Awakening the Third Eye

a knowledge through identity: you ‘become’ the body part. One of
the secrets of the physical transformation lies in reaching this
metaphysical unity, far beyond a mere mental awareness of the
body part.
While circulating around the body parts with seeingness, it is not
uncommon to receive unexpected visions of bones, articulations and
organs.
For instance, focus on the joint cavities. Between the two joining
bones there is a space that is filled with a particular liquid, called
synovial fluid. (Interestingly, synovia is a term that was
introduced by Paracelsus.) When you tune into the synovial cavity,
you get a feeling of space. In German and French, synovial cavity
is actually named ‘synovial space’ (synovial raum, espace synovial).
Clairvoyance reveals how the body connects with the universal
astral space through this ‘space in the articulation’, which suggests
an interesting new way of looking at joint pathologies.
A powerful variation of this phase is to add a moment of
awareness of the neutral mid-point in the centre of the body after
each couple of body parts. For instance: the left eye... the right
eye... the area in the middle of the two eyes...
Or: the left knee... the right knee... the area in the middle of the
two knees...
The left and right sides of the body incarnate opposite polarities
of energy, as do night and day, female and male, yin and yang, all
of which represent pairs of opposite polarities.
When circulating your awareness according to the sequence of
phase 2a, you first get in touch with the left polarity of a body
part, then with the right one. With the mid-point, you connect
with the space where the polarities become nought: it is the ‘Tao
point’, neither yang nor yin, or both yin and yang at the same
time. See if you can feel this yourself.
Another interesting way of circulating through the body is to
listen to the inner sound in each body part.
Why do we start with the left side for each body part?
Interestingly, soldiers do the same when they walk: ‘left, right,
left, right...’ In Hatha-yoga the practice called nāḍī-śodhana
(alternate breathing), in which one breathes through one nostril
while blocking the other with the fingers, always starts with an
inhalation through the left nostril. In several examples we find
that when dealing with energy, the left side is activated before

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