision process (section 5.13) with
the motionless focus between the eyebrows, the awareness of
seeingness, and the feeling from the heart.
Continue the practice for about 5 minutes. Then close the eyes and
take a short break, warming your eyes with the palms of your
hands as described earlier.
Then open your eyes and show each other your left hand to avoid
any confusion. Start gazing at each other's left eye, and repeat the
practice for a few minutes.
Close your eyes and cover them with your palms, warming up
your heart (section 5.5).
Exchange impressions with your friend.
- After having tested this exercise with hundreds of people, I do
not believe a word of the assumption that one of your eyes
mirrors your Higher Self and the other one the lower self. (By the
way, it is the right one that is presumed to be the Higher Ego.)
Still, it is fascinating to see how different somebody can look,
depending on which eye you are focussing on. You obviously
connect with quite different sub-personalities through each of the
eyes, and there is definitely more than one sub-personality related